Get a 75-inch TV for $99! Get a Roku Ultra and double-lifetime Netflix subscription for £12.75! Take this drone for just AU$50! OK, maybe Black Friday hype isn’t that extreme, but this is definitely the time of year when stores fall all over themselves to whip customers into a buying frenzy. This includes not only …
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The death of the MacBook Air ($1,400 at eBay) was greatly exaggerated. Instead of folding the MacBook Air into its MacBook ($445 at Amazon) line or MacBook Pro ($575 at Amazon) line, Apple kept the MacBook Air name and introduced a redesigned MacBook Air on Tuesday at its late October product announcement event in Brooklyn, New York. In addition, Apple …
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Editors’ note, Nov. 1: We’ve added hands-on impressions of the new MacBook Air, which starts at $1,199 and features a Retina display, Touch ID and USB-C ports. Apple announced an update to its most popular laptop, the MacBook Air, at a special event in Brooklyn, New York, on Tuesday. The 13.3-inch laptop now has a Retina display with four times the …
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The second generation of the Apple Pencil debuted Tuesday at Apple’s “There’s more in the making” event in Brooklyn. The company has redesigned the product and added a new charging method. Apple October event: Complete coverage MacBook Air, Mac Mini and iPad Pro 2018: Everything Apple just announced MacBook Air 2018 gets Retina display, Touch ID for $1,199, available Nov. …
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The new OnePlus 6T has already made waves by delivering a premium phone experience for close to half the cost of many premium phones. It’s not $1,000 or even $800 — it’s just $549 (about £499 or AU$774) for the 128GB model with 6GB of RAM, or $30 more for the 8GB model. Want to get the latter for just …
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On this podcast, we talk about: Rumors about what Apple will unveil at its Tuesday press event in Brooklyn. Walmart tests out a new store called Sam’s Club Now, which uses scan-and-go technology on your phone instead of cashiers. Now playing: Watch this: What would you like to see at Apple’s Mac event? (The… 4:54 The 3:59 gives you bite-size …
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OnePlus launched the next version of its flagship smartphone, the OnePlus 6T, today at a press event in New York. The phone will feature an in-screen fingerprint scanner, a Snapdragon 845 processor and a 6.41-inch display. It goes on sale Nov. 1 and starts at $549 and £499 (Australia pricing has not been announced, but that converts to about AU$774). In …
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The next iPad Pro is likely to be the highlight of Tuesday’s Apple event in Brooklyn. While nothing is confirmed, Apple’s next tablet is widely expected to get a complete redesign in the spirit of the iPhone X: A nearly all-screen design, with tiny bezels (supposedly notchless) housing a Face ID sensor in lieu of the late, great Touch ID …
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Editors’ note, Oct. 31: Apple has announced a new version of the MacBook Air, which starts at $1,199 and features a Retina display, Touch ID and USB-C ports. The previous version, mentioned below, remains on sale, for now, and still starts at $999. The original article, published on Oct. 29, follows. Apple is hosting a product launch event in Brooklyn on …
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Chatter on Gab, a fringe social media site, has gone silent. Before he allegedly shot and killed 11 worshippers at a Pittsburgh synagogue on Saturday, Robert Bowers spewed hatred for Jews on Gab, which has become in its two-year existence an echo chamber of racists, white nationalists, Islamophobes and anti-Semites. In one post, an account in Bowers’ name reposted a …
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