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• [Deal Alert] Get a refurbished ASUS Chromebook Flip C100PA for $149.99 from Woot
  

  Chromebooks are still some of the best value computers on the market, mostly thanks to Chrome OS’ ability to run well even on underpowered hardware. The ASUS Chromebook Flip C100PA wasn’t exactly high-end when it was released in 2015, but even in 2017…

• Weekend poll: Do you use Android Pay?
  

  Android Pay is adding new banks all the time, and it’s even expanding its global presence slowly but surely. This week, I’m asking how many of you actually use it.
  Android Pay is something that I was very skeptical on initially, going back to the days…

• Smartphones without borders: where they came from and where they’re going
  

  With the Mi Mix, Essential Phone, Sharps, Samsungs, Sonys, and others, the world of smartphones is embracing the borderless trend. But what does the future hold?(This is a preview – click here to read the entire entry.)

• You can now order items from Walmart through Google Express and Google Home
  

  

  Nothing says ‘the future’ like asking your smart speaker to buy groceries for you. While the Google Home can’t drive to the store itself, it can order them through Google Express. Google previously announced that it would partner with Walmart to offer easy voice shopping through Assistant, and now it’s live.

    

  Walmart items are now listed in Google Express, and you can connect your Google account to a Walmart account to easily reorder items.

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  You can now order items from Walmart through Google Express and Google Home was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

• Android O feature spotlight: Default Wi-Fi hotspot SSIDs are now unique
  

  

  There is a small problem you can run into when setting up a Wi-Fi hotspot in previous versions of Android. By default, the SSID is just AndroidAP, and a lot of people don’t change that. So if your phone, tablet, or laptop connected to such an access point in the past, they’d try again every time they saw that Android AP SSID. But as of Android 8.0 Oreo, any devices that never ran a previous version of Android will get a unique hotspot SSID. 

  There is a caveat, and that is that any device which has been upgraded to O won’t see this behavior by default.

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  Android O feature spotlight: Default Wi-Fi hotspot SSIDs are now unique was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

• The best home security camera on the market: Amaryllo
  

  Amaryllo home security cameras are available on the market now. But should you buy one? We think so, here’s why.(This is a preview – click here to read the entire entry.)

• [Deal Alert] AT&T/unlocked LG V20 is down to $329.99 on Breed via NeweggFlash
  

  

  The LG V30 may have been announced, but it still isn’t for sale in the US. Until then, last year’s V20 reigns as the newest LG V-series phone you can purchase stateside. And now, you can get an AT&T/unlocked model for just $329.99 on NeweggFlash through seller Breed.

  In case you’ve forgotten, the V20 sports a 5.7″ 1440p IPS display, a Snapdragon 820, 4GB of RAM, 64GB of internal storage with microSD expansion, a 16MP/8MP camera setup on the rear, a 5MP front-facing camera, and a 3200mAh battery.

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  [Deal Alert] AT&T/unlocked LG V20 is down to $329.99 on Breed via NeweggFlash was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

• Is the LG V30 good for gaming?
  

  The LG V30 is a great phone in many aspects,so we decided to look in detail at whether it’s good for playing games, as this was one of its biggest selling points.(This is a preview – click here to read the entire entry.)

• For Google, HTC deal is about the Pixel’s next decade
  

  Google wants