Maybe you recently picked up a new iPhone or Android phone with wireless charging, but with no wireless charging pad included in the box. Fear not — there are some good deals right now on high-quality wireless charging pads, a couple of which cost less than $10 and three that cost less than $20. We’ll …
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Many people are practicing social distancing and staying home due to the coronavirus pandemic, which has meant a lot more time spent with TV and movie streaming services like Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime Video. A new free app called Watchworthy seeks to help you figure out what to watch by giving you a personalized list spanning all of the …
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I know, I know: Amazon tablets go on sale all the time. But right now I feel like we’re living in a more tablet-necessary moment, especially with kids nationwide home from school indefinitely. Maybe it’s opportunism on Amazon’s part, and maybe it’s just been a few weeks since the last sale. Either way, this is a great time to score …
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I love TV — especially now that I’m stuck at home watching so much more of it. But I have some less-than-loving feelings about certain actual TVs. Nearly every modern flat-screen suffers from two problems: the dreaded soap opera effect and weak, tinny, pointed-in-the-wrong-direction speakers. It’s easy enough to deal with SOE, but overcoming awful audio takes a little more …
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Amazon Prime Video is adding a new feature to its streaming service. Subscribers in the US will soon be able to set up multiple profiles for different family members to keep their favorite shows and movies separate from everyone else. The feature, spotted earlier by tech site XDA developers, lets you create up to six Prime Video Profiles for each account, …
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For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Amazon on Monday confirmed that it’s significantly delaying US deliveries of nonessential items, as part of its effort to get more medical supplies and household staples to its customers during the coronavirus pandemic. According to product listings on its website, some of these …
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For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Amazon is used to huge spikes in demand: It ships millions of packages after Prime Day and during the holiday season. But the spread of the coronavirus, which has locked down cities and put everyone in a more isolated reality, has tested the …
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The US government, industry and academia have pooled efforts to fight the coronavirus by offering researchers access to some of the world’s most powerful supercomputers from IBM, along with cloud-computing resources from Amazon, Microsoft and Google. The COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium can be used for work like projecting the disease’s spread and modeling possible medicines. “By pooling the supercomputing …
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For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Cities throughout the US have emptied out amid the coronavirus outbreak. Millions of people are working from home, children are attending school remotely, and no one’s heading to ballparks, nightclubs or movie theaters. They’ve all turned to their home broadband connections to stay …
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As the coronavirus pandemic continues to spread and force movie theaters to shut down, Amazon has launched a new hub featuring movies that Hollywood hoped you’d be watching right now in the theater. Amazon’s Prime Video Cinema allows you to rent or buy recently released movies through the streaming service. Movies currently offered through the hub include Onward, The Hunt, …
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