March, 2016

• 15 March

  Too lazy to ship off your old stuff? eBay can help with that

  

  There’s so much about trying to sell your old stuff online that’s no fun. Spending time listing items is a chore. Then there’s finding the right box and heading over to the local post office. And dealing with returns. eBay, one of the biggest resale marketplaces in the world, knows this is a problem and …

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• 15 March

  Apple News opens the floodgates

  

  Now you have another reason to be glued to your phone. Apple on Tuesday launched new tools for its imaginatively named Apple News news app to publishers of all sizes, expanding the amount of content you’ll be able to read on your iPhone. Local newspapers, independent publishers and even bloggers can now offer up content in the so-called Apple News …

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• 15 March

  Why I’m not buying the Samsung Galaxy S7

  

  Samsung’s newest pair of flagship devices, the Galaxy S7 and the Galaxy S7 Edge, is a big hit with critics. I suppose the hype is understandable: It has a gorgeous design, a lightning-quick camera and it’s water resistant. The S7 Edge even earned CNET’s coveted 5-star “spectacular” rating. But I, for one, am not totally convinced. Before you bite my …

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• 15 March

  Everything we expect at Apple’s iPhone event on March 21

  

  Apple’s biggest product news next week just may be small — a smaller iPhone, that is. The electronics giant will host an event at 10 a.m. PT Monday at its headquarters in Cupertino, California. Expect lots of device talk, including updates to Apple’s most important product lines, the iPhone and iPad. Don’t hold your breath for a new Apple Watch. …

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• 15 March

  Dual camera for iPhone 7 Plus allegedly revealed

  

  Now playing: Watch this: iPhone 7 may come with three cameras 1:09 Apple’s expected iPhone 7 Plus will sport two cameras, assuming the latest series of leaked photos are legit. A batch of photos leaked on several Taiwanese websites and displayed collectively by blog site Pocketnow show six different modules allegedly to be used as a dual-camera system in this …

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• 15 March

  Comcast makes good on promise of super

  

  Talk about an embarrassment of riches. Comcast is rolling out its gigabit broadband service in Atlanta, the first city to get its service. Atlanta will soon have not two, but three companies delivering superfast broadband, defined as 1 gigabit per second, or fast enough to stream all seven “Star Wars” films in ultra high definition without a stutter. Comcast on …

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• 15 March

  Star Wars just fulfilled one of my childhood dreams

  

  You’re going to hate me. Two of my colleagues already do. That’s because yesterday, while they were busy working, I was wielding a Jedi lightsaber. It was a virtual lightsaber, dreamt up by the wizards inside Lucasfilm, but a lightsaber nonetheless. The pulsing blue laser sword I held may exist only inside a HTC Vive virtual reality headset, but you’ll …

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• 15 March

  Yellow Nexus 5X screen? Here’s the fix

  

  At the time of launch, many Nexus 5X owners noticed that their device’s display was appearing a bit too warm, or yellow. The only remedy for this issue was to exchange the device for another, but that didn’t guarantee the next device’s screen would be any better than the previous one. As a solution, Google’s Android security patch for March …

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• 15 March

  Lyft, Shyp, eat: It’s never been easier to be lazy (The 3:59, Ep. 10)

  

  Want lunch? Just Uber it. The ride-hailing company is expanding its efforts in food delivery, launching its standalone UberEats app in a handful of markets around the US. The app, which first came to Toronto, will go up against a bunch of similar services from DoorDash, GrubHub, Amazon and others. Customers now have a lot of choices for getting a …

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• 15 March

  PlayStation VR takes on Facebook’s Oculus, HTC in virtual reality rumble

  

  Sony needs to do two things: Convince you to buy a virtual reality headset, and convince you that the $399 PlayStation VR is the one you need. That may be harder than you think. If you’re reading this story, you’ve probably heard of VR, a technology that uses goggles to strap a screen so close to your face that your …

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