Many people are practicing social distancing and staying home due to the coronavirus pandemic, which has meant a lot more time spent with TV and movie streaming services like Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime Video. A new free app called Watchworthy seeks to help you figure out what to watch by giving you a personalized …
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Apple Watches exempt from US tariffs on Chinese imports, report says
The US Trade Representative has reportedly approved Apple’s request for the company’s watches to be excluded from tariffs on Chinese imports, according to a letter from the USTR to Apple. The letter, obtained earlier by Bloomberg, was dated Friday. Last September, President Donald Trump imposed a 15% tariff on a list of goods, which included the Apple Watch. The tariff …
Read More »Pixel 3A: I tried Google’s latest digital wellbeing idea and only lasted 5 hours
As I finished cutting and gluing the Envelope together to eventually encase my Pixel 3A, I was hopeful. On top of being an average phone user, I’ve been reviewing and reporting on phones for years. To spend time with phones and be paid for it, then turn around and do the exact opposite, would be new for me, and I …
Read More »Best Buy Flash Sale: These are the top deals (Update: Expired)
As it is occasionally wont to do, Best Buy is having a flash sale, this one running through the end of the day today, Sunday, March 22. This sale includes a slew of items from all over the store, but I spent a little time combing through the deals in search of the most promising ones. If you want to …
Read More »Disney Plus throttles streaming quality amid coronavirus outbreak
For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Just about every streaming service is throttling video quality in Europe during the coronavirus quarantine. Disney Plus announced over the weekend it was joining Netflix, Apple TV Plus, YouTube and Amazon Prime in the measure taken to help internet services cope with an …
Read More »The coronavirus situation is changing fast. Get alerts on your phone to stay informed
For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. It’s all over the news, social media and nearly everywhere you look — the novel coronavirus, now a pandemic, has been changing the way employees work and emptying store shelves. And if you don’t have time to follow the news, you’re in luck …
Read More »Netflix, YouTube to slow down streaming so internet won’t overload
For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. As the coronavirus outbreak forces people to work from home and children to stay out of school, Netflix and Amazon Prime agreed to a European Union request that streaming services switch from high definition to standard in an effort to reduce the strain on …
Read More »Smartphone shipments see record drop as coronavirus stops shoppers
For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Smartphone shipments saw their biggest ever drop in February as the novel coronavirus ravaged China, one of the world’s largest markets and a vital manufacturing hub. Worldwide, phone shipments fell 38% to 61.8 million units in February 2020, from 99.2 million units in …
Read More »Apple’s modest Mac Mini update: Twice the storage for the same price
Alongside a new MacBook Air and iPad Pro, Apple has introduced a new version of its diminutive desktop computer, the Mac Mini. The update is modest, basically a storage bump: The base model now comes with twice the solid-state capacity — 256GB, up from 128GB — for the same starting price, $799. The new Mac Mini is available for preorder online …
Read More »Startup promises wireless gaming devices without Bluetooth lag
There’s a surge of interest in ultra wideband. The wireless standard, which was designed for data transfer, fizzled more than a decade ago but is now experiencing new life as a method for finding an object’s precise position. UWB has already been built into the U1 chip that Apple added to its iPhone 11, and carmakers like BMW and Volkswagen …
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