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Cyber Monday 2018 Newegg: The best deals on laptops, tablets, PCs, gaming and much more!

Newegg is still going strong with the deals for Cyber Monday. Following up on some monster discounts for Black Friday, Newegg has solid sales on a range of computer stuff: gaming rigs, motherboards, a la carte processors, hard drives and other components from your favorite brands like Asus, Samsung, HP and Acer.  The 40 best Cyber Monday …

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See an actual Soviet space shuttle at the Technik Museum Speyer

My Fiat 500X diesel stubbornly refuses to hit 200 kph. It’s just sitting there at 197. I might as well be standing still. The way the Audi S8 passes me I might as well be. Oddly, it doesn’t feel like I’m going 122 mph. The engine doesn’t sound strained, the car feels stable, and the smooth Autobahn makes for a …

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How to use Stacks in MacOS Mojave

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. I like to think I keep a neat and orderly desktop, but it does spiral out of control from time to time and I find myself staring at a sea of thumbnails scattered across my MacBook. With MacOS Mojave and its new Stacks …

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Google Assistant will order dinner from your Android phone

Feeling hungry? Pretty soon, you’ll be able to order dinner using Google Assistant on your Android phone. Now playing: Watch this: Google Assistant gets food ordering and delivery 1:03 Changes to the Google Assistant software, which is integrated into nearly all Android phones, will make it possible to order food for pickup and delivery. It will even remember what you …

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Nokia to sell Withings health division back to original founder

Nokia is in discussions to sell its health division Withings back to its original co-founder and chairman Éric Carreel, the company announced on Wednesday. The planned sale is part of Nokia’s honed focus on becoming a business-to-business and licensing company, it said in a press release. The deal is expected to close towards the end of June. Nokia purchased the …

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Tony Fadell thinks Apple should tackle device addiction

More than 15 years ago, Tony Fadell played an instrumental role in the development of the iPod, and went on to become one of Apple’s top executives before leaving the company in 2008. Now, he’s joining other high profile figures by arguing that Apple ought to help its users use their devices a little less. “There is no consensus on …

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Google Assistant commercials are seeking your dependency

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Humans, stupefied, need Google’s Assistant to make them whole. Google/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET What kind of world does Google want to create? One in which talking to machines is as natural — or even more natural — than talking to, well, humans. During the …

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Google’s announcement this week that it’s bringing Nest back under its wing has some former employees of the smart-thermostat maker saying the company never should’ve been spun off in the first place. Tony Fadell, co-founder and ex-CEO of Nest, said both companies’ efforts in connected gadgets were hurt when Google made Nest a separate business less than two years after …

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Google brings Nest into the game as its AI battles Alexa

Google is bringing gadget maker Nest back under its control as the search giant battles rivals Amazon and Apple in the rapidly expanding smart home market. A big part of the change: Making it easier to add Google’s artificial intelligence technology and Assistant — a digital helper that competes against Amazon’s Alexa and Apple’s Siri — into new Nest products. …

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Google, with new Pixel and camera, is serious about devices

Last October, Rick Osterloh, the head of Google’s newly minted hardware division, stood on stage in San Francisco and made his pitch to consumers everywhere: Google is not just for Googling anymore. Instead, he said, come to Google for physical products that fit in your pocket or live in your house: a phone, a smart speaker, a Wi-Fi router. It …

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