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 …
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Most folks love to travel, but it’s an expensive hobby — especially if you venture outside the country. The airfares, the hotels, even just staying connected… it all adds up quickly. At this time of year, it adds up even more. Fortunately, you can save a few dollars here and there — sometimes even more than a few — by …
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Jagdish Chandra Bose was by all accounts a modern-day renaissance man. Born in what is now known as Bangladesh in 1858, Bose was chiefly a scientist who made several contributions to various fields, including physics, biology and archaeology. But Bose is perhaps best known for his pioneering work in biophysics. To honor Bose’s achievements on his 158th birthday, Google published …
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The view of the Tibetan river is wiggly, the one of the Antarctic glacier subtle. The look at Bolivia’s Nuflo de Chavez province is downright kaleidoscopic. Welcome to the latest enhancement to Google Earth Timelapse, satellite images of our planet showing changes over time, which Google calls its largest update yet. Tuesday’s update adds four more years of imagery and …
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HTC 10 owners have one more thing to be thankful for this weekend. HTC is rolling out an update that will let users of the unlocked version of the device to upgrade to Android 7.0 Nougat, Google‘s latest operating system. Nougat will be available from Friday, the company’s vice president of product management said in a tweet. The HTC 10 …
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Love it or hate it, and I suspect that you’re in the latter camp, Black Friday has landed in the UK with retailers like Amazon, Currys PC World and Carphone Warehouse jumping into fray. No, it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to have Black Friday when there’s no Thanksgiving before it, but it’s still a day to grab …
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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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One of the late arrivals to the 2016 parade of ho-hum smartwatches is the Samsung Gear S3, announced back in the late summer. It just went on sale last Friday, and it’s on my wrist right now. You might see it advertised in holiday sales, or in stores. Should you buy one? And what can it offer next to the …
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Bah, humbug. Just in time for the holiday shopping frenzy, Google is rolling out a tool to let you know how crowded a business is in real-time — so you know exactly where to avoid. Think of it like Waze, but for pedestrians. Waze, a Google-owned crowd-sourced traffic app, warns users when there’s traffic on certain roads or things to …
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Walmart can’t wait for Cyber Monday, so it’s moving its online sales kickoff up a few days to Black Friday. The retail giant said Monday it will launch a “Cyber Week” of online holiday deals beginning on Friday, the day that post-Thanksgiving Day shoppers typically flock to the retail store to slug it out over merchandise. Cyber Monday is traditionally …
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