Update, Nov. 5: Read our reviews of the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S. Microsoft’s next-gen Xbox Series X console will arrive Nov. 10 and cost $500 (£450, AU$749), the company announced Wednesday. That’s the same launch day as the stripped-down Xbox Series S, which will cost $300 (£250, AU$499). See Xbox Series X at Amazon You’ll be able to preorder both consoles starting Sept. 22. …
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So much cheap, so little time! For starters, if you own a PS4, do not miss Sony’s PlayStation Store sale. Great chance to stock up on some new (read: old) titles, many of them available for just a few bucks. Meanwhile, if you’re a regular drinker of smoothies, protein shakes and the like, here’s a quickie: The BlenderBottle Pro32 is …
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On Sept. 2, LG announced its Sept. 14 event in which the company will “deliver distinctive and yet unexplored usability experiences.” Rumors beforehand speculated the South Korean device maker will launch a unique phone called the LG Wing, which features a swiveling screen that lies on top of another screen. LG’s own video for the presser further corroborated the rumor …
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Amazon is reportedly barring the sale of foreign plants to the US, following reports that people across the country this summer have been receiving suspicious, unsolicited packages of seeds, many of which are postmarked from China. Amazon’s new policy went into effect on Thursday, according to an email viewed by The Wall Street Journal, which first wrote about the ban …
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Happy Friday, cheeps! Hope you all have a safe, healthy and enjoyable Labor Day weekend. I’m off Monday; see you back here on Tuesday. In the meantime, here are five great deals to kick things off. Before diving in, however, a quick heads-up: Amazon is currently having a Fire TV sale — meaning it’s selling TVs that have its Fire …
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Today there are basically three ways to get live TV shows from big-name channels into your home. The most common is paying for a service like cable or satellite. An increasingly popular alternative is a live TV streaming service like Sling TV and YouTube TV, which which offer hundreds of channels for a monthly fee. The third option is free and also sounds the most old-fashioned: getting …
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Get ready for a cavalcade of sales. With Labor Day sales already in progress, Prime Day now happening sometime this fall and Black Friday and Cyber Monday still ahead of us, it seems like we’re all in for one steady blur of deals between now and the end of the year. And here’s one more: Amazon is holding a Samsung …
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In this week’s episode of The Cheapskate Show, we’re tackling a seriously underrated product category: digital photo frames. In recent years they’ve gotten smarter, sharper and cheaper. If there’s a hill I’m willing to die on, it’s that everyone needs one of these gadgets. Next up, Bill & Ted’s next excellent adventure has arrived, but should you rent the movie …
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It goes without saying that we all want the best picture quality we can afford. The problem is that the best picture is often outright unaffordable. OLED screens rule the roost right now, and the LG OLED CX TV is currently the best display that CNET has ever tested. But priced at $5,000, it’s beyond most people’s reach. It’s descending, …
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Apple on Wednesday highlighted the estimated number of US jobs created by its iOS app ecosystem. It comes as the company battles Fortnite developer Epic over App Store commission rates, which can be as high as 30%. The iOS app economy has created almost 300,000 new jobs since April 2019 and supports more than 2.1 million US jobs across all …
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