There was plenty of intrigue brewing for the 70th Emmy Awards, which took place in Los Angeles on Monday night. How many of Game of Thrones‘ 22 nominations did the HBO show take home? While HBO usually leads the Emmy nominations, this year it was Netflix on top, with 112 nominations in total, and the …
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Don’t freak out when you get a text from the government on Oct. 3. The Federal Emergency Management Agency is conducting a nationwide test of its Emergency Alert System and Wireless Emergency Alerts on Oct. 3, 2018 at 2:18 p.m. ET. The test of the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System, or IPAWS, is supposed to determine the readiness of …
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AirPower, where are you? At its Sept. 12 event, Apple unveiled new iPhones and a new Apple Watch, but no AirPower. Apple first showed off the wireless charging pad in September 2017, but it’s been a full year and the product still isn’t on the market. Now, it seems like Apple wants us to forget it even existed. Apple removed …
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The iPhone SE is dead. Long live the iPhone SE! Needless to say, some folks are not happy that Apple effectively put its compact budget phone out to pasture last week. Granted, some other folks — myself included — might argue that there’s a better option in the form of the iPhone 7. Read more: No iPhone SE? No problem. …
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In just one year, MoviePass has gone from Most Likely to Save Movie Theaters from Extinction to Least Likely to Survive 2018. To say it’s been a rollercoaster ride is to understate rollercoasters. Never mind that one ticket per day for $9.95 per month — the much-ballyhooed plan that debuted in August 2017 — was overkill and unsustainable. The company …
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Let me start by saying this deal first hit the interwebs yesterday, so it could end at any time, or supplies could run out. The latter seems especially likely, as it’s one seriously sweet storage deal. For a limited time, B&H has the Samsung T5 500GB portable solid-state drive for $99.99 shipped. The first time I encountered this drive, it …
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In the months leading up to the launch of the new iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max and iPhone XR, there was the usual chatter — some of it based on potentially credible leaks — about what features we might get in Apple’s next-generation iPhones. Many of the rumors proved accurate. As predicted, we indeed got three new iPhones, including two …
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Perhaps you’ve heard a story that goes like this: “Apple’s ‘buy’ button is a sham, because Apple has the right to remove movies from your iTunes library after you’ve bought them. If Disney decides it no longer wants to offer a particular movie in your country, your ‘purchase’ is no better than an extended rental. Only Blu-rays and DVDs are …
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This year has brought the introduction of not just one reinvented breast pump but — now — two. The latest is Elvie Pump, a wearable, all-in-one device. Since the advent of the electronic breast pump, women haven’t enjoyed much choice in pumps — you could rely on strapping on air horn-shaped flanges and dangling bottles from your chest, as tubes leashed …
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A Gboard bug is turning some people’s typing into gibberish, and it’s pretty funny — for everyone except the person trying to type. Gboard is Google’s smart keyboard baked into Android phones (and available on iOS devices too), and several people on Reddit have reported running into problems that make typing on it near impossible. The bug reportedly messes with …
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