For game seven of the World Series this past November, StubHub sold millions of dollars of tickets in just the two hours prior to the first pitch. A third of the folks there, who witnessed the Chicago Cubs snap a 108-year championship drought, got their seats through the online ticketing site. It’s stats like these …
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7 January
Notion’s new Alexa email controls sound kind of amazing
Notion is a free app for Android and iOS devices that syncs with your inbox, then uses artificial intelligence to make it easier to find the info you actually need. Its latest upgrade: an Amazon Alexa skill that lets you access Notion’s insights with simple voice commands. The coolest trick? Email summaries that let Alexa tell you the most most …
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7 January
Gaming laptops get an extra life at CES 2017
Gaming laptops were once the Rodney Dangerfield of computers — they got no respect. Many were much more expensive than comparable desktop gaming rigs, despite having worse performance and less flexibility. Worse, many were laptops in name only, with back-breakingly big bodies, and some of the worst design elements ever pulled from the adolescent sci-fi fantasy look book. Over the …
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7 January
Top videos from CES 2017
CES 2017 has been a whirlwind of gadgets, cars and Alexa-integrated appliances. If you can’t be in Las Vegas to take it all in — and trust me, it’s a lot to absorb — there’s no better way to experience the tech of today, tomorrow and possibly never than through video. For the armchair attendee, the CNET TV has spent …
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7 January
Aira smart glasses help blind people see the world
Aira, a US-based startup, has developed a pair of smart glasses that can help blind people with everyday tasks. The glasses, which are based on Google Glass, connect blind customers with a network of certified agents that can see what the blind person would be seeing in real time. These agents can help customers with daily tasks and activities such …
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7 January
My favorite TVs of CES 2017 (and other TV
Now playing: Watch this: The coolest TV tech of CES 2017 17:51 For the last week I’ve been staring into the future of TVs, and it’s hella bright. CES 2017 is over, and now we know all about the year’s newest, biggest sets. I saw many, many inches of screen real estate, all of it in 4K resolution and most …
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7 January
Phones at CES 2017 were a warmup for what’s to come
Now playing: Watch this: The Asus ZenFone AR is ahead of the curve 1:35 CES may be lean on phones this year, but the 17 we saw pointed out some trends that will help define handsets through 2017, especially as we head into next month’s Mobile World Congress, the phone world’s best and biggest show. Biggest trends AI will be …
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7 January
Samsung makes Gear smartwatches work with your iPhone
The Apple Watch doesn’t work with Android phones — but your Samsung watch might now work with Apple. Today, Samsung has released a pair of apps on Apple’s iOS App Store which allow the Samsung Gear S2 ($349 at Amazon), Gear S3, and Gear Fit 2 ($195 at Amazon) wearables to pair and work with Apple’s iPhones. Mind you, it’s …
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6 January
TV industry paves way for humongously high
If you just got a new TV, chances are good it’s a high-resolution 4K model. But the electronics industry, ever eager to get you to upgrade yet again, has laid important groundwork for televisions that quadruple the pixels of 4K. The HDMI Forum, a group of electronics companies that includes everyone from LG and Sony to Google and Netflix, has …
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6 January
Hushme may be the weirdest
Walking the floor at Eureka Park, the startup pavilion here at CES 2017, I came across this strange product: Hushme, which is billed as the “world’s first voice mask for mobile phones.” Due to hit a crowdfunding site later this year, Hushme can be worn as a standard neckband-style wireless headphone — it has integrated ear buds — or in …
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