January, 2020

• 14 January

  Uber loses another executive: The VP of bikes and scooters

  

  Another of Uber’s longtime executives is leaving the company. Rachel Holt, who’d been with Uber for nearly nine years, said Tuesday that she’s moving on to launch a venture capital firm. Her most recent position at Uber was vice president of the division that oversees bikes, scooters and public transit partnerships. “Making a change like …

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• 14 January

  Disney Plus mobile app downloads hit nearly 41M, study says

  

  Disney Plus was the last year’s top-trending Google search term — and that interest seemed to translate to mobile downloads and spending too. The Disney Plus mobile app was downloaded 40.9 million times across Apple’s App Store and the Google Play store for Android, with the vast majority of interest coming from the US, according to a Tuesday report from mobile analytics firm …

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• 14 January

  Galaxy S20 leaks continue, top mobile trends from CES 2020

  

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• 14 January

  This hydrofoiling e

  

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• 13 January

  Acer’s Predator X32 gaming monitor seems awesome. It’s also $3,600

  

  This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. Go bright, go big or go wide just about sums up Acer’s flagship gaming monitors that it’s introducing at CES 2020: a 1,440-nit HDR Predator X32, 55-inch OLED CG552K and 38-inch curved X38. So, something for everyone, or at least everyone …

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• 13 January

  This Brother monochrome multifunction printer costs just $100

  

  Just a few days ago, Cheapskate Rick Broida told you about a great deal on a Brother compact monochrome laser printer (now expired). Ordinarily $170, it had dipped briefly under $100. Well, today you can do better than that particular deal — a newer version of that Brother printer fixes pretty much the only complaint we had with that version, …

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• 13 January

  Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 gaming laptop debuts 1440p screen, flashy lid at CES 2020

  

  This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. One of the highlights of Asus‘ gaming announcements at CES 2020 — in addition to the new 360Hz and 1,400-nit PG32UQX ROG Swift monitors — is the ROG Zephyrus G14, a new 14-inch entrant in its thin-and-light Zephyrus line. But it’s …

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• 13 January

  OnePlus says its next phone will have a 120Hz display

  

  After touting its 90-Hz displays on the OnePlus 7 line, with its next phones OnePlus seems poised to up its game once again. In a new blog post, founder and CEO Pete Lau says the company will be bringing an even smoother 120Hz “fluid display” to market in 2020.  Created in partnership with Samsung Display, Lau says the new AMOLED …

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• 13 January

  What CES 2020 taught us about this year’s phones: Cheaper foldables, 5G and more

  

  This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. The phones of CES weren’t many, but they were informative, hinting at important trends we’ll see in 2020 — including cheaper applications of 2019’s most expensive features. Typically, the CES showing settles on midrange devices, but this year also brought us …

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• 13 January

  LG’s portable 4K UHD CineBeam home theater projector is $400 off

  

  I had a projector in my home theater for about a decade, and I loved it. A projector elevates any content to a cinematic experience and displays an enormous picture — often larger than what you might be able to fit with a traditional flat screen TV. Most home theater projectors are meant to be mounted on the ceiling, but …

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