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The latest and greatest iOS 13 and newly christened iPadOS arrived for public beta testing this week. Too bad my crotchety old iPad will never know the joys of a modern Apple operating system, just as it will never again stream a Hulu show. I stared in mild shock. What?! I had just tapped on the …

Roku televisions are incredibly popular and among CNET’s favorites for their built-in streaming features, not to mention low prices. The TCL 3 series and 4 series are excellent choices for people who want easy access to Netflix, Amazon Prime and other apps, while the TCL 6 series has excellent image quality and remains our favorite TV for the money, period. Most …

Part three of the BTS soundtrack, All Night, released early on Friday morning — just in time for summer. The K-pop sensation’s previous song, Boy with Luv, broke records, and we’re expecting All Night to do the same. The boy band teamed up with Juice Wrld to create a hip-hop-meets-pop single. A new BTS mobile game, BTS World, is set …

Sprint’s 5G lineup is expanding. After launching its network in four cities last month, the nation’s fourth-largest carrier Friday became the third carrier to offer the Galaxy S10 5G. Currently only available in “5G areas,” Samsung’s 5G phone joins the LG V50 ThinQ 5G phone and HTC 5G Hub, a home hotspot, in the carrier’s 5G stable.  Unlike AT&T, which this …

Amazon Music launched Thursday on its first pay TV service. Joining Comcast’s Xfinity X1 high-end pay TV service as well as its Xfinity Flex bundle of streaming apps, Amazon Music can now stream tunes through Comcast customers’ TVs. Subscribers to Amazon Music, the e-commerce giant’s competitor to Spotify, will have access to its full music library on Comcast as the partnership rolls out to set-top boxes over …

Amazon on Tuesday said it agreed to lease 15 more Boeing cargo planes from GE Capital Aviation Services, helping the e-commerce titan continue growing its air fleet so it can speed up Prime deliveries. The 15 Boeing 737-800 planes are in addition to the five planes Amazon already agreed to lease from GECAS earlier this year. The company has 42 …

Amazon appears to have closed down its Spark social networking platform. The closure comes less than two years after Amazon launched Spark as its social media play in July 2017. Spark was focused on users posting images, stories and ideas about products and purchases, and was originally launched only for Amazon Prime members. Other users could then react with “smiles” and …

Satellite TV provider Dish Network is reportedly considering a merger with AT&T’s DirecTV service. AT&T and Dish have no active deal talks ongoing, however, Reuters reported Friday. Dish Network’s spectrum holdings — it has been hoarding spectrum for years but has yet to build out its own satellite network — could also be a valuable acquisition for AT&T as it …

Amazon’s food delivery service is up for the chopping block. Following its shuttering in London, Amazon Restaurants is also slated to close up shop in the US later this month, according to GeekWire. The service is four years into its run, after beginning life in Seattle in 2015 and then branching out to 20 more cities in the US as …

Sean Scott is almost poetic when describing his intense interest in sidewalks. “Each sidewalk is like a snowflake,” Scott, who’s soft-spoken with a friendly smile, told me with a bit of excitement in his eyes. “Because the textures are different, the way they’re laid out is different, what we see on the sidewalk is different.” Scott, vice president of the …