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Apple

9to5Mac Watch Time: Miles Somerville on YouTube, drumming, and closing rings

Miles Somerville is one half of 9to5Mac’s YouTube channel alongside Jeff Benjamin. This week we’re catching up with Miles to learn how he uses the Apple Watch. 9to5Mac Watch Time is a podcast series hosted by Zac Hall. In this series, we talk to real people about how Apple Watch is affecting their lives. Subscribe […]

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The 9to5Mac Apple Product of the Year: The M1 MacBook Air, Mac mini, and MacBook Pro

Apple first unveiled its plans to transition away from Intel processors at WWDC in June, detailing that the first Mac powered by Apple Silicon would be released before the end of the year. As it turns out, Apple released three Macs powered by its new M1 chip: a MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and Mac mini. […]

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How-tos

New Router? Simplify Network Setup by Reusing Your SSID and Password – Review Geek

Aquarius Studio/Shutterstock Did you get a shiny new Wi-Fi router to help with all your stay-at-home internet activities? You’re likely not alone, thanks to the rise in video conferencing, streaming, and other internet-related activities across the home. But the worst part is updating all your devices with the new Wi-Fi name and password. That is […]

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Bryn Mawr’s Jeff Mills believes the small-caps boom is only just beginning and 2021 will deliver even bigger gains

General view of atmosphere during the NYSE opening bell ceremony at the New York Stock Exchange on December 15
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Small-cap stocks look set to deliver even bigger returns to investors in 2021, thanks to economic recovery at the hands of stimulus and vaccines, Bryn Mawr’s Mills said.
“From […]

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Apple cost short sellers $7 billion this year, but there’s a stock that was much more brutal for the bears

There are the giddy “Teslanairesâ€� who understandably will talk your ear off about how amazingly well they’ve done over this year, and then there’s the other, much darker, side of the trade. Those betting against Elon Musk. According to S3 Partners, short sellers lost more on Tesla TSLA, +2.71% than they did on any other […]

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Computering

New Intel 11th-gen leak threatens AMD’s new Ryzen 5000 single-core crown

When AMD launched its Ryzen 5000 processors, it shook the CPU market to the core by toppling Intel when it came to single-core – and thus gaming – performance. However, another leak has surfaced that suggests that Intel could be reclaiming the gaming performance crown.  A CPU-Z benchmark result for the Intel Core i9-11900K has […]

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Favorite tech 2020: What got us through this tough year

Over the past few weeks, we’ve posted a lot of “best ofâ€� lists to summarize the year. Most of those lists obviously revolve around smartphones. If you want to know what we really think is the best phone of the year, here you go. But what about our favorite tech of the year that wasn’t […]

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Computering

I sat in Logitech’s $1,500 gaming chair for two months, here’s my story

When Herman Miller and Logitech came together and released the Embody earlier this year, I immediately paid attention. The chair just looks like something you’d see in a science fiction movie, and had such a high price tag that I had to see if it was worth all the hype.  For all the talk I […]

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