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These Coca-Cola bottles use OLEDs to light up Rey and Kylo Ren’s lightsabers | Engadget
With Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker coming out on December 20th, you’re bound to see a lot of products that tie into the upcoming movie
Read MoreA serious Android bug could be exploited to steal your banking credentials | TechRadar
The newly discovered StrandHogg vulnerability leaves ‘most apps’ vulnerable to attack.
Read MoreIntel is losing against AMD | Engadget
When AMD launched its third-generation Zen 2 Ryzen processors earlier this year, Intel had to be sweating.
Read MoreFlip Phones Are a Better Idea Than Ever • Gear Patrol
With its 6.2-inch folding plastic OLED screen, the new Motorola Razr is an unabashed nostalgia gimmick, but it might be the phone of my dreams despite that.
Read MoreGoogle Maps lets you manage your public profile from the Android app | Engadget
You don’t have to go to the web just to take control of your account. Google Maps increasingly thrives on user contributions to fill in details, but you haven’t had the option to manage your public profile from the phone app you’re probably using to make those contributions. That’s a bit backwards, but Google is…
Read MoreInstagram’s push to hide ‘Like’ counts comes to the US next week | Engadget
Instagram has been testing out a change that hides the “likes” counter on posts around the world for months, but not in the US.
Read MoreWhatsApp adds shopping catalog feature, courting e-commerce – Reuters
Facebook Inc on Thursday launched a catalog feature for its WhatsApp messaging app, it said in a blog post, building out the service’s e-commerce tools as it moves slowly toward monetizing the app it bought in 2014 for $19 billion
Read MoreAmazon discounts some Echo Show devices to their lowest price ever | Engadget
Little known fact: today is Alexa’s 5th birthday. To mark the occasion, Amazon is of course holding a sale.
Read MoreGerman leader wants 1 million EV charging points by 2030 | Engadget
Electric car charging stations are still relatively few and far between, but they might be ubiquitous within a decade – in Germany
Read MoreGoogle buys Fitbit for $2.1 billion | Engadget
Fitbit is to be acquired by Google in an all-cash deal worth around $2.1 billion, the two companies announced today The company will be folded in to the search giant, forming part of its hardware team, making a new generation of wearables. Judging from the statements made by Fitbit CEO James Park (pictured) and Google’s…
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