CNET’s Cheapskate scours the web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. Find more great buys on the CNET Deals page and follow the Cheapskate on Facebook and Twitter! Enlarge Image This is absolutely positively the mixed-reality Star Wars experience you’re looking …
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Ready for the CES swag bag of 2018? This year we are going all out with incredible partnerships, including an exclusive prize from UBTECH and incredible goodies from Razer, OtterBox, Nite Ize and more. Let’s take a look at the loot for this swag bag. One grand prize winner will take home an UBTECH Star Wars Stormtrooper Robot, a Razer …
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Maybe the best way to characterize Netflix’s attitude about price hikes at the moment is that the company has no plans to increase your bill right up until it does. During a video interview about fourth-quarter earnings Monday, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings said the company has “no plans to try to repeat” price hikes “in the near term.” Last year, …
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CNET’s Cheapskate scours the web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. Find more great buys on the CNET Deals page and follow the Cheapskate on Facebook and Twitter! Indulge your childhood fantasies of flying a Star Wars ship or speeder. Propel’s drones are a blast. Propel …
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If you think diamond rings are a bit excessive but still savor shiny stones, how about a diamond-studded watch? TAG Heuer added 589 baguette-size diamonds — that’s 23.35 carats — to its latest smartwatch, which it showed off at this week’s Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie Geneve. Diamonds aren’t cheap, and neither is this watch: It costs 190,000 francs, according …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. What would a LaVar Ball NBA have looked like? Allen Berezovsky/Getty Images The machine has replaced the customer in being always right. Except, that is, when it’s flamingly wrong. For a short time on Tuesday, a search for “NBA founder” offered the answer “LaVar Ball” …
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A few weeks back I wrote about how OtterBox was making Star Wars cases ahead of the release of “The Last Jedi.” Well, it turns out OtterBox isn’t the only company that picked up a license from Disney to make Star Wars cases. Hex also got one and its line of Hex X Star Wars cases comes in a few …
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One of the first things Kyle MacLean asked me when we met was, “Are you familiar with the term ‘side hustle’?” I wasn’t. He explained it can be anything from a part-time job to driving for Lyft to pet-sitting. His side hustle is doing deliveries for an app called Roadie. But, MacLean said, “I wouldn’t do this as any substantial …
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With Disney buying Fox, are your online video options about to resemble a map of Disneyland? Disney knows its future is streaming. Even before Thursday’s tectonic deal to buy large swaths of 21st Century Fox for $52.4 billion, Disney was already laying the groundwork to move into online entertainment in a big way. It has its own streaming services for …
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If “Avengers vs. X-Men: The Synergy Wars” ends up at a theater near you, here’s why the movie was made. The Walt Disney Co. signed a deal on Thursday to buy major parts of 21st Century Fox in a $52.4 billion all-stock deal. It’s a dramatic example of Hollywood companies joining forces amid growing competition from digital powerhouses like Netflix and …
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