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Phone cameras are an arms race of sorts, and LG might be looking to escalate things dramatically with a future phone that could feature a whopping 16 lenses, via LetsGoDigital.Multiple lenses on cameras isn’t exactly new — over the last year, we’ve seen phones with two and three rear lenses break into the mass marketplace, along with rumors of a larger five-lens device from Nokia, and even a potential nine-camera smartphone prototype from the multi-lens startup Light. But LG&r

Unfortunately for Motorola, its unreleased Moto G7 Play has completely leaked — all thanks to the FCC. Truly everything about the phone is now available through the agency, including the device’s manual, images of its exterior and interior, and technical details. Maybe the biggest news, though, is that this latest iteration to the midrange G series line features a notch. We can’t escape it, not that we really thought we could.
The notch houses a front-facing camera, flash, and

Cyber Monday is one of the best times of the year to pick up a new pair of headphones, with everything from in-ear buds to noise-cancelling headphones getting price cuts. And best of all, we’ve already done all the heavy lifting for you, putting together all the best deals from across the internet for your next pair of headphones.
Over/on-ear headphones
Beats Studio 3 Wireless headphones for $238 (usually $349.99)
Bose QuietComfort 25 wired noise cancelling headphones are $109.99 (normall

Google is reportedly rescinding a $5,000 donation to US senator Cindy Hyde-Smith over controversial remarks the Mississippi politician recently made. But, apparently, the company is trying to keep it under wraps. Wishy-washy is definitely in this year. In leaked emails obtained by investigative news source Popular Information, it appears Google has officially requested the campaign offices of Hyde-Smith return the company’s $5,000 donation. According to the report, an email sent by s

I’m not a particularly vain person. Despite my interest in the beauty industry, I find eye shadow a bit terrifying. I’m convinced contouring is black magic, but that’s a story for another time. That being sad, I do love a good mirror, but I never had owned a smart mirror before. Honestly, I had never thought mirrors needed tech, but simplehuman did. I was recently sent a model of the Sensor Mirror Trio, made by simplehuman, the company who claims to “design everyday tool

You might be losing potential customers and not even knowing it. How? By using bad copy on Google AdWords. Google AdWords is one of the most trusted and reliable advertising networks on the web. 77.8 percent of US search ad revenue flows through Google, and the search behemoth isn’t slowing down. Google recently made some changes to AdWords that allow for more room to adjust expanded text ads. So of course, using this network effectively is one of the key components to growing your busine

We’re all eager to get our hands on the new Super Smash Bros. It looks like it’s going to be an amazing trip down memory lane in beat-em-up wrapping, especially as we’re getting so many new characters to play with. But it seems some have gotten their hands on the game a bit too early — and they’re posting the evidence online for everyone to see. Pirates have somehow obtained a copy of Ultimate and are releasing details they’ve found online. It’s not exa

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald brought some titanic changes to the Harry Potter canon, reaching beyond the still-fledging Fantastic Beasts prequel series to flesh out events glossed over in the book series. And it doesn’t just affect the past. More so than the first Fantastic Beasts film, Crimes leaves plenty of dangling loose threads and where-to-go-next questions. Given that there are still three movies left in this saga, those loose threads likely won’t get tied up f

Best Buy is keeping the deals going for Cyber Monday, which combines some fresh additions with a few familiar faces from its Black Friday celebration.
Instead of listing each and every product that’s discounted at Best Buy, we’ve hand-picked what we think are the best options, including our favorite 4K HDR TV for its lowest price yet, Samsung’s wireless charger with two charging points, and a Nintendo Switch deal. And if you want something shipped in a hurry, all purchases mad

Microsoft’s Adaptive Controller is a gadget for people with disabilities or limited mobility to more easily use third-party peripherals. It came out earlier this year, and it was widely lauded for its build quality and its configurability. It has 19 ports on the back that can each be used to mimic a controller input with a third-party device, including those that let you control functions with your mouth or even your feet. So in the event that a person can’t use certain fingers or n

