Oakland, California, has has become third city to ban the municipal use of facial recognition technology. Late Tuesday night, the Oakland City Council approved the ordinance, which requires a second and final vote that’s scheduled for Sept. 17. Oakland neighbor San Francisco in May became the first city to ban its police officers from using facial recognition …
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Prime Day is over — pass the vodka! Although you haven’t been eating, breathing and sleeping Amazon’s big event the way I have, I’m sure you’re nearly as sick of it. Thus, it seemed a good time to update this post, which is all about perennial deals — items I consider a bargain every day, no coupon code or massive …
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Update: I’ve had a problem with the review unit prototype I’ve been testing. The manufacturer and I are investigating, and we’ll update when we have more information. I’m a fan of the high-speed USB-C and Thunderbolt combination ports on all new MacBook laptops and plenty of Windows machines. But I miss MagSafe, Apple’s magnetic connectors, which saved my computer from …
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You have one day left. Are you really, really ready for the last-minute flood of deals coming during Amazon Prime Day? You will be, once you install the Amazon Assistant browser extension, which can track Prime Day deals over the two-day event, which runs 48 hours from Monday, July 15, through Tuesday, July 16. You can even get the deals …
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Amazon’s Prime Day mega-sale comes to an end tonight as the clock strikes midnight, so your chance to score significant savings on items is going to turn into a pumpkin in just a few hours. Amazon’s two-day sale officially ends at 12 a.m. PT or 3 a.m. ET, and judging from the countdown clocks on the most recent batch of …
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Update, July 17: Amazon’s Prime Day sale has officially ended. Some of the deals below may continue to be available for a time, but we’re no longer updating this story. Instead, check out the links below for the best current deals at Amazon and Walmart. (Walmart’s Summer Savings sale continues all-day Wednesday.) The best Amazon Prime Day deals still available …
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It’s not fair to say “now or never” with Amazon. But right now, it’s more like “now or… closer to Black Friday.” That’s because the big Prime Day sale is in its final hours — it ends at midnight PT tonight — and once it ends, you likely won’t see Amazon’s full range of Kindle e-readers discounted again anytime soon. That product …
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Amazon Prime Day 2019 is here — running July 15 and 16 — so you want to make sure you don’t miss a deal during the final hours of the expansive 48-hour shopping event. This is your chance to walk away with the newest AirPods or an Amazon Kindle for a fraction of the everyday price. Over the final hours, Amazon …
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With Bose recently releasing its new $400 Noise Cancelling Headphones 700, we continue to see sales on the Sony WH-1000XM3, which has been on the market for a year. It’s currently our top-rated noise-canceling headphone and is being discounted once again from $350 to $298 at Amazon for Prime Day. It’s not officially listed as a Prime Day deal, so you don’t …
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Update: The used Kindle Fire HD 8 tablet has sold out for now, but will update should it come back in stock. In the meantime the new Fire HD 8 in this story is still available for $49.99. How much do you care about a “minor cosmetic imperfection” on a tablet? If your answer was “zero” or close to it, …
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