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Google is pulling the plug on its experimental Inbox email app
Google has been in kind of a weird position for a little while now relative to email, what with its popular Gmail app and the much newer Inbox app that was launched in …
Tech
Some doctors worry the new Apple Watch health features will freak us all out, WebMD-style
Apple trotted out cardiologist Ivor Benjamin, who’s also the president of the American Heart Association, during today’s product showcase at the Steve Jobs Theatre to tout what he described as the “game-changing” Apple …
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Samsung is launching an LTE-powered tracker this week to help you stop misplacing things
Samsung is launching an LTE-powered GPS tracking device at the end of the week that you can attach to anything from a backpack to keys and pet collars to hopefully help you cut …
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Apple is opening a glam new store in Paris on one of the swankiest streets in the world
The Champs-Elysées is a famed avenue in Paris that’s home to cafes, theatres, super-luxe shops — and, soon, a new flagship retail store from Apple. Apple has confirmed that the new store, where it …
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If Netflix cut your bill by $3 – but started showing ads – tons of you would still cancel
Netflix, if you’re listening — there are more warning signs that your current dalliance with the ads that you’re not really referring to as ads is a bad idea. Media research company Hub …
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Arizona might slap a huge fine on Google over location tracking practice
A bombshell report from The Associated Press a few weeks ago, which explained how Google stores location data from some of its services when people people turn off the “Location History” setting, keeps …
Business
It looks like Amazon is leaning towards Washington DC for HQ2, based on a ton of clues
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is set to headline a meeting on Thursday of The Economic Club of Washington DC, a city that just so happens to be increasingly talked about as the probable …
Tech
Details of a new silver version of the Galaxy Note 9 just leaked
Samsung’s newest flagship phone, the Note 9, has only been out for a few weeks, but we’re now getting word that a new color option will soon be available in the U.S. to …
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By the end of this year, almost half of the country will own a smart speaker
There’s been a bit of conventional wisdom out there up to this point that most people who own smart speakers — which isn’t a majority of consumers, by any means — are mainly …
Tech
As if this was a surprise: Most teens would rather text than talk to you IRL
In what should come as a surprise to absolutely no one, a new poll of 1,141 teenagers, the findings of which are out today, shows that the number of teens who prefer to …
Business
Apple might have to raise prices on some products in the US thanks to Trump tariffs
Over the weekend, President Trump acknowledged via a tweet (how else) that Apple might raise prices on some of its products as a result of the president’s proposed $200 billion tariffs on China. …
Entertainment
A major Game of Thrones Season 8 plot detail just leaked thanks to a lawsuit
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, the actor who plays Jaime Lannister in HBO’s Game of Thrones, is currently embroiled in a lawsuit against his former manager Jill Littman. And in a testament to how popular the …
