Need a TV for a den, bedroom or dorm room? The deals don’t get much better than this: For a limited time, and while supplies last, Best Buy has an Insignia 24-inch Fire TV for $99.99, a price that includes a free Amazon Echo Dot (third-gen). The latter will automatically appear in your cart when …
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Comcast’s Peacock is the latest entrant into the “streaming wars” and like AT&T’s HBO Max before it, the new service could very well launch nationwide next week without apps on the two most popular streaming device platforms, Roku or Amazon Fire TV. And in an interview with CNET, the executive in charge of the Peacock says that’s fine. “When it …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. In case you missed it, Apple announced last month at its Worldwide Developers Conference that the AirPods Pro will get a big upgrade this fall with the release of iOS 14 (and the update of iPadOS, too): a “spatial audio” feature that simulates surround sound. While Apple …
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Logitech’s excellent MX Master 3 mouse and MX Keys keyboard always worked just fine with both Windows and Mac computers as well as with Apple iPads. But Logitech heard from enough people who wanted Apple-centric versions that it decided to create the MX Master 3 for Mac and MX Keys for Mac (both $100). International prices aren’t currently available, but $100 …
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Samsung on Tuesday unveiled a new feature with Apple Music that displays real-time synced lyrics that appear on screen as music plays. The feature is available on Samsung Smart TV models from 2018 to 2020 through the Apple Music app. To access the time-synced lyrics, Samsung Smart TV owners can download Apple Music from the Samsung Smart TV App Store …
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HBO Max, HBO’s hot new streaming service, launched in May with 10,000 hours of content. For $14.99 a month, subscribers can find almost every Studio Ghibli film, the Harry Potter movies, classics like Casablanca, all 10 seasons of Friends (and a promised reunion episode) and cult favorites such as Rick and Morty — along with all the HBO movies and series …
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Disney Plus mobile-app downloads jumped 72% in the US last weekend as the streaming service dropped Hamilton, the highly anticipated film version of the award-winning musical that Disney originally planned to release in theaters more than a year from now. Mobile app downloads surged 72.4% in the US on Friday through Sunday, compared with the average number of downloads during the four preceding …
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The CEOs of US tech giants Apple, Google, Facebook and Amazon are set to appear at an antitrust hearing on July 27. The news came from Rep. David Cicilline, as reported by Recode and confirmed by the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee on July 6. Apple’s Tim Cook, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Alphabet’s Sundar Pichai and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos will all testify. …
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This story is part of Generation China, CNET’s series exploring the nation’s technological ambition. TikTok said late Monday it plans to exit the Hong Kong market within days as several tech giants have announced they’re pausing the review of Hong Kong government requests for user data in reaction to a new national security law China imposed on the region that …
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Hello freedom, goodbye tethering. That’s what I thought when I first opened the box for the new Lenovo Flex 5G, the first 5G-powered laptop we’ve been able to test, and the first most consumers will be able to purchase. Now I can go anywhere, do anything, and not be at the mercy of coffee shop Wi-Fi systems or tethering to …
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