At CES 2018 LG announced it was adding Google Assistant and Alexa voice control to its OLED and Super UHD TVs with ThinQ (its branded AI); now Amazon joins Google with LG’s roll out of Alexa support. Its LG SmartThinQ Skill for Amazon Alexa allows you to ask your Echo to play your favorite show, …
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Memorial Day weekend is here, and the unofficial start of summer brings plenty of tech deals. We’ve poked around a bit, sifted through the bargain bin (so to speak) and come up with a few sales worthy of your attention. Huge sale at Best Buy: The electronics superstore has a wide range of discounts on TVs, MacBook laptops, smart home …
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Amazon has a way of making shopping for necessities easy, but that doesn’t mean you should blindly click away without carefully checking the total before hitting that Place Your Order button. Learn from the unfortunate Georgia woman who ordered $88 (roughly £66, AU$117) worth of toilet paper from Amazon and ended up being charged more than $7,000 (roughly £5,258, AU$9,299) …
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We’ll call him “Mark.” About three years ago, Mark got an email from Amazon saying, “We noticed that a number of your orders have been returned.” It was the start of a rocky relationship with the world’s biggest e-commerce company. Several months later, Mark got banned from Amazon for making too many returns. But after a lot of trial and …
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A while back I offered advice on choosing the best music service for your family, with an eye toward convenience, versatility and especially price. One important consideration I completely forgot was explicit lyrics. Given that pretty much every modern song contains bad language (that’s right, I said it — now get off my lawn!), parents might want the option of …
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The Kindle Paperwhite is the e-reader I usually recommend to people looking for an Amazon e-reader because it’s got all the features you want in a Kindle and isn’t as expensive as the higher-end Voyage and Oasis. When recommending it to folks I always add, “It goes on sale from time to time, so you may want to wait.” Well, …
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Still hanging onto your home phone? Worse, still paying for it? I suspect this is pretty common. It’s a hassle to give up a landline, if only because that number you’ve had for so many years is “on file” at so many places. It’s your home number — and you need to keep that, right? The number, yes. But the …
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Perhaps Twitter isn’t meant for your TV. Twitter announced that it’s ending support for its Xbox, Roku and Android TV apps on May 24. The social media company suggests you use Twitter on your computer or device instead. These versions of Twitter all use a streamer or console to run on your TV. There are other ways to get Twitter …
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The OnePlus 6 is now available. Just like many other Android phones this year, it has a notch, which lends itself to a larger display without increasing the size of the device itself. It was unveiled just last week, and it just scored a CNET Editors’ Choice as the best new mid-priced phone you can buy right now. (Read the …
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Amazon is creating another app store, but it’s not for consumers. Instead, the online retail giant will for the first time put its seal of approval on a bunch of third-party apps intended for professional sellers with its new Marketplace Appstore. It launches to sellers starting Monday, the company said. CNET reported on plans for the app store earlier this …
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