I work from home. Outside my window on any given day, there are lawnmowers, construction tools, barking dogs and the like, all making it hard to concentrate. I’d heard Apple’s AirPods Pro ($225 at Amazon) were borderline magical in their noise-canceling capabilities, but $250? No. Nuh-uh. (For what it’s worth, the best deal right now: …
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As my colleague Jessica Dolcourt noted in her review of the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra this week, now may not be the time to spend $1,000 or more on a new phone. Alas, that’s the price tag on Samsung’s Galaxy Note 20, and the Note 20 Ultra starts at $1,300. We’ve already gathered all the ways you can buy the new …
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Jeff Wilke, head of Amazon’s consumer business, plans to retire in the first quarter of 2021 and will be replaced by Dave Clark, senior vice president of worldwide operations. The announcement came in a securities filing on Friday morning and from memos sent out from CEO Jeff Bezos and Wilke to employees. “I don’t have a new job, and am as …
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For the second week in a row, Apple is being asked to cut down its App Store fees. After Fortnite publisher Epic Games sued Apple last week in a confrontation over the 30% tax Apple charges to developers on its App Store, trade organization Digital Content Next, which represents publishers including the New York Times, the Washington Post and CNET …
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Four brothers from New York state were arrested and charged by federal authorities Wednesday in an alleged scheme to overcharge Amazon for wholesale orders and pocket $19 million in the process. From 2017 to 2019, the brothers allegedly ran a wholesale business that exploited Amazon’s vendor systems to send the e-commerce giant significantly more stuff than it agreed to buy …
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Stuck mostly at home these days, this might be a good time to work on some of those projects collecting dust in the garage. And that means it might be a good time to round out your tool collection. Right now, I’ve got the bead on a deal for some tools from TECCPO: a variable speed rotary tool — 45% …
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Wow, wow, wow. Samsung’s hot new Galaxy Note 20 has barely rolled off the production line, and CNET is already giving one away. And not just the Note 20, but also the “kidney bean” earbuds otherwise known as the Galaxy Buds Live. One lucky winner gets the phone and the Buds; two more lucky winners get just the Buds. The …
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has reportedly testified at a Federal Trade Commission antitrust hearing this week. His virtual testimony went for two days, according to a Politico report Thursday. “We are committed to cooperating with the US Federal Trade Commission’s inquiry and answering the questions the Agency may have,” a Facebook company spokesperson told CNET in an emailed statement. The news …
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Can’t find a Chromebook for the upcoming virtual school year? Consider an iPad, which is surprisingly affordable at the moment and can handle many classroom activities just as well as a laptop. How affordable? For a limited time, and while supplies last, Walmart has the Apple iPad 10.2 in space gray or gold for $279. That’s $50 off the regular …
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Facebook said Wednesday that it’s adding videoconferencing apps Zoom, BlueJeans, GoToMeeting and Webex to its Portal video chat devices in September, a move that the social media giant hopes will entice people to use their products while they’re working from home. Video calling has become more popular because people are spending more time at home to slow the spread of …
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