While Best Buy, HP and others are offering some surprisingly steep “Green Monday” discounts (what, you’ve never heard of “Green Monday“?), the deals being offered by Dell are not especially exciting, and most hover between 8 and 15 percent off regular prices. That said, a couple of these caught my eye. Alienware 13 R3 (OLED): …
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12 December
Samsung is bricking the surviving Note 7s (The 3:59, Ep. 152)
If you still have a Galaxy Note 7, Samsung is coming for your device. The South Korean electronics giant is releasing an update that will deactivate all remaining Note 7s after its recall in September due to batteries that caught fire. Some of our viewers who decided to hold onto their phones might not like that news. Also on the …
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12 December
Twitch lets you keep the trolls out of your chat
Social video platform Twitch is cleaning up its chats by introducing a new moderation tool called AutoMod, the company said Monday. AutoMod will use machine learning and natural language processing to keep inappropriate content out of streamers’ chats, should they chose to use the feature. “One of the best ways we can help bring about change is to provide tools …
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12 December
Get an Owlee Scroll Bluetooth speaker for $69.99
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. Quick housekeeping note: I know many of you took advantage of the cashback-powered Echo Dot deal I shared on Friday. Over the weekend, …
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12 December
Get some ‘Green Monday’ laptop discounts from HP
HP is offering a handful of discounts for “Green Monday,” the lesser-known cousin of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Most of these are for fairly generic laptops, desktops and printers that probably aren’t high on anyone’s holiday wish list, but there are a couple of standout discounts, including one for my favorite ultrathin laptop of the year. HP EliteBook Folio …
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12 December
How to enable lift to wake, tap to wake on the Pixel
Google‘s Pixel phone ($695 at Amazon) launched without any sort of feature to make notifications quickly viewable on a locked device. In order to view an alert, you had to pick up the phone and press the power button or touch the fingerprint sensor. In early December, Google released a software update for the Pixel that adds two important, and …
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12 December
Google partners with Cuba for faster YouTube, Gmail
Google‘s YouTube will now be able to load a lot faster in Cuba. Google on Monday signed an agreement with Cuba’s national telecom provider, ETECSA, to store data for Google services on the Caribbean island. Previously, signals had to travel from Cuba through Venezuela, which hurt the quality of the data. Google sites like YouTube and Gmail should be able …
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12 December
Australia Post ‘fake parcel delivery’ scams on the rise: ACCC
As Australians start going internet shopping crazy ahead of Christmas, they’re also being warned about a fake parcel delivery scam that’s popping up in email inboxes across the country The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has issued a warning about a rise in emails being sent by scammers, usually claiming to be from Australia Post or FedEx, saying the recipient …
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12 December
‘Green Monday’ brings another day of discounts at Best Buy
Just in case you haven’t hit your spending goals for this year, Best Buy is spreading discount love one more time for “Green Monday,” aka the second Monday in December. If you missed out on the Xbox and PlayStation 4 deals from Black Friday, you’ve got another chance to grab one today: Xbox One S and PlayStation 4 bundles are …
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12 December
TV Everywhere hits 22 million. Is 70 million really next?
Netflix has said TV Everywhere is its own worst nightmare. Now, TV Everywhere is hoping it can make that a reality, despite a track record that might suggest otherwise. TV Everywhere is how traditional pay-TV networks and providers attack the consumer shift to video online and on their phones. By setting up streaming channels included in pay-TV customers’ subscriptions, the …
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