When I first heard about the Samsung Notebook Flash, it sounded like a less expensive version of one of our favorite slim, stylish notebooks, Microsoft’s Surface Laptop. Starting at $350 (roughly £275 , AU$490), the 13.3-inch laptop is intended for students or anyone looking for a stylish, inexpensive laptop for everyday use. It’ll be available …
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Microsoft and Kroger have teamed up to offer customers a “connected store experience” that’s very different from the one offered by Amazon Go. The companies opened pilot stores that use digital shelf labeling in Monroe, Ohio, and in Redmond, Washington, near Kroger’s and Microsoft’s respective headquarters. The labeling system is known as Enhanced Display for Grocery Environment (EDGE, not to …
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If you’re a Samsung phones user, you may have a hard time deleting the Facebook app. Samsung phone owners have experienced troubled uninstalling the social media giant’s app, an issue earlier reported by Bloomberg News, which said some users found they could “disable” but not delete the app. Samsung users posted similar experiences in forums, such as Android Central. Samsung users see this page when …
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Take one “world’s first” feature, add Alexa and HDR and stir in a splash of AI and you’ve got a laptop that’s begging to be noticed at CES 2019. With its lid closed, the new $1,500 (roughly AU$2,100 or £1,180) 13.9-inch Yoga S940 laptop doesn’t look too different from other premium ultraportable laptops at the moment. Even its main components …
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Lenovo’s Yoga A940 all-in-one offers a novel take on Microsoft’s Surface Studio, known for its big, pressure-sensitive touchscreen display that’s ideal for design work. Lenovo’s isn’t quite as professionally oriented, but neither is its price: It’s expected to ship in March starting at $2,200, whereas the Studio starts at $3,500. The 27-inch display can be configured with either a 4K or …
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Hate getting locked out of your Windows computer while waiting for it to update? Microsoft is trying to make that a thing of the past. Windows 10 Home, the consumer version of Microsoft’s latest operating system, will soon let you pause updates for up to seven days (and maybe more). The new update experience, spotted earlier by tech site Thurrott, …
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Following a quick sneak peek at IFA in August, Acer has introduced two new models in its premium-meets-portable line of Predator Triton gaming laptops. With an interesting cantilevered hinged design, the new $4,000 Predator Triton 900 comes equipped with a 17-inch 4K display, eighth-gen Intel Core i7 processors and Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 2080 GPU series. The $1,800 Predator Triton 500, …
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Monday is a massive day of press conferences at CES 2019, and nestled among them is HTC. The company’s livestreaming its press conference on Jan. 7 at 1 p.m. PT (4 p.m. ET, 9 p.m. UK) and CNET will be there. You can watch everything just by staying on this page. HTC has already delivered its own big tease of… …
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Chinese tech company Huawei isn’t exactly flavor of the month in the US right now. Between the arrest of its chief financial officer, the company’s inability to offer most of its devices stateside and the government’s repeated security warnings about its equipment, the US is not fertile ground for the world’s No. 2 phone maker to continue growing its market share. …
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If you’re using a free account on GitHub, you’re now able to create and share private software projects. The company on Monday said the platform will give users of its free plan access to unlimited private repositories, which are software projects only shared with certain collaborators instead of the public. Private repositories were previously only available on GitHub’s paid plans, …
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