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Best Buy ditches Roku for Amazon Fire TV for its new Insignia Smart TVs

Best Buy and Amazon announced an exclusive partnership this morning that will have Best Buy selling Amazon Fire TV Edition smart televisions in its stores, with “more than 10” Fire TV Edition models coming soon from Toshiba and Best Buy’s own Insignia brand. The new TVs will be sold in Best Buy stores, at BestBuy.com, […]

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Chrome 66 released for desktop, Android with autoplay restrictions, security enhancements

Google has released Chrome 66 for Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, and Android. Among other things, the update brings experimental support for “site isolation” to a limited set of users, as a way to help protect against Spectre-based attacks. Google says the feature is rolling out as a trial now, but it will eventually be available […]

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Reports: Huawei may be giving up on US market due to pressure from Washington

ZTE and Huawei are two of the world’s biggest smartphone makers, but the Chinese companies have been having a hard time breaking into the US market since Congress issued a report warning telecommunications companies not to use ZTE and Huawei products due to national security threats. This week ZTE was dealt another blow when the […]