December, 2017

• 29 December

  The best Amazon Digital Day deals we’ve found

  

  The holidays are over, and it’s time to load up your new device with digital content. Enter Amazon. To celebrate its second annual “Digital Day,” the retailer will offer discounts on thousands of products including movies, apps, e-books and TV shows. Like with Amazon’s Prime Day, there is much dreck — but also gems hidden among …

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• 29 December

  The FCC made life easier for your internet provider in 2017

  

  President Donald Trump’s Federal Communications Commission has wasted little time making big and small changes to your life — even if you haven’t noticed. FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, who enjoys a 3-2 Republican majority on the commission, has taken Trump’s pro-business, anti-regulation ethos to heart and has raced to roll back rules governing how the internet and service providers work. …

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• 29 December

  The 7 best perks of your new Amazon Prime subscription

  

  Did Santa leave something Prime in your stocking? If you’re new to Amazon’s subscription service, you may think the only benefits are two-day shipping and streaming video — both of which are awesome, no question. But Amazon Prime affords you a lot of other perks as well. Let’s take a look at seven of the best (and, in some cases, …

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• 29 December

  Learning to race in the epic Ferrari 488 Challenge

  

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• 29 December

  RIP: The tech that left us this year

  

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• 28 December

  Free for all: How to find free (and legal) books and movies

  

  Since the days of dial-up modems, the internet has been a never-ending source of movies, music, electronic books and television programs. The problem is that most of that content is actually owned by someone, and downloading it without paying for it makes you a pirate.  Besides being illegal — consequences can range from being cut off by your internet service …

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• 28 December

  YouTube on Fire TV? Things just got trickier

  

  It’s another shot fired in a showdown between Amazon and Google. On Thursday, four days ahead of a deadline imposed by Google, its YouTube app has apparently been deactivated on Amazon’s Fire TV devices. People who want to use Fire TV to look at YouTube are being directed instead to a pair of browsers, including Amazon’s own Silk. It’s not …

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• 28 December

  T

  

  T-Mobile wants to remind you that it’s serious about our 5G future. On Thursday, CEO John Legere offered up a series of reflections on 2017 and predictions for 2018, with T-Mobile front and center. In the case of 5G, he expects the year ahead to be a stepping-stone as T-Mobile builds on the wireless spectrum it just acquired. “We will …

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• 28 December

  How to upgrade your home theater system for 4K and HDR

  

  With high dynamic range (HDR) becoming available on more and more TVs, chances are your next TV will have it as a feature. But you might need to upgrade more than just the TV to get the full HDR experience.  Depending on how complex your system is, you may also need to upgrade all or some of your gear, since …

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• 28 December

  Apple apologizes for slowing iPhones, offers $29 battery fix

  

  It’s still amazing to think that a seeming conspiracy theory was true: On Dec. 20, Apple admitted it’d been secretly slowing down iPhones as their batteries aged. The company’s explanation: The throttled speeds kept those phones from unexpectedly shutting down.  That explanation wasn’t enough for some, who accused Apple of quietly driving people to upgrade their phones to fill the …

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