There’s something brewing over at Nest and it ain’t pretty. Though once one of Google’s more promising acquisitions, the company that helped put a friendly face on devices like thermostats and smoke alarms has reportedly lost its way. Not only has the company been unable to come up with any new type of innovative hardware, recent reports indicate that the Alphabet subsidiary is practically bleeding money while continuing to lose key talent.

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The 12-inch Retina MacBook represents the pinnacle of Apple’s laptop design and engineering, a device that’s already been cloned by many competitors. Apple is rumored to launch 13-inch and 15-inch MacBooks later this year, but until that happens, HP wants to impress you with a new notebook that’s a worthy rival for Apple’s best looking PC yet.

The newly launched Spectre is a 13.3-inch laptop that HP says is the thinnest in the world. It brings over a bold new HP logo, what looks like amazing design, and promises solid performance. The price? About what a MacBook costs.

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Paid iPhone apps on sale for free… you know you want them, and we’ve got them. Today we’ve picked out eight iPhone apps that would normally cost you $19 but can all be yours for free if you act right now. Let’s not waste any more time and get to them!

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A star was born last week when an animated version of Donald Trump debuted on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Although the concept doesn’t need much explanation, but here’s an abridged one: Trump’s comments have become so outlandish that he’s turned into a “cartoonish version of himself,” according to Colbert. So they turned him into a cartoon character.

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Earlier this week, Amazon held a killer one-day sale on a top-rated 55″ 4K Ultra HD TV from Samsung. This gorgeous LED TV set has a 4.2-star rating with more than 550 customer reviews, and it includes all of the smart features you want in a flat-panel from Samsung.

Well, we have good news and bad news. The bad news is that it’ll be quite some time before we see a price that low on this sweet TV from Samsung. But the good news is that although the discount isn’t quite so deep this time, the Samsung UN55JU6500 55-Inch 4K Ultra HD Smart LED TV (2015 Model) is back on sale until the end of the day on Thursday.

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Tesla’s Model 3 introduction last week couldn’t have gone any better. Thus far, consumer interest in the Model 3 has been beyond exceptional, with the most recent tally indicating that more than 276,000 people have already put down $1,000 to secure a reservation for the car.

While Elon Musk has promised us that there will be more announcements about the Model 3 in the months to come, there’s one unique aspect of the Model 3 that, for whatever reason, hasn’t really attracted that much attention. Put simply, the Model 3 lacks an instrument panel (or instrument cluster as it’s called in the industry), a fixture of nearly every car that has ever existed.

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The final episode of The Walking Dead season 6 aired Sunday night and it was a 90-minute thriller that ultimately enraged fans of the series. Sure, the episode finally brought us Negan – and what a performance that was – but the creators of The Walking Dead also ended with an amazingly annoying cliffhanger.

The Internet was obviously furious about the ending, but the upside of all that rage is that plenty of funny reactions followed. You’ll see some of them below, but you should avoid them in case you still haven’t seen the grand finale, as they’ll contain several spoilers.

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On Tuesday morning, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell revealed that Thursday Night Football games will live stream on Twitter this coming fall, confirming that Twitter had won the bidding for digital streaming rights.

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The Tesla Model 3 has been a very hot topic on the Internet for the past week, which also means that it’s been a hot topic on Quora. While Tesla has given us a lot of basic details about the Model 3 and while some of the vehicle’s hidden features have been uncovered by Internet sleuths, a lot of questions remain about the car, including how well it will stack up against competing cars in two years and whether Tesla actually has the production capacity to meet demand. Based on some of the most popular Model 3-related topics on Quora, we’ll post answers to some of the most burning questions you might still have about Tesla’s newest car.

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One of the more frustrating aspects of being an iPhone 6s user is that the device really does have middling battery life. This is why I’ve been rolling my eyes at rumors that Apple plans to make the iPhone 7 even thinner — I would much rather have an iPhone that’s slightly thicker and delivers significantly better battery life.

However, PhoneArena has flagged a new rumor from Korean news publication ETNews that claims Apple is going to use a new kind of chipset for the iPhone 7 that will allow it to have a thinner phone that’s also capable of holding a larger battery.

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