Amazon deal: Kill the WiFi dead zones in your home with this Netgear range extender
You pay your Internet Service Provider hundreds of dollars each year for home Internet service, and it doesn’t even work everywhere in your house. Your basement is spotty, your master bath is a WiFi dead zone, and you can barely get a signal in your back yard. You’ve lived like this for long enough — it’s time to do something about it.
You’re in luck: Amazon has a sale going right now on the NETGEAR AC1200 High Power 700mW Dual Band Wi-Fi Range Extender.
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Samsung unveils new ‘Stripe’ batteries, representing a major breakthrough for mobile devices
As advances continue in the realm of mobile devices and wearable gadgets, we always come back to the same handful of barriers that impede progress. Chief among them, of course, is battery technology. Component makers spend millions on research and development in an effort to make the most power-efficient parts possible, but the majority of smartphones still only last a day at most per charge. Where wearables are concerned, these tiny devices come in a wide range of flexible shapes that often severely limit vendors’ options when it comes to battery size and placement.
Battery technology has never been able to keep pace with other components, but a new breakthrough unveiled this week by Samsung could represent one of the most important advancements in mobile battery tech we’ve seen in quite some time.
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Major retailers say no to hoverboard sales for this holiday season
Hoverboards, which self-balancing Segway-like scooters that don’t levitate are known as, are one of the hottest new products of the year. Going for as low as around $270 and all the way up to $2,000, hoverboards might be a hot Christmas gift for many people, assuming they’ll be able to find one in stores.
Walmart, Best Buy, Target, RadioShack and others aren’t likely to sell the popular devices just yet, so don’t expect any hot Black Friday deals on hoverboards from them just yet.
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Facebook is sorry bugs in mobile app code stole iPhone battery life, issues some fixes
After more and more reports revealed that the Facebook mobile app is consuming plenty of iPhone battery via background activities even when said activities should be off, the company said it will look into matters and issue fixes. Lo and behold, Facebook did release an app update to fix the issues – not a surprising feat per se, considering that Facebook always releases timely updates for its mobile apps – but also addressed the matter in a public post.
As Facebook’s Ari Grant explains, the battery issue is caused by bugs, two of them, which the company is trying to fix. And from the looks of it, they’re not intentional code manipulations that would let Facebook conduct background app activity at all times – at least that’s what Grant says.
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How to downgrade from iOS 9.1 to iOS 9.0.2 and jailbreak your iPhone
One of the many security updates included in iOS 9.1 happened to block the iOS 9.0.2 Pangu jailbreak that the team of hackers released to the public last week. Unfortunately, we have to take the good with the bad when we upgrade our iOS devices, but iCrackUriDevice has instructions for how to downgrade back to iOS 9.0.2 in case you still want to jailbreak.
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Interactive Google map shows your city’s most popular Halloween costume
Are you still looking for a Halloween costume and are worried that lots of people have already taken your favorite ideas? Well worry not: An interactive map powered by Google Trends called Frightgeist can tell you which costume searches are the most popular ones in your city.
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Highly-rated wireless gaming mouse now just $16 on Amazon
Don’t worry about wires while you’re gaming by using a tunable wireless gaming mouse. Amazon is offering the HAVIT HV-MS978GT 2.4GHz Wireless Tunable Gaming Mouse for a sale price of $15.99 with free Prime shipping, or free shipping for anyone on orders more than $35. That’s 60% off the list price for this mouse that works with desktop and laptop PCs.
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Here are 2015’s most wanted tech Christmas gifts
Amazing as it may seem, Black Friday and Cyber Monday are both a little more than a month away. To get us all prepped for the holiday shopping season, Best Buy on Thursday released a survey of roughly American 2,000 consumers that revealed the 15 most wanted tech Christmas gifts for 2015. It shouldn’t be surprising that Apple products accounted for three of the top 15 most wanted but Samsung and Microsoft can also be happy with how their products performed.
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The hilarious first trailer for Aziz Ansari’s new Netflix show is out
Comedian Aziz Ansari, one of the stars of the hugely popular Parks & Recreation sitcom, has a new comedy series called Master of None that will premiere on Netflix in a few weeks and whose first trailer was just released.
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Watch us play Halo 5: Guardians multiplayer live on Xbox One at 7:30 p.m. ET
The day one patch for Halo 5: Guardians hit the Xbox One today at 12:00 pm ET, and in celebration, I’m going to live stream a few matches of Arena (and Warzone, if I can find enough people on the servers to play with).
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