Amazon’s summer sales extravaganza, Prime Day, is happening in June this year (the exact dates still to be announced) and typically lasts a full 48 hours. One of the best ways to find good prices during the sales fest is Amazon’s Lightning Deals.Lightning Deals feature limited stock available at a low price for a limited time, with a purchase limit of one per customer per item. They generally offer some of the best sale prices during Prime Day, which makes the demand for them that much higher
Prime Day, Amazon’s summer shopping event, will return for a seventh year. This year it will be held earlier than usual—sometime in June, though we don’t yet know the exact date. If 2021 is anything like last year, we’ll see deals on over a million products on Amazon sites around the world. Read on for what you need to know about Prime Day and how to prepare. Note: To take advantage of Prime Day sales, you must be a member of Amazon Prime. This service is Amazon’s $119-a-year club that offers
The group overseeing the USB specification has dramatically expanded its power capabilities to allow USB-C chargers to carry up to 240 watts, allowing standard USB-C chargers greater latitude to take over from proprietary laptop charging bricks and power gaming notebooks.The USB Implementors Forum (USB-IF) issued revision 2.1 to the USB-C specification on Tuesday, as noticed by CNET. The revised specification contains language that adds Expanded Power Range cables, which expand the capability
Amazon’s Prime Day will be earlier than usual in 2021—sometime in June, although the official date has not yet been announced. As always, you’ll need to be a Prime member to partake of the deals. Prime is Amazon’s $119 per year service that provides two-day shipping on all orders, as well as a ton of extras like the Kindle lending library and Prime Video. (See our rundown of the top 9 Amazon Prime benefits to learn more.)The good news is that you may not need to pay for membership at all if y
If at first you don’t succeed, build a Nintendo Switch clone. Valve, the company behind the uber-popular Steam video game marketplace, is reportedly building another piece of mainstream gaming hardware. This time around it’s rumored to be a Switch-like handheld console that runs Linux and that might launch by the end of 2021, according to Ars Technica.The report comes after Pavel Djundik, who runs the Twitter account SteamDB, noticed references to something called “SteamPal” in the latest bet
Find yourself suddenly needing to be more productive? Good news! Windows 10 comes loaded with all sorts of tools designed to help you Get Things Done, along with deeper tweaks that can optimize the operating system for productivity even more. Each new major upgrade—like the Windows 10 May 2021 Update, the most recent one—adds even more. Now for the bad news: All those excellent productivity-boosting Windows tools and tweaks aren’t immediately obvious, with many of the most useful settings bur
The worldwide chip shortage shouldn’t have a significant effect on the 2021 PC market, which should increase by about 18 percent in 2021, analyst firm IDC said late Tuesday.IDC reported that shipments of laptops and desktops aren’t as affected by a worldwide shortage of semiconductors, which has provoked concern from top chip executives as well as the Biden administration. PCs were more constrained by the ongoing shortages of PC and laptop CPUs throughout the past two years or so. The current
Spend enough time around PC builders and PC building forums, and you’ll learn pretty quickly that the direction of a case or CPU cooler fan matters. When a fan’s positioned for intake, the intent is to pull in cool air. But when a fan is set as an exhaust fan, the idea is to expel warm air away from the case or cooler. Both options are useful depending on where the fan resides in the build.So how do you tell at a glance which way the fan is blowing, especially when even seasoned PC builders s
It’s almost here. On Tuesday, June 1—the day after Memorial Day—all your new Google Photos uploads will count against Google’s Data Cap. That excludes Pixel owners, but the rest of us only have a few days left. As we mentioned earlier, if you have photos that you’d like to add to Google Photos without it counting against the storage limit, now is the time to act.Why would you want to do this? Because you get a free backup of your photos in print quality (assuming they were in the first place)
This powerful robot will scrub your floors after vacuuming them, but glaring problems with its app nearly wipe out all its benefits. https://www.techhive.com/article/3619906/narwal-t10-review.html#tk.rss_all