Half of the US TV market is owned by two companies: Samsung and Vizio. Think of them as the New England Patriots and the Philadelphia Eagles. Samsung is the perennial favorite, steeped in cutting-edge tech and marketing dollars. Vizio is the scrappy upstart, whose working-class TVs earn high marks for value. Just in time for …
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Samsung has officially marked the calendar for Feb. 25 as the date it will launch its next big phone, all but confirmed to be called the Galaxy S9. We already knew the global smartphone titan would drop the device at Mobile World Congress — better known by its initials, MWC — next month in Barcelona, the world’s largest show for …
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Elton John is one of those rock ‘n’ rollers who seems to always be touring. His work has been sewn into our cultural conscience for five decades with hit songs like “Bennie and the Jets,” “The Bitch is Back,” “Candle in the Wind” and his music for “The Lion King.” One of his biggest hits was his 1973 song “Goodbye Yellow …
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Remember when we told you not to eat Tide Pods? Here’s another one: Don’t try to eat phone batteries either. Last Friday, a man walked into an unspecified electronics shop in China, picked up an iPhone battery and bit into it, Chinese media reported Sunday. The battery blew up in his face, literally. Footage of the incident, uploaded to Chinese …
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Back in late 2014 we gave high marks to Samsung’s 850 Evo solid-state drive (SSD), calling it a top performer for the money. Now we get the new 860 Pro and 860 Evo, the latest additions to the company’s SATA interface lineup. Combining the latest 512- and 256-gigabit 64-layer V-NAND, they’re designed to deliver pro-level data transfer speeds and improved …
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Thousands of text messages between FBI agents apparently have gone missing, and US President Donald Trump is suggesting that Samsung may have played a role. “In one of the biggest stories in a long time, the FBI now says it is missing five months worth of lovers Strzok-Page texts, perhaps 50,000, and all in prime time,” Trump tweeted early Tuesday. …
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On today’s podcast, we talk about: Six features CNET’s Jessica Dolcourt would like to see in the Samsung Galaxy S9. A tour of the new Amazon Go store, a Seattle convenience store that has no cashiers. It opened to the public Monday. Now playing: Watch this: Our Samsung Galaxy S9 feature wishlist (The 3:59, Ep…. 4:56 The 3:59 gives you …
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Last February we got the LG G6, so this February we should get the LG G7, right? Maybe not. Enlarge Image A revamped LG V30 may be in store for MWC 2018. Juan Garzón/CNET Instead of unveiling its next flagship LG G series phone next month — assumed to be called the LG G7 — the Korean electronics giant may …
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The world’s first phone with an in-screen fingerprint scanner finally has a name, and a birth date. The Vivo X20 Plus UD goes on sale Jan. 24, starting in China. We first saw the one-of-a-kind tech at CES, the world’s largest technology show. Chinese phone maker Vivo showed us a preproduction device that scans your fingerprint when you place your finger on …
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We’ve said it before but it bears repeating: Samsung’s QLED TV technology is not the same as LG’s OLED TV technology. Sure they have similar names, down to the little slash that makes an “O” into a “Q,” but according to CNET’s tests for picture quality, OLED is superior. It’s also fundamentally different from the LCD-based TVs that comprise the …
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