January, 2017

• 3 January

  Get a free 3

  

  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. And find more great buys on the CNET Deals page. Three free months of Scribd = too good to pass up. Scribd So it turns out the Netflix-for-ebooks …

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• 3 January

  Megyn Kelly’s Facebook fans go ape as anchor leaves Fox

  

  Disgusted Facebook followers of Megyn Kelly let their feelings be known after the Fox News Channel anchor said on Tuesday that she’s joining NBC. After learning she’s leaving Fox, after 12 years, thousands of fans on Kelly’s official Facebook page called her everything from a sellout to a traitor to other things too nasty to mention. “I have decided to …

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• 3 January

  Don’t be fooled: Intel’s new desktop CPUs aren’t faster

  

  Now playing: Watch this: Intel’s latest chips aren’t that great 1:12 Kaby Lake. Kaby Lake. Kaby Lake. If you read tech news, you may seeing that phrase an awful lot this week: it’s what Intel calls its latest seventh-generation processors for laptop and desktop PCs. But before you get all excited about a PC with the new processors, there’s something …

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• 3 January

  CES 2017 so far: what you need to know

  

  Now playing: Watch this: We took a magic ride in a metal VR skeleton with Hypersuit 1:28 Shrug off that New Year’s hangover, there’s no time to rest as CES begins once again. The CNET team is on the ground in Las Vegas ready to bring you all the gadget goodness. Though the show doesn’t formally open until Thursday, there’s …

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• 3 January

  ‘Alien’ is coming to VR

  

  It’s not quite as uncomfortable as an alien popping out of your chest, but an official “Alien” VR experience may bring you closer to a screeching, drooling alien maw then ever before. Twentieth Century Fox, the studio releasing Ridley Scott’s “Alien: Covenant” movie in May, said Tuesday it will also produce a virtual reality experience to go along with film. …

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• 3 January

  CES 2017: Every CNET social media account you need to follow

  

  We’re living at CES 2017 so you don’t have to. And that means that if you want a firsthand look at everything in and around the conference, you should check out one of the many, many social media platforms we’ll be posting, tweeting and broadcasting on. First off, you can always like us on Facebook to keep tabs on the …

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• 3 January

  Mio’s Slice fitness tracker wants you to stop counting your steps

  

  Mio wants you to stop worrying so much about hitting 10,000 steps. The metric that was made famous by Fitbit may soon be a thing of the past following the release of the Mio Slice on Tuesday. It’s available now for $129 — that’s about £105 or AU$179. Rather than relying on the number of steps you take, the Slice, …

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• 3 January

  This ultra

  

  A French startup, called Energysquare, has created a new type of technology that can wireless charge almost any device. This includes devices that don’t have wireless charging capabilities built-in, such as Apple‘s iPhone and iPad. The company launched a successful Kickstarter campaign last May and is promising to ship the product in the coming months (early 2017). I got to …

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• 3 January

  This smart strap transforms any watch into a smartwatch

  

  Have you ever wanted to turn your old boring watch into a smartwatch? Probably not, but now you can. CT Band is a bulky and expensive smart strap that promises to bring smart features to traditional mechanical watches. The band features a small LED display and a laundry list of sensors to show notifications and track daily activities. It’s an …

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• 3 January

  Samsung’s CES 2017 press conference Jan. 4 (live blog)

  

  CES is the largest tech show of the year, and Samsung often makes the biggest splash. This year should be no different — except for that big Galaxy Note 7 shadow hanging over the South Korean electronics giant. Samsung’s large-screen smartphone launched with much fanfare in mid-August but faced two recalls before ultimately being killed off in October. The problem …

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