Amazon is selling select Echo, Fire, and Kindle devices for deep discounts, with deals starting as low as $10 for certain Amazon devices. eBay is running a sale on refurbished tech products. And Tidal is offering 4-month subscriptions to its music streaming service for as little as $1. Here are some of the day’s best […]
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Ardour 6.5 adds support for VST 3 plugins (open source digital audio workstation)
Ardour is an open source digital audio workstation DAW for recording editing, and mixing music, podcasts, or other audio content. Available for Linux, Mac, and Windows it’s basically a free software alternative to commercial software like Pro Tools, Adobe Audition, Logic, Reaper, or Studio One. Up until recently it was missing something that most other […]
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MINISFORUM EliteMini UM700: Mini PC with Ryzen 7 3750H for $569 and up
MINISFORUM has been on a tear this fall, releasing a series of compact desktop computers in rapid succession, including a model with discrete graphics, one with an Intel Ice Lake processor, and another with up to an AMD Ryzen 7 4750G processor. The latest entry is the MINISFORUM EliteMini UM700. It’s a 5″ x 5″ […]
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Latest Chromium OS build for the GPD Pocket 1 and 2 brings hardware, software fixes for these mini-laptops
The GPD Pocket and Pocket 2 are tiny laptops small enough to fold up and slide into (some) pockets… thus the name. With 7 inch touchscreen displays and QWERTY keyboards, they’re about as small as you can get while still supporting touch-typing on a laptop. GPD ships the Pocket mini-laptops with Windows 10 software, but […]
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LG files for patent on laptop with a rollable display
LG plans to unveil a smartphone with a rollable display early next year, allowing you to transform the device from a phone to a tablet when you need a little more screen space. But the company may not be stopping with smartphones. LG also recently applied for a patent on a rollable display system that […]
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Lilbits: Windows is 35 years old, RadioShack isn’t dead yet (except it kind of is)
One score and umm… fifteen years ago, Microsoft released Windows 1.0. The first version of Windows wasn’t really a full-fledged operating system, but more of a graphical user interface that made MS-DOS a little more user-friendly. But it introduced some core features that remain to this day, including the idea of using a mouse to […]
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Black Friday 2020 mobile tech deals
Black Friday falls on November 27th this year, but many retailers aren’t waiting until then to offer some of their lowest prices of the year on many products. Highlights this year include an Amazon Fire HD 10 tablet for $80 (matching Amazon’s Prime Day pricing for this semi-hackable tablet), a Roku Premiere 4K HDR media […]
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Daily Deals (11-20-2020)
Amazon and Roku are kicking off their Black Friday deals a little early, which means you can pick up a 1080p media streamer for as little as $18 or a 4K HDR streamer for $25 and up. The Epic Games Store is giving away two free PC games this week. And f you’ve been thinking […]
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DevTerm is an open source portable terminal with modular (and retro) design
The DevTerm is a new portable computer with a very old aesthetic. Designed to look like an old school portable terminal, this modular, open source computer features a 6.8 inch, 1280 x 480 pixel IPS display, a keyboard, and battery module plus an optional built-in thermal printer. Under the hood is a ClockworkPi v3.14 mainboard […]
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Apple HomePod can be jailbroken with checkra1n
It’s been a little over a year since security researchers discovered a vulnerability in iOS devices that makes it possible to jailbreak most iPhones and iPads from the iPhone 5s through the iPhone X. Now it looks like Apple’s HomePod smart speaker is vulnerable as well. A pair of tweets from @_L1ngL1ng_ and @DanyL931 show […]