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Early Prime Day deals discount the Echo Show 5 to $50
10 Jul

Early Prime Day deals discount the Echo Show 5 to $50

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This year’s Amazon Prime Day is nearly upon us, as it officially begins on July 16. However, some of the best early Prime Day deals are already coming in hot, including a deep discount on the Echo Show 5. The Amazon smart display is on sale for $50, which is a discount of $40. That’s just a tiny bit more than the record-low price. The Echo Show 8 is also on sale for $85, which is a new record low.The Echo Show 5 easily made our list of the best smart displays, for a great many reasons. The 5.5-inch screen…
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Insta360’s Flow Pro smartphone gimbal uses Apple’s DockKit to track you
10 Jul

Insta360’s Flow Pro smartphone gimbal uses Apple’s DockKit to track you

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Insta360 has launched the Flow Pro smartphone gimbal with a feature we've never seen on any rival product: Apple DockKit support. That allows it to track you around automatically while you present, perform or do other activities, much like DJI's popular Osmo Pocket 3 gimbal.DockKit support effectively gives you a robotic cameraman. Just set the Flow Pro up on its built-in tripod that extends from the handle and pair it with your iPhone. Then, attach your iPhone to the gimbal using the magnetic phone clamp or MagSafe-compatible magnetic phone mount and you're ready to shoot.From there, it'll use your iPhone's…
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Apple blog TUAW returns as an AI content farm
09 Jul

Apple blog TUAW returns as an AI content farm

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The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) has come back online nearly a decade after shutting down. But the once venerable source of Apple news appears to have been transformed by its new owners into an AI-generated content farm.The site, which ceased operations in 2015, began publishing “new” articles, many of which appear to be nearly identical to content published by MacRumors and other publications, over the past week. But those posts bear the bylines of writers who last worked for TUAW more than a decade ago. The site also has featuring the names of former writers along with photos that appear…
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A British boarding school will make students use boring old Nokia phones
09 Jul

A British boarding school will make students use boring old Nokia phones

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A lot of school districts have instituted smartphone bans for students during the school day but a British boarding school has taken it one step further. Wait, scratch that. They’ve taken it one step back.Eton College, the historic and elite British boarding school with famous alumni such as Prince William and Harry, Ian Fleming and Tom Hiddleston, has instituted a new mobile phone policy for its first-year students starting in September. Those students will have to leave their smartphones at home but bring their SIM card to school and put it in an old school, offline Nokia cell phone with…
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Amazon revives the Echo Spot smart alarm clock and swiftly discounts it by 44 percent
09 Jul

Amazon revives the Echo Spot smart alarm clock and swiftly discounts it by 44 percent

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As early Prime Day deals continue to become available, Amazon has revealed an all-new Echo Spot ahead of the shopping event. It’s very much like the original Echo Spot that came out in 2017 and was discontinued two years later except the front face is now split between a hemispherical display and speaker.The Echo Spot's outer shell comes in Black, Glacier White and Ocean Blue, and the display can be customized with six hues: magenta, violet, orange, lime, teal or blue, which can be mixed- and-matched with various clock faces. The new Echo Spot costs $80, which is $50 cheaper…
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Early Prime Day deals bring the Fire Max 11 tablet down to $140
09 Jul

Early Prime Day deals bring the Fire Max 11 tablet down to $140

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Amazon Prime Day will officially arrive next week on July 16, but we're already starting to see good deals pop up. Amazon's Fire Max 11 tablet has fallen back down to $140 as part of the company's Prime Day deals. Normally $230, the large slate is now $90 off — precisely what you'd need to spend for Amazon's Fire Max 11 Keyboard Case.The Fire Max 11 features, you guessed it, an 11-inch screen with a sharp 2,000 by 1,200 pixel resolution. Its octa-core CPU should be plenty for streaming media and browsing maps, and it also features 4GB of RAM.…
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NGL becomes the first app banned from hosting minors by the FTC
09 Jul

NGL becomes the first app banned from hosting minors by the FTC

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On Tuesday, the FTC unanimously banned the social messaging app NGL from hosting minors as part of a $5 million settlement. The first-of-its-kind ban comes after revelations that the company actively marketed the app to children with bait-and-switch tactics, false claims about AI moderation and the targeting of “popular” kids (like cheerleaders) to try to lure others onto the predatory hellscape.“NGL marketed its app to kids and teens despite knowing that it was exposing them to cyberbullying and harassment,” FTC Chair Lina Khan wrote in an agency press release. “In light of NGL’s reckless disregard for kids’ safety, the FTC’s…
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What we expect from Samsung Unpacked 2024, including Galaxy hardware
09 Jul

What we expect from Samsung Unpacked 2024, including Galaxy hardware

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The summer is usually a quiet time for tech news but Samsung is about to shake things up a bit. The next Samsung Unpacked event is set for tomorrow, July 10. It will take place in Paris at 3PM local time, which is 9AM ET. If you want to tune in live, all the details for how to watch Samsung Unpacked are right here.The company released its Galaxy S24 devices earlier this year after its first Unpacked of 2024, so it’s highly unlikely that we’ll see new versions of the traditional smartphone format here (perhaps save for Olympics-branded models given…
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Early Prime Day deals see Apple’s AirPods Max drop to a new record low
09 Jul

Early Prime Day deals see Apple’s AirPods Max drop to a new record low

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Prime Day is approaching as quickly as lunchtime hunger pangs and, as ever, there are some early deals to be had. One of the tastiest we've seen so far is a significant discount on Apple's AirPods Max. The over-ear headphones have dropped to $399. They've been hovering at around $449 for quite some time (after debuting at $549) and now they have dropped to a new record low price.The AirPods Max have been around since 2020 (and are perhaps overdue for a USB-C flavored upgrade), but they're still a great option for those looking for over-ear headphones — especially if…
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Early Prime Day deals discount the AirPods Pro to a new low of $169
09 Jul

Early Prime Day deals discount the AirPods Pro to a new low of $169

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If you're in the market for some new tech then Amazon's early Prime Day sales have you covered. The latest deal worth shopping is a 32 percent discount on the second-generation Apple AirPods Pro. The sale brings them down to $169 from $249 — a new all-time low price. These earbuds are our choice of best wireless earbuds for iPhone users.The second-gen AirPods Pro came out in 2022 and are still Apple's newest in the series. We gave them an 88 in our review thanks to an H2 chip that produces solid noise cancellation and an excellent transparency mode. You…
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