On this podcast, we talk about: CNET’s review of the new Microsoft Surface Go tablet. T-Mobile‘s latest strong quarter of customer growth. The huge demand for the Nintendo NES Classic mini-console. Now playing: Watch this: Microsoft’s low-cost Surface Go isn’t actually that cheap… 4:58 The 3:59 gives you bite-size news and analysis about the top …
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The Samsung Galaxy Tab S4 uses Android and a little Samsung software magic to take on Apple and Microsoft. Like Microsoft’s Surface line and Apple’s iPad Pro, this premium Android tablet is for more than entertainment. Borrowing capabilities from the DeX dock and pad Samsung makes for its Galaxy phones, the Tab S4 has DeX features that changes the tablet’s Android interface into a desktop-style experience. Attach the $150 …
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For years now, Microsoft has been experimenting with ways to let you seamlessly pick up on your Windows PC from where you left off on a phone. Recently, that’s generally just meant sending links to your PC’s web browser. But as announced at Microsoft’s Build developer conference, the company’s planning to let you share much much more between a phone …
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Everybody’s doing it. From YouTube, Twitter and Reddit to MacOS Mojave, websites and entire operating systems are getting in the dark-mode game. We all stare at screens for large portions of our days and nights, and transforming bright, white backgrounds to black can ease the strain on our eyes. Plus, it just looks cool. The latest player in the dark-mode …
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Ah, the spinning wheel of death. The rapidly multiplying error dialogue boxes. You’ve likely experienced these while using Apple’s macOS and Microsoft’s Windows. Google knows that and is tapping into these anxiety-provoking moments in its new Chromebook ad, which was posted to YouTube on Monday. In the ad, Google shows a serious of nightmarish clips highlighting the glitches you’ve likely …
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On Aug. 9, Samsung is expected to reveal its Galaxy Note 9 phone at a New York press event. But even though the presser it just a little more than a week away, that still hasn’t stopped the rumor mill from churning over new speculations. Case in point: new Note 9 rumors about three different aspects of the phone attempt …
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Best Buy’s Black Friday in July sale is underway and ends tonight (Saturday) at 11.59 p.m. CT. It’s nothing like Amazon’s Prime Day or even Best Buy’s true Black Friday sale, but there are a handful of decent deals to be had. Here’s a quick look at the ones that caught our eyes. Several of these products are available for …
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After $2.3 billion in funding and nearly four years of secrets, Magic Leap is on the verge of shipping its first headset — this summer, in fact — but we still have very little idea what you’ll see inside. Until today, perhaps — because it sure looks like images of Magic Leap’s proposed user interface have just leaked onto the …
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A Mozilla engineer says Google’s redesign has made YouTube slower on Firefox and Edge. Chris Peterson, the software community’s technical program manager, tweeted on Tuesday that the video sharing site loads at a fifth of the speed on non-Chrome browsers due to its architecture, as first reported by Sofpedia. YouTube page load is 5x slower in Firefox and Edge than …
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When you pair a couple of Bluetooth devices, like your phone and computer, they exchange encryption keys. But it turns out the Bluetooth specification didn’t require that both of them completely validate those keys. Well, it does now. This comes after it was revealed Tuesday that an attacker within wireless reach could insert themselves into communications between the two devices …
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