June, 2019

• 26 June

  Enter to win* a streaming music speaker with fantastic sound quality

  

  CNET and Last.fm are turning up the volume with our lastest sweepstakes. Two lucky winners will each win a Sonos speaker so they can stream from their favorite music service. The grand prize winner will take home the Sonos Play:5, noted as a fantastic-sounding speaker by our editors. Meanwhile the runner-up will receive the newest Sonos …

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• 26 June

  Ahead of Democratic debate, Apple News offers up a guide to the candidates

  

  In case this somehow got by you, there are a lot of people running for president in the 2020 election. In fact, there are more than 20 Democratic candidates. That’s a lot of politicians to weed through, but there’s help: Apple News on Wednesday released a guide to the candidates.  The guide, which coincides with two Democratic debates this week, focuses on …

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• 26 June

  Verizon’s Visible removes data speed caps, keeps $40 price

  

  Visible, Verizon’s $40 prepaid network, is removing its data speed caps.  After previously offering unlimited data on Verizon’s 4G LTE network, the company announced Wednesday that it will be removing the speed limit that capped data to 5 Mbps. The restriction has been removed for both current and new users, with pricing remaining at the same $40 per month with …

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• 26 June

  Loupedeck+ Lightroom console now works with Photoshop raw photo editor, too

  

  Loupedeck+, a hardware console for editing photos in Lightroom, now works with Photoshop’s Adobe Camera Raw tool, too. The new Photoshop integration, which Loupedeck announced Wednesday, could help photo editors get more use out of the $249 USB accessory. The Loupedeck+ console comes with dedicated knobs for controlling things like exposure, vignetting, contrast and noise reduction. For example, there are …

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• 26 June

  Reddit quarantines pro

  

  Reddit has many subreddits dedicated to different interests. Fans of President Donald Trump, for example, have their own space called The_Donald. That subreddit is now at risk of going away due to violations of the site’s content policy. Reddit administrators quarantined The_Donald on Wednesday. Redditors visiting the board were met with a warning about the quarantine and a message saying violations …

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• 26 June

  NSA reportedly collected US call data without authorization… again

  

  In 2016, the National Security Agency gathered 151 million call records even though Congress made rules to reduce the federal government’s sweeping surveillance of Americans’ phone records. A new report shows the NSA might have collected additional call data it wasn’t authorized to obtain again last year. The American Civil Liberties Union released documents on Wednesday that it says show …

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• 26 June

  HTC details the Vive Cosmos VR headset

  

  HTC has revealed a few more details about its upcoming Vive Cosmos, calling the virtual reality headset its “most impressive” yet. The Cosmos will enable VR at 90 frames per second, and a display with 88% higher resolution than the original HTC Vive. The LCD display will have a 2880×1700 combined resolution. It’ll also have real RGB panels and more …

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• 26 June

  Ready to upgrade your rig? Gaming laptops from Razer, Asus, Alienware and more are on sale at Best Buy

  

  Best Buy has gaming laptop deals that rival those you’ll find on Amazon as Prime Day draws near. You’ll find discounted mobile rigs right now at Best Buy from Alienware, Asus, Razer and others just as we’re starting to see pre-Prime Day laptop deals on Amazon. You can scope all of Best Buy’s gaming laptops on discount here. Below are …

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• 26 June

  eBay plans to upstage Amazon Prime Day with Crash Sale on July 15

  

  eBay plans to launch a site-wide Crash Sale on July 15, the same day that Amazon plans to kick off its two-day Prime Day mega-sale. eBay promises deals will offer discounts of up to 80% on a variety of products, including items from Apple, Garmin and Samsung, among others. One might be forgiven for concluding eBay is calling it a …

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• 26 June

  FCC gives thumbs

  

  The Federal Communications Commission has given Verizon permission to lock the new phones it sells to help curtail theft. The agency granted the waiver so the carrier could start locking the phones for a period of 60 days. The lock prevents consumers from swapping out SIM cards and using a phone on another network.  in February when it filed for the waiver, Verizon explained …

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