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Amazon Echo may get a smaller, on

The Amazon Echo has a New Year’s resolution: Slim down and lose the power cord. The online retailer plans to release a smaller, portable and cheaper version of the Echo, a digital voice assistant crammed into a cylinder speaker, in the coming weeks, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday, citing anonymous sources. The current Echo can be voice-activated to play …

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Remembering David Bowie

The term “recording artist” may be applied to anyone who records music, but David Bowie, who died of cancer on Sunday aged 69, was in every sense a true artist. From the start he was an original, and over the decades he donned a succession of personas and guises — pop star, rocker, soul singer, Internet pioneer, avant-garde performer, video …

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Get a Xerox Phaser wireless laser printer for $39.99

CNET’s Cheapskate scours the Web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. And find more great buys on the CNET Deals page. Xerox Science fiction got it wrong. Despite the arrival of slim, lightweight tablets and cheap, ubiquitous digital storage, paper just isn’t going anywhere. …

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John Legere may be one of tech’s most colorful and uncensored CEOs. But he apparently knows when he’s crossed a line. T-Mobile’s CEO on Monday apologized for offensive comments he made last week about the Electronic Frontier Foundation amid a debate over his company’s Binge On unlimited streaming service. But Legere didn’t relent in his defense of Binge On as …

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Add a hard

Once upon a time, all desktops and laptops had LEDs that would blink whenever there was hard drive activity. Somewhere along the way, PC manufacturers decided this wasn’t necessary, but I disagree: If your computer is suddenly non-responsive, it can help to know if there’s still drive activity. If there is, it might just be a temporary delay. If not, …

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Meet Cast, the app that lets you watch Netflix with friends even if they’re in another country

This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. From Eurovision to the The Super Bowl, some things are better watched with friends. A new app called Cast plans to help you share your viewing even with people who aren’t in the …

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Think you’re hot on Tinder? That’s up to its ‘desirability’ ranking system

Hot or not hot, your looks probably don’t have as much to do with your dating success on Tinder as you would like to believe. Tinder CEO Sean Rad said the smartphone app, which helps users anonymously locate others nearby who are interested in making a love connection, relies on an algorithm to determine users’ “desirability” to make date suggestions. …

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