Today, you can operate almost everything in your house from your phone. But, like most technology, nothing is perfect. While smart lightbulbs themselves aren’t dangerous, the apps and platforms that control them might be. Last month, Dark Cubed, an American cybersecurity company, released its State of IoT Security report and detailed potential security threats in …
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Amazon Day is now national. Amazon said Thursday it’s made its Amazon Day shipping option available to all its Prime customers in the US. Amazon Day, which was introduced in November, lets shoppers pick a day of the week to receive their Amazon deliveries. The program was first rolled out slowly to select Prime customers. The new shipping option is meant …
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Who needs an anticipatory buildup? The Nokia 9 PureView phone, notable for its five-camera ring, will start selling this Sunday, March 3, for $599 — $100 off its nominal $699 price — through March 10. Nokia’s parent HMD Global announced the camera just three days ago, telling us the phone would be a “limited edition,” offered in “a limited run,” …
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If you’re trying to decode the feature list of the latest tech product, you can probably appreciate the snarky tech saying, “There are only two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation and naming things.” You probably won’t lose any sleep over cache invalidation, but names can indeed be a problem if you’re buying a PC, phone, external hard drive …
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Projectors are awesome for home theaters, because who doesn’t want a 100-inch (or larger) screen? Of course, mounting and positioning them can be major challenges, and there’s always the annoying shadowing when someone walks in front of the bulb. Enter ultra-short-throw (UST) projectors, which I predict are going to become hugely popular in the years to come. That’s because they …
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Amazon is trying to clean up its site by streamlining its anticounterfeiting process. The e-commerce giant said Thursday that it’s giving brands more responsibility for eliminating fakes by letting them immediately take down listings for removal through its new Project Zero program. As the name implies, Project Zero is an initiative designed to clear Amazon of counterfeits through a mix …
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While Amazon’s Alexa and Google Assistant got busy over the past few years creating oodles of new skills and capabilities, Apple’s Siri seemed to be asleep. Alexa came out with food delivery via voice commands back in early 2016. Siri, meanwhile, didn’t offer the same feature until last year. Considering that contrast, it’s no secret Siri has fallen far behind …
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Good things come to those who wait. LG’s 2018 OLED TVs, with the best picture quality CNET has ever tested, have hit new all-time lows from multiple retailers. Pricing is substantially lower than the company’s Super Bowl sale, which was significantly lower than the Black Friday price. In fact the prices below, from Best Buy, mark the lowest I’ve seen …
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Google Assistant lives in your home and might have its own button on your phone. Now it’s in your Android Messages texting app, too. I got a hands-on demo of how exactly it works, here at MWC 2019 in Barcelona. Each year at the world’s biggest phone show, Google transforms a concrete passageway between two convention center halls into a …
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Got storage? Today’s the day to get some, as Amazon is holding a one-day sale on a variety of storage products. It includes everything from microSD cards to solid-state drives to wireless flash storage. See it at Amazon Sales like this aren’t uncommon, but products do tend to sell out quickly when they happen. Everything is in stock as of …
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