There are two porgs from Star Wars running around a living room. One waddles near my feet while the other is out of my sightline behind a small bookshelf. Things are getting chaotic, but also really fun. To get them to behave, a hologram of C-3PO advises I gain their trust by offering the porg …
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In the market for a new mobile carrier? For the past couple weeks, Mint Mobile, which uses T-Mobile’s network, has been offering a pretty compelling trial deal: Three months of service for $20. After that, you pay the regular rates, which I’ll come back to in a moment. How could this deal possibly get any better? By becoming free after rebate …
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Amazon reportedly fired workers in the US and India for allegedly giving internal data to independent sellers linked to scams. Following an investigation into suspected bribes, the e-commerce giant took action against disreputable sellers by limiting access to data and deleting thousands of suspicious reviews, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday. Part of the probe is centered on India, which …
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When you play Overwatch on an Xbox One, you probably aren’t thinking about the wireless technology in your controllers. But one of the benefits of Xbox Wireless is that it allows your gamepads to connect directly and reliably to the console without the need for an adapter or cable. A year ago, Microsoft shared its secret-sauce wireless recipe with third …
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Just about everything you hear about 5G points out how its higher data speeds will let you download videos or update your apps much more quickly. Well, whoop-de-do. Faster data is helpful, but a different 5G benefit could actually be a bigger deal: reducing network communication delays called latency. Latency is the time it takes to get a response to …
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Premium budget. I’m not sure how I feel about that term, but it feels appropriate here. When I heard Amazfit was making a new watch called the Verge, I was definitely curious. Amazfit, a brand of the Chinese wearables company Huami, already has several fitness trackers and watches that are popular on Amazon. One is the Amazfit Bip, which looks …
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Holidays shoppers are set to break even more online sales records this year. Adobe Analytics forecasts that this holiday season, which runs from Nov. 1 to Dec. 31, will see at least $124.1 billion in total online retail sales in the US. By Thursday, shoppers had already spent a record $80.3 billion online, an 18.6 percent increase from last year, …
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Cheapskates don’t use Microsoft Office. Or, at least, they don’t pay for it: Microsoft offers pretty decent freebie versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint that live in your browser. And let’s not forget the various free alternatives, such as Google Docs, LibreOffice and WPS Office. All that being said, I like a good deal, and this is a good deal. …
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Comcast is opening its gates to Amazon Prime Video, the cable giant’s latest integration with a tech rival that has some of the most directly competitive content yet. The two companies said Wednesday that Comcast would be rolling out Amazon Prime onto X1, the cable company’s high-tech pay-TV service used by nearly two-thirds of its residential cable-TV customers, over the …
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Amazon has faced loads of complaints in New York City since it announced plans last month to build a major new campus there. But most local voters approve of the project, with some of the strongest support coming from Queens, where the new campus will be built, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday. Overall, 57 percent of …
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