Amazon and Whole Foods are finally down to some proper integration. The online retailer and the groceries giant jointly announced free two-hour delivery of products from Whole Foods Market through Prime Now in a press release Thursday. Before you get too excited, this Prime Now extra is currently only available in four US cities: Austin, …
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CNET’s Cheapskate scours the web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. Find more great buys on the CNET Deals page and follow the Cheapskate on Facebook and Twitter! Once upon a time: $500 new. Now: $150, good as new. Joshua Goldman/CNET Yesterday I brought you a …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Does online advertising not work as well as it might? Chris Matyszczyk/CNET My mailbox isn’t what it used to be. These days, I wander out to it, believing that it will likely contain some magazines I forgot to cancel, a book from Amazon that the …
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Google is bringing gadget maker Nest back under its control as the search giant battles rivals Amazon and Apple in the rapidly expanding smart home market. A big part of the change: Making it easier to add Google’s artificial intelligence technology and Assistant — a digital helper that competes against Amazon’s Alexa and Apple’s Siri — into new Nest products. …
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We’ve written in the past about how your TV is probably tracking you, and now Consumer Reports, as part of a broad privacy and security evaluation, has has found that millions of smart TVs are vulnerable to hackers and “raise privacy concerns by collecting very detailed information on their users.” According to the report, the problems affect Samsung televisions, plus …
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Nuvyyo, the maker of the Tablo DVR , now has its native Tablo app on Samsung TVs, enabling users to view and record over-the-air shows. The latest Tablo DVR is able to record up to four shows at once. The Samsung app — for TVs with the Tizen operating system from 2015 onward — joins other software like Roku, Amazon Fire, …
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If you wanted a cheaper phone from Amazon, that used to come at the cost of having ads take over your lock screen. That won’t be the case anymore, as Amazon is removing them from both new phones and from ones customers have already purchased. Amazon said Tuesday that its line of Prime Exclusive Phones, which include devices like the …
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If you have a Google Pixel or Pixel 2 phone, you’ve been able to try Google’s AR stickers to plop 3D objects like Star Wars characters into real-world views. Now the company has a new technique that brings the augmented-reality skill to vastly more Android devices. The AR sticker ability now is built into the company’s Motion Stills app, which …
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HP’s most popular desktop workstation, the Z4, has been the province of Intel’s Xeon line of workstation CPUs. Now, in a push to reach more VR-creation pros, the company has added options for Intel’s most powerful consumer-grade processors, the Core X series, along with a commercial version of its Windows Mixed Reality headset. You’ll be able to equip it with …
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After years of trying to crack the US market, Huawei was poised to get a big boost via a partnership with AT&T that would grant carrier support to its flagship phone, the Mate 10 Pro. That deal was nixed at the last minute — but the phone will still be sold in the US. Preorders for the unlocked Mate 10 …
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