This story is part of Amazon Prime Day, CNET’s guide to everything you need to know and how to find the best deals. Bose is once again discounting its top noise-canceling headphone for Prime Day. The Noise Cancelling Headphones 700, which usually retail for around $379 (after starting out at $400), can be had for …
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An Apple AirTag is a tiny Bluetooth tracker that attaches to an object like your keys and can be located with your iPhone, iPad or Mac. Bluetooth trackers aren’t new, but the biggest selling point for the AirTag is Apple’s Find My network, which is made up of hundreds of millions of Apple devices. The Find My network recently added support for third party …
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Recommending the Alienware m17 R4 is both easy and difficult for me. As much as I love the idea of having all this gaming performance in a portable and relatively small package, its price veers into “you can get more with a desktop” territory. That feeling is intensified by the laptop’s short battery life, which limits its usefulness as a …
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I like cheap fixes for life’s little problems. Tired of hunching over your laptop? Raise the screen with a laptop stand. Sick of that laptop’s imprecise touchpad? Switch to a wireless mouse. Today I bring you five such problem-solvers, all of them priced $9 or less. (OK, $9.17 or less; hope you don’t mind me rounding down.) As always, these …
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For the biggest screen possible in your home, the best projectors can create truly massive images. In many cases they cost less than the biggest TVs. From movies to TV, PlayStation 5 to Xbox Series X, there’s just something more compelling and engrossing about big-screen entertainment. The catch is that projectors require more setup and hassle than TVs. You’ll need to …
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This story is part of Father’s Day Gift Guide, featuring our top picks for dads who love tech. Misplacing stuff — your wallet, car keys, TV remote, dog — is objectively terrible. And while you probably shouldn’t clip a Tile tracker to your pet (there are dedicated devices for exactly that purpose), Tile’s family of Bluetooth-powered locators can help you …
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Lenovo’s ThinkPad X12 Detachable is a 12.3-inch tablet with a built-in kickstand and detachable keyboard. If that sounds familiar, it’s because it’s essentially the same as Microsoft’s Surface Pro. The Surface Pro hasn’t changed much at all for generations, though. The X12 may be familiar-sounding but it’s a fresh design with new components — including Intel’s 11th-gen processors and Thunderbolt …
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Despite what some headline writers would have you believe, Microsoft has not suddenly announced a new Xbox streaming stick. In a pre-E3 streamed briefing for journalists, Microsoft’s Xbox head Phil Spencer, CEO Satya Nadella and other Microsoft execs talked more generally about the plans for getting more Xbox games in front of more people in new and different ways. My …
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Streaming music is here to stay, but for a lot of us it’s stuck on our phones or laptops. Google’s Chromecast built-in enables you to liberate your tunes and play them on devices anywhere in your home (or beyond), and even stream audio that follows you from room to room. You can use apps on your phone or simply speak …
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The Playdate, a long-promised black-and-white indie gaming handheld created by Panic, the developer of Untitled Goose Game, looks like it’s finally going on sale soon. The $179 handheld is going to be available for preorder in July. The console’s first games, which are delivered over Wi-Fi for free with the purchase of the device, were shown off in greater detail …
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