Good morning, fellow cheapskates! (Or, as I like to call you, “cheeps.”) Hope you all had a safe and relaxing holiday. The highlight of mine: Watching Hamilton on Disney Plus. Folks, I am not a musical guy. I like Singing in the Rain and Chicago and that’s it. But Hamilton is utterly amazing, a work …
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Stuck at home this summer? If the coronavirus pandemic has canceled your summer plans, you could pivot and use your vacation funds on a new gaming laptop. If you want to get into PC gaming or upgrade your aging setup, a new gaming laptop can certainly help fill the hours during those long summer days and hot summer nights. Read …
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The CEOs of US tech giants Apple, Google, Facebook and Amazon are set to appear at an antitrust hearing on July 27. The news came from Rep. David Cicilline, as reported by Recode and confirmed by the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee on July 6. Apple’s Tim Cook, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Alphabet’s Sundar Pichai and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos will all testify. …
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Among the list of soul-crushing problems we have to deal with in a corona-infested world, inserting the charging cable into the end of your phone probably doesn’t make the top five. Even so, why bother, if you have an iPhone or Android phone with wireless charging built in? There’s no convenience quite like having a charging stand on your bedstand …
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There’s a buzz around gaming accessory maker Whirlwind FX these days. The company’s Element keyboard is taking interactivity to a whole new level — thanks to a library of game extensions, the keyboard’s per-key RGB lighting can react to what’s happening on the screen. It’s an interesting concept, and right now you can get the Element for $85 when you …
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Amazon isn’t one to let Netflix Party have all the fun. The company just announced a new service for your next binge watch with friends: Amazon Prime Video Watch Party. You can use it to watch hundreds of movies and shows from Amazon’s catalog while chatting with up to 100 friends, no plugin or download required. Amazon started rolling out the …
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These days, I’m not interested in a power bank unless it packs a lot of power — at least 20,000 mAh, for example — and has some really interesting features, like Power Delivery (PD), Quick Charge (QC), lots of ports, USB-C, a flashlight or solar charging. Today I have one that checks a lot of those boxes, Not all of …
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This story is part of CNET at 25, celebrating a quarter century of industry tech and our role in telling you its story. The year was 1995. Nirvana played on the radio, Toy Story was a hit movie, and as Netscape had its IPO and Microsoft released Internet Explorer, the World Wide Web boomed like a supernova. People went online, …
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So many things to charge, so few easily accessible USB ports with which to charge them. Looking around my own desk, I’m counting not only my phone (natch), but also a smartwatch, a drone battery, a VR headset and two different pairs of wireless headphones. Granted, I have more tech gear than most folks, but you get the idea. Everything …
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The Wyze brand is making a name for itself, having produced some surprisingly affordable smart-home gear that’s also surprisingly good, like the $20 Wyze Cam. I’ve been equally impressed with products like the $20 Wyze Sense security kit, $20 Wyze Scale and $8 Wyze Bulb. (Order each via Amazon or Wyze.com, and you’ll pay about $4 to $10 extra for …
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