Now playing: Watch this: Test driving Apple’s Force Touch trackpad 2:49 Apple’s new Macbooks include a wider, more spacious trackpad, giving you more room than ever to use Force Touch. Force Touch, originally introduced on Apple’s 2015 MacBook and 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro, is like 3D Touch for your Mac. When you push into your …
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27 October
Emojis are why you’ll want the new MacBook’s Touch Bar
iMessage on Mac desktops is super useful, except for one thing: it’s way too cumbersome to send emojis. Unless you have the new MacBook. Apple today announced MacBooks with a “Touch Bar” that replaces the button of rows at the top of the keyboard. The benefit? It’s flexible. So, depending on what app you’re using, the bar will change. If …
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27 October
Amazon’s $99 Prime problem
Amazon is in a pickle. It would probably like to raise the fee on its popular Prime membership to offset its skyrocketing shipping costs. That fee, though, already stands at $99 a year, meaning an increase of just a buck would push membership to the psychologically important $100 barrier. Here’s the rub: the inherent contradiction of Prime is that the …
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27 October
Does the new Macbook Pro revolutionize laptops? (The 3:59, Ep. 131)
Bye-bye, function keys, hello Touch Bar! Apple unveiled its new MacBook Pro on Thursday, with a built-in touch strip at the top of the keyboard where the F-Keys, media controls and escape button used to be. It’s the most noticeable change to tech giant’s laptops in recent years. We discuss if it’ll set the standard for future laptops. We also …
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27 October
Why Twitter killed off Vine after a short
At least it lasted longer than six seconds. The popular microvideo platform that Twitter scooped up in 2012 is headed for an abrupt ending, as Vine announced in a blog post Thursday morning that it would be shutting down its app. Vine was a widely used app where videos looped and were limited to 6-second clips, pioneering a short-form video …
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26 October
Vodafone hit with record £4.6M fine for pocketing customer payments
The UK’s telecoms watchdog has issued its largest ever fine, after Vodafone was rumbled taking customers’ money and failing to credit payment to their account. Telecoms regulator Ofcom today levied a fine of £4.6 million against Vodafone for trousering payments without crediting customers, and for subsequent failures in dealing with customer complaints. Vodafone, one of the UK’s major mobile carriers, …
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26 October
Your next phone could have USB Type
There’s a tiny-but-terrific change happening in phoneland. USB Type-C, or USB-C is a new protocol for the charger port phone makers are embracing in droves. You can learn more about it here, but the bottom line is that the USB protocol for phones, tablets, laptops and accessories is changing for the better. USB Type-C has taken over — here are …
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26 October
Turn your iPad into a second monitor for $9.99
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. Look at that iPad of yours, just sitting there doing nothing while you slave away at your laptop. What a slacker! Okay, it’s …
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26 October
How to tell if your Apple Lightning cable is fake
Earlier this month, Apple filed a lawsuit against Amazon.com for selling counterfeit Apple products — specifically, unapproved third-party Lightning cables and power adapters sourced from Mobile Star LLC — on its website. Apple purchased a number of third-party Apple-branded power products that were sold directly from, and fulfilled by, Amazon.com, and determined that almost 90 percent of those products were …
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26 October
This Android keyboard trick fixes bad autocorrect suggestions
If you’ve got an Android and use the default keyboard, you can get rid of autocorrect words that you would never say or misspelled words that your keyboard has learned over time. All you need to do is take out the trash. First, check to make sure you have the 5.0 update or better. Go to Message+ and open it. …
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