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You can jog on the road well traveled, but you’ll often pay full retail for it. Smartwatches like the Apple Watch Series 6 and Fitbit Sense are great health- and fitness-focused devices, but they’re pretty expensive. At the other end of the spectrum, CNET’s Lexy Savvides has covered the best budget smartwatches under $100. I’ve …

Samsung on Thursday revealed its 512GB DDR5 RAM module, which is capable of more than twice the speed of the DDR4 at 7,200 megabits per second. It’s aimed at handling data-intensive supercomputing, AI and machine learning processes. To give this a consumer-level comparison, Apple’s  $1,000 MacBook Air only comes with 8GB of RAM. The module uses through-silicon via (TSV) tech …

Vivo is one of China’s biggest phone brands, and now it’s teaming up with German lensmaker Zeiss to level up its photography game. Those boosted cameras, plus a gorgeous display and impressive battery features, make Vivo’s newest phones worthy of your attention. Vivo unveiled its inaugural global flagship phones for this year, announcing the X60, X60 Pro, and the X60 …

Disney Plus is raising its price by $1 to an $8-a-month subscription in the US starting Friday, with its annual subscription going up $10, to $80 a year. And Disney’s discounted bundle that packages Disney Plus, Hulu and ESPN Plus together will also go up by $1 in the US: People with the bundle that includes ad-supported Hulu will see their …

The Arizona state Senate was scheduled to vote on a controversial bill that would have imposed new rules on how apps work on iPhones and Android-powered devices. But the vote on Arizona HB2005 never occurred and no explanation for the omission was offered, The Verge reported Wednesday. The state bill, if passed and signed into law, would require app store …

After years of struggling to keep up with competitors, Intel will adopt their core strategy by making other companies’ chips for them, new Chief Executive Pat Gelsinger said Tuesday. Intel largely has focused on making its own chips, but that’ll change with the new and independent Intel Foundry Services business unit. If the shift works, it’ll mark a major turnaround …

Best Buy’s latest Flash Sale is happening now, meaning you’ve got until the clock strikes midnight to score some pretty hefty savings on TVs, laptops, earbuds and the like. Below I’ve rounded up a few standouts from the sale. See it at Best Buy Óscar Gutiérrez/CNET Refurbished AirPods Pro $160 (save $90) Last year, wondering if they’d work well or …

Apple’s new iPhone 13 is on track for a September launch, according to supply chain information obtained by MacRumors. Wedbush analyst Dan Ives told MacRumors that the iPhone 13 models are slotted for the third week of the month, but that the date could get pushed to early October. “We have gotten more detailed reads from our supply chain checks …

LG is looking to shut down its mobile phone arm, Korean news site DongA reported over the weekend. The business would be shuttered instead of being sold off, the report said, citing an unnamed source, who said negotiations of a sale to Volkswagen and Vingroup JSC have stalled. That follows a report in January from The Korea Herald that LG …

Last fall, I realized my decades-old wallet strategy was due for an update. Since I was a teenager, I’d been stuffing everything into a traditional folding wallet. But now I’ve made a dramatic change to the way I haul around money and cards, and I’m expecting even more radical changes to come. I felt no need for a new approach …