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. Cheeps, a quick follow-up on yesterday’s smart-scale deal. My Yunmai Color arrived late yesterday, so I’ve only done …
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It turns out there’s an actual reason some owners of Google Pixel and Pixel XL Android handsets have been noticing microphone problems. Almost eight hundred people and counting have posted questions regarding this topic on Google’s Pixel support forum. Google VP of Product and expert Googler Brian Rakowski confirmed with CNET that there is a snafu and it is a …
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There’s no shortage of myths and misconceptions regarding Google’s Chrome OS. Most commonly found on a slew of Chromebooks, Chrome OS is more than a glorified browser. Under the hood, it offers file management, standalone apps, access to the Google Play Store and, yes, printing. To get started you’ll need to go through the Cloud Print process for the printer …
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Android fans, Thursday is going to be generous. Google is about update Gboard for Android with new features and abilities. The first of these is GIF and emoji suggestions as you type. Also coming: The keyboard will translate your entered text into another language in real time. Other improvements include a different interface for voice typing, which is tweaked to …
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The only thing worse than actual meetings is meeting logistics. To help make planning a tad more tolerable, Google is rolling out two new features in its communication and messaging app, Hangouts. (Unfortunately, neither tools help decrease the utterances of such phrases like “How will this scale?” and “Run it up the flagpole.”) The first is a video conferencing feature …
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Get ready for more of your favorite watch brands to start peddling smartwatch alternatives. Movado Group has announced its own line of smartwatches compatible with Android Wear 2.0, Google’s newly-updated smartwatch software. Movado previously made a line of smart analog smartwatches via a collaboration with HP. It looks like Movado Group’s making a leap to Google. Movado Connect, one of …
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Want to view immersive, 360-degree Facebook photos or videos in your Samsung Gear VR headset, like this White House tour? It hasn’t been particularly easy — you’ve had to browse the social network first on a 2D screen, then save a video or hunt for a button before popping it on your head. That may change with the introduction of …
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Republicans are doing all they can to make sure the Federal Communications Commission can’t tell broadband companies how to handle your personal data online. In the latest move, Republican Senator Jeff Flake of Arizona on Tuesday evening introduced a resolution that would kill rules the FCC passed in October to regulate consumer privacy for internet service providers. The measure, which …
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Buying a Chromebook doesn’t necessarily mean you need to make Google Drive your cloud-storage boo. There is no reason to severe a long and meaningful relationship with Dropbox just because Google Drive is baked into Google‘s Chrome OS. You can always access Dropbox via the Web on a Chromebook, but a better way is to use a Chrome extension that …
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Google Play Music, the company’s audio streaming service, is launching its first original podcast, a travel-show-like documentary series called “City Soundtracks.” The first three episodes are now available on Google Play Music and iTunes. Each includes a prominent music figure from the profiled city. Cities and artists covered in this initial batch are Austin, Texas/Spoon, New Orleans/Big Freedia and Oakland, …
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