This story is part of 2019 Holiday Survival Guide, featuring tips on the best ways to manage the holiday season. Despite high winds in New York, the balloons are flying down Central Park West and 6th Avenue– albeit lower to the ground. The 93rd Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade began at 9 a.m. ET (6 a.m. PT) and …
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The Chicago Bulls are in the middle of a rebuild, but the team is not without a few foundational pieces worth watching this season, from the high-flying Zach LaVine to second-year center Wendell Carter Jr. and rookie guard Coby White. Bulls fans have a number of ways to watch the team’s games live this season without a cable or satellite TV subscription. Most live …
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Around 2.6 billion customers will have subscriptions to 5G service by the end of 2025, according to a forecast by Ericsson on Monday. The new wireless networks will cover up to 65% of the global population by then, and handle 45% of all mobile data traffic, the networking giant predicted. That’s quite a jump compared with two years ago when Ericsson predicted …
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After winning the NBA MVP award and leading the Milwaukee Bucks to a league-best 60 wins last season, the next step in the continuing evolution of Giannis Antetokounmpo is getting the Bucks to the NBA Finals. The Bucks haven’t reached the Finals since 1974, but are the favorites in the East this year behind their 24-year-old, 6 feet, 11-inch star. Bucks fans …
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The Miami Heat landed Jimmy Butler and might be contenders in the East this season. Even if they can’t find a way past the Bucks or Sixers, they’ll be fun to watch with Justise Winslow running the point and promising rookies Kendrick Nunn and Tyler Herro knocking down shots. Plus, big man Bam Adebayo is making the leap. Heat fans who …
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After turning on a millimeter-wave 5G network for developers and business users over the past year, AT&T is just about ready for regular consumers to begin using out its next-generation wireless service. But don’t expect any big speed jumps or a large nationwide network at launch. Starting on Monday, the carrier will begin taking preorders for Samsung’s Galaxy Note 10 …
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The Philadelphia 76ers came tantalizingly close to making it to the NBA Finals last season. With Kawhi Leonard having returned to the Western Conference, the Sixers are favorites in the East this year along with the Milwaukee Bucks and Boston Celtics. Led by Joel Embiid and Ben Simmons, the team also signed Al Horford away from the Celtics to bolster their front court. If Embiid can stay healthy and …
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AT&T says it’ll switch on its 5G network at Tyndall Air Force Base in the Florida Panhandle in early 2020. By combining the new network with connected devices, augmented reality, virtual reality, cloud and its dedicated first responder network FirstNet, AT&T is creating a “smart base of the future” for the US Air Force, the company said on Thursday. Tyndall, …
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Kyrie is out. Kemba is in. The Boston Celtics signed Kemba Walker to replace Kyrie Irving, who is now plying his trade in Brooklyn. Point guard replacement aside, the Celtics roster looks a lot like last year’s with Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown and a resurgent Gordon Hayward (Update: he’s hurt again) in the starting lineup. Does Boston have enough to overtake the Philadelphia 76ers and Milwaukee Bucks in the …
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Sorry if I’m not getting excited about Google pushing RCS messaging, its Android answer to Apple iMessage technology. I welcome the features now arriving in the company’s Messages app, but I have much deeper problems after being stuck for years in a Google messaging mud bog. Along with that, RCS (Rich Communication Services) comes through a new Messages app that’s a …
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