CES 2019 is well and truly underway with all the world’s biggest tech brands having shown off their latest products. We’ve seen some great new products, including Lamborghini’s $30,000 massage chair, an amazing bread making “robot” and Google has its own Disneyland-style exhibition hall. Sunday CES highlights: CES 2019 is here: A cleaner litter box, …
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Google’s Chrome browser this summer will start blocking those annoying ads around the globe. Chrome will protect users from intrusive ads in any country starting on July 9, according to Google’s Chromium blog. It’s an expansion to an ad-blocking feature launched in February last year that initially focused on sites in North America and Europe. The ad-blocker is designed to dissuade publishers from …
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When I first heard about the Samsung Notebook Flash, it sounded like a less expensive version of one of our favorite slim, stylish notebooks, Microsoft’s Surface Laptop. Starting at $350 (roughly £275 , AU$490), the 13.3-inch laptop is intended for students or anyone looking for a stylish, inexpensive laptop for everyday use. It’ll be available in multiple colors and the …
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Ever played too much Pokemon Go and find yourself running out of battery juice and don’t have a power bank on you? Well, that’s set to be a thing of the past, thanks Singapore startup Shareasy, who have started up a business of renting out power banks to users around the world. Instead of handing out power banks by hand …
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The tiny right corner of your smartphone’s screen holds some valuable real estate. After all, it’s where you stare at to see if you have coverage, or whether you’re on Wi-Fi. It’s also where you can find out if you’re on 3G or 4G LTE. That little space caused a big stir after AT&T decided to add a new symbol, …
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Wireless customers are still flocking to T-Mobile. That’s the takeaway from preliminary fourth-quarter results the company announced Wednesday. The Bellevue, Washington, company said it added a total of 2.4 million customers in the fourth quarter of 2018, of which 1.4 million were so-called postpaid monthly wireless customers. These are customers who pay their bills at the end of each month …
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Amid the hoopla of CES 2019, next-generation 5G tech is once again the talk of Las Vegas. But as with previous editions of the big electronics show, it’s largely just that — talk. That’s because, to date, only a few consumers have actually experienced a real 5G network — AT&T launched the next-generation network in select cities last month, while Korean …
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The new Alienware Area-51m laptop has arrived, and it’s a monster. A big reveal from Dell’s in-house gaming brand at CES 2019 had been rumored for months, and this huge 17-inch gaming system more than lives up to the hype: Dell calls it “the world’s most powerful gaming laptop,” and it’s the product of several years of design and engineering …
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The XPS 13 from Dell has been one of our favorite laptops for a few years. It launched the current war on bezels, shaving down its screen borders before almost everyone else, and that’s a look being copied far and wide now. But, even the most recent generation of the XPS 13 — which made big strides all its own …
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“Hey Siri, stream iTunes through my hearing aid.” That’s just one of many things you can do with the ReSound Linx Quattro, the first smart hearing aid to use AI to pair with Apple’s Siri assistant. Smart hearing aids are part of a burgeoning field of gadgets set to transform the health care industry. For the Linx Quattro, that means …
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