CNET’s Cheapskate scours the web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. Find more great buys on the CNET Deals page and follow the Cheapskate on Facebook and Twitter! All football games are more enjoyable when they’re at least 65 inches diagonally. …
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The dates are set. Google’s annual I/O Developer Conference is penciled in for May 8 through 10, 2018, and will be held in Mountain View, California, at the Shoreline Amphitheater. If you don’t know what I/O is, here’s why everyone who uses an Android phone (or iPhone) should care. Every year, Google uses its developer conference to unveil the latest …
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If you fear trying virtual reality and getting tangled in cords, you’re in luck: 2018 could be your year. The last vestiges of tethered cables may finally be going away. But being wireless isn’t the same thing as being hassle-free. What’s the big deal about wireless VR, you ask? Maybe you have a phone-connected Gear VR, Daydream View or even …
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Plex, the streaming media app, has created a new virtual reality experience for users of Google’s Daydream. The new feature, which Plex touted on Wednesday, will let friends watch shows together in a VR environment and watch shows on a giant VR screen. Users will need an Android phone, a Daydream headset and the Plex VR app. The Plex app …
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I’m not up to anything untoward, I assure you. I just don’t want my kids, who are constantly borrowing my phone to play music or Google something, reading my texts as they go by. If you want to restrict the contents of the iOS Messages app to its intended audience only (read: you), then here are five tips to to …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Scorning lesser tech souls? Kimberly White And now they turn on their own. It used to be that Silicon Valley was one vast love-in, with so many of its senior figures believing they were angels brought together to deliver the world to a better place. …
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Listen up. Now you can hear the bestselling book “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,” along with other popular audiobook titles, via Google Play. The company said Tuesday it’s releasing audiobooks on its Google Play store in nine languages across 45 countries. Titles will be available on iOS and Android for phones and on the web with Google Play Books, …
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Mozilla released on Tuesday a new version of its Firefox Quantum browser, boosting its graphics speed and improving a couple of new technologies designed to make the web more powerful. The browser, version 58, is the first major update since Mozilla’s recovery plan hit full stride in November with the debut of Firefox Quantum. A decade ago, Firefox was running …
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On Wednesday, researchers revealed serious flaws in modern processors that could affect practically every Intel computer released in the last two decades — and the AMD and Arm chips in your laptops, tablets and phones, too. And on May 21, researchers found a fourth variant. Read more here. The good news: Intel, AMD and Arm believe they can fix — …
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Last February we got the LG G6, so this February we should get the LG G7, right? Maybe not. Enlarge Image A revamped LG V30 may be in store for MWC 2018. Juan Garzón/CNET Instead of unveiling its next flagship LG G series phone next month — assumed to be called the LG G7 — the Korean electronics giant may …
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