It’s getting down to the wire and you still haven’t figured out which laptops to get your kids for Christmas. Have no fear. Ask Maggie is here to help. The good news is that this is a great time to be in the market for a budget laptop. Today more than ever, consumers don’t have …
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With the holiday shopping season upon us, it’s time to start covering your tracks online lest you spoil a holiday surprise. If you are like me, then you shop or at least research potential gift ideas on your phone. And if you have kids like mine, then they are constantly borrowing your phone. To preserve the magic of the holidays, …
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Google Cast media-streaming technology isn’t going away. But it seems the name for it is changing, again. On Tuesday, Google subtly announced a rebrand of Google Cast to Chromecast by way of a Twitter handle change: The tech giant has been jumping around on its branding for Cast, most recently switching from Google Cast to Google Home with the release …
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This year, the Opera browser added an option to block online ads. The newer Brave browser goes farther, blocking them by default. But Google would rather fix the problems with ads than strip them off websites. “We feel like there are a lot of challenges in advertising. There are a lot of wrong ways,” Darin Fisher, vice president of Chrome …
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The web has taken a beating in the smartphone era. But it’s about to start beating back. Explosive growth of the web, starting in the 1990s, connected the world’s population. In the last decade, though, we all started tapping app icons instead of web hyperlinks to chat with friends, share photos and buy products online. Now Google’s Chrome team and …
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If your MacBook or Windows laptop is on its last legs, you may find yourself tempted to replace it with a Chromebook. But whether you’re attracted to the lower price or simplicity of use, it’s worth making sure it’ll meet your needs before you hand over your money. I primarily use a MacBook Pro but have an Asus ZenBook Flip …
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A version of Chrome due in a two months will give your PC or phone back some of that precious memory it’s been gobbling up. Memory is a scarce resource in computing devices, making apps run faster and letting them do more. As websites get more complex and web browsers get more powerful, though, they gobble up more and more …
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Google users won’t have to worry about who’s peeking through their history anymore on iOS devices. The search engine giant released several updates for its iOS app on Tuesday. One fixes bugs so that the app is twice as reliable, Google said. Another allows in-search YouTube videos. And then there’s the new incognito mode. Incognito mode, first introduced in Google …
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Microsoft’s new Edge browser is the latest product that will give you something interesting to do with your VR headset. The company announced Friday that its Edge browser, which is bundled in Windows 10, is getting experimental support for WebVR — a developing standard that allows websites to support virtual reality headsets like the high-end Oculus Rift or the much …
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Now playing: Watch this: Vizio debuts new Google Cast speakers 1:01 Vizio has announced two new Wi-Fi speakers for its SmartCast range — which also incorporates televisions — and is based on the Google Cast platform. The Vizio SmartCast Crave 360 ($250) is a portable speaker which works in a similar fashion to the Samsung Radiant360 by radiating sound evenly …
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