December, 2016

• 27 December

  LG Levitating Speaker makes your music fly

  

  You’ve heard of soaring music, but this is ridiculous. LG has created a speaker that actually flies. Sort of, anyway. The LG Levitating Wireless Speaker, also known as the PJ9, hovers above its catchily-named Levitation Station base to play music with no wires, as if by magic. The hovering speaker connects to two devices at …

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• 27 December

  Disney classics going to Hulu in exclusive deal

  

  Your favorite Disney princesses are headed to Hulu. The streaming service struck an exclusive multi-year deal with Disney, bringing animated classics like “Mulan,” “The Princess and the Frog” and “Lilo & Stitch” over to Hulu, along with more than 50 other titles, according to Variety. The partnership will also bring Disney live-action films, like “The Mighty Ducks” and “Air Bud.” …

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• 27 December

  Samsung’s wacky high

  

  Samsung has a bunch of wacky new products to show off for 2017. The gadgets come from the company’s internal incubator for offbeat ideas, the Samsung C-Lab. They’ll be among the many tech treats shown off for the first time at CES, the annual gadget extravaganza taking place in Las Vegas in January. Look out for loads of previews, photos …

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• 27 December

  Police request Echo recordings for homicide investigation

  

  You have the right to remain silent — but your smart devices might not. Amazon’s Echo and Echo Dot are in millions of homes now, with holiday sales more than quadrupling from 2015. Always listening for its wake word, the breakthrough smart speakers boast seven microphones waiting to take and record your commands. Now, Arkansas police are hoping an Echo …

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• 27 December

  Amazon’s best holiday season shipped over 1 billion items

  

  Amazon Prime is really giving Santa Claus a run for his money. The Seattle-based retailer giant shipped more than 1 billion items with Prime around the world for the holiday season, more than five times its sales last holiday season, between November 1 to December 19. The Echo Dot was the most coveted gift out of items shipped from Amazon, …

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• 27 December

  T

  

  T-Mobile is the first major carrier to push an update to remaining Samsung Galaxy Note 7 handsets that will prevent the phone battery from charging. Once updated, the phones will display an on-screen notification about the recall with instructions and they will no longer have the ability to charge. The update, which will essentially make the phones unusable, will also …

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• 26 December

  Binge

  

  Your holiday break is a great opportunity to relax and spend time with your loved ones. And what better way to connect with family than vegging out while streaming some quality TV series on Netflix, Amazon Prime, HBO Go and Hulu? If you missed 2016’s most-hyped shows, now’s the time to catch up. Here are some of our favorite new …

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• 26 December

  Apple’s first AI paper shows it’s ready to play with other kids

  

  The most important part of Apple publishing its first academic paper on AI is not necessarily the methods it uses to better teach artificial intelligence systems, but the fact that it published the paper at all. Prior to the Thursday publish date, the legendarily secretive Apple has kept all of its research locked up, particularly where AI is involved. AI …

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• 26 December

  Think the holiday deals are done? Think again

  

  Now playing: Watch this: Gift cards and exchange tips 1:00 Most shoppers go into Black Friday, Cyber Monday and the pre-holiday shopping frenzies with the concern that their most-desired bargains will sell out. But the truth is many manufacturer discounts, which make up the bulk of those “great” seasonal prices, run until at least the end of the year and …

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• 26 December

  Should you get month

  

  Paying an extra $5 to $11 per month for month-to-month phone insurance might sound tempting — especially now that the big wireless carriers have ditched contracts and subsidized phones, and you’re paying upfront for a new iPhone 7. But it’s not that simple. First of all, month-to-month phone insurance isn’t the great deal it sounds like — that relatively low …

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