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Nearly every TV on the market today is a smart TV, but not every operating system is a winner. A media streaming device lets you pair whichever user interface you prefer with just about any screen that has an HDMI port. In some cases, such as with older or less expensive smart TVs, a streaming stick or dongle could even be speedier and less glitchy than your TV’s built-in system.At home, these handy gadgets make it easier for cord cutters to watch the millions of hours of content streaming services provide.
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The Cybertruck has had a rocky rollout since it launched last year — and now it's hit another speed bump. Read more ›
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Florida officials confirmed 16 lithium-ion-battery fires related to Hurricane Helene's storm surge, six of which were in electric vehicles. Read more ›
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Ubisoft is working on a co-op mode for the delayed Assassin's Creed Shadows, a new report has claimed. Read more Read more ›
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Soon after launching AI playlists in the US, Spotify is adding a new way to keep the music going when you lose your internet connection. The new Offline Backup feature for iOS and Android automatically creates a playlist of your queued and recently played tracks, ready for listening on flights or off-the-grid excursions. Offline Backup is for Premium users only. The feature complements Spotify’s existing offline mode for user-triggered downloads.... Read more ›
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Experts predict Israel's counterattack on Iran could hit oil production or nuclear facilities. Read more ›
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The developer of Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2 has said it will take action to prevent in-game toxic behaviour, playing on beloved superfan actor Henry Cavill. Read more Read more ›
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Amazon's Wondery wants to give podcasts the Hollywood treatment, starting with a "Wow in the World" toy line. Read more ›
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Intel hasn't yet found a reliable way to detect if a chip is affected by the Vmin Shift Instability and needs replacement. Read more ›
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Shattered Space, Bethesda's first major expansion for Starfield, released a few days ago, but has unfortunately been met with middling PC player numbers and lukewarm reviews. Read more Read more ›
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Leeds-based studio XR Games looks set to lay off nearly all of its staff, following the poorly-received release of Hitman 3 VR: Reloaded. Read more Read more ›
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Researchers have been working on mRNA flu vaccines since before the Covid-19 pandemic, but we may get one for bird flu first. Read more ›
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No data? No problem. Spotify's new feature, Offline Backup, is deigned to enhance your offline listening sessions by generating an extensive playlist that's unique to you. Read more ›
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Apple Maps has expanded the availability of cycling routes in the southern hemisphere by adding support for New Zealand. Apple first added cycling directions to ‌‌Apple Maps‌‌ in iOS 14, providing specific directions for bike riders with bike lanes, bike paths, and bike-friendly routes that highlight steep inclines, stairs, and other obstacles. Prior to this expansion, cycling directions in ‌Apple Maps‌ were primarily available in select countries and major cities... Read more ›
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Is Gemini your new default assistant or are you sticking with Google Assistant for now? Read more ›
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OpenAI has lost two of its cofounders in 2024. Here's where all 11 cofounders are now. Read more ›
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Price cuts on some of AMD's best GPUs tell us that retailers are getting ready for new releases in the coming months. Read more ›
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Political scientists warn that together, Hurricane Helene, violence in the Middle East, and a major strike, could have an impact on voters' decisions. Read more ›
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Jennison Grigsby's son is almost 9. He's surprised about how sugary breakfast is in the US compared to Spain, and how everything happens earlier. Read more ›
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It’s always beautiful when two lonely corporations find one another. DirecTV has reached an agreement to acquire Dish Network, according to reporting by The New York Times. This would create a global behemoth in the satellite TV space. It would also provide some financial armor for the struggling Dish Network. The company’s in debt to the tune of billions of dollars because, well, satellite TV isn’t exactly a growth industry... Read more ›
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California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed AB 2426, a new law that requires digital marketplaces to make clearer to customers when they are only purchasing a license to access media. The law will not apply to cases of permanent offline downloads, only to the all-too-common situation of buying digital copies of video games, music, movies, TV shows or ebooks from an online storefront. The Verge spotted the development, which could... Read more ›
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Verizon mobile customers reported widespread outages across the US on Monday. Starting at around 9:30AM ET, hundreds of thousands of people flagged issues with their mobile service on Downdetector, which tracks user-submitted outage reports. The volume of reports spiked at almost 105,000 at 11:20AM, but were still reaching almost 59,000 at 12:52PM. Many folks claimed they were unable to make or receive calls or exchange text messages. Those with an... Read more ›
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On September 5, New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez filed a lawsuit against Snap. Torrez claimed that Snapchat has become a platform rife with sexual exploitation, child grooming and other dangerous behaviors. That legal complaint was heavily redacted, but today, Torrez announced in a press release that he has filed an unsealed complaint, which goes into detail on how Snap allegedly knowingly created an environment that exposed children to sexual... Read more ›
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It's not just you — the PlayStation Network is currently experiencing issues, kicking people off their matches and crashing games around the world. Based on Downdetector reports, the issue started shortly after 8PM Eastern time tonight, September 30. Sony Interactive Entertainment has yet to release a statement about the problem, but it has updated the PlayStation Network status page to show that several of its services are down. Users can't... Read more ›
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Buyers that paid at least $93,990 to be among the first to own (and beta test) Tesla's Cybertruck are finally getting a key, promised feature: Full Self-Driving (FSD). Several people on the Cybertruck Owners Club forum — including an Angeleno who posted a video — say that it has finally arrived in early access to select users, Electrek reported. After Tesla promised that FSD would arrive to Cybertrucks in September,... Read more ›
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The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has slapped Meta with a $101.5 million (€91 million) fine after wrapping up an investigation into a security breach in 2019, wherein the company mistakenly stored users' passwords in plain text. Meta's original announcement only talked about how it found some user passwords stored in plain text on its servers in January that year. But a month later, it updated its announcement to reveal... Read more ›
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The UK's last coal plant will sigh out its final pollutants Monday before shutting down for good and officially ending the country's century and a half of coal production. Nottinghamshire's Ratcliffe-on-Soar plant was the last of its kind following Britain's 2015 commitment to close all coal power plants by 2025. Ratcliffe was originally scheduled to shut down in 2022 but stayed open after Russia invaded Ukraine and Europe entered a... Read more ›
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Nintendo has shuttered another emulator, this time putting an end to Ryujinx. The program was an open-source emulator for playing Nintendo Switch games on Windows, Linux and Mac operating systems. A message shared today with the emulator's Discord server stated that the developer was contacted by Nintendo with a deal to cease work on the project. No additional details were given about the conditions of that agreement. The same message... Read more ›
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You'd think making a good digital picture frame would be easy. All you need is a good screen and a seamless way to get images to the device. Combine that with an inoffensive, frame-like design and you're good to go.Despite that, Amazon is positively littered with scads of digital photo frames and I can tell you that many of them are awful. It's basically the 2020s version of what we... Read more ›
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