The Brooklyn Nets fans still need to wait a year for Kevin Durant to get on the court, but the team is a fun watch this year with a quartet of talented guards — Kyrie Irving, Joe Harris, Spencer Dinwiddie and Caris LaVert — all averaging double figures in scoring. Even without Durant, the Nets have …
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December, 2019
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19 December
You can win a 65
We’re saying goodbye to 2019 by giving away a 65-inch TCL 6-Series! This TV won our Editors’ Choice this past October for having “excellent image quality, an affordable price and best-in-class Roku TV smarts.” The 6-Series also features 4K UHD resolution with QLED color technology, and Dolby Vision HDR. Check out our full review below. To enter this giveaway, make …
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19 December
Vivaldi browser pretends it’s Chrome so websites don’t break
I’m going to let you in on a little secret: A lot of the web is built on a lie. That lie is a little bit of text called the User-Agent string that a browser uses to identify itself to websites. User-Agent strings are problematic — and to get around one of those problems, browser maker Vivaldi is adding another …
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19 December
6 things coming to 2020 Android phones: 8K video, 5G uploads, two
Every year, phones get faster, smarter and more efficient, thanks to the processors inside. If you love your phone’s photography, slow-motion video and face or fingerprint unlocking, it’s because of the chip that powers them. Qualcomm’s next chipset for high-end Android phones, the Snapdragon 865, lays the groundwork for new features your phone could pick up next year. With Snapdragon …
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19 December
Hulu outage prevented videos from playing
Hulu suffereding an outage late Thursday afternoon, with video playback going down. While the streaming platform’s app and website were loading and allowing you to browse and select a movie or TV show to watch, the video wouldn’t then play. “We’re having trouble playing this,” an error message said. “Rest assured, we’re working on it.” Down Detector reported more than …
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19 December
V
Ask anyone who owns a camera drone what their main gripe is and the answer is likely short flight times. Drone maker Zero Zero Robotics says its upcoming V-Coptr Falcon will blow past industry standards by staying in the air for up to 50 minutes. And it didn’t do it by bulking up the battery, but by going from a …
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19 December
Get or give unlimited tech support for just $85
If you’ve ever tried to get help with, say, a printer that won’t print, a laptop that has a virus, a phone that’s not working or the like, you know that tech support can be: A) Expensive; B) Inconvenient; C) Hard to come by. Indeed, just knowing who to call for help can be a challenge, and a single support …
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19 December
New York governor promises net neutrality legislation in 2020
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is joining states like California in proposing a law to ensure his state’s internet users have access to a free and open internet. On Thursday, he called for a New York state net neutrality law as part of his 2020 legislative agenda. Cuomo’s plan comes two years after the Federal Communications Commission repealed Obama-era net …
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19 December
Cox Communications hit with $1B music piracy verdict
Cox Communications has been ordered to pay $1 billion in damages to Sony Music, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group and EMI after being found liable for the piracy of more than 10,000 songs. The lawsuit, filed in June 2018, accused the cable and internet service provider of deliberately ignoring pirates on its network. A federal jury in Virginia agreed …
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19 December
Verizon 5G marches toward goal of 30 cities in 2019
Verizon turned on 5G in Memphis, Tennessee, on Thursday — its fourth new 5G city in four days and its 22nd altogether. Memphis’ rollout follows the same in Los Angeles on Monday, Des Moines, Iowa, on Tuesday, and Hoboken, New Jersey, on Wednesday. Verizon’s 5G network is already live in Dallas, Omaha, Atlanta, Detroit, Indianapolis, Washington, DC, Chicago, Denver, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Providence, Boston, Houston …
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