August, 2017

• 15 August

  Smart grills battle for BBQ supremacy

  

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• 15 August

  Rovio plans IPO, Snapchat tests out “crowd surf”

  

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• 15 August

  On the road with an Airbus A380

  

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• 15 August

  Cassini creeps closer to crashing into Saturn

  

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• 14 August

  The 25 fastest gaming laptops ranked

  

  The best new gaming laptops, ranked +38 more See all photos Editor’s note: Going forward, the most recent updated version of our best gaming laptops list can be found here.  Gaming on a laptop is no longer the frustrating compromise it once was. Slimmer designs paired with more powerful processors and graphics cards have brought gaming laptops closer than ever to …

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• 14 August

  You can now dictate to Google in more languages

  

  Google added more than 20 languages to its speech recognition software Monday, including Georgian, Swahili and Amharic, among others.  According to Google’s blog post, Android customers can now dictate (rather than type) in 119 “language varieties” via the Google keyboard, Gboard, Voice Search and the Cloud Speech API. These languages will soon be available through Google’s Translate app as well.  …

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• 14 August

  ‘Scandal’ creator Shonda Rhimes leaves ABC for Netflix

  

  Shonda Rhimes is bringing her trademark jaw-dropping dramatic twists and turns to Netflix. Rhimes and her production company Shondaland are behind such hits as the long-running “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Scandal” and “How to Get Away with Murder.” But after 15 years with ABC, Netflix said Sunday it had signed a multi-year deal with Shondaland. The new deal with cover a “new …

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• 14 August

  Pandora picks Sling TV CEO Roger Lynch to be its new chief

  

  Music-streaming service Pandora has chosen Roger Lynch, chief executive of Sling TV, to be its new CEO and president, after a leadership shakeup in June. Lynch is the founding CEO of Sling TV, Dish Network‘s online service for live TV that launched in 2015. He will also join Pandora’s board of directors when he starts his new job next month, …

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• 14 August

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  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 Twitter! Rok Mobile’s new plan undercuts Sprint by $5 a month. You can use that savings to buy them some …

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• 14 August

  Google, GoDaddy dump neo

  

  The neo-Nazi Daily Stormer website appeared to be offline late Monday after Google said it would cancel the hate site’s domain registration following its migration from GoDaddy earlier in the day.  Attempts to reach the website, which has been called the “top hate site in America,” on the surface web weren’t completed and sometimes hung at a screen from Cloudflare, …

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