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Daily Deals (2-07-2019)

02/07/2019 at 12:47 PM by Brad Linder 4 Comments

Amazon is running a bunch of device deals ahead of Valentine’s Day… which may seem like a weird excuse for picking up a $20 Amazon Echo Input or a $100 Kindle Paperwhite. But there are some deals on multi-packs, so you can pick up a Fire TV Stick 4K 2-pack for $85 and have one […]

Qualcomm launches Snapdragon 712 (It’s a little faster than Snapdragon 710)

02/07/2019 at 11:10 AM by Brad Linder 1 Comment

Qualcomm is expanding its smartphone product lineup with a new chip aimed at upper mid-range smartphones. The company says its new Snapdragon 712 mobile platform is about 10 percent faster than the Snapdragon 710 and it includes technology that lets you charge a smartphone (or other device) a little faster. For the most part the Snapdragon […]

Motorola launches Moto G7 smartphone family for $199 and up

02/07/2019 at 9:16 AM by Brad Linder 13 Comments

The Moto G line of smartphones have a reputation for offering decent specs at reasonably low prices… which isn’t really as much of a distinguishing characteristic in 2019 as it was when the first Moto G smartphone launched in 2013. All of which is to say that, as expected, Motorola is launching four new Moto […]

Lilbits 348: More inclusive emoji

02/06/2019 at 5:00 PM by Brad Linder 12 Comments

Another year, another set of cartoonish characters that we can use in lieu of words to convey meaning while sending text messages. The Unicode Consortium has approved 59 distinct new emoji… or a total of 230 when you account for skin tone and gender variations. Among other things, Emoji 12 lets you show two people […]

GPD MicroPC keyboard test

02/06/2019 at 3:50 PM by Brad Linder 13 Comments

GPD has been making handheld computers for a few years, starting with the GPD Win line of small gaming computers and following up with the GPD Pocket line of mini-laptop computers. This year the company is launching a new category, starting with the GPD MicroPC. It’s the company’s smallest mini computer to date — and […]

Daily Deals (2-06-2019)

02/06/2019 at 1:19 PM by Brad Linder Leave a Comment

In the market for an inexpensive laptop that doesn’t ship with Windows or MacOS? Dell is currently selling its newest XPS 13 Developer Edition laptop with Ubuntu Linux for as little as $690 — although you’ll have to pay considerably more than that if you want a model with more than 4GB of RAM. Another option […]

System76 Darter Pro Linux laptop now available for $999 and up

02/06/2019 at 11:30 AM by Brad Linder 4 Comments

The new Darter Pro isn’t the smallest laptop from Linux computer company System76. But it is the thinnest and lightest model the company offers with a 15.6 inch display. Weighing 3.6 pounds and measuring about 0.8 inches thick, it’s bigger and heavier than the company’s 2.9 pound, 0.7 inch Galago notebooks. But it has a bigger […]

Sony’s 2019 smartphone lineup could include a phone with slim bottom bezel (but a big one on top)

02/06/2019 at 11:00 AM by Brad Linder 4 Comments

Sony hasn’t been a major player in the global smartphone market for a while, but the company does still make some interesting phones… even if they tend to lag behind the competition when it comes to innovative design features. But this could be the year Sony does something surprising, by launching a phone that doesn’t […]

Lenovo Tab E10 budget tablet now available for $106

02/05/2019 at 4:16 PM by Brad Linder 4 Comments

It’s been more than five months since Lenovo introduced its Tab E line of low-cost Android tablets, but the company’s cheapest tablet with a 10 inch display is just now becoming available in the United States. The Lenovo Tab E10 is now available for $106. The tablet is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 212 quad-core […]

Daily Deals (2-05-2019)

02/05/2019 at 2:21 PM by Brad Linder Leave a Comment

Rakuten is running a sitewide sale today: you can save 15 percent on most purchases when you apply the coupon code SAVE15 at checkout. Savings top out at $60, but but that’s good enough to help you pick up a Microsoft Surface Go tablet for as little as $339, a Nintendo Switch for $267, a […]

VLC 4.0 will have a new user interface (and other upcoming changes)

02/05/2019 at 12:04 PM by Brad Linder 7 Comments

During a recent talk at the FOSDEM conference, VLC‘s lead developer gave us a sneak peek at changes coming to the open source, cross-platform media player in the coming year. Under the hood VLC 4.0 will have some changes to the way video is handled, there will be support for 3D and VR, and the […]

Google’s Password Checkup lets you know if your login data has been compromised (Chrome extension)

02/05/2019 at 11:17 AM by Brad Linder 2 Comments

Odds are that an online service you’ve used has suffered a data breach sometime in the past few years. Sometimes they’ll send you a message letting you know to change your password once the data breach is discovered. Sometimes they don’t. And sometimes they may not even know. There’s little you can do to protect […]