Editors’ note: This article was first published Nov. 17 and has since been updated with B&H and Adorama Black Friday deals. Also, expired deals have been pruned. There aren’t many Black Friday deals on cameras to get excited about — at least not yet, unless you want to wade into some murky shopping waters. For instance, …
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Cutting the cable TV cord and shopping on or around Black Friday are two great ways to save money, and they go perfectly together. Whether you’re about to ditch cable TV or you never had it in the first place, chances are that you’re watching a good portion of your TV via streaming services like Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Video, …
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Phone calls are a relatively new feature for both the Amazon Echo and Google Home smart speakers, both of which focused on music and house controls before adding calling. On Friday, wireless carrier Republic Wireless indicated it’s taking the opposite approach, saying it plans to enter the space with a speaker that appears to be all about phone calls. The Anywhere HQ …
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Now playing: Watch this: Apple HomePod is delayed until 2018 1:07 HomePod is now a 2018 product. James Martin/CNET Expected to launch in December, Apple’s HomePod is being pushed back to 2018, the company announced Friday. “We can’t wait for people to experience HomePod, Apple’s breakthrough wireless speaker for the home, but we need a little more time before it’s ready …
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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! The Vaux swallows up your second-gen Echo Dot in a speaker dock that just happens to be portable. …
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Amazon will work with the popular food website Allrecipes to link recipe ingredients directly to AmazonFresh, the online retailer’s grocery delivery service, the companies announced Thursday. This integration will let send all of the ingredients and products you need for a recipe to an AmazonFresh shopping cart, where you can then order the groceries and have them delivered to your …
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Mozilla on Tuesday released Firefox Quantum, and even if you long ago switched to Google Chrome, it’s worth giving the browser upgrade a spin. Why? First and foremost, version 57 of the open-source browser is faster, clocking in at twice the speed of Firefox 52 from March, according to the Speedometer 2.0 benchmark. Mozilla knows Chrome won many of us …
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Amazon-owned Whole Foods gave its customers an early holiday gift on Wednesday, cutting the prices of more products and adding discounts for Prime members. The discounts included Thanksgiving fare, such as organic and no-antibiotic turkeys, organic russet potatoes, organic sweet potatoes and its 365 private-label canned pumpkin. Prime members got an even deeper cut on the turkeys. Normally, Whole Foods’ …
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For this Black Friday, Amazon is offering dozens of deals on TVs, Amazon devices, video games, toys and smart-home gadgets. The e-commerce giant on Tuesday revealed a slew of its planned price cuts just ahead of next week’s sale, adding that Black Friday will include more than 30 deals of the day and thousands of short-term Lightning Deals. The company …
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Four of the five biggest companies in tech now are backing an effort to make video easier and cheaper online. On Monday, Facebook joined the Alliance for Open Media, a consortium building new video compression technology that doesn’t require any patent licensing payments. The effort unified next-gen video compression work already under way at Google, Mozilla and Cisco, and includes …
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