It’s time for a trip down memory lane. On Monday, Google Play, the search giant’s online store for apps, movies, music and books, turns five years old. To commemorate the anniversary, Google is releasing lists of the store’s most popular content of all time in the US. Some of the top titles aren’t surprises. Candy …
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When you upgraded your television to a new 4K unit, you likely realized that the content available to show off those 6 million additional pixels was scant. Even today, 4K content is seriously lagging behind demand. Fortunately, the same isn’t true of audio. If you’ve recently upgraded your home theater with a surround sound system, there is a vast library …
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If you like wearing things on your head, 2017 is looking like a good year. Toy Fair is here in New York this weekend, and with it comes a taste of the geek toys of the year. At Hasbro’s preview event, the most notable headgear was a Guardians of the Galaxy high-end Star-Lord helmet. It won’t be out in time …
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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. And find more great buys on the CNET Deals page. Enlarge Image Lenovo About yesterday: Big goof on my part. I thought the Y3 smartwatch ran Android Wear, when in fact it’s powered …
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This is part of CNET’s “It’s Complicated” series about the role technology plays in our relationships. After a string of mind-numbing Match.com dates, you meet another prospective partner at a bar, order drinks and start chatting. Surprise! Enlarge Image She’s hot, but the next one could be hotter. Tinder Your date’s a conversational wizard, looks even hotter in person and …
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Now playing: Watch this: Check out the best techy, geeky toys of 2017 2:09 Tiny VR-enabled drones, inflatable Star Wars droids and a nippy electric skateboard were our favourites from this year’s London Toy Fair. The largest toy showcase in the UK, the Toy Fair sees brands from all over the world gather to show off what they think will …
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Now playing: Watch this: Introducing Jon Hamm, the hologram 1:02 I trudged through a foot of snow to peek at how mixed reality may bring us closer to the stars we adore. OK, really, I trudged through a foot of snow to hold a miniature Jon Hamm in the palm of my hand. But mixed-reality revelations were a bonus. Jon …
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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. And find more great buys on the CNET Deals page. You know that store Five Below? Welcome to Ten Below. Today I’ve rounded up an eclectic batch of deals, each priced at $10 …
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With the 2017 presidential inauguration ceremonies happening Friday, the news this week has been wall-to-wall politics. To give you a break from cabinet appointments, hearings and the inauguration, I decided to post something totally off-topic. Not just off-topic, but too funny to pass up. I was browsing Reddit’s Photoshop Battles today when I saw that someone posted a picture of …
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Now playing: Watch this: 3D TV might finally be dead 1:30 It’s been a walking corpse for the last couple of years, and now 3D TV finally looks dead. LG and Sony, the last two major TV makers to support the 3D feature in their TVs, will stop doing so in 2017. None of their sets, not even high-end models …
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