This story is part of Gift Guide, our year-round collection of the best gift ideas. Cyber Week has officially wrapped up, but if you missed your chance to jump on its great selection of deals, don’t panic. Like other retailers such as Walmart and Amazon, many of the Cyber Week offers from Best Buy have …
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This story is part of Gift Guide, our year-round collection of the best gift ideas. The metaverse is happening now! Or it’s already happened. The metaverse is gaming. It’s virtual reality. It’s a marketing term. It’s Web 3.0. It’s Facebook’s quick-change identity shift to Meta. Or, of course, it’s still a decade away. I’ve been covering VR and AR for years, …
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This story is part of Gift Guide, our year-round collection of the best gift ideas. Every year you can find great Black Friday deals on storage for your game consoles and computers and 2021 is no different. It really is the best time of year to get more gigabytes to hold your files, music, movies, photos and games. This batch is the …
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Apple’s AirPods 3 are now available to buy, following their debut alongside the redesigned MacBook Pro line earlier this fall. As we move into holiday shopping season and Black Friday AirPods sales begin, prices for the AirPods 3 are already down from their launch day price of $179 (£169, AU$279). AirPods 3 aims for the middle ground between the $129 second-gen AirPods, which …
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A ton of companies are racing to get people interconnecting in an immersive metaverse using smart glasses. Right now, few even exist that can work with the phones in our pockets, though. Qualcomm’s latest initiative called Snapdragon Spaces seeks to act as the glue between phones and future smart glasses, with a focus on supporting open web platforms. The catch, …
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Apple’s MagSafe system for the iPhone has grown quite a bit since its debut on the iPhone 12 line in 2020. Unlike the original MagSafe charger for Apple’s MacBook line, which relied on a proprietary cable, a variety of official and third-party accessories have sprung up supporting the iPhone’s MagSafe, because it relies on simple magnets that attach directly to …
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It’s Halloween weekend, but we’re on the cusp on a slew of early Black Friday sales from Target (starting Sunday), Walmart (starting Wednesday) and others as the transition to the holiday shopping season is well underway. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t great deals in the meantime on laptops, power tools and cookware. Check out the Lenovo Chromebook 3 for …
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What goes up must send data back down. That, in a nutshell, is why we send satellites into orbit. A case in point: the GOES satellites that NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration use to collect data about weather on Earth. CNET’s Claire Reilly went behind the scenes to find out how Lockheed Martin is building the latest of …
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This story is part of Making the Metaverse, CNET’s exploration of the next stage in the internet’s evolution. Neal Stephenson’s 1992 novel Snow Crash is about a pizza delivery man by day, VR superhero by night, who lives in an online universe called the Metaverse. “So Hiro’s not actually here at all. He’s in a computer-generated universe that his computer …
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From a distance, the new 14-inch MacBook Pro looks a lot like the 13-inch MacBook Air or 13-inch MacBook Pro you might already be using. Look again and the differences pop out. It has a bigger screen (obviously), slimmer bezels and a new keyboard color scheme. Get close enough to pick it up, and that’s when it hits you: This …
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