This story is part of 2019 Holiday Survival Guide, featuring tips on the best ways to manage the holiday season. The holiday season is already upon us, which means it’s time to prepare for a whirlwind of parties, family and friends — not to mention eating and shopping. Whatever your plans, technology can help you …
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This story is part of 2019 Holiday Survival Guide, featuring tips on the best ways to manage the holiday season. If you’re planning to do some online shopping to take advantage of Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals, you might want to put down your phone and switch to your laptop or desktop to scroll through products on sites like …
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Google is launching Duplex on the Web, a booking service that’s basically autofill on steroids. The tool is designed to let people more easily buy movie tickets online, the company said Thursday. The service is available on Android phones. To use it, you’d ask the Assistant — Google’s digital helper software akin to Amazon’s Alexa and Apple’s Siri — to look …
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The Samsung Galaxy Note 10 debuted earlier this year at $950. It’s currently on sale for $750 at a variety of stores: Best Buy, Walmart and others. Amazon, however, is currently offering the Galaxy Note 10 with free Galaxy Buds for $749.99. Those true-wireless earbuds would normally cost you $130 extra. (Samsung proper is also offering the free Buds, with …
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Game 7 of the World Series was a few hours away when Fanatics tech chief Matt Madrigal met me in the Manhattan office of his sports-gear company. His voice was filled with excitement as he talked about an expected surge in customer sales that late October day after the new champion won — he just wasn’t yet sure which team …
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Can we pause for a moment to focus on deals that have nothing to do with Black Friday? Yes, please! Here’s a handful of excellent items that all happen to be on sale today. (By the way, if you don’t mind deals that do concern Black Friday, here’s a roundup of the best ones under $30 — which fits today’s …
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The holiday season is for sharing, but with some gifts, people could be sharing too much of their own personal data. That voice assistant that’s half off on Black Friday might seem like a great gift to you, but you may want to be more cautious for a person focused on their privacy. Navigating the privacy terms for every single tech …
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Do you have a Fire TV Stick and want to have Alexa control your home theater set up? She’ll soon be able to. On Tuesday Amazon announced a new Fire TV Blaster, infrared (IR) transmitter that can be used to control your TV, cable box and speaker with Alexa instead of traditional remote controls. Not a standalone device, the Blaster …
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Disney Plus has an impressive library that helped it attract 10 million users in one day. It also may soon be finally adding a feature that should’ve been there when it launched last week: the ability to track your viewing progress to easily pick up watching later. The Mouse House is planning to add a “continue watching” feature to its …
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Good morning, fellow cheapskates! I know you’re probably suffering from Black Friday fatigue — I certainly am — but I hope you’ll bear with it. Just as stores rely on Black Friday sales to boost their bottom lines, so does CNET rely on Black Friday news traffic. It helps generate revenue, which in turn helps you get incredible stories like …
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