Android tablets, slim TVs, SolarWinds, misinformation, Windows 10, Quibi content, Galaxy S21, best-selling 2020 books and buried treasure. The year started with a wave of Consumer Electronics Show news and much more. Check out all the headlines below and click to read the full stories.
Electronics
- Recycling electronics: What to do with your old laptops, phones, cameras and batteries
- Amazon Echo Show 8 review: The best Alexa smart display, period
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- The best Android tablet for 2021
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- Samsung MicroLED TVs bring huge images to rich people’s walls in 2021
Privacy and Security
- Microsoft says SolarWinds hackers viewed source code
- Russia blamed for SolarWinds hack in joint FBI, NSA and CISA statement
- SolarWinds fallout: DOJ says hackers accessed its Microsoft O365 email server
Coronavirus / COVID-19
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Software
- App spending hit $400 million during socially isolated holiday season
- Venmo adds new feature that lets you cash checks from home
- Major Microsoft leak suggests Windows is BACK
- Microsoft adds ‘news and interests’ feature to Windows 10 taskbar in latest Insider test release
Technology
- Space in 2020: Many reasons to celebrate in an otherwise terrible year
- Transparent OLED: See-through TV comes to tomorrow’s beds, restaurants, subways
- Amazon to buy Wondery, injecting Amazon Music into a hot bidding zone for podcasts
- Tech that can help you stick to your New Year’s resolutions
- Quibi’s content library could make its way to Roku
- Amazon’s Haven healthcare venture is reportedly disbanding
- Amazon buys planes for the first time to expand its cargo air fleet
- Verizon extends reach of low-cost broadband program Fios Forward
- Amazon will put $2 billion toward affordable housing near its headquarters
Phones
- Everything we know about Samsung’s Galaxy S21 so far
- Samsung Galaxy S21 colors: Get ready for pastel pink, if rumors are true
- AT&T’s ‘secret’ prepaid plan is great for those who don’t need unlimited data
Fun Stories
- A preserved woolly rhinoceros has been exhumed from the permafrost in Russia
- Can Nostalgia Save Oregon’s Beloved Psychedelic Theme Park?
- The 40 Best-Selling Books of 2020, According to The New York Times Best Seller List
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- This Online Tool Transports You to Forests Around the World
- Jeep Grand Cherokee history: How the SUV evolved over nearly 3 decades
- Found: A Nazi ‘Enigma’ Machine at the Bottom of a Bay
- 12 Incredible Facts About the Sutton Hoo Ship Burial Treasure
- Massachusetts Could Be Getting a State Dinosaur—And You Can Help Choose Which One
- Watch a Bright Blue UFO Zoom Over Hawaii in Eyewitness Video
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