Your holiday break is a great opportunity to relax and spend time with your loved ones. And what better way to connect with family than vegging out while streaming some quality TV series on Netflix, Amazon Prime, HBO Go and Hulu? If you missed 2016’s most-hyped shows, now’s the time to catch up. Here are …
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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. Cheeps! I know I said yesterday was my last post for 2016, but I meant it was my last deal post. Today I …
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If you bought one of Barnes & Noble’s $50 Nook 7 tablets, you might want to upgrade its software ASAP. The low-priced gadgets, launched in time for the holidays this year, came preinstalled with a program called ADUPS that quietly sends user data back to a third party. In a statement, Barnes & Noble Chief Digital Officer Fred Argir said …
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Jeff Bezos’ elves were busy. On Thursday morning, just three days before Christmas, a crew of Amazon employees darted around the company’s warehouse on the fifth floor of a Midtown Manhattan office building. They roamed the narrow aisles to fill brown paper bags with new orders of toiletries, Amazon devices and canned foods. Workers then brought carts filled with these …
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Call it a Christmas miracle? Garth Brooks’ entire catalog of music will be available to stream exclusively on Amazon’s Spotify rival, Music Unlimited, beginning at midnight ET Saturday, the company said Wednesday. Brooks, one of the best-selling recording artists of all time, had already opened up to Amazon Music Unlimited in October, the same month the e-commerce giant launched the …
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Amazon’s got a little something for everyone in January. If you’re a comic book fan or just like watching action movies with a giant red demon, “Hellboy” joins Amazon Prime on the first of January. If you want even more Hellboy, “Maid in Manhattan” will surely disappoint you because it features no demons. However, it does feature Ralph Fiennes, who …
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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. Get two months practically free, or maybe even better than free! Hulu Happy Wednesday, everyone! A couple quick housekeeping items before today’s deal… …
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Yesterday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg showed off Jarvis, the artificial intelligence system he built to serve as a digital assistant around his house. Now we know what the software sounds like, and it’s got the voice of God. Well, the guy who played God in movies. Zuckerberg on Tuesday released a video of Jarvis at work, and the software is …
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If you own an Amazon Echo, Echo Dot or Tap, you’re already well-acquainted with Alexa, the voice-powered assistant that drives those devices. What you may not know is that Alexa recently arrived on some of Amazon’s Fire tablets, namely the $50 Fire, the fifth- and sixth-generation Fire HD 8 and the fifth-gen Fire HD 10. (That’s it for the moment; …
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Oh, thank heaven for drones. 7-Eleven, one of the world’s largest chains of convenience stores, has completed 77 delivers via drone to customers in Reno, Nevada. The deliveries were made in collaboration with Flirtey, a commercial drone startup that began working with the retail chain over the summer. In November, Flirty made regular deliveries from a 7-Eleven store in Reno …
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