October, 2017

• 3 October

  Walmart offers sneak peek of Google Home Mini

  

  Walmart may have accidentally let the cat out of the bag on the yet-to-be-announced Google Home Mini. Droid Life reported Tuesday that the retailer listed the rumored smaller, cheaper version of the Google Home assistant speaker for preorder on its site. But it quickly took the page down. According to the preorder information, the Google …

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• 3 October

  GoFundMe campaign for Las Vegas shooting victims tops $1M

  

  An online campaign to raise money to help the victims of the deadly Las Vegas shooting has raised nearly $3 million in less than 24 hours. The GoFundMe campaign was created Monday by Steve Sisolak, the Clark County Commission chair from Las Vegas. The campaign passed its original $2 million goal on Monday evening. Sisolak then reset the goal to $3.5 …

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• 3 October

  Microsoft to acquire virtual reality social network AltspaceVR

  

  It’s been a crazy summer for fans of AltspaceVR, the social network that lets you hang out and watch events in virtual reality. The company behind the service first announced its closure in July, its revival in August and, now, a new owner in Microsoft in a deal announced Tuesday. The service has previously hosted events including presidential debates and concerts, and …

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• 3 October

  Get a 4TB desktop hard drive for $70

  

  CNET’s Cheapskate scours the web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. Find more great buys on the CNET Deals page and follow the Cheapskate on Facebook and Twitter! Seagate’s desktop drive holds a whopping 4TB. Seagate This is a rerun of sorts, though the last time …

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• 3 October

  Are you excited for the new Google Pixel 2? (The 3:59, Ep. 293)

  

  Google is expected to reveal a big slate of new hardware Wednesday, but plenty of those announcements have already leaked. On today’s podcast, we run through a bunch of those expected devices, including the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL smartphones, as well as the Google Home Mini smart speaker. Google’s presentation kicks off at 9 a.m. PT/12 p.m. ET, …

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• 3 October

  Filmmaker Ava DuVernay: With Netflix, ‘I have a choice’

  

  Streaming services like Netflix have changed the landscape for filmmakers, director Ava DuVernay said Tuesday at the Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit in Beverly Hills. Sharing the stage with Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos, DuVernay said making films for a streaming service has helped her ignore ratings and awards so she can create. DuVernay directed documentary “13th” for Netflix, …

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• 3 October

  NY restaurant tries tasteful way to get you off your phone

  

  Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Enlarge Image So polite. Unlike those who don’t put their phones away. Screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Going out to dinner has proved at times a depressing experience for me lately. Too often, I see people sitting opposite each other. Their eyes, however, don’t look into …

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• 3 October

  Las Vegas shooting brought Twitter its saddest day

  

  The mass shooting in Las Vegas earlier this week brought the mood on Twitter to its lowest level ever Monday. The Hedonometer, a tool that measures the happiness of millions of Twitter users based on their posts, showed an average happiness level of 5.77 after news of the massacre began spreading. The mass shooting claimed the lives of 59 people …

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• 3 October

  Roku Streaming Stick Plus with 4K for $70 leads five

  

  Roku specializes in streaming, and so far that focus is paying off. The scrappy Los Gatos, California-based firm just came off a big initial public offering, but as a company it’s still dwarfed by its main rivals in the streaming hardware game: Amazon, Apple and Google. Roku’s streaming sticks and boxes are more popular than their competitors, however, and they routinely earn my top …

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• 3 October

  Your Yahoo account info was definitely hacked

  

  Now playing: Watch this: Find out if your Yahoo account was hacked 1:21 The Yahoo hack is the biggest publicly disclosed data breach of all time. Getty Images In September 2016, Yahoo revealed a hack that compromised 500 million user accounts. In December, the company revealed yet another hack, this time affecting a record 1 billion accounts. On Tuesday, Yahoo …

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