There’s no other way to say it: The bigger the TV, the better the football. (Come to think of it, that’s true for baseball as well. Also basketball. And movies. TV shows. Pretty much everything.) So with some exciting sports events just around the corner, the time is right for an upgrade — especially when …
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Cheeps, it’s a veritable deal bonanza today! For starters, yesterday I told you about Amazon’s Fire tablet sale, which has Black Friday pricing on every model except the Fire 7. Well, good news: Target has the Fire 7 for $29.99, which does indeed match Black Friday. (You’ll see that price when you add it to your cart.) See it at …
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Like the stairways at Hogwarts, the competitive field of graphics cards keeps shifting under our feet. When AMD introduced its newest GPU at CES, the Radeon RX 5600 XT, it claimed a noteworthy performance advantage — anywhere from 5 to 33%, depending on the game — over the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti, which is Nvidia’s competitor in the top-quality 1080p …
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There’s a saying here in Michigan (and elsewhere, I’m sure): If you don’t like the weather, wait five minutes. Allow me to tweak that for today’s purposes: If there’s an Amazon device that’s not on sale, wait five minutes. Like clockwork, Amazon cuts prices on Echo speakers, Fire TV Sticks and the like — often matching Prime Day and Black …
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It seems like budget accessories are always the last to get updated. They’re overlooked until the latest designs and features are well established in their pricier siblings before they finally get the new look. SteelSeries’ $30 Rival 3 wired gaming mouse and Apex 3 and 5 keyboards — $50 and $100, respectively — have finally earned the new family designs …
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Depending on the age of your car, it might have a USB port, maybe even two. But I’ll wager those are old-school Type-A ports. What if you need to charge something that requires USB-C? Indeed, more and more devices are leveraging that kind of port. Here’s a super-cheap solution: The AmazonBasics USB-C Car Charger with 18W USB-C Port and 12W …
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Tech companies can’t stop talking about 5G, but chip giant Qualcomm has still got plenty in store for 4G: three new LTE processors for midrange and lower-end phones. The company late Monday unveiled its Snapdragon 720G, 662 and 460 processors to give less expensive phones faster 4G connectivity. The new chips also have Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.2, as well …
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In the market for a new TV, maybe for watching some playoff football in style? For a limited time, Best Buy is offering an extra 15% off a wide range of TCL TV models when you apply promo code TCLDOLBY15 at checkout. And those models are already on sale, making this a rare opportunity indeed. (Best Buy almost never offers promo codes.) …
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Social media use is nearly ubiquitous among today’s teens, as is smartphone ownership, which has led many experts to wonder if the resulting screen addiction is leading to a spike in depression and other mental health problems. Well, a research study published Friday suggests that such fears may be overblown. A study in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, …
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Twitter isn’t adding an edit button anytime soon, but Jack Dorsey is open to change. The microblogging site’s CEO asked Tesla and SpaceX boss Elon Musk — a constant tweeter and one of its most popular users, with more than 30 million followers — to suggest some improvements. Thousands of Twitter employees watched as Dorsey video-called Musk from a company …
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