Now that lots of the latest blockbusters are heading straight to streaming services like HBO Max and Disney Plus, you don’t have to head the the theater to catch all the latest releases. And with a good soundbar hooked up to your TV, you can bring the movie theater experience right to your living room. Soundbars provide powerful, …
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25 August
Motorola’s Back
Kids need phones these days and back-to-school time is the perfect opportunity to get them an upgrade. While you might not want to entrust them with one of the very best phones on the market, there are plenty of great budget phones out there that have decent enough specs without costing the earth. Motorola makes a bunch of these devices …
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25 August
DuckDuckGo Opens Email Protection Service Beta to Everyone
Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo opened its Email Protection service beta to everyone Thursday. The service gives you a free Duck address ([email protected]) and will detect and strip trackers within emails sent to it. Then the email is forwarded to your personal email address, and DuckDuckGo will let you know how many trackers it got rid of. The service can be …
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25 August
Check These Essential Twitter Privacy and Security Settings
It’s not easy keeping track of Twitter whistleblowers while getting the scoop on Elon Musk’s latest upheavals and figuring out what’s going on with that foul-mouthed Radioshack account — but someone’s got to do it. And if that someone is you, there are a few changes you should make to your Twitter privacy and safety settings. Here’s how to up …
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25 August
First Bendable OLED Gaming Monitor Announced by… Corsair?
Large, high-quality bendy screens have been around since at least 2014, when LG debuted the first flexible OLED, but even though actual products have shipped over the past few years, we’ve yet to see one in a monitor — which is somewhat baffling, unless it’s prohibitively expensive to produce. Now we’re finally seeing the first — from Corsair of all …
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25 August
New Emoji Candidates Up for Approval Soon: Jellyfish, Goose, Turquoise Heart and More
A goose, moose, jellyfish, turquoise heart, head shake and pair of maracas are among the new emoji that could be on their way to your phone. The Emoji 15.0 update includes all those candidates and more, and it could be hitting devices as soon as this fall. Earlier this summer, emoji reference website Emojipedia published sample designs for each emoji …
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25 August
LG Introduces 240Hz Curved OLED UltraGear Monitor, Monitor with AI Tracking
Does a 45-inch, 3,440×1,440-pixel OLED gaming monitor with a 240Hz refresh rate and 800R curvature sound familiar? If it does, that’s because LG’s announcement of the new flagship UltraGear 45GR95QE was preceded earlier Thursday by Corsair’s launch of its Xeneon Flex, a very similar-sounding LG panel that adds the ability to bend from flat to curved. Though OLED desktop monitors …
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25 August
Last Call: Save Up to $1,000 on Galaxy Z Fold 4 and Z Flip 4 Preorders Today Only
Samsung’s latest foldable phones are about to hit the market. The recently unveiled Galaxy Z Fold 4 and Galaxy Z Flip 4 will hit store shelves and customers’ doorsteps on Friday, Aug. 26, which means the preorder deals that are currently available will expire on that date. If you fancy slipping one of Samsung’s flagship phones into your pocket at …
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25 August
The Lenovo Flex 3 Chromebook Falls to Just $99 in This 1
Searching for a simple two-in-one laptop that doesn’t skimp out on battery life or high-definition visuals? The Lenovo Flex 3 is back down to its lowest price ever at Best Buy and it’ll satisfy both requirements and more. This Chromebook usually retails at $179, but you can have it for $80 less today. As far as Chromebook deals go, this …
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25 August
Samsung Galaxy Watch 5 Pro Review: Smartwatch + Fitness Watch = a Good Mix
There’s a lot to like about the $450 Samsung Galaxy Watch 5 Pro. Not only does it have all the trimmings of a smartwatch, but it adds extra sports functions that athletes may want — and for almost half the price of some other outdoor watches with similar construction like the $900 Garmin Epix 2. It also has a tougher design …
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