Now playing: Watch this: Anki Overdrive X52 Supertruck blasts opponents off the… 2:13 The phone-controlled Anki Overdrive car racing set is adding a much bigger player to the set, and it’s ready to wreak havoc. The X52 Supertruck ($60 in the US, £60 in the UK, or roughly AU$80), is part of a new line …
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October, 2016
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25 October
How to check your Uber rating
If you use Uber enough, you’re bound to have a bad experience that made you give your driver a low rating. Maybe your driver keeps getting lost, maybe the car is dirty and falling apart, or maybe the driver won’t stop caterwauling while you’re trying to make a call. But did you know that you get rated, too? If you’ve …
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25 October
Sprint CEO: Customers come for discounts, stay for the network
Sprint’s turnaround is in full swing as the company added hundreds of thousands of new customers in its fiscal second quarter and marked the best customer retention in its history. The company, which released preliminary financial results last week, offered no big surprises when it made public its full financial results on Tuesday. The good news for the quarter is …
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25 October
Fossil Group launches more than 20 hybrid smartwatches
Now playing: Watch this: Fossil’s new watches are hiding some smart features 1:21 Fossil Group unveiled on Tuesday a new line of hybrid smartwatches from a number of brands it designs and manufactures timepieces for such as Emporio Armani, Michael Kors, Kate Spade New York, Diesel and Chaps. The devices resemble traditional analog watches but include a variety of smart …
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25 October
Samsung to Galaxy Note 7 holdouts: Stop. Right. Now.
Samsung plans to push out a software update for its now-defunct Galaxy Note 7 phone to customers throughout Europe on October 31, the company announced on Tuesday. The update for the phone, which was prone to catching fire because of problems with its lithium-ion battery, will limit the battery charge to 60 percent of its full capacity. Wait, you might …
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24 October
DJI adds a 30x zoom lens to its commercial drones
The commercial applications for camera drones seem endless, but some operations, such as cell tower inspections, require you to fly very close to your subject to get accurate imaging. China-based DJI’s new Zenmuse Z30 camera could makes things much easier for its users, though, adding a 30x optical zoom and an additional digital zoom up to 6x. The drone maker …
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24 October
How to prepare yourself for a DDoS attack
No Spotify. No Twitter. No Netflix. Last Friday, millions of US residents woke up to that reality, the result of a major distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. Although not being able to stream “Stranger Things” on a weekday is merely an inconvenience — a serious one, I grant you — the attack crippled any number of smaller sites and …
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24 October
Verizon CEO: We’re not going to start making big media buys
Count Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam among the fans of AT&T’s planned acquisition of Time Warner. “It makes very good sense for AT&T,” McAdam told the Intel Capital Global Summit, of AT&T’s offer for Time Warner is $85.4 billion. Big deals, McAdam told CNET, shake up the status quo and force companies to re-evaluate their positions. That doesn’t mean, however, that …
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24 October
Jon Snow will now work for AT&T (The 3:59, Ep. 128)
AT&T doesn’t want to be just a phone company. The telecommunications giant is plunking down $85.4 billion to buy Time Warner, which will give it HBO (and therefore Jon Snow and his little show), CNN and movie studio Warner Bros. As the wireless phone market matures and slows down, both AT&T and Verizon are looking at media companies for their …
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24 October
Get ready for even more Amazon Dash buttons
Some of the jargony terms used to describe the new ways people shop these days include mobile commerce, social commerce and voice commerce. Perhaps another trend will be called “click commerce.” Amazon popularized this concept with its Dash buttons, which are small, Wi-Fi-connected gizmos that you can press to reorder snacks or Ziploc bags or condoms. Saying it’s seen “exponential” …
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