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. Find more great buys on the CNET Deals page and follow the Cheapskate on Facebook and Twitter! Looks like an Apple Watch and a Pebble got busy… Amazfit A little …
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It’s easy enough to use a search engine to find a particular podcast. For example, are you a fan of Battlestar Galactica? Just hit up Bing, Google or Yahoo and you’re pretty likely to locate (shameless self-promotion alert!) Battlestar Recaptica, a podcast devoted to the show. But suppose you’re interested in actor Edward James Olmos, who played Admiral Adama. Or …
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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. Find more great buys on the CNET Deals page and follow the Cheapskate on Facebook and Twitter! Enlarge Image Viva Alexa! Roav I’m back! Hope everyone had a wonderful week. Special thanks to “the Davids” …
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Apple, Google, and now Facebook — each will let developers turn your phone into a window to another world. Just point your camera at a poster, and computer-generated characters and objects can augment your world. Case in point: Facebook app’s built-in camera can now unlock a secret little portal inside any poster from the new Steven Spielberg film Ready Player …
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Editors’ note: CNET’s Cheapskate, Rick Broida, is taking some well-deserved time off today, but he’ll be back soon! In the meantime, the CNET team is pitching in with with some suggested bargains of our own. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. Find more great buys on the CNET Deals page and follow the Cheapskate on Facebook and Twitter! Enlarge Image …
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If you’ve wanted to play a modern video game set in J.K. Rowling’s world of magic and muggles, you won’t have long to wait — the first fruits of a recent deal to make lots of Harry Potter video games will arrive on April 25. It’s called Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery — perhaps you caught the trailer last month? — …
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Gamma. Unless you’re talking about Bruce Banner, it’s probably not high on the list of interesting things. In fact, in this context, we’re not even talking about the highest-energy form of light. Gamma rays, especially in space, are super interesting and cool compared to gamma on TVs. In fact most people have probably never even heard of gamma in the …
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Dear VR: It’s not me, it’s you. We’ve had some good times, we’ve had some motion sickness, we’ve bumped into a few walls. But after giving you the benefit of the doubt for the past two years, it’s time to throw in the towel. Virtual reality may yet become a massive mainstream hit, but it’s not going to happen with …
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If you don’t already, it’s time to get to know English inventor John Harrison. To mark April 3, John Harrison’s 325th birthday, Google is celebrating the man behind the first marine chronometer to calculate longitude at sea. To honor him, Google shows the inventor hard at work with his clock-making tools in Tuesday’s Doodle. Born in 1693, Harrison lived in …
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Apple CEO Tim Cook maybe be unfriending Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg after he hears some of the quotes from a new interview Zuckerberg did with Vox.com editor at large Ezra Klein. In the just-published interview, Zuckerberg responds strongly to Cook’s criticisms of Facebook’s business model, which in turn come from an upcoming MSNBC interview, which is set to air on …
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