We got our first preview of the possible Pixel 3 Lite earlier this month, and now we’re getting even more leaked photos. Russian blog Wylsa posted some images today of the rumored device next to its competition. The site shows the phone next to the Pixel 3 XL, as well as a bunch of iPhones.
From the photos, we can deduce that the Pixel 3 Lite won’t be small, which is what we suspected after the last leak. The Lite is bigger than the iPhone XS and nearly the same height as the iPhone

Plans to build a “mega-collider” somewhere in China appear to be moving forward with construction set to begin as early as 2022. Known as the Circular Electron–Positron Collider (CEPC), it would be the world’s largest collider. Too bad it’ll be located behind The Great Firewall. The Chinese government seems to have a serious case of wanting to have its cake and eat it too when it comes to science, censorship, and the nation’s technological future. On the

Venmo has historically been plagued by payment fraud, and it continued to struggle after reporting losses of about $40 million in the first three months of this year alone, The Wall Street Journal reports. That figure is roughly 40 percent greater than what the company had anticipated, with much of the loss attributed to fraudulent payments, internal documents shown to WSJ proved.The internal documents weren’t specific on whether the fraudulent activities were through stolen credit cards,

A Chinese researcher claims to have created the world’s first gene-edited babies, a move bioethicists say is the latest example of how gene-editing technology is advancing faster than regulation. If true, this experiment could have worldwide effects — and there’s no law that prevents it from happening in the US or anywhere else.It’s still unclear whether researcher He Jiankui truly used a powerful gene-editing tool called CRISPR cas-9 to enhance the ability of twin girls

NASA’s latest Mars lander, InSight, successfully touched down on the surface of the Red Planet this afternoon, surviving an intense plunge through the Martian atmosphere. It marks the eighth picture-perfect landing on Mars for NASA, adding to the space agency’s impressive track record of putting spacecraft on the planet. And now, InSight’s two-year mission has begun, one that entails listening for Marsquakes to learn about the world’s interior.
It marks the eighth pictur

It’s the holiday season and Cyber Monday deals are plentiful for ultrabooks, thin-and-lights, and even some gaming laptops with dedicated graphics.Dell, Alienware, Samsung, Microsoft, and Lenovo — just to name a few — are partaking in Cyber Monday, offering some pretty nice deals for their machines.Most of these deals start on November 18th, and more deals will kick in on November 22nd (Thanksgiving), and November 23rd (Black Friday). Best of all, you don’t have to stand

Target is keeping the deals flowing this Cyber Monday by offering deep discounts on something for everyone. On top of some good deals on popular products, you can get 15 percent off of your order today when you buy on Target.com.
Unfortunately, several products and brands are excluded from this Cyber Monday special, including Apple, Bose, Fitbit, DSLR cameras and lenses, Google, JBL, LG OLED TVs, Nintendo hardware and software, PS4 hardware, Red Dead Redemption 2 games, Samsung TVs, Sonos, Xbox

A few years ago, a small Romanian headphone company called Meze Audio took audio communities by storm with a gorgeous pair of $309 headphones, the 99 Classics. Here was a headphone clad in wood and aluminum that didn’t make any claims or revolutionary technology, artist collaborations, or gimmicky features – just great design and sound. The name now seems like foreshadowing, as the Classics are now among the most recommended headphones on audio enthusiast networks. Meze followed the

Last week, Kanopy — a free film-streaming service used by public libraries across the country — added virtually every A24 film to its collection, which means that if your friendly neighborhood library participates in the program, you can watch everything from the beloved studio behind Moonlight, The Lobster, Lady Bird, and a ton of other Hollywood darlings from the past five years. Pretty lit.The news comes in the wake of last month’s announcement that FilmStruck — the e

When my family and I decided to see Ralph Breaks the Internet on Thanksgiving, I was excited. I really liked Wreck-It Ralph for being a love letter to old-school gaming while also having a heartwarming story of friendship, selflessness, and learning to accept with grace that which you can’t change. Now the sequel takes the same colorful characters to the internet — and I was eager to see what Disney’s writers and animators could do with that kind of material. That’s why

Google has begun rolling out its futuristic Duplex feature, which can automatically make voice calls to restaurants and other businesses on a user’s behalf, to a small group of Pixel owners in “select” cities around the US. VentureBeat managed to test out Duplex in the real world and recorded what the experience is like when initiating a call through Google Assistant. That part seems fairly straightforward. But the exchange between Google’s realistic-sounding AI voice an

