Halloween kitchen decor and gadgets run the gamut from delightfully disgusting to creepy-cutesy. With so many ghoulish baking tools and serving pieces for prepping a perfect Halloween party spread, you’ve officially run out of excuses not to get festive this fall. Halloween celebrations should be irresistibly haunting and undeniably delicious, sure, but it’s not just about Halloween …
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You’ve heard this song before: The biggest, fanciest TV in the world is still going to suffer from mediocre sound, because a flat screen leaves little space for decent speakers. That’s why I’m constantly recommending soundbars (see: The best soundbars for 2019). Of course, usually those are big bars intended to go with big screens. What about the smaller TV …
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Google Stadia takes its place in the pantheon of eagerly awaited gaming products for which prelaunch downers gradually trickle out, steadily dampening gamers’ ardor. Now it’s dawned on some Reddit users that even if they paid $129 for the Founder’s Edition or the more recently offered Premiere Edition to be the first online, they may not receive the necessary code to access …
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Talk about an offer that sounds too good to be true: Spotify is giving away a Google Home Mini to both new and current (!) subscribers to Spotify Premium and Spotify Premium Family. Ready for the catch? No catch. I took advantage of this offer when Spotify ran it last year, and when it was limited to Spotify Family subscribers. …
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‘Scuse me real quick — I gotta quit my job here at CNET so I can enter this giveaway. Because I want my shot at this amazing AUKEY bundle, which includes not only an unlocked Apple iPhone 11 Pro (256GB), but also two AUKEY PD wall chargers, a portable power bank and a USB-C-to-Lightning cable. Combined value: $1,300. Ah, dang, I’m …
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Still not sold on the merits of owning a smartwatch? Everyone fusses over things like heart-rate monitoring and GPS run tracking — useful features, to be sure — but those aren’t the true benefits. The true benefits are deceptively simple: Telling time and receiving notifications from your phone. Once you get accustomed to having those features on your wrist, you’ll …
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For the National League Championship Series, and the Nationals, it all comes down to tonight. In the last seven years Washington has made the playoffs four times, only to lose in the NLDS. The 2019 Nationals now find themselves on the brink of a World Series berth — the first for the franchise. Up a commanding three games to zero after …
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The Google Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL are official — and officially expensive. The former starts at $799, the latter at $899. That’s no surprise; the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL were priced exactly the same when they made their debut last year. I don’t know about you, but I’d have a hard time scrounging up that kind …
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You thought Samsung was first to market with a folding dual-screen phone? Nope: That honor goes to the Kyocera Echo, which dates all the way back to 2011. Along the way, a handful of other manufacturers tried their hands at it, with varying degrees of success (mostly zero). However, about two years ago, ZTE unveiled the Axon M, without question …
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it looks likely that the as-yet-unannounced Google Pixel 4 will launch on the T-Mobile network after CEO John Legere gave customers an early look at the phone’s packaging. Legere had two retail boxes sitting on his counter during a Sunday cooking show. He posted the clip to Instagram with a subtle question: “Anyone notice any interesting props during the show? 😏” View this post …
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