Natalie LeBaron dissected earthworms, grasshoppers and frogs for her 10th-grade biology class. Sure, high school students have been excising amphibian hearts for decades — but not like LeBaron. She wields her scalpel on top of the dryer in her family’s laundry room in Stockton, California. LeBaron, 15, had just completed her sophomore year with Stanford …
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4 November
Newly fashionable hardware controls aim to speed up Lightroom
A group of former Nokia employees thinks it has a better way for you to edit photos: Loupedeck, a hardware console with sliders, knobs and switches dedicated to Adobe Systems‘ Lightroom software. Lightroom has a wide range of on-screen controls for photo-editing tasks like adjusting exposure, cropping, fiddling with color and applying a star rating. Your photo takes up most …
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4 November
Get a $315 software bundle for $15
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. I dislocated my pinky yesterday, and although I popped it back into the socket like a manly-man, it’s pretty swollen. So I apologize …
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4 November
Samsung to hobble Galaxy Note 7 charging in US with software
Most Galaxy Note 7 users in the US have returned their devices. For those who haven’t, Samsung will soon start limiting the device’s charging capabilities. Samsung on Friday said 85 percent of all recalled Note 7 phones in the US have been replaced through its refund and exchange program, “with the majority of the participants opting to receive another Samsung …
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4 November
TV features you should (and shouldn’t) care about
Is SUHD really better than UHD, or is that “S” full of it? Is HDR better than 4K? What’s the difference between 4K, HDR, OLED, UHD, SUHD, UHDBD, and all the other letter jumbles? Good questions. The TV world is filled with impenetrable jargon, and TVs can get expensive, so it’s certainly worth taking a moment and figuring out what’s …
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4 November
Google’s modular phone may live on
I want a phone with six batteries, so I never run out of juice. I want a phone that lets me upgrade the camera, screen, even processor, so I’m never out of date. Enlarge Image This guy? He worked on the StarTAC, RAZR, Droid, Amazon Fire Phone *and* led Google’s Ara team. He’s at Facebook now. Gabriel Sama/CNET If that …
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4 November
The best hatching tips for Pokemon Go
Many Pokemon in Pokemon Go are region specific. This means that if you want to catch them all, you need to start traveling to faraway places, right? Wrong, don’t book that plane ticket just yet. Incubating and hatching eggs is your ticket to getting those Pokemon that just won’t spawn in your hometown. Hatching is also important for evolution, as …
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4 November
Do you need new HDMI cables for HDR?
The latest TV technology is high dynamic range, or HDR. If you want to take advantage of this latest and greatest, you need an HDR TV (of course), an HDR-capable source (either a streaming app on your TV or a media streamer/UHD BD player) and HDR video to watch. But do you need new HDMI cables? Surely those many-years-old, dust-covered, …
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4 November
Apple TV single sign
Apple TV single sign-on became available Thursday night to those with access to the tvOS 10.1 and 10.2 betas. Apple revealed the single sign-on feature in June, but when tvOS was released the feature was nowhere to be found. Single sign-on solves the issue of having to separately sign into apps like Watch ESPN and FX Now which requires users …
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4 November
Social media is a gold mine for detectives busting scams
An equestrian suing for worker’s compensation in Baltimore thought she had everyone fooled. The woman said in her claim she was injured and couldn’t ride horses anymore, and in the courtroom, she had a convincing act. But online, it was a different story. This was in 2002, when community boards served as social networks. There, private investigator Scott Catron found …
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