Welcome to Day 6 of CNET’s 10 Days of Deals! As we count down to Black Friday, I’m bringing you some of my favorite products at some seriously discounted prices. The Amazfit Bip is an Apple Watch lookalike that’s more like a Pebble under the hood — and overall a pretty nice blend of the two. It …
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Black Friday is packed with deep discounts on TVs, and I predicted sweet sale prices on the best-performing televisions of all: LG’s OLED TVs. I was wrong. The good news is that LG’s official Black Friday sale is going on now, and its 2018 OLED TVs are at their lowest prices yet. That includes the best TV I’ve ever tested, the OLEDC8P …
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YouTube updated its support for virtual reality Tuesday, adding the Oculus Go headset to its list of supported viewers and adding new ways to create or enhance VR uploaded to Google’s massive video site. At first, Google’s virtual reality ambitions were a joke: It unveiled its first VR headset — an ultracheap do-it-yourself kit made of cardboard un-ironically called Cardboard — two months after Facebook dropped $3 …
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Our phone addiction isn’t getting any better. Across virtually all age groups, Americans look at their phones more often than ever before — an average of 52 times a day, according to Deloitte’s 2018 Global Mobile Consumer Survey. That’s up from 47 times a day last year. It’s a habit many people are trying to cut, according to the consulting …
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The US now can claim the top two machines on a list of the 500 fastest supercomputers, as Sierra, an IBM machine for nuclear weapons research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, edged out a Chinese system that last year was the very fastest. The Top500 list ranks supercomputers based on how quickly they perform a mathematical calculation test called Linpack. …
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Black Friday — and Cyber Monday — is a great invention because we get to go crazy buying stuff at lower prices. But you know what’s even better? Alibaba’s Singles Day shopping bonanza. Called the 11/11 Global Shopping Festival, it’s an annual 24-hour online shopping spree of sorts by the Chinese internet giant which falls on Nov. 11, otherwise known …
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Google is committed to diversity and supports its employees in their protests, the company’s financial chief said Monday. Ruth Porat, chief financial officer of Alphabet and Google, said Monday during the Wall Street Journal D.Live conference in Laguna Beach, Calif., that she participated in this month’s walkouts with her financial team. “Diversity overall makes an organization stronger,” she said. “People …
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Jack Dorsey doesn’t want you to worry about your follower count. The Twitter CEO said that emphasizing the number of followers you’ve gathered isn’t the best idea, Slashdot reported Monday. He and fellow founders Noah Glass, Biz Stone and Evan Williams didn’t consider “all the dynamics that could ensue afterwards” as they prepared Twitter for its 2006 launch, Dorsey noted …
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Did you have trouble accessing your Facebook feed? If so, you aren’t alone. Facebook was down this morning in the US, as well as other parts of the world. The outage, caused by a test the social network was conducting, lasted about 40 minutes. “Earlier today, a routine test caused users to have trouble accessing or posting to all Facebook …
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Twitter is a confounding place for many reasons, but perhaps its oddest quirk is that since its founding in 2006, it hasn’t had an edit button. That may change, and soon. CEO Jack Dorsey reportedly told an audience in India that the company is considering adding the edit functionality to tweets, primarily to fix typos. “We have been considering this for …
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