November, 2019

• 20 November

  Reddit suffers yet another outage

  

  Reddit went down across the globe again on Wednesday, with its front page serving up an error. Problems spiked at around 12:30 p.m. PT, with more than 5,400 reports of an outage, according to Down Detector. “Our CDN (content delivery network) was unable to reach our servers,” Reddit.com said. Reddit’s status page said it was investigating the …

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• 20 November

  Samsung’s Galaxy S11 will probably have a 120Hz display

  

  Each year phones get a little faster, longer lasting and, with luck, more stylishly designed. One feature increasingly coming to phones that makes a bigger, more noticeable difference is higher refresh rates. The standard rate is 60Hz, which means your phone screen refreshes 60 times a second. In 2017 the Razer Phone wowed CNET with its 120Hz display, which led …

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• 20 November

  Motorola Razr: 6 burning questions we still have about this foldable phone

  

  The 2004 Motorola Razr is back for 2019, this time with a sexy foldable 6.2-inch screen that bends in half and a 16-megapixel camera for all your shots. After playing with it at Motorola’s Chicago headquarters, I called it, “Streamlined. Utterly pocketable. Nostalgic, with a sharp futuristic edge.” You might call it a flip phone for the modern age — …

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• 20 November

  PayPal to buy deal

  

  The Honey browser extension find deals by automatically digging up and applying coupon codes for thousands of online stores. Screenshot by CNET PayPal announced Wednesday it would acquire online deal-finding service Honey Science for $4 billion. Founded in 2012, Honey operates a browser extension that helps shoppers find deals by automatically digging up and applying coupon codes for thousands of …

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• 20 November

  FCC backs tech to let self

  

  Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai issued a proposal Wednesday to dedicate slivers of the 5.9 gigahertz spectrum band to unlicensed Wi-Fi use and the use of Qualcomm’s cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) protocol. The move is considered somewhat controversial since it goes against recommendations from the US Department of Transportation.  The Qualcomm technology promises to let vehicles wirelessly communicate with one …

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• 20 November

  Huawei Mate X’s folding screen costs $1,000 to fix

  

  Repairing phone screens isn’t cheap, especially as displays get bigger and more beautiful. It costs $149 to replace a broken iPhone 8 display, but $329 to fix a cracked iPhone 11 Pro Max. It makes sense, the 11 Pro Max display is OLED and nearly 40% bigger. So what does that mean for foldable phones, the displays of which are …

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• 20 November

  Iran’s internet has been shut down for days amid protests

  

  Iranians have been cut off from the internet for days as protests rage over rising fuel prices, and it’s unclear when the shutdown will end. The Iranian government began a near-total shutdown of the internet on Saturday, according to CBS News. This move has largely blocked all but state media and official government reports about the demonstrations across the country.  …

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• 20 November

  Win a prize from our Holiday Gift Guide*

  

  The season of gifting and thanking is here and the CNET team wants to say thank you to our readers with a holiday giveaway. This time around we want you to pick the prize you want and we are having a total of five lucky winners. Let me break it down: The first step is to check the best holiday …

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• 20 November

  Aston Martin unveils its first SUV, the DBX

  

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• 20 November

  Hyundai shows off the next

  

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