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T-Mobile In its latest Un-carrier move, T-Mobile is launching a new TVision internet TV service, starting at just $10 a month. Post-paid customers will be able to get their hands on it on November 1 and Sprint customers will have to wait till later in November. Wider availability begins sometime next year. The company is…

Amazon Amazon is rolling out a smart home dashboard to select Fire tablets. The new Device Dashboard is a one-stop-shop for all smart home controls, and you can access it from a new Smart Home button on your Fire tablet’s navigation bar. According to ZDNet, the Device Dashboard comes to Amazon’s newest tablets via an…

Brian Choo/Smithsonian Magazine Paleontologists recently uncovered a bone fragment from a species of bony-toothed sea birds, called pelagornithids, that might be the largest flying bird ever discovered. Where an albatross has a wingspan of about 10-12 feet, those of the pelagornithid reached up to 20. The bird also had a terrifying saw-toothed jaw. The find…

Ubisfot Do you think there are enough subscription services with “plus” in the name? Well you’re wrong, at least according to mega-game publisher Ubisoft. The company has offered Uplay+ for a year, a library of PC games for $15 a month, more or less the same as EA’s Origin Access EA Access EA Play. Uplay+…

Rating: 9/10 ? 1 – Absolute Hot Garbage 2 – Sorta Lukewarm Garbage 3 – Strongly Flawed Design 4 – Some Pros, Lots Of Cons 5 – Acceptably Imperfect 6 – Good Enough to Buy On Sale 7 – Great, But Not Best-In-Class 8 – Fantastic, with Some Footnotes 9 – Shut Up And Take…

LG Not long after a debut on Verizon, LG’s fancy flipping Wing 5G smartphone will arrive on AT&T. It hits stores on November 6 for $1,000. But if you’re willing to trade-in an eligible smartphone and sign up for a 30-month stint with the company, you can save $700. To say the LG Wing 5G…

Copy and paste is not something reserved for just laptops and computers. It can come in handy on your Android phone or tablet, too. We’ll show you how to copy and paste text, links, images, and use the clipboard. Android devices can vary a lot in how the software looks. The menus and buttons you…

Microsoft Are you an app developer in need of complicated AI models? Microsoft’s newest tool, called Lobe, lets you train custom AI without writing a lick of code. Lobe is free to use and spits out app-ready machine learning models, although it only generates image classification models at this time. Ignoring its terrible name, Lobe…

Unity Developing video games is a challenging endeavor that involves years of coding and art lessons. But what if it could be easier? LEGO and Unity have partnered together to create LEGO Microgame, a free and simple program that lets you build small games with no coding experience at all. To get started, you’ll need…

Zagg Modular accessories systems: in the words of Mugatu, they’re so hot right now. Apple’s new MagSafe system on the iPhone 12 makes it magnetically compatible with cases and mounts, and fancy bag vendor Peak Design is working on a similar mounting platform with ceramic hardware. Now Mophie (a subsidiary of Zagg) is releasing its…

You can explain your data graphically, include a necessary visual, or make your document stand out. It’s all easy to do when you embed Google Drawings into Google Docs. Google Docs offers a built-in tool for creating new drawings on the spot. Inserting them from there is simple. But if you use the official Google…

Shutterstock/Inspiring Non-repudiation is proving who uploaded and downloaded a file, and whether or not the received file is identical to the one sent. Verifying that a file has been sent and received without being modified by a man-in-the-middle attack is critical for many different business processes, such as in healthcare, finance, or logistics. What is Non-Repudiation…

Karla Tafra The holiday season is right around the corner, and if you’re struggling to think of a good gift for the yoga lover in your life, we’re here to help. A Quality Mat This is definitely one of the priciest items on our list. However, a quality mat is a gift your fave yoga…