When Intel announced a new line of 9th-gen CPUs a few weeks ago, it was sort of expected that those processors would find their way into a wide range of new and refreshed laptops like those from Asus and Razer. However, since Apple sometimes skips over entire generations of silicon, being able to get those chips in a…
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Sit Back, Relax, and Enjoy This Zero Gravity Chair For Just $30
Amazon is offering up Sunjoy’s Zero Gravity Chair in the Gold Box today for just $30. This lounger features a lockable reclining system that adjusts to fit your body perfectly, plus a folding mechanism for when it’s time to put it in storage for the winter. The chair is available in six colors, so there’s almost…
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Comcast Working on Health Monitoring Device For the Elderly But Don't Call it an Alexa
Comcast is working on a new in-home device that will monitor your health, according to a new report from CNBC. A source familiar with the product confirmed its existence to Gizmodo but clarified that much of CNBC’s early reporting on the device today was inaccurate—namely that Comcast was working on anything close to…
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New Legislation Would Help National Committees Improve State Candidates' Cybersecurity
In advance of the 2020 elections, a new federal law proposed on Tuesday seeks to remove impediments faced by national political parties when seeking to help shore up the cybersecurity of their state-level counterparts.

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Game of Thrones Star Joins Board of Cryptocurrency Startup for Vegans, and No We Didn't Just Throw Darts at a Wall Covered in Buzzwords
In a post Thrones pivot, Jerome Flynn, better known as the Bronn of the Blackwater and one half of Robson & Jerome, has taken on an advisory position with a cryptocurrency startup aimed at promoting vegan lifestyle choices and ethical food production, because every single headline has to sound like it was produced by…
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Here's a Rare Chance to Save Big on a 65" Samsung QLED TV
If you want a big TV that looks great, but don’t want to shell out for an OLED set, Samsung’s QLED TVs strike a nice middle ground. They offer some of the best color reproduction of any LCD set thanks to quantum dot tech, and hold their own on the black level front as well. Today at Walmart, you can score a 65" Q6…
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New Firefox Competes With Chrome on Speed And Privacy
Mozilla launched a new version of Firefox on Tuesday spotlighting its speed and privacy features as the San Francisco-based open source upstarts continue to compete against Google Chrome’s global browser dominance.

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Game of Thrones Author George R.R. Martin Has a Lot to Say About His Books After the Big Finale
Now that Game of Thrones’ series finale has come and gone, even more attention is being paid to author George R.R. Martin. He’s mostly been minding his own business and living his life while the rest of the world harangues him about the final two entries in the series of novels that started it all.
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Julian Assange's Electronics Reportedly Shared With U.S. Prosecutors, Despite Pending Extradition Hearing
WikiLeaks editor in chief Kristinn Hrafnsson has issued a warning that any information recovered by U.S. authorities from Julian Assange’s devices—seized following his expulsion from London’s Ecuadorian embassy in April—is likely to be tampered with, claiming that chain-of-custody procedures have already been violated.

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The Biggest Sonos Refurb Sale Ever Is a Great Chance to Start or Expand Your Collection
We occasionally see deals on individual Sonos refurbished products, but we’ve never seen a refurb sale like this.

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New Breakthrough Means We Can Finally Detect the Color Red in Ancient Fossils
Some 3 million years ago, a tiny mouse featuring reddish fur on its back and a white belly scurried across the landscape of what is now Germany. We know this thanks to a remarkable new breakthrough in which reddish color pigment was detected in an ancient fossil—a scientific first.

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I Pitted Canon's 'Affordable' EOS RP Against My Beloved Sony A7 III
The $1,300 Canon RP is not the best camera made or even the slickest mirrorless camera. It will win no awards for dynamic range or color rendition, and if you’ve got strong feelings about the number of megapixels available in post-production, it will leave you uninspired. But the Canon RP is the cheapest full-frame…
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TikTok Maker Reportedly Set to Take on Spotify With New Music Streaming App
The most valuable startup in the world is planning to launch a streaming music app.
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You Can Kayak in Europe for Free, If You Pick Up Trash
All over the world, our oceans, lakes, and rivers are full of trash. There’s a heap of plastic garbage swirling around in the Pacific Ocean right now and much of it is the result of our own littering and improper trash disposal. Some waterways in Europe suffer the same littering problem, which led to the EU banning …
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Banish Wires With Anker's Newest True Wireless Earbuds, Now Just $45
Anker just keeps on iterating on its true wireless earbuds, and now, you can get the new Soundcore Liberty Neos for an all-time low $45, down from the usual $60-$65.

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Huawei Might Already Have Its Own App Store to Counter Google Ban
Despite the Department of Commerce recently granting U.S. tech companies a 90-day extension to continue working with Huawei, due to increased security concerns and the threat of being banned from using U.S. tech, Huawei is being forced to prepare for a future without access to Google and apps hosted on Play Store.
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Wild Observation Shows White Dwarf Stars Merging Into Something New
Astronomers have observed evidence of a hot, spinning star blasting winds outwards at 10,000 miles per second, which seemed to have formed from a relatively recent collision of white dwarf stars. It’s some of the clearest evidence to date of these stars colliding and merging.

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Black Mirror Just Dropped 3 New Trailers for Season 5
Netflix already gave us a trailer for its next installment of Black Mirrorbut I guess they were feeling generous because they just gave us three more.
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The USPS Is Testing Self-Driving Trucks to Deliver Your Mountain of Packages
The famous United States Postal Service motto says, “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.” Well, that’s never been truer now that the USPS is testing self-driving trucks to deliver mail.
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Tuesday's Best Deals: Wayfair, Gaming Gold Box, Tile Pro, Nebula Capsule II, and More
An Atmos sound bar, Anker true wireless headphones, Apple iTunes Credit, and an August smart lock lead off Tuesday’s best deals from around the web.
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