This story is part of Elections 2020, CNET’s coverage of the voting in November and its aftermath. Today is Election Day. While millions of Americans have already voted, millions more are heading to the polls Tuesday to cast their ballots in the race between Republican President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden. We probably won’t …
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T-Mobile, best known as a company that you pay for phone service, is gunning for your TV now, too. Its revamped TVision service comes out Nov. 1 and offers packages of familiar TV channels that you stream live. It’s a direct competitor to not only traditional cable TV but also to a bunch of other similar services like YouTube TV, Sling TV and Hulu …
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T-Mobile’s TVision, a newly announced bundle of live streaming channels, gives the company’s traditional wireless customers another reason to stick with the carrier. And just around the corner is a 5G-based home broadband service that could make leaving T-Mobile a much more complicated task. Phone. Television. Home internet. Sound familiar? T-Mobile is in effect resurrecting a 2.0 version of the …
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The Los Angeles Dodgers are one win away from their first World Series championship in 32 years. The Dodgers won Game 5 on Sunday behind a strong start from Clayton Kershaw and three-plus shutout innings from its bullpen. The Tampa Bay Rays will try to extend the series to a full seven games and win Games 6 and 7, a …
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This story is part of Elections 2020, CNET’s coverage of the voting in November and its aftermath. Beginning on Election Day on Nov. 3, YouTube will link to information on election results in an effort to tamp down on confusion in the aftermath of the contest, the company said Tuesday. The world’s largest video platform, owned by Google, will …
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With the rescheduled Masters looming in November, Tiger Woods is teeing it up this week. Woods is playing in his first PGA Tour event since he missed the cut at last month’s US Open. The Zozo Championship was moved from Japan to the Sherwood Country Club in Thousand Oaks, California because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Woods will be joined by …
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Update, Nov. 6: Read our PS5 review. The PlayStation 5 goes on sale less than a month away on Nov. 12, but there are still plenty of things we don’t know about Sony’s next-generation game console. Among them are questions about what exactly the user interface looks like — what menus are we going to be looking at for the best …
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The potential ban on TikTok, along with messaging app WeChat, is on hold after the Trump administration approved a deal last month for Oracle and Walmart to acquire stakes in the US operations of the short-form video app. TikTok came under fire due to the administration’s national security concerns regarding the Chinese-owned company. TikTok and WeChat are massive global apps: TikTok has amassed over 100 million users in …
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This story is part of Elections 2020, CNET’s coverage of the voting in November and its aftermath. Get ready for a night of political firsts. Tonight’s debate will be the first and only one between the two vice presidential candidates, Vice President Mike Pence and Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. Kamala Harris, herself the first Black woman and the first …
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YouTube will use machine learning to automatically apply age restrictions on videos, the Google-owned video site said Tuesday, widening its use of artificial intelligence to automate blocking some videos from viewers who either aren’t signed into a YouTube account or are signed in as a viewer under the age of 18. Creators who believe their videos were blocked unfairly can …
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