It’s an obsession that sweeps the nation every year. It destroys diets, breaks New Year’s resolutions and wreaks havoc on wallets everywhere. That time has come once more: It’s Girl Scout Cookie season. Getting your hands on a box of Thin Mints or Samoas has never been that difficult — but the Girl Scouts Cookie …
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What if online ads weren’t the distracting, privacy-invading, malware-laced, battery-gobbling mess they’ve become? What if they could even fund worthy websites? That’s what startup Brave hopes to accomplish with a major new phase of its browser business. Brave began its existence three years ago by blocking all ads by default. On Tuesday, it’ll start offering anyone using the developer version …
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Yesterday I shared a deal on a desk and a desk chair. Today, let’s talk about how to improve your posture while you’re sitting there. I’ll preface this by saying that I’m a pretty typical desk-bound worker (because writer, duh). And I’ve definitely experienced my share of neck and shoulder pain — some of it severe. I know my chair …
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Amazon is aiming to unseat Roku as the most popular streamer, and by one count at least it has already succeeded. And now its cheapest, most popular Fire TV device is getting a major feature bump for 2019. The updated version of the $40 (£40) Amazon Fire TV Stick goes on sale today, and the main difference between it and …
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Need a place to work? How about a place to sit while you do that work? Let’s talk furniture. Just by random chance, a desk deal and office-chair deal crossed my radar this morning, so it seemed logical to mash ’em up. I’ll start with the former. For a limited time, and while supplies last, AGDirect (via Amazon) has the …
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Roku, the set-top streaming box maker, is breaking out of the living room for the first time with a service that offers paid premium channels like Showtime and Starz that you can also watch on your phone. On Wednesday, Roku unveiled Premium Subscriptions, which will launch late this month in a phased rollout. The idea is similar to Amazon Prime Video …
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A new Whole Foods Market store may be opening near you soon, with Amazon’s two-hour delivery service being one of its key services. The internet retail giant plans to build and expand Whole Foods stores across the US to widen the reach of its ultraspeedy Amazon Prime Now grocery delivery service, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday. The expansion would …
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More people are using Amazon Prime than ever. The online retail giant surpassed 100 million Prime subscribers earlier this year, and Cyber Monday 2018 was the site’s biggest shopping day yet. So how will Amazon keep up with this demand? Apparently by buying more airplanes. On Friday, Amazon announced that it was expanding its fleet to 50 aircraft (up from …
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Buying a subscription service for someone has never been easier. There are more services now for more things than ever before. However, choosing which service to gift, well that’s where the difficulty lies. Which is why we’ve simplified your subscription service choices into top threes, over three different categories: video streaming, music streaming and console gaming. CNET may get a …
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Amazon shoppers can once again buy Google’s Chromecast media streaming devices direct from the online retailer. Listing pages for the Google Chromecast and Chromecast Ultra appeared a year ago, after the products were removed from Amazon in late 2015. The devices were never available for purchase, however, until now. Google’s Chromecasts compete with Amazon’s own Fire TV line of streaming devices and initially Amazon …
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