Intel’s newest low-cost NUC is a cheap, fully functional Windows 10 PC with a quad-core Apollo Lake Celeron processor. You can find it online for around $230. Intel What’s an NUC? That stands for “next unit of computing,” which is Intel’s name for a line of mini desktop computers. Often, these are bare-bones systems that …

Ouch! The NFL’s San Diego — err, make that Los Angeles — Chargers unveiled their new logo on Twitter, shortly after making the team relocation to Los Angeles official on Thursday. The design was almost immediately sacked by fans and the media alike. The logo, which looks like an electrified version of the logo for baseball’s LA Dodgers, became a …

Amazon is getting in the mix of US companies promoting their efforts to create more US jobs. The e-commerce giant said Thursday it plans to create 100,000 new full-time, full-benefit jobs in the country over the next 18 months, expanding its US workforce to 280,000 — up 56 percent from 2016. While that’s a huge number, many of these new …

Consumer Reports is doing an about face on Apple’s MacBook Pro. The endorsement reverses an earlier call by Consumer Reports telling consumers to avoid the new MacBooks, for the first time ever, because of big fluctuations in battery life. The publication on Thursday said a software update issued by Apple has fixed the battery problems it found in earlier tests. …

It’s fun to mock image-processing impossibilities where “Blade Runner” or CSI investigators zoom into photos to see far more detail than a photo could possibly have recorded. But guess what? Not only does Google have technology that can do something like that kind of photo enhancement, it’s also using it to keep you from gobbling through your mobile phone data …

Boosted, a maker of electric skateboards, on Thursday issued a recall for the battery packs in its second-generation boards after reports of smoke flowing from the boards. Boosted in November urged customers to stop using and charging the boards while it investigated what caused two boards’ lithium ion battery packs to begin overheating and smoking. The company said Thursday it …

New year, new phone. At least that’s the gist of a recently posted video on LG’s YouTube channel, which teases its next flagship device — you know, the one with everything that people want in a phone (or so says LG). The video ends with the launch month: February 2017. Do we think this is the LG G6 bound for …

HTC hopes a reboot will help its prospects. The company on Thursday unveiled its U series of phones, the U Play and U Ultra. The glass phones feature a second, smaller screen above the main display and boast artificial intelligence to help manage your Android notifications. The U series becomes HTC’s flagship product line, a break from the company’s tradition …

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A late-night push to start the repeal of the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, has people on Twitter fighting back Thursday. On Facebook, people are excited for a new season of “Better Call Saul” and Woody Harrelson joining the Star Wars universe. Social Cues is our look at what’s trending across social media. Here’s what people are talking …