It’s not unusual to find a set of Bluetooth earbuds selling for $20 or less. What is a little unusual is to find a set of Bluetooth on-ear headphones in that price range. But right now TaoTronics is selling a set for just $20 at Amazon when you use the coupon code MG4RTLKL. That’s about $16 off the normal […]
Amazon’s Alexa Skill Blueprints lets you teach Alexa new tricks without learning to code
Amazon’s Alexa voice service can do a lot of things. You can ask an Alexa-enabled device like an Echo speaker or a Fire tablet for traffic, news, or weather updates. You can add things to your grocery list. And, of course, you can use it to order items from Amazon just by talking to Alexa. […]
AMD’s 2nd-gen Ryzen desktop chips released, bringing better performance for the same price (or less)
AMD’s Ryzen 2000 series desktop chips went up for pre-order last week, and now they’re available for purchase for $199 and up. The 2nd-gen Ryzen chips are based on a new Zen+ architecture and manufactured using a 12nm process, all of which brings a modest boost in performance and efficiency over last year’s chips. We’ll […]
Motorola launches Moto G6 and Moto E5 smartphone families
Motorola is updating its Moto E line of entry-level and Moto G line of mid-range smartphones with a whole bunch of new models set to launch this spring. The Moto G6 Play will sell for $199, while prices for the standard Moto G6 will start at $249. There’s also a Moto G6 Plus model. That […]
Nubia unveils Red Magic gaming smartphone
Gaming smartphones are officially a thing. Last year Razer launched its gaming phone with a 120 Hz display. Last week Xiaomi subsidiary Black Shark launched a phone with liquid cooling and a detachable controller. And now Nubia is launching a phone for gamers called the Red Magic. It’s basically a high-end phone with an unusual […]
Honor 10 smartphone launches in China for about $415 (Dual cameras, Kirin 970, 6GB RAM, and a notch)
Huawei’s latest phone from its Honor line of value-oriented devices has the kind of specs that make me wonder if there’s any real difference between mid-range and flagship phones anymore. Packing the same Kirin 970 processor found in the new Huawei P20 and P20 Plus smartphones, the new Honor 10 also comes with 6GB of RAM […]
Honor unveils its first laptop, the 14 inch MagicBook
Huawei’s been selling a line of value-oriented phones under its Honor brand for the past few years, offering near-flagship hardware at mid-range prices. Now the company is expanding its Honor line to include laptops. The company unveiled the Honor MagicBook at an event in China today. It’s a 14 inch notebook with slim bezels, an […]
Facebook may be designing its own chips
Apple is said to be designing its own chips for use in upcoming Macs computers, which isn’t a huge surprise since the company already designs the chips its uses in iPhones and iPods. But there also seems to be a trend toward companies that typically source their chips from companies like Intel and Qualcomm turning […]
Microsoft launches Windows Defender Browser Protection for Chrome
Microsoft has released a new plugin for the Google Chrome web browser that helps protect you from phishing attacks by alerting you when you click on a link that would take you to a website that’s known to contain malware. It’s called Windows Defender Browser Protection for Google Chrome and… it sounds a lot like […]
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, […]
Deals of the Day (4-18-2018)
The first-gen Moto Z may be an aging phone, but it’s still compatible with every MotoMod accessory released to date and with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 processor, 4GB of RAM, and 64GB of storage, it’s still more powerful than a lot of today’s mid-range phones. It’s also cheaper today… because Newegg is selling an unlocked […]
Opera pulls the plug on its VPN app for Android and iOS
Opera software is probably best known for making web browsers. But over the past few years the company launched a handful of standalone apps including an Opera Max data saver application and an Opera VPN app that took features that first debuted in the company’s web browsers and made them work with third-party apps. Then […]
