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Meet JBL’s next

We’ve been fans of earlier JBL Clip mini Bluetooth speakers and there’ll be a new Clip 3 ($60) showing up in stores later this spring. There’s no word yet on international pricing. JBL says the latest Clip offers improved sound quality and battery life (10 hours) in the same compact form. The fully waterproof speaker is also more durable, according …

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Samsung CES 2018 press conference: Watch it live now

The massive electronics conference, held this coming week in Las Vegas, is always one of the most important events for Samsung in any given year. It’s where the company details its newest electronics, including TVs, home appliances, laptops and other devices. Samsung will host a press conference Monday, Jan. 8 at 2 p.m. PT. (See what time that is for …

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Sony offers cheaper, pseudo

When it comes to “affordable” Atmos sound bars, there is currently a sample size of none, but prices do continue to come down. Sony’s latest Atmos models shave hundreds off the cost of its first, so that’s a good thing, right? The $899 HT-Z9F and the $599 HT-X9000F offer Atmos (and DTS:X) playback in a compact, less costly package. While …

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Samsung at CES 2018: Everything the tech giant announced

Samsung’s 2018 CES press conference looked different from years past.  For one, instead of touting the bells and whistles of new TVs, refrigerators and other electronics, it focused more on how Samsung’s devices fit into what it calls the “intelligence of things” — everything with smarts. CES is critical for Samsung this year as the Korean company tries to show it’s …

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USB

Sanho has a made something of a name for itself with its Hyper line of dongles that restore useful ports that USB-C can displace from laptops. Now it has a new trick: wireless charging. The newest HyperDrive adapter, which debuted Monday at CES, combines eight ports with the Qi wireless charging standard that will let you plop on an Apple iPhone …

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HP’s Sprout spawns a standalone Z 3D Camera

With dual touch surfaces and other perks for dedicated content creation, HP’s Sprout 3D workstation is a nice turnkey solution for some people. But not everyone wants to buy an entire system just for its 3D capture capabilities or don’t even need it for traditional 3D work. So HP has spun off the 3D capture hardware from it into a standalone …

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