The show floor at CES 2017 doesn’t open until Thursday, but Wednesday is arguably the biggest news day of the show. As the second of two Chinese manufacturers announcing today, Hisense’s press conference is scheduled for 12 p.m. PT/3 p.m. ET. While the company is yet to reveal details of its 2017 line you can …
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Now playing: Watch this: Incredible LG OLED TV hangs totally flush against the… 1:36 LG wants to make the products in your home smarter than you. The Korean company, known for making an array of products like televisions, phones and washing machines, kicked off its CES 2017 press conference with a discussion of its DeepThinQ artificial intelligence platform. It went …
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You’ve heard of soaring music, but this is ridiculous. LG has created a speaker that actually flies. Sort of, anyway. The LG Levitating Wireless Speaker, also known as the PJ9, hovers above its catchily-named Levitation Station base to play music with no wires, as if by magic. The hovering speaker connects to two devices at a time over Bluetooth and …
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For a week in early January, televisions run Vegas. Sure there’s other stuff announced at the massive Consumer Electronics Show there: audio/video gear, phones, tablets, computers, streaming media devices, car tech, drones, action cameras, wearables, appliances and a whole pavilion worth of accessories. But TVs always seem to draw a big chunk of the buzz, and dominate the booths of …
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Whether it’s a brand-new Asus ZenPad Z8 or a hand-me-down Google Pixel C, Android tablets can provide your child with hours of entertainment. But these digital babysitters can also put your child at risk. Thankfully, Android has a few tricks up its sleeve to help you out. Create a restricted user Android lets you create multiple user accounts for your …
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The impressive-sounding LG UltraFine 5K display that Apple debuted in October has officially started shipping — or at least it will in two to four weeks. If you want to fetch it yourself, it’s listed for pickup availability in NYC Apple stores on January 20. And pay attention, bargain hunters. Until March 31 you can save $325 off its list …
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Samsung seems to be doing everything within its power to avoid a repeat of the great Galaxy Note 7 battery crisis of 2016. That might even include buying batteries from LG, according to a Reuters report published Monday. Samsung currently sources its phone batteries from Samsung SDI, a subsidiary of the company, and China’s Amperex Technology, but could be set …
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Now playing: Watch this: Future iPhone, Pixel phones could be foldable 1:11 A couple years from now, maybe you’ll get a phone that doesn’t look pretty much exactly like the last three you got, because phones from Apple, Google and Microsoft could get folding displays in 2018, according to a new report. Display maker LG Electronics will supply the folding …
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Many Android phones are a bit more durable than iPhones, but that doesn’t mean they’re immune to damage. Phone screens are made of glass, after all, and glass breaks when you drop it. So. You dropped your Android phone for the 60th time and you now have a beautiful spider web pattern blooming across your home screen. If you don’t …
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The only consumer OLED TV by Sony came out in 2008, had an 11-inch screen and cost $2500. In 2017 the company will come out with a 55-inch version for $2,000, if a report by Forbes is accurate. It says Sony will ship OLED TVs in 55-inch and 65-inch sizes during the second half of 2017, with prices of $2,000 …
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