Here’s our brief weekly roundup of the newest videos to hit the major online streaming services, including Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime and wherever else we can dig something up. Hit play below — we’ve folded in some trivia so you’ll know more about what you’re watching. Return of the Moss Your browser does not support …
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Amazon is shelling out $50 million to stream National Football League games, and that’s just the start. This year, the e-commerce titan is expected to spend $4.5 billion on video-streaming content, nearly double last year and not too far from Netflix’s $6 billion video budget. And video is the only thing Netflix does; Amazon also sells shampoo and cloud services …
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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. And find more great buys on the CNET Deals page. Roku Roku makes my favorite media streamers. For reasons I won’t bore you with, I greatly prefer any Roku box or stick to …
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Music-streaming company Spotify is looking to debut dedicated hardware, according to a job posting noticed by tech blogger Dave Zatz. The “Senior Product Manager” would work on a “category-defining product” akin to the Pebble Watch, Amazon Echo and Snap Spectacles, a cached version of the posting reads. The idea of Spotify-dedicated hardware makes a lot of sense, for more reasons …
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Here’s our brief weekly roundup of the newest videos to hit the major online streaming services, including Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime and wherever else we can dig something up. Hit play below — we’ve folded in some trivia so you’ll know more about what you’re watching. Learn all the things thanks to Bill Nye! Your browser does not support the …
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The Samsung Galaxy S8 launched today, but Verizon customers won’t be getting the phone’s full experience just yet. The largest wireless provider in the US confirmed to CNET on Friday that a new Amazon shopping function that’s supposed to be built into the phone isn’t available. Verizon didn’t have a set timeline for when the feature will come but noted …
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When you think of “Cabin Fever 2,” “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows” or “Bait Shop” (starring Bill Engvall and Billy Ray Cyrus), only one thought enters your brain. That thought is, “I’m glad I am under no requirement to ever watch any of those movies when Amazon adds them in May.” However, there are good titles to …
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Samsung, the biggest TV maker in the world, is also the only one that doesn’t support Dolby’s high dynamic range format. Its solution, this year at least, is to introduce yet another competing HDR format. HDR10+ is its name. And only Samsung’s 2017 HDR TVs are compatible as of today, including QLED models such as the Q7. A software update …
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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. And find more great buys on the CNET Deals page. Enlarge Image The D900 wireless earbuds recharge in their little wireless charging box. Syllable Different situations call for different kinds of headphones. (Or …
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Earlier this year CNET editor David Katzmaier wrote how “the shambling corpse of 3D TV,” had finally fallen down dead in describing Sony and LG’s decision to stop supporting 3D in their TVs in 2017. They were the last two major TV manufacturers to support 3D, years after Vizio had dropped the feature in 2013. Smaller brands like Sharp, TCL …
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