Best Buy has kicked off its Memorial Day sale and there are some pretty nice discounts. Until Monday at 11:59 p.m. CT (Tuesday, 12:59 a.m. ET or Monday 9:59 p.m. PT), the retailer is offering price cuts on a range of products including laptops, HDTVs, headphones and more from brands including Apple, Bose, HP and …
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Pandora has quietly launched a new family plan that allows up to six Pandora accounts to access premium features for $14.99 a month. That price roughly converts to £10 and AU$20. The new subscription tier, called Premium Family Plan, mirrors similar offerings from rivals Spotify and Apple Music, letting customers choose their own music at higher quality audio without ads, …
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SPL stands for Sound Performance Lab, and it’s been making professional recording gear in Germany since the late 1970s, but to be honest I’d never heard of them. No matter — when I spotted their slick-looking Phonitor X headphone amp at the Axpona audio show I just had to get it in for review. I admit I just have a …
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The iPhone won a huge — and lucrative — legal battle against Samsung Galaxy phones, but will wind up giving some of it back to pissed-off iPhone owners, and next-gen iPhone chips might already be underway. Here’s what happened in the world of iPhone this week. After a major seven-year litigation between the two biggest phone makers in the world, …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Update, Nov. 13, 2019: Apple has introduced a new 16-inch MacBook Pro with a larger screen and improved keyboard. It completely replaces the previous 15-inch model. I wouldn’t want you to feel buyer’s remorse, so here’s a word of advice: Maybe don’t buy a MacBook Pro …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. It looked like a mistake, but it turns out it wasn’t. Best Buy on Friday launched an official presale for the Beats Decade Collection, fresh new designs for some of the headphone brand’s best products. The collection will launch on Apple.com on May …
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Though Apple publicly held its ground about the solid design of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, court documents from the “touch disease” class-action lawsuit seem to state otherwise. According to the public documents, which were obtained by Motherboard, Apple’s “internal testing ‘determined that the iPhone 6 was 3.3 times more likely to bend than the iPhone 5S … and that the …
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Samsung must pay Apple $539 million for infringing five patents with Android phones it sold in 2010 and 2011, a jury decided Thursday in a legal fight that dates back seven years. The unanimous decision, in the US District Court in San Jose in the heart of Silicon Valley, is just about halfway between what the two largest mobile phone …
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Wall Street is a topsy-turvy world, and now Netflix is the media king on top of it. Thursday, Netflix’s market capitalization — finance-speak for the total value of its stock — crested higher than the market cap for Disney, previously the most valuable media company in the world. Netflix is worth about $153.8 billion compared with Disney‘s $152 billion, as of recent trading. Netflix surpassed …
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The expensive, geek-friendly Nvidia Shield TV streamer can pretty much do it all, but until now its menu system hasn’t been as customizable as those of competitors Apple TV and Roku. That changes with the latest software update, which brings the new version of Google’s Android TV operating system, 8.0 aka Oreo, and with it a revamped home page. Gone …
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