The Toronto Raptors lead the Golden State Warriors three games to two, but let the possible series-clinching Game 5 slip away at home, blowing a six-point lead with less than 4 minutes to go. The NBA Finals shift back to Oakland for the last game ever at Oracle Arena (the team will open next season in their new …
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Tonight Lord Stanley’s Cup, the most famous trophy in professional sports, will be awarded after the first Stanley Cup Finals Game 7 since 2011. The recipient will be either the hated Boston Bruins or the St. Louis Blues (aka Not The Bruins). Founded in 1969, the Blues are the oldest NHL franchise to have never won the Stanley Cup championship, having appeared in …
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With Bose announcing its new Noise Cancelling Headphones 700 ($400) a couple of weeks ago, we were expecting to see some sales on competing models that have been on the market for a while. Sure enough, the Sony WH-1000XM3, currently our top-rated noise-canceling headphone, has been discounted from $350 to $298 for the last several days. I got a chance …
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Once upon a time, Sprint offered a pretty amazing deal: One year of unlimited phone service for free. All you had to do was bring a compatible phone and port your number from another carrier. Of course, all good things must come to an end: Back in April, Sprint replaced the free-year offer with Unlimited Kickstart, which costs $25 per …
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I love things that solve problems, then get the heck out of the way. The problem: Working on a laptop forces you to hunch over, which can lead to neck and shoulder pain. That’s because the screen isn’t positioned up near eye level where it belongs. The solve: The Moft, an adhesive laptop stand that folds completely flat when not …
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This story is part of Father’s Day Gift Guide, featuring our top picks for dads who love tech. With only a few days to go before Father’s Day, Amazon has all its Kindle e-readers on sale. The deal on the new Kindle Paperwhite, released last November, isn’t quite as good as it was last month when it was on sale for …
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Editor’s Note: Check out CNET’s in-depth review of the Motorola Moto Z4. We spent weeks testing the phone and found things we really enjoyed like the battery and stuff we didn’t like the design and camera performance. The Moto Z4 phone is an anomaly. It costs $499, which puts it in competition with the midrange $479 Google Pixel 3A XL that …
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Sean Scott is almost poetic when describing his intense interest in sidewalks. “Each sidewalk is like a snowflake,” Scott, who’s soft-spoken with a friendly smile, told me with a bit of excitement in his eyes. “Because the textures are different, the way they’re laid out is different, what we see on the sidewalk is different.” Scott, vice president of the …
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This story is part of Father’s Day Gift Guide, featuring our top picks for dads who love tech. Firefly is one of the most-beloved science fiction series of all time, despite having only lasted a single season. And now it can be yours for five bucks. There are two kinds of people: those who think that Mal Reynolds (Nathan Fillion) …
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Huawei is reportedly inviting Google Play Store developers to publish their apps on its own AppGallery app store. Google last month locked Huawei out of its Android updates, though the US Commerce Department granted the Chinese tech giant a three-month general license to update existing devices, temporarily easing restrictions on Huawei’s access to US components. Huawei’s phones run on a …
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