Does anyone actually know what it means to be a copywriter in the digital age? Each and every day, a wave of ecommerce shoppers, avid article readers, and tech-tool consumers flood the internet, usually enticed to visit landing page after landing page by copywriters who have targeted them with ongoing determination. The truth is, a copywriter is more than just your average writer, journalist, or advertiser; to be a copywriter in the digital age requires great attention to detail, a creative or

Microsoft has overtaken Apple in market cap value for the first time in eight years. Microsoft briefly reached a market cap value of $812.93 billion today, followed by Apple at a market cap of $812.60 billion. It made Microsoft the world’s most valuable company, even if it was only a temporary title. Microsoft and Apple are now trading back and forth for the title.Apple first passed Microsoft back in 2010, with The New York Times describing the moment as “the end of an era and the b

Microsoft is offering much of its Surface lineup of PCs at a discount for Cyber Monday. What’s perhaps better than an outright deal is that most of these Surface promotions come bundled with a Type Cover, giving whoever receives it as a gift more versatility out of the box than these Windows 10 machines usually offer. You’ll also find deals on laptops made by the likes of HP, Dell, and others, along with some appealing discounts on all things Xbox.
We’ll be adding and removing

Warning: Spoilers for The Walking Dead season 9, episode 8 below.
This season of The Walking Dead has had its own meta storyline, complete with ups, downs, and breathtaking cliffhangers. After several seasons of declining ratings, it was announced earlier this year that showrunner Scott Gimple was leaving the show, with Angela Kang set to take over for season 9. The idea was that Kang’s new vision for the show could revitalize The Walking Dead, starting with a reimagined title sequence.
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It’s Cyber Monday and eBay has released its final round of deals. Plenty of Samsung 4K TVs are on sale, as well as the 2018 iPad with Retina Display and the Nintendo Switch. The 2018 MacBook Air with Retina Display is also seeing further reductions. Whether you’re looking for a new gaming monitor, or thinking about switching to a new phone, we’ve picked out the highlights from eBay here and will keep updating this post with the latest deals.
eBay is offering free shipping on a

Native Instruments is legendary for its synth sounds and production software. But, the Berlin-based company has also built a reputation for excellence with its hardware controllers, and the Maschine Mikro Mk3 is no exception. For the purposes of this review, I’ll be discussing the Mikro in the context of building beats. Keep in mind though, it’s equally adept at any kind of music – it’s even a great device for filmmakers who want to score their own movies but don’t

For the past year and a half, the UK government has been promising a solution to the problem of underage people accidentally or even intentionally watching porn on the internet: a nationwide age verification system that would require would-be porn consumers to demonstrate their adulthood before accessing adult content.
The proposal — more formally known as the Digital Economy Act of 2017 — is not the first time the UK has attempted a nationwide solution to the problem of underage po

Fallout 76 is the first online-only, multiplayer-focused entry in the post-apocalyptic series. Given its massive size and ever-evolving world, instead of a traditional review, we’ll run a series of journal entries chronicling our adventures in Bethesda’s devastated version of West Virginia. Expect to see new entries every other day for the next few weeks. You can catch up on them right here.
Appalachia’s amusement park is not very fun.
I probably should have predicted this, of

The holidays are here, which means stores are once again setting up their display fronts to attract shoppers and brands to air wholesome commercials during Sunday football games.One of those companies is Amazon: its holiday commercial, starring an array of smiling boxes and rushed customers who are trying to finish their shopping, tries for all the quaintness of a Folgers ad. It’s a celebration of time spent with loved ones and friends, but there’s also something a little strange an

After two years of operation, Amazon has quietly closed the London arm of its takeout and delivery service, reports the Evening Standard. The news was announced in an email to the service’s customers, which said deliveries will cease in the capital (and, by extension, the rest of the UK) after December 3rd.Like many of Amazon’s services, Amazon Restaurants was available exclusively to Prime subscribers who could pay £1.99 to have food delivered within an hour from over 200 Lon