Forget Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Some of the best deals of the year can be found right now at Google Express. When you apply promo code WISH20 at checkout, you’ll save 20 percent — which leads to all-time low prices on some high-profile products. See it at Google Express Amazingly, that code works even …
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Apple’s Messages app has been the focus of several big updates over the past couple of years, but in iOS 12 this year, Messages is receiving just a minor update. There’s a new iMessage app drawer, plus a new process for adding previously captured photos to a conversation. Now playing: Watch this: iOS 12: 9 hidden features you should check …
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Sonos has announced that Google Assistant won’t be joining Amazon‘s Alexa on its Sonos One and Beam speakers until 2019. Sonos’ smart speakers currently support Alexa and the support for multiple voice assistants, including Google’s, was one of the main selling points of the Sonos One at its 2017 launch. “While we originally planned to have the experience ready to …
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In an about-face, Netflix said it would put three Oscar-bait films in cinemas for an exclusive period. For years, the company has insisted that its movies stream online the same day they screen in theaters, but that’s now changing. Roma, a black-and-white drama by Alfonso Cuarón that’s being hailed at film festivals as a masterpiece, will have the longest period …
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Apple unveils all sorts of new products every year, from iPhones and Apple Watches to iPads and MacBooks. While people tend to get most excited about Apple’s newest products, many Apple fans have homes filled with Apple products from years past — tucked away in drawers or closets, slowly being forgotten. But that old iPhone, MacBook or iPad may be …
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In an early rehearsal for Black Friday this year, Target has posted a bunch of deals online for one day only. And that day is today: Thursday, Nov. 1. All of the deals posted today are available at Target.com, though some may also be found at retail locations. Here are the best deals we’ve spotted so far: Disclaimer: CNET may get …
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Spotify wasn’t spectacularly unprofitable in the third quarter. And it has a big Chinese streaming service to thank for that. The world’s biggest subscription streaming music service by members, Spotify routinely reports wide losses in the hundreds of millions of euros, primarily because royalties eat up the majority of its revenue. But its latest three-month period was the exception, thanks …
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Riding high on the launch of its iPhone XS and iPhone XR, Apple announced the much-anticipated iPad Pro 2018 this week. There’s just one problem. With two screen sizes, two connectivity options and four storage capacities, separating specs get confusing fast. Double that when you compare the new iPad Pros to last year’s models (which are no longer on sale) and …
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In my next life, I’d really like to write and direct movies — especially now that the tools for doing so are incredibly cheap. I mean, heck, I’ve already got a 4K camcorder in my pocket! Ever priced a Steadicam, though? Decidedly not cheap. So how can budding filmmakers hope to capture silky-smooth footage, especially while moving around? For that …
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When Apple announced Tuesday that its iPad Pro had ditched the proprietary Lightning port in favor of USB-C, my eyes lit up. Lightning has had a good run, but I’d be happy to toss my collection of Lightning cables into my junk drawer alongside the ones for Firewire hard drives, VGA video and printers that perversely used those weird squarish …
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