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22 December
3 surprising uses for a Mac’s Escape key
You’ve likely employed the Escape key on a Mac to exit out of a full-screen app or as part of the handy Command-Option-Escape keyboard combo that calls up the Force Quit menu. There are, however, a few other useful things the Escape key can do for you. These tips work with Macs that feature a physical Escape key as well …
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22 December
Social media coughs up awful ideas for last
Last-minute gift shopping is never fun, but leave it to social media to make things even worse. A trending hashtag offers up horrible ideas for presents, unless your loved ones enjoy stale candy. Also trending on Twitter is President-elect Donald Trump’s latest appointee, with a new role for Kellyanne Conway in the White House. Social Cues is our guide to …
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22 December
Tablets with the best battery life
Battery life is the one feature that truly affects all other aspects of a tablet’s functionality. Let’s be real: if you run out of battery life, there’s not much you can do with a dead tablet. Here is a list of tablets that lasted the longest during CNET Labs’ tests. Before the test is run, we put the tablet into …
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22 December
Need some last
Jeff Bezos’ elves were busy. On Thursday morning, just three days before Christmas, a crew of Amazon employees darted around the company’s warehouse on the fifth floor of a Midtown Manhattan office building. They roamed the narrow aisles to fill brown paper bags with new orders of toiletries, Amazon devices and canned foods. Workers then brought carts filled with these …
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22 December
NBA wants fans to engage more through ‘InPlay’
This is for basketball fans who watch games on TV with the remote in one hand and check their fantasy team’s stats on their mobile devices with the other. The NBA and fantasy sports site FanDuel said Thursday they are launching NBA InPlay, a real-time interactive fantasy game that lets fans watching nationally televised NBA games play against each other. …
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22 December
From Yaks to MiGs: The fascinating Belgrade Aviation Museum
Coming in for a landing at Belgrade’s Nikola Tesla airport, you can’t miss it. It looks like…a glass doughnut. It’s so radically different form the buildings around it, you immediately start wondering what it is. Which is what lead me to discover one of the most interesting air museums I’ve ever visited, the Belgrade Aviation Museum. It’s wonderfully weird, not …
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22 December
Barnes & Noble tablets ship with stealthy data
If you bought one of Barnes & Noble’s $50 Nook 7 tablets, you might want to upgrade its software ASAP. The low-priced gadgets, launched in time for the holidays this year, came preinstalled with a program called ADUPS that quietly sends user data back to a third party. In a statement, Barnes & Noble Chief Digital Officer Fred Argir said …
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22 December
Samsung’s Galaxy A3 (2017) may have received FCC certification
Samsung’s rumored 2017 follow-up to the Galaxy A3 has yet to be officially announced, but could be a step closer to making the jump from rumor to reality. A phone fitting the A3 2017’s description was spotted on the FCC’s certification website, leading many to believe it’s as good as done (products that clear the FCC still may never come …
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22 December
Seven mobile trends to look for in 2017
Get ready for a wild 2017 when it comes to the world of wireless. From the inauguration of Donald Trump as president of the United States to ever-growing hype around 5G wireless technology, the signs of change are unmistakable. It could mean anything from a shift in who provides your service to how exactly your connections get made. Trump may …
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