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Here at CES, Apple has trolled the entire electronics industry with a giant banner that reads: “What happens on your iPhone, stays on your iPhone.” It’s clever and designed to spark discussion, but it’s also important because it once again establishes that Apple wants to be known as the company that’s most dedicated to protecting your privacy.
If Apple really wants to establish that identity, it should bring iMessage to Android.
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Apple’s decision to put iTunes movie and TV rentals on Samsung smart TVs is a huge strategy shift for the company: instead of building services to make its own devices like the HomePod and Apple TV more valuable, the company is allowing those services to be accessed on competing devices. Fundamentally, this all makes sense, since Apple is increasingly focused on services revenue, and it’s been making huge investments in TV content ahead of a long-planned streaming service launch. Wh

Whirlpool’s new KitchenAid Smart Display with the Google Assistant is a gadget designed for the actual reality of your kitchen: it’s messy as hell when you cook. The 10-inch display is rated water jet-resistant, so if you accidentally aim your faucet the wrong way, it should be in fine. In theory.
Much like other Google Assistant-powered smart displays, KitchenAid’s model responds to Google Assistant voice commands and you can watch YouTube videos or make calls through the dev

Matrix is back at CES this year with the PowerWatch 2, a follow-up to last year’s wearable that was powered entirely by the body heat emitted from your wrist. For the second iteration, Matrix has made a surprising amount of progress, because the PowerWatch 2 has evolved from a black-and-white screen to a 1.2-inch color display, with support for thermometric and solar charging, as well as with GPS and fitness tracking. The main attraction remains the same: this is a watch that never needs

Nvidia originally unveiled its giant 65-inch 4K HDR gaming displays at CES last year, promising a summer launch. Summer came and went and although the displays were supposed to debut last year, the first is now arriving in February. Unsurprisingly, the displays are going to be very expensive, with HP’s priced at $5,000. HP’s Omen X Emperium display includes 4K HDR support alongside G-Sync and a 144Hz refresh rate.
The display will have Nvidia’s Shield integrated into it, so yo

Nvidia originally unveiled its giant 65-inch 4K HDR gaming displays at CES last year, promising a summer launch. Summer came and went and although the displays were supposed to debut last year, the first is now arriving in February. Unsurprisingly, the displays are going to be very expensive, with HP’s priced at $4,999. HP’s Omen X Emperium display includes 4K HDR support alongside G-Sync and a 144Hz refresh rate.
The display will have Nvidia’s Shield integrated into it, so yo

Samsung’s 2018 and 2019 range of televisions will be able to access and play your iTunes movie and TV show library, the company has announced. You’ll also be able to buy and rent content from iTunes directly from the TV.The content will be available through a dedicated app which will debut exclusively on Samsung’s TVs. The TVs will also include support for AirPlay 2, Apple’s wireless streaming standard.The iTunes Movies and TV Shows app, which will be available in 100 co

As the federal government shutdown drags on into another week, leave it to none other than rapper Snoop Dogg to deliver perhaps the hottest take yet about Donald Trump's willingness to keep parts of the government shuttered for "months or even years" over funding for his border wall.  
Yes, while Trump is out there still trying to leverage Game of Thrones for his racist purposes, Martha Stewart's BFF is taking to social media to deliver some profane, scorching criticism of the ongoing shutd

HP is bringing some new competition into the Chromebook world with the introduction of AMD processors. The company’s newly announced Chromebook 14 is the first Chromebook ever to use AMD processors — existing Chromebooks are largely dominated by Intel, and even mobile-friendly ARM-based processors made their debut before AMD.
The Chromebook 14 will go on sale later this month for $269 with AMD’s dual-core A4 processor inside (an A6 processor option will also be available in so

When we first reviewed a laptop with a OLED display, it felt like the future. Lenovo and HP were the first to create OLED laptops back in 2016, but the displays never really took off across mainstream premium notebooks due to the price of the panels. HP originally placed an OLED display on its HP Spectre x360 13 three years ago, and now it’s creating an optional OLED model of the 15-inch HP Spectre x360. It’s the first time we’ve seen an OLED display on a 15-inch laptop.
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HP and Acer are bringing some new competition into the Chromebook world with the introduction of AMD processors. HP’s newly announced Chromebook 14 and the 15.6-inch Acer Chromebook 315 is are the first ever to use AMD chips — existing Chromebooks are largely dominated by Intel, and even mobile-friendly ARM-based processors made their debut long before AMD.
Both the HP Chromebook 14 and Acer Chromebook 315 will go on sale early this year with a new dual-core AMD A4 processor inside,

The 76th Golden Globe Awards ceremony will kick off tonight, January 6th, at 8PM ET / 5PM PT. If you have cable, watching it is as simple as tuning in to NBC, or logging into the NBC website or iOS / Android app with your cable or satellite provider login details. That’s fine for cable customers, but given the rate of cord cutting in 2018, chances are good that you don’t have cable. For streamers, there are a number of ways to watch the Golden Globes, no matter what device you&rsquo

AMD has been pushing its Ryzen lineup of processors for a few years now, with the company looking to put pressure on Intel’s seemingly unbeatable hold on the chip landscape. At CES 2019, AMD unveiled its second generation of Ryzen laptop chips, which look to jump ahead of Intel’s 14nm roadblock to offer some of the first 12nm processors on the market.
To that end, AMD is launching a new lineup of Ryzen 3, Ryzen 5, and Ryzen 7 chips across both the 15W U-series and 35W H-series lineu

Acer’s Swift 7 line has always included some of the thinnest and lightest laptops in the world, and this year’s refresh — first teased at IFA 2018 last summer — might just be the most impressive yet, with an incredible 92 percent screen-to-body ratio that nearly does away with bezels entirely. And this year at CES 2019, we finally got more details on the upcoming Ultrabook, including specifications, price, and a release window.Now, at 9.95 mm thick (0.39 inches), the Swi

The Los Angeles Chargers and Baltimore Ravens square off on Sunday in Baltimore for what should be a terrific game in the NFL's Wild Card weekend. But one Charger has already heard enough from Ravens fans for one lifetime. 
The Chargers' star running back Melvin Gordon caught an Uber ride from a diehard Ravens fan and took to some good natured, light-hearted smack talking with a twist: the driver had no idea who Gordon was. And, lucky for us, Gordon captured it on video.
Gordon can be seen

It can be difficult to find time to finish a video game, especially if you only have a few hours a week to play. In our biweekly column Short Play, we suggest video games that can be started and finished in a weekend.
2016’s The Witness is kind of like an open-world puzzle game. In it, you’re essentially asked to constantly solve the same 2D maze-style puzzle over and over, but depending on where you find it in the game’s open world, there are different rules for solving it. T

Donald Trump's obsession with walls steered him down a foolish path on Saturday night.
As the President of the United States continues to debate the merits of a real life wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, he's turned to the unlikeliest pop culture source for help: Game of Thrones. Anyone who keeps up with the hit HBO series knows very well that walls don't work.
SEE ALSO: Trump just showed off his 'Game of Thrones' poster in a cabinet meeting. But he missed one key detail.
Well, here's what Trump

Albums sold on vinyl and cassette both saw double digit sales growth in the US last year, according to a new report produced by BuzzAngle (via Genius). Vinyl sales grew by just shy of 12 percent from 8.6 to 9.7 million sales, while cassette sales grew by almost 19 percent from 99,400 to 118,200 copies sold in the US. It wasn’t quite the 41.8 percent growth seen in music streaming, but it’s still very impressive for two formats that are decades old.The popularity of both physical for

The celebrities of tomorrow are all being minted on social media. It’s no wonder, then, that everyone wants a piece of YouTube. Many stars have tried the platform, with some even amassing a following, but few people have been able to make the transition away from the big screen. Jack Black is an exception.
Last month, the comedian / musician announced the arrival of his new gaming-focused channel, which features videos edited by his son Sam. The video was short, but it smartly incorporate

CES has barely begun, but 146-year-old plumbing company Kohler has already stolen the show with what will undoubtedly be 2019’s hottest gadget: an “intelligent toilet” with built-in surround sound speakers, ambient mood lighting, and Amazon Alexa voice controls.Truly, we live in an age of wonders.Kohler’s Numi 2.0 Intelligent Toilet is one of those strange products that draws so heavily on buzzwords and tech trends that it’s indistinguishable from parody. In a pres

It's 2019! Twenty years since the pivotal year of 1999, a monumental moment in time that saw a slew of memorable movies, songs, and all kinds of cultural events make waves across the globe. 
SEE ALSO: 15 songs turning 20 in 2019
1999 was also the last year of the 20th century and the millennium (well, depending on who you ask), and it went out with one hell of a bang. From worries about apocalyptic computer failures to the retirement of some of sport's biggest stars to, well, the usual insa

Whereas our forefathers faced regular threats of plagues, famine, and the like, us modern humanfolk are up against a far more sinister force: drained phone batteries. 
In a 2016 survey conducted by LG Electronics, almost nine out of ten respondents reported suffering from a phenomenon called "Low Battery Anxiety" (LBA) in which they "felt panic" when their phone's battery fell to 20% or lower. 
Taking all of that into consideration, one thing is abundantly clear: Our lives would improv

When you install certain fonts, fine-tune a color scheme, and create call-to-action buttons, you're doing more than just beautifying a website — you're increasing its overall trustworthiness. In a study conducted by researchers in the UK, 94% of respondents said they didn't trust a website if it involved complex layouts, small print, boring color choices, and other elements of crappy design.
That study zeroed in on a handful of health websites specifically, but its findings can be applied

Gousto, the U.K. cook-at-home meal kit service that competes most directly with HelloFresh, has raised a further £18 million in funding. The round is backed by Instagram “health influencer” Joe Wicks, along with existing investors Unilever Ventures, Hargreave Hale, BGF Ventures, MMC Ventures, and Angel CoFund.
The new funding brings the total raised by Goustoto £75 million since being founded in 2012, and follows a £28.5 million fund raise last March, which it used

If you’re a big fan of first-person shooter games, Audeze has a cool new feature to tell you about. Its Mobius headphones, launched last year with precise head tracking, can now accept Head Gesture Keybinds, which is to say you’ll be able to do the equivalent of pressing a button on the keyboard with the motion of your head. So if you’ve always wanted to lean out of cover by actually leaning your head, this Mobius upgrade brings that within reach. Audeze is currently beta-test