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Smart bulbs are a popular product category, but they essentially make the wall light switches useless. If you turn off the switch, the bulb will no longer work. One solution is to use a normal light bulb with a smart switch, but those can be just as expensive – though not in this case. Now […]

If you want a cheap smart speaker, you basically have two options: Google’s Home Mini and Amazon’s Echo Dot. It really depends on what ecosystem you’re already invested in, but Amazon has a pretty sweet deal if you’re an Alexa user. The company is offering a pair of Echo Dot 2nd gen spakers for just […]

A few weeks ago, it became clear that Google+ is headed toward a pretty major overhaul to the post editor that would bring support for new formatting and styling options for text. The latest update brings clues that this isn’t where the new features will stop. It looks like Google+ may also add separate titles […]

Google officially announced Linux app support on Chrome OS at I/O 2018, but until now, the only supported model has been the Pixelbook. The Linux VM requires a kernel version that many Chromebooks don’t have, but with Google backporting the required functionality to earlier kernels, we can only speculate which models will actually be supported. […]

  T-Mobile has resumed its rollout of Android 8.0 Oreo for the LG V30 and V30+ almost three weeks after it was halted. You’ll need to be running the latest version of the McAfee Security for T-Mobile app (version 4.9) to get your hands on it. T-Mobile originally rolled out Oreo for the V30 and […]

Each month Google releases security updates and fixes for both Android in general, and it’s most recent first-party hardware. This month is no exception. OTAs and factory images for Nexus and Pixel devices are now live, as is this month’s security bulletin, functional patches for which seem to include a fix for the Pixel 2 […]

Qualcomm has announced what is technically a new chipset today in the upcoming Snapdragon 850 – and it’s probably not what you think. While it could power your next laptop (maybe), you almost certainly won’t be seeing the Snapdragon 850 in your next phone. Qualcomm seems to be changing its processor naming strategy once again, […]

The new YouTube clusterfuck was announced about three weeks ago, but not many changes have occurred yet. The YouTube Music app has been updated, but YouTube Red branding still hasn’t been switched to YouTube Premium, and the YouTube Music web player still showed “coming soon.” It looks like some of that may be about to […]