ZTE expects to lose at least 20 billion yuan ($3.1 billion) in the wake of a US technology ban that has factories halting operations as clients cancel deals with the embattled Chinese phone maker, Bloomberg reported Tuesday. ZTE, the fourth-largest smartphone maker in the US, has been dealing with a US Commerce Department denial order that …
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Google Photos is adding two simple features that make it more like Facebook or Apple’s Photos. The online photo storage library is introducing a Favorites and Heart feature to help sort the photos you love the most. When browsing through your own pictures you’ll see a star icon that you can use to mark a photo as a favorite. Tapping …
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Let’s do some good today. The $59.99 Cheapskate Mystery Box is packed with hand-picked goodies from yours truly. But in another way it’s packed with food, because all net proceeds from each box will be donated to The Hunger Project — a global, nonprofit organization committed to the sustainable end of world hunger. The idea for this was born from …
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There’s no better way to put it, the Koss Porta Pro on-ear headphone is beloved, and now with the new Bluetooth version, I have a feeling a lot more people will fall in love with this little ‘phone. The Koss Porta Pro has been around for 34 years with only minor changes. It’s as iconic as a budget priced headphone …
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Where to begin? The PS Audio Sprout 100 is an update of the original Sprout, which was the first affordable amp from a high-end manufacturer. The first model showed a lot of promise, so what’s been changed? With the new one, there’s a doubling of the amp’s Class D power to 100 watts per channel into hard-to-drive 4 ohm speakers, …
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle tied the knot at the much-watched royal wedding Saturday, but you might have been asleep when it happened. In case you missed the big event, you can watch the ceremony on YouTube by clicking here (unfortunately, YouTube won’t allow embeds). You can also view the wedding by signing up for a free trial of BritBox. …
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If you were worried there would be no way to combine your love of Apple products with your zealous following of all things royal-wedding related, fear not: Purveyor of golden Apple products, Goldgenie, has got you covered with its limited-edition 24-carat gold iPhone X engraved with Harry and Meghan. Not just the couple, either — on the iPhone X Diamond …
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The BlackBerry Key2 will be unveiled on June 7, and we may now be getting an idea of how fast the phone could be. Two listings for an unannounced BlackBerry phone appeared on benchmarking site Geekbench (here and here). The listings tell us the BlackBerry phone runs Android 8.1 and comes with a Snapdragon 660 processor. Since no current BlackBerry phone …
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Cheeps! Mark your calendars, if you please: On Monday, at 12 p.m. ET / 9 a.m. PT, I’ll be unveiling the first-ever Cheapskate Mystery Box. It’s a straight-up fundraiser, so you can help a worthy cause while scoring some amazing loot. Supplies are limited, though, so do try to hit the blog right at go-time. In fact, you can keep …
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The House Appropriations Committee on Thursday unanimously approved an amendment to a bill that would uphold sanctions against ZTE, rejecting President Donald Trump’s defense of the embattled Chinese phone maker. This amendment will “prevent a foreign company that is beholden to its government – and that ignores embargoes – from infiltrating the devices and networks that are now indispensable to …
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