If you still have to fiddle with a bunch of different remotes — receiver, TV, streamer, Blu-ray and who-knows-what-else — it’s time you consolidated them all into a single universal remote. I’ve been chasing after the One Perfect Universal Remote for decades, going all the way back to the now long-defunct Philips Pronto, which was …
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October, 2020
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24 October
Samsung Chairman Lee, the man who made the company an electronics giant, dies at 78
The head of Samsung, Kun-Hee Lee, has died at the age of 78, the company said Saturday. It didn’t specify what caused his death, but Lee has been in poor health since a heart attack in 2014. He’s credited as the person who turned Samsung into the electronics giant that it is today after refocusing the company on making high-end …
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24 October
US government sues Google, iPhone 12 reviews are in
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24 October
BlackBerry returns from the dead (again)
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23 October
iPhone 12 launch day: People are still lining up for Apple’s new devices
Friday is worldwide iPhone 12 day, but what does an iPhone launch look like during the coronavirus pandemic? Apple’s launch of its latest phones shows that people are indeed still willing to line up for a new iPhone, if not in the same hordes as in years gone by. In Sydney, Australia, for instance, a few dozen people had lined …
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23 October
What’s the cheapest carrier for your expensive new iPhone?
The iPhone 12 is now on sale, with a starting price of $799 in the US. (It’s pretty great, too: Read our iPhone 12 review.) The iPhone 12 Mini is available for preorder, starting at $699. There are lots of ways to buy Apple’s latest, but many of them involve financing the phone with a carrier that locks you into …
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23 October
Quibi shutdown will take place ‘on or about’ Dec. 1
Quibi is closing up shop, and now we have an idea of when the company will stop streaming its short, quick videos. In a customer support article posted Thursday, Quibi revealed that it expects to stop streaming “on or about December 1, 2020.” The company goes on the thank customers for “giving us an opportunity to entertain you,” referring all …
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23 October
Diving into the wild world of custom, ergonomic, mechanical keyboards
“That’s a keyboard?” That was the reaction I got the first time I sent a picture of my new, customized, 36-key GergoPlex keyboard to a friend. A friend who, like me, has spent much of his life within an arm’s reach of some keyboard or another. But across the spectrum of input devices that have been tethered to personal computers …
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23 October
Uber and Lyft need to make drivers employees, appeals court rules
In the latest of a back-and-forth battle between the state of California and Uber and Lyft, an appeals court ruled Thursday evening that an injunction issued against the two ride-hailing companies over the status of their drivers was an appropriate measure. The injunction was issued in August by Judge Ethan Schulman of the San Francisco Superior Court, who ruled that …
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23 October
Amazon Luna hands
Amazon’s arrived midgame with its Luna Plus cloud-gaming service, in which games run on a powerful remote server that streams them down to less beefy devices, allowing them to play above their capabilities — a concept sometimes confusingly referred to as “game streaming.” Luna Plus faces more established players like Microsoft Game Pass Ultimate, Google Stadia and Nvidia GeForce Now. …
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