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Are you earbuds on their last legs? That's a bummer, though it's also an opportunity to treat yourself to a fancier set, perhaps one with active noise cancellation and adaptive EQ that automatically tunes your music to your ears. Both of those features happen to be present on Apple's AirPods Pro, which is on sale...
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Imagine it's the year 20XX. Hopefully you're healthy. You're also sitting on your front porch watching Amazon's package drones whiz through the skies while awaiting your own delivery. It slowly starts to prepare for landing before suddenly veering off somewhere else! What happened!? Well, Michigan State University...
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The holiday savings season may be over, but you can still score some great deals on wireless earbuds right now. There are currently great deals on Apple AirPods and Jabra Elite Series earbuds on Amazon that can net you up to 35% off.
If you have shopped around for a quality pair of wireless earbuds lately, you will...
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While Lenovo may not be physically in attendance at CES 2022, that hasn’t stopped the company from making some cool product announcements. To help upgrade your smart home game, Lenovo announced the new 'Smart Clock Essential with Alexa Built-in'. The company isn’t new to smart clocks, having a Google Assistant-enabled...
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Between Epic Games dropping free games and Steam’s epic sales, your game library across several platforms is likely quite full. However, Amazon also offers some sweet games and loot for free through the Prime Gaming platform that you may have missed. As such, we’ll show you how to get in and reap the gaming rewards...
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It has been nearly three years since the GeForce GTX 1650 released to retail, and yet a quick check of the best-selling graphics cards on both Amazon and Newegg shows that it tops the charts. How is it that a 34-month-old graphics card is the top selling GPU on two major online retail sites? Quite simply, it's a...
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Amazon's Alexa responded to a 10-year-old girl's request for a challenge with 'A penny for your shocks?'. The revelation shared by the young girl's mother on Twitter has people talking about the possible dangers of a voice assistant without proper curation to the content it pulls from the web.
Alexa is just one of...
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Did you score an Amazon gift card for Christmas? Either way, now is a great time to peruse the online retailer for discounted hardware because the deals are in full force for Boxing Day. While traditionally a shopping holiday in the United Kingdom, retailers rarely miss an opportunity to hold a sales even in US, and...
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Amazon is giving its Prime members priority access to Xbox Series X or PlayStation 5 console purchases through the end of the year. While this may put off non-members, it'll likely be a great perk for members that have been struggling to score a new game console in time for Christmas.
Since their respective...
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Amazon has come under quite a bit of fire over the last week due to tornadoes that ripped through the midwest last Friday night. In the wake of those storms, there's been a lot of finger pointing in particular over a warehouse that collapsed in Edwardsville, IL, just outside of St. Louis in which several workers died...
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Amazon is practically giving away its Echo Dot 3rd Gen smart speaker with Alexa integration right now. Sort of, anyway. If you sign up for an Amazon Music Unlimited subscription, you can tack on the Echo Dot speaker for a mere $0.99. That's $39 below the speaker's MSRP (though current street pricing is around...
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To borrow a phrase from the South, Amazon has grown too big for its britches. That alone is not worthy of a monumental fine, but according to the Italian Antitrust Authority, some of Amazon's business practices have unfairly harmed competitors (and by extension, consumers). As a result, it imposed a fine of around...
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A complaint filed with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) accuses Amazon, the world's largest online retailer, of "unlawfully deceiving millions of consumers" by not appropriately highlighting paid advertisements in a fast enough manner when searching for a product. And it does this on more than a quarter of its search results, the complaint
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If you're an old fogey who doesn't use cloud storage (like this HotHardware writer), you may not realize how much of the internet depends on the companies that provide those services. Servers owned by large cloud service providers—such as Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Baidu—are the backbone of the World Wide Web...
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It was just a few months ago when Amazon launched its own brand of Fire TVs—the affordable 4K Series and the more premium Omni Series. Not to be outdone at the higher end, Toshiba today unveiled its new M-Series 4K Fire TV line, and if the specifications are anything to go by, it will have Amazon beat in the image...
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Don't miss a moment of the action this coming year with a GoPro HERO action cam, on sale now for Cyber Monday. Choose from three different HERO models that are all marked down on Amazon.
The GoPro name has long been known for quality action cameras. Whether you are mounting one to a helmet cam and capturing your incredible flips while snowboarding
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Amazon is quite literally beginning to Ring in the savings, as in discounts on its Ring Video Doorbell and other products as the real Black Friday comes into view. As we have seen the past couple of weeks, the bargains are coming in fast and furious—we've highlighted deals on Apple AirPods, gaming laptops, and more...
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It sometimes (maybe oftentimes) feels like Big Tech plays fast and loose with our privacy and security, as if an apology and a mea culpa after the fact makes everything okay. As much as they'd like that to be the case, it doesn't always suffice. Not in the eyes of the United States Federal Trade Commission, anyway...
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There are big screen TVs, and then there are big screen OLED TVs with lush colors and deeper black levels than what you'll get on an LCD display. OLED is not a perfect technology, but it sure is beautiful. And as retailers scramble to get ahead of the Black Friday 8-ball, you can score discounts on various different...
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You don't have to wait around for Black Friday to cash in on savings, there are all kinds of deals out there ahead of time. That's how it goes these days—retailers and manufacturers are getting increasingly early starts on the annual sales bonanza. So whether you're looking to grab GoPro at a discount or stockpile SSD...
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Amazon's own branded Fire TV have only been on the market in the US for a couple of weeks, but they're already receiving discounts. In fact, every single model is on sale—there are eight SKUs, including seven from its higher end Omni Series and three more from its 4-Series. We wrote about those sales last week, but...
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Up to this point, the selection of Fire TVs on Amazon in the US has been served by the likes of Toshiba, Insignia, JVC, and Pioneer. Not anymore—Amazon announced last month that it was debuting its own brand Fire TV models, and those sets are now available in a variety of sizes spanning 43-75 inches at aggressive...
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