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Apple's AirPods Pro are back down to $190 on Woot

Posted: 01 Feb 2021 04:53 AM PST

Apple's AirPods Pro are among the best wireless earphones available, but at $250, they're certainly not the cheapest. They have gone on sale from time to time, most recently just ahead of Black Friday last year. If you missed that sale, however, fret...

The Morning After: Nintendo Switch surpasses lifetime sales of the 3DS

Posted: 01 Feb 2021 04:20 AM PST

Last week, Facebook and Apple announced another quarter of profits (while at each other's throats), and we start this week with Nintendo doing incredibly well. Despite lacking any major game launches in the last few months, the company's Switch conso...

More Amazon Go stores are getting contactless One palm readers

Posted: 01 Feb 2021 02:38 AM PST

Last September Amazon introduced a touchless payment system called One that literally reads your palm to authenticate purchases in Amazon's retail stores. That's apparently going so well that the company has decided to expand it, at least at its home...

Apple releases an iCloud password extension for Chrome

Posted: 01 Feb 2021 01:27 AM PST

Following a leak last week, Apple has released a Chrome extension for Windows that lets you use passwords stored with iCloud, as spotted by 9to5Google. "iCloud Passwords allows you to use the same strong Safari passwords you create on your Apple devi...

The Nintendo Switch just had its best quarter yet

Posted: 01 Feb 2021 12:03 AM PST

Nintendo sold 11.57 million Switch consoles last quarter, bringing lifetime sales to 79.87 million. That's a seven percent increase on the same period last year, and, more impressively, the Switch's best quarter to date. Not bad for a console that's...

NASA's delayed Moon lander contracts cast doubt on Artemis timeline

Posted: 31 Jan 2021 02:15 PM PST

More signs are emerging that NASA's Artemis program might not bring people to the Moon on time. The Verge has learned that NASA quietly pushed back the award timeframe for two lunar lander contracts from late February to April 30th, including the lun...

Amazon's Ring has teamed up with over 2,000 police and fire departments

Posted: 31 Jan 2021 01:33 PM PST

Ring's police collaborations didn't slow down in 2020 despite controversies — if anything, they ramped up. The Financial Times reports that the Amazon-owned smart home security brand now has 2,014 police and fire department partnerships in the US, wi...

Chromebook demand more than doubled in 2020 due to the pandemic

Posted: 31 Jan 2021 11:34 AM PST

It's no secret that Chromebook demand surged in 2020 as people were forced to work and learn from home during the COVID-19 pandemic, but it's now clear just how much demand there really was. According to 9to5Google, Canalys estimated that Chromebook...

India will propose a law banning private cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin

Posted: 31 Jan 2021 10:15 AM PST

India may be the next country to clamp down on existing cryptocurrencies in favor of its own. As TechCrunch reports, India's lower house of parliament has revealed plans to introduce a law that would ban "all private cryptocurrencies" in the country,...

'Fortnite' gets a 'GI Joe' character with a matching action figure

Posted: 31 Jan 2021 08:13 AM PST

It's no longer rare to see action figures for video game characters, but an action figure designed to accompany the character is relatively rare — and Epic Games wants to give it a try. The developer has released a Fortnite outfit for GI Joe's Snake...
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