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The Best Black Friday (and Before) Deals on Stadia and Playstation Consoles, Games and Accessories

It’s tough to keep track of all the gaming deals that will kick off on Black Friday. That’s sort of a good problem to have; it means that there’s no shortage of deals on consoles, games, and accessories for the Nintendo Switch, Sony PlayStation 4, and the Xbox One X and S.   Below are the best deals that the experts at The Verge have found on Stadia and Playstation consoles, […]

todayNovember 26, 2019

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The Best Black Friday (and Before) Deals on Xbox One Consoles, Games and Accessories

It’s tough to keep track of all the gaming deals that will kick off on Black Friday. That’s sort of a good problem to have; it means that there’s no shortage of deals on consoles, games, and accessories for the Nintendo Switch, Sony PlayStation 4, and the Xbox One X and S.   Below are the best deals that the experts at The Verge have found on Xbox One consoles, games, […]

todayNovember 25, 2019

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Facebook Will Stop Calling Users ‘Undesirable’ in Ad Rejections

Facebook will no longer use the harmful language “undesirable” in the rejection messages it sends to potential advertisers.   The change comes after reporting from The Verge in September and continued pressure from Facebook and Instagram’s body and skin positivity communities regarding the issue. Facebook used the word when rejecting ads that featured people who were overweight or had skin conditions, and it kept removing ads placed by body positivity […]

todayOctober 30, 2019

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Google’s Stadia Game Streaming Service – What You Need to Know Now

Google has revealed the key details that were conspicuously missing from its March announcement of the new Stadia game streaming service. Namely, what the heck we’re going to be able to play, how much we’ll pay, and when we can get started with the exciting new service — which beams high-end console and PC games to any Chrome web browser, Chromecast Ultra TV dongle or Pixel 3 smartphone from beefy […]

todayOctober 29, 2019

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Fortnite Came Back from its Black Hole With a Bang

It’s been just over a week since Fortnite came back online following a two-day, black hole-induced hiatus. But the event, which ushered in the game’s eleventh season and its all-new redesigned map, was one of the biggest singular online gaming events to date — with more than 7 million concurrent viewers across Twitch, Twitter, and YouTube. In an interview with The Verge, Epic Games stated that the black hole event, […]

todayOctober 24, 2019

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Yes, You CAN Save and Retrieve files on the Chrome OS

A lot of people still believe that Chromebooks can only work online, and that you can’t save your work offline to the harddrive. It’s an old, but persistent myth in the tech world, and it’s high time it was debunked. Yes, Chromebooks were created to be used predominantly online — in fact, when the first Chrome OS laptops were introduced in 2011, there were very few apps that could be […]

todayOctober 2, 2019

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Verizon Clears Up ‘Unlimited’ Plan Confusion with New Offerings (Or DO They)?

For the past few years, Verizon has (rather confusingly) offered three different types of “unlimited” data plans, but now the carrier is looking to clear up that confusion by replacing them with four unlimited plans. Sorry, did I say “clear up”? I meant “make everything even more confusing.”   As The Verge reports, the changes aren’t that sweeping: there are $5 price cuts across the board; new names for two […]

todayAugust 9, 2019

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Does the Dish T-Mobile Merger Mean the End of the SIM Card?

According to a report by The Verge, the Department of Justice may have just done more to eliminate those little plastic SIM cards you have to use to get your phone to work on a wireless carrier than all of the efforts of Big Tech over the past four years. That’s because it is requiring Dish and T-Mobile to support eSIM technology as a condition of its merger approval.   […]

todayJuly 29, 2019

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