Sharing a ride home with your friends just became a whole lot easier. Uber added a new multi-stop feature on Thursday allowing you add in three stops into your journey, and even change them while you’re enroute. If you’ve ever tried to share an Uber with anyone not headed to the same address as you, …
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26 October
Instagram’s new ‘Superzoom’ gets up close and personal
Nothing says funny like a theatrical superzoom. Case in point: Dramatic Chipmunk. In that video, you see the little furry creature quickly turn around and then stare into the camera as it zooms in closer and closer to its face. Now, Instagram is making it easy to record and post videos just like this on the social network. The photo-sharing …
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26 October
Razer Core V2 coming to Australia early 2018
Announced last year, the Razer Core is an external graphics card holder that promised to turn the 12.5-inch Razer Blade Stealth into a gaming beast. Australians wouldn’t know though — the Core never came Down Under. That’s changing now, according to Razer. The recently unveiled Core V2 will come to Australia in Q1 of next year, Razer ANZ Marketing Manager …
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26 October
AMD Ryzen processors want to power your next skinny laptop
We’ve recently seen the first laptops powered by Intel’s eighth-generation mobile processors arrive, and now it’s AMD’s turn. The difference is Intel’s processors use a “refreshed” version of the seventh-generation Kaby Lake architecture and a rebranded version of the graphics processor that gains most of its improvements through the addition of a couple of cores and some tweaks. For AMD, …
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26 October
Nvidia 1070 Ti graphics card aims to please mainstream gamers
Nvidia wants to help you afford an impressive gaming PC this holiday season. The company debuted the GeForce GTX1070 Ti on Thursday, a graphics card with high-end specs at a more affordable price than the company’s top-of-the-line 1080 cards. Calling it an “overclocked monster,” Nvidia says the 1070 Ti features 2,432 cores and 8GB of memory running at 8Gbps for …
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26 October
Apple WatchOS 4.1 adds Wi
Apple is planning to release WatchOS 4.1 at the end of the month. The update will be big: not only will it add music streaming over cellular and Wi-Fi via Apple Music and iCloud Music libraries and a new streaming Radio app, but it adds some fixes to address Wi-Fi and cellular issues acknowledged by Apple. I’ve been using a …
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26 October
LG G6 now sells for $100 less on Amazon Prime
To save some cash on a new LG phone, you can head straight for Amazon. The online retail giant has expanded its repertoire of Prime Exclusive phones with four LG handsets: the LG G6, the LG G6+, the LG Q6, and the LG X Charge. What are Prime Exclusive phones, you ask? They’re discount sale prices for Amazon Prime members only. …
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26 October
Coffee Lake, Cannon Lake and beyond: Intel’s next chips
This summer, Intel delivered what it says is a “once-in-a-decade” performance upgrade to its line of mobile processors that power Apple’s MacBook Air and iMac, Microsoft’s Surface Pro, and hundreds of other popular devices. The new chips, the first wave of eighth-gen Core CPUs, and collectively known as the Kaby Lake R series, are just the latest in a series of …
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26 October
Facebook looks to become your next used car salesman
It’s been a little more than a year since Facebook launched its Marketplace platform. Now, the social media giant says it’s time to expand it. Marketplace, which lets people sell new and used stuff locally, is adding more detailed US listings of used cars, one of the categories Facebook said has been most active. In the coming weeks, the platform …
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26 October
Google extends Pixel 2 warranty to ease burn
If you’re thinking of buying Google’s new Pixel 2 XL smartphone, the tech giant wants you to know you won’t get burned by possible display burn-in issues. Google, reacting to reports that some Pixel 2 XL phones are suffering from screen burn-in, said Thursday it would double the length of the warranty on the new smartphone to two years. The …
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