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. And find more great buys on the CNET Deals page. Enlarge Image Google Greetings from Chicago, quite possibly my single favorite city in these United States. It’s where …
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Google celebrated the 88th birthday of structural engineer and architect Fazlur Rahman Khan with a skyscraper-themed Doodle on Monday. Khan, who was born in Bangladesh, died in 1982. He was famous for pioneering “tubular design” for high-rise buildings and designing the Sears Tower and the John Hancock Center. “As a youth my father never imagined that one day he would …
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Somehow we thought this had already happened, but it appears Google’s Android has just overtaken Windows as the internet’s most popular operating system. That’s according to web analytics firm StatCounter, which on Monday released statistics marking the “milestone in technology history and end of an era” with Microsoft no longer owning the dominant OS when you look at internet usage …
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Smartphones and children have a tricky relationship. While phones can be entertainment centers for kids, these devices are designed for adults and leave children’s privacy and innocence vulnerable — especially if they have their own phones. Google aims to empower parents and safeguard children who use Android phones with its Family Link app. The way it works Family Link lets …
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OK Google, meet Bixby. Alexa, meet Bixby. Hey Siri — never mind, you all get the point. There’s another voice assistant on the block, this time from Samsung and coming exclusively to its new Galaxy S8 phone later this month. It does a lot of the same stuff those other digital helpers already do, only it does them worse while …
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Microsoft’s HoloLens started shipping one year ago today, and the tech giant is touting the progress it’s made over the last 12 months. The company said Thursday that software developers have created 150 apps exclusively for the HoloLens, its headset that overlays digital images over what a wearer already sees. The genre is known as “mixed reality.” Alex Kipman, a …
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Don’t expect your next viral video of a boxing kangaroo to be sponsored by the Australian Government — at least not on YouTube. The Australian Government has announced it’s suspending “all non-corporate campaign advertising” from YouTube. That includes everything from public messages from the Department of Health to Defence Force recruiting ads (though not ads for Government owned corporations like …
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It’s time to get started with that New Year’s resolution you’ve put on hold for three months already. Google on Thursday said it will now let people book fitness classes in the US using search, maps or its “Reserve with Google” website. On Google Maps and in search, you can look up a specific gym and click to see the …
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If you’re waiting to finally use the next generation of Google’s smartwatch software, you’ll have to keep waiting. Android Wear 2.0, the most significant update to the search giant’s operating system for wearables, is being delayed in its wider rollout. The culprit is a bug that Google found in its final testing of the software. 9to5Google earlier reported the news. …
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Today, you can preorder the gorgeous new Samsung Galaxy S8. Or you could wait until May 9, when Best Buy will begin offering unlocked versions of Samsung’s new Galaxy phones you can use with any major US carrier. It’s funny. My colleague Dan Graziano and I are basically trading phones this year — he’s angrily ditching his Google Nexus 6P …
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