Many things pair well with Thanksgiving turkey. Road rage isn’t one of them. Google analyzed traffic data from 2017 to figure out the best and worst times to travel next week, as well as when places like grocery stores and movie theaters will be the busiest, according to a company blog post Thursday. Spoiler alert: You’re not …
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15 November
AMD’s new Radeon RX 590 GPU ekes out more speed on a budget
AMD on Thursday announced a new version of its Radeon RX graphics card. The company says the Radeon RX 590 delivers a higher core clock speed than the RX 580 — and up to 20 percent more “performance-per-dollar” than other cards. Like the older RX 580, the new GPU is based on AMD’s fourth-generation Graphics Core Next architecture but uses …
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15 November
How to turn off the annoying sounds in the Facebook app
For reasons that are unclear to anyone outside of Facebook, the iOS and Android apps make a ton of noise. There’s a sound when you refresh your feed, when someone starts typing or when you get a new alert. And frankly, the sounds are annoying. Thankfully, you can disable the in-app sounds in a matter of seconds. Disable on iOS …
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15 November
Get a one
The beauty of owning an unlocked phone is that you can take it to whatever carrier offers the best deal. And a few carriers make the deal even sweeter if you’re willing to prepay for an entire year. Mint Mobile is probably the best-known company to offer that option, but there’s another: Red Pocket. And the latter has a slight …
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15 November
Amazon Black Friday deal blowout: More Xbox discounts, Amazon device sales and Whole Foods turkeys, too
Update, Nov. 17: Going forward, we’re tracking the best Amazon deals here. Amazon has revealed its expanded plans for Black Friday sales, including a long list of specific discounts and deals on Xbox bundles, TVs, electronics, Chromebooks, toys, board games, furniture, apparel, outdoor equipment — and everything else under the sun. These details are above and beyond the extensive discounts …
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15 November
Instagram courts Black Friday and holiday shoppers with new shopping features
With the holiday shopping season going into overdrive, Instagram has rolled out new ways to shop on its platform. The move comes after the company expanded Shopping on Instagram with the introduction of product stickers in Stories in September. Instagram is focusing on discovering new products, allowing you to shop by your favorite brands and saving wish-list items. Here’s a quick …
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15 November
Sick of Facebook stalking you? This startup wants to reinvent personalization
You may be creeped out by how much tech companies want to know about you. So is Canopy. Canopy — a new startup built by people who’ve worked at Spotify, Instagram, Google and The New York Times — wants to upend a fundamental concept that propelled many of the internet’s biggest companies to power: To get personalized service, you have …
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15 November
The Google Pixel Slate will ship in time for the holidays
It won’t arrive in time for Black Friday, but the first Pixel Slate tablets will soon land with customers. After beginning to accept preorders last week, Google now shows estimated shipping times of two to four weeks, depending on which model you buy. Announced at Google’s October event, the Pixel Slate is a Chrome OS tablet that follows in the footsteps of Microsoft’s Surface tablet. Google …
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15 November
Oprah Winfrey’s VR alterego is an omnipotent bug in Crow: The Legend
Curious what it feels like for Oprah Winfrey look you in the eyes from the body of an all-powerful purple bug on a treadmill? Now you can. Winfrey joins other big-name stars, like John Legend, Constance Wu and Diego Luna, in Crow: The Legend, a free 20-minute virtual-reality experience released Thursday on Facebook‘s Oculus store. The Pixar-like journey follows Crow as he attempts …
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15 November
Foldable phones have nothing on Detective Pikachu
Are foldable phones a thing now? We don’t know, but Jeff goes head-to-head with this week’s guest Bridget Carey arguing about that and a lot more on this week’s Nope, Sorry. This week’s topics include: Are foldable phones the future or a gimmick? Should you be more excited for Toy Story 4 or Detective Pikachu? What’s the best video game-to-movie …
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