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New on Amazon Prime Video for January 2016

Amazon’s January lineup has me psyched for one reason: “Thundercats.” Volumes one and two of the original series are hitting Amazon. That should be a lot of episodes. A word of warning if you haven’t watched “Thundercats” since it first ran in 1985, the characters talk very slowly. I didn’t realize it as a child, but as an adult it …

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Free movies and TV shows available in January 2016

Sony’s Crackle.com has a bunch of new stuff streaming in January. “The Net” comes back to the service after being gone for a little while. You can also catch Monty Python’s “And Now for Something Completely Different,” a collection of the comedy troupe’s best sketches from their TV series. A couple of underrated television shows arrive on Crackle in January. …

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The fastest Android gaming tablets

Editors’ note: This list was originally published on April 26, 2013, and is updated periodically. If you’re looking for an Android tablet that can deliver impressive graphics, we’ve got you covered. We gathered every high-performance Android tablet we could find in the CNET Labs and put them to the test. Below are our top five. We’ve listed each tablet with …

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Facebook, Google apps reign over 2015

Facebook’s app, by far, outranked any other in the US this year, according to ratings service Nielsen. The social network’s app reached the pinnacle with 126.7 million unique users on average each month from January through October, Nielsen said late last week. The figure was an 8 percent bump from 2014. A far second was YouTube’s app with an average …

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How to free up space in iCloud

Now playing: Watch this: Free up space in iCloud 2:10 Apple’s iCloud storage service can be used to stash away photos, videos, device backups, and more in the cloud. The company offers users 5GB of space for free, however because it’s 5GB of space per Apple ID and not per device, you may find yourself running out of space faster …

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Why Amazon built a warehouse inside a Midtown Manhattan office tower

Go past the modern, brightly lit lobby of a Midtown Manhattan office building and take the elevator to the fifth floor. There you’ll find Amazon’s secret weapon for drawing in last-minute holiday shoppers. It’s not a fancy delivery drone or slick new electronic device. It’s a 50,000-square-foot warehouse filled with tens of thousands of consumer products. The busy workspace seems …

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How I upgraded Office 365 Personal to Office 365 Home for $10

Microsoft Office is a need for some, a preference for others. In both cases it’s an expensive proposition, with the one-user Office 365 Personal edition costing $69.99 and five-license Office 365 Home costing $99.99 — per year. However, there’s a way to game the system, to turn a Personal subscription into a Home subscription for a one-time charge of $9.99. …

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