Ah, March Madness. Most casual fans and office bracketology participants know it as the 68-team free-for-all of the main 2019 NCAA tournament, which tips off March 19. But minor madness starts earlier in March with six conference championships. One of the biggest, the Southeastern Conference, is home to perennial NCAA contenders like Kentucky, Louisiana State, Auburn, …
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The big March Madness basketball tournament begins March 19, but die-hard fans can get a preview, with the NCAA’s conference championships happening this week. One of them is the 2019 Big 12 tournament. The Big 12 Conference is home to Texas Tech, who went went on a Cinderella run in last year’s NCAA tournament to advance to the Elite Eight, where they …
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Editor’s note, May 16, 2019: Spotify stopped accepting new sign ups for its Premium with Hulu deal on May 14. The company has announced a new Premium offer, where new or free-tier users who previously haven’t tried Premium can get a three-month trial for 99 cents. (Spotify Premium users that canceled their Premium account before April 15, 2019 can also …
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Getting your bracketology ready for March Madness later this month? One great way to prepare for the 2019 NCAA tournament is to check out the lead-in conference championships happening this week. The 2019 Big Ten tournament starts March 13. After a Michigan State win over Michigan, the Big Ten Conference has seeded Michigan State number one. They’ll face off on Friday, March …
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Projectors are awesome. They turn any light-colored wall into a big-screen theater. But that kind of magical capability must cost a small fortune, right? Nope. Today only, and while supplies last, Anker is offering its lowest prices to date on a pair of its most popular projectors. Read more: The best home-theater projectors for 2019 I’ll start with the cute …
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An Australian man has been arrested after allegedly raking in an estimated AU$300,000 ($211,000) selling stolen login details online. The man was allegedly behind the website WickedGen.com, which boasted that it had 120,000 users and sold Netflix, Spotify and Hulu logins stolen from almost 1 million accounts. Working on a tip-off from the FBI, Australian Federal Police arrested the 21-year-old …
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Six major NCAA men’s basketball conference championships are happening this week, a frenzy of playoffs leading up to March Madness and the 2019 NCAA tournament later this month. But only one, the 2019 Big East tournament, is home to last year’s NCAA basketball champ. That would be the Villanova Wildcats. Despite losing four of their last six games, the 2019 version …
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If you have both an Amazon Echo and a Roku in the house, get ready to start talking to the TV. The new Roku skill, available now, lets Alexa speakers such as the Echo, Echo Dot, Echo Show and others accept your voice commands to control Roku streamers and TVs. You can now use Alexa to: Launch Apps (“Alexa, open …
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Apple’s executives are often praised for sweating the details for a presentation or new product launch. But in Hollywood, they’re seen as annoying. That’s the message from a New York Post story Sunday, relaying complaints from unnamed Hollywood agents and producers who say the iPhone maker is “difficult” to work with. As Apple ramps up its streaming video ambitions, investing $1 …
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Wi-Fi naming is getting a makeover — and it’s not a moment too soon. Until now, Wi-Fi standards have been an alphanumeric soup with designations like 802.11g, 802.11n and 802.11ac. And if that wasn’t bad enough, the letters didn’t seem to “mean” anything. Is 11g faster than 11ac, just because it’s higher in the alphabet? Actually, no — it’s slower. That’s …
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