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Stanley Cup Finals Game 7: How to watch Bruins vs. Blues live online

Tonight Lord Stanley’s Cup, the most famous trophy in professional sports, will be awarded after the first Stanley Cup Finals Game 7 since 2011. The recipient will be either the hated Boston Bruins or the St. Louis Blues (aka Not The Bruins). Founded in 1969, the Blues are the oldest NHL franchise to have never won …

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Google Stadia and Microsoft’s Project xCloud: The game streaming dream was inside us all along

If, like a rapidly growing segment of the world’s population, you’re the type of warped individual who spends the majority of your free hours playing video games, it’s probably apparent we live in interesting times. And this year’s E3 reflected that fact. E3 2019 wasn’t the rollicking roller coaster ride we’ve come to expect in recent years. That makes sense — E3 is …

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Fix your slow Mac once and for all

It almost never fails, just as you’re about to finish a big project for work or school, with a deadline looming, your Mac begins to slow down. The dreaded beachball makes an appearance, spinning countless times all the while you can’t get any work done. Eventually, the beachball goes away, and you get some more work done until the ball …

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New Dropbox app designed to be the center of your work life online

Dropbox unveiled a major overhaul Tuesday designed to transform its file-sync service into a central collaboration hub connecting other tools like G Suite, Slack, Zoom and Microsoft Office. Dropbox’s new app presents files as a project-based package. Front and center are shared files, but other panes show other contacts in the project, an activity feed with changes to each file, …

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If you can’t buy the Huawei P30 Pro, get these phones instead

The Huawei P30 Pro’s amazing Leica quad-camera system makes it one of the best and most unique phones released this year. If you pride yourself as a phone camera enthusiast the P30 Pro is worth your consideration. But with the recent news that the White House banned US companies from doing business with Huawei, you might feel a little nervous …

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Google’s Pixel 4 could have the Project Soli chip

Google’s Pixel 4 phone — recently confirmed by Google, for reasons we can only speculate — could come equipped with the tech giant’s Project Soli chip, according to a report. Project Soli, Google’s radar-based motion sensors, would allow users to operate phones via hand gestures. Google had unveiled Project Soli at I/O back in 2016 with a video showing how …

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Shazam app can now recognize songs when you have your headphones in

Shazam is one of my favorite apps. It eliminated the days of having to Google scraps of song lyrics or try (and fail) to remember them if I heard a song in a movie trailer or on the radio. If you use Shazam’s Android app, you’ll see an alert at the bottom of the main screen. It’ll let you know …

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Moto Z4 is a midrange phone and a Verizon 5G early

Editor’s Note: Check out CNET’s in-depth review of the Motorola Moto Z4. We spent weeks testing the phone and found things we really enjoyed like the battery and stuff we didn’t like the design and camera performance. The Moto Z4 phone is an anomaly. It costs $499, which puts it in competition with the midrange $479 Google Pixel 3A XL that …

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How PC games overpowered Xbox, PlayStation and others at E3 2019

A few moments on Project Scarlett stole the E3 schedule at Microsoft’s Xbox E3 press event, despite being barely more than a shot of the logo and some hyperbolic promises that it’ll be the most powerful Xbox ever. (I would hope so…) In truth, PC hardware at E3 today is already as powerful as the next Xbox or PlayStation consoles will …

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Huawei reportedly to delay announcement of new laptop

Huawei is indefinitely delaying the announcement of a new Windows laptop, The Information reported Tuesday. The laptop was scheduled to be unveiled this week. Huawei is the world’s second-largest phone manufacturer by volume, but it has struggled to make a dent in the US, partly because of concerns expressed by the government, including the FBI, CIA, NSA, the Federal Communications …

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