September, 2020

• 25 September

  Apple halts fee on Facebook paid online events

  

  For the remainder of 2020, Apple will stop collecting a 30% App Store tax for Facebook’s paid online events feature, which is geared toward helping small businesses make money during the coronavirus pandemic. On Friday, Facebook said businesses can now keep all their earnings from paid online events, minus applicable taxes, until Dec. 31.  Facebook …

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• 25 September

  Amazon’s Prime Day 2020 will take place Oct. 13

  

  Amazon’s Prime Day is finally coming. The annual sale event will be held in the US on Tuesday, Oct. 13, and Wednesday, Oct. 14, according to an internal message Amazon sent employees this week. The message, sent Thursday, said that an official announcement from Amazon is coming Sept. 28. CNET on Tuesday reported that Prime Day would kick off on …

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• 25 September

  OnePlus 8 gets $100 price drop as OnePlus 8T looms

  

  OnePlus is dropping the price on most of its OnePlus 8 phones Friday, though those interested may want to wait.  On Amazon and the company’s website, the 128GB OnePlus 8 is now $599 (down from $699) while the 256GB version is $699 (down from $799). T-Mobile’s OnePlus 8 5G is similarly down to $600, though Verizon’s OnePlus 8 5G UW …

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• 25 September

  Friday deal roundup: New Amazon Echo discounts, a big Chromebook sale and more

  

  Cheeps, I’m increasingly frustrated with coupons and promo codes that disappear or stop working — as I’m sure you are. I’m working with Amazon sellers to try to prevent this from happening so often. But the reality is that a few zillion Cheapskate newsletter subscribers and Facebook and Twitter followers often end up clamoring for what might be a few …

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• 25 September

  Judge to hold hearing Sunday on Trump administration’s TikTok download ban

  

  A federal judge is expected to decide on Sunday morning whether to allow the US government to ban new downloads of TikTok in the Apple and Google app stores. The ban would take effect later that same day at 11:59 p.m. ET unless it’s blocked. The US Justice Department had until Friday to either delay the ban or file legal …

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• 25 September

  Restore Gmail contacts you’ve deleted by mistake with this simple trick

  

  If you’ve ever deleted a Gmail contact and only later realized what a big mistake you’ve made, you can relax as long as you made the change in the last 30 days. Regardless of how many contacts you add or delete, Gmail keeps a 30-day history of every contact in your address book. So if you accidentally delete one or …

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• 25 September

  iOS 14 and beyond: Home screen aesthetics soar

  

  The biggest flex on the internet right now is showing off screenshots of a carefully curated aesthetic iOS 14 home screen. We don’t make the rules. The teens on TikTok do. When iOS 14 was released to the public last week, many people at first couldn’t see much that was new with the latest version of Apple’s software. But gradually, …

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• 25 September

  All of the announcements from Amazon’s crazy fall event

  

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• 25 September

  Amazon’s newest Echo can follow you

  

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• 25 September

  LG Wing is the weirdest phone we’ve seen in a long time

  

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