Beginning at 3 p.m. PT (6 p.m. ET) today, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco will hear arguments from the government in a battle to restore Donald Trump’s travel ban. The hearing will be conducted by a telephone conference call and you can follow along with the live video on the …
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In Fire Emblem Heroes, your default heroes, well, suck. Unless you spend literally months leveling them up, they won’t have any of the epic stats and game-breaking abilities of the ones you can buy with orbs. Yes, I said game-breaking abilities! You can get heroes that can soak up loads of damage, counterattack at any distance, pull friends out of …
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Now playing: Watch this: Stop your Vizio smart TV from spying on you 0:53 Most TV makers track your viewing habits using their smart TV systems, but the one you may have heard about recently is Vizio. That’s because the popular TV maker was just hit with a $2.2 million fine by the FTC for failing to properly disclose the …
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Now playing: Watch this: YouTube goes live on mobile 1:33 You’re already live streaming your life on Facebook Live, but now YouTube wants in on the (live) action. You’ll soon be able to live stream to YouTube from your phone, the company said Tuesday. Popular YouTubers will be the first to be get their hands on the feature, which was …
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It’s still no PayPal, but Amazon’s payments service is picking up steam. The online retailer said Tuesday that Amazon Payments has been used by over 33 million customers since it launched in 2013. That’s up from 23 million customers a year earlier. In addition, payment volume nearly doubled last year for the service, which lets people use their Amazon login …
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In January, ZTE CEO Lixin Cheng told CNET that his company would release its first Android Wear smartwatch in 2017 — one with an LTE cellular connection and longer battery life than typical, so you can use it independent of a phone. Now, we may be getting our first glimpse of the device, which will reportedly be named the ZTE …
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Casting a YouTube video from your phone to your TV is a great way to share videos with friends or just watch by yourself on a larger screen and Chromecast ($80 at Walmart) makes it easy to do. Thanks to a recent update to the YouTube app for iOS, casting YouTube videos from your phone is easier than ever. The …
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Updated on March 22: Stan has now launched offline viewing, allowing you to download shows to go. Offline downloads, 4K streaming, a fresh lineup of originals… you’d be forgiven for thinking we were talking about Netflix, but think again. Stan, Australia’s home-grown subscription video on-demand player, is taking the fight to its massive US competitor with a bunch of new …
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This, my friends, this glorious TV and movie trope, may be coming true. The ability to “zoom and enhance” an image, one that’s far too low-res for humans to understand, is now way, way closer thanks to a team of AI researchers at Google. Behold: Enlarge Image Google At left, the crummy low-res image the computer had to work with. …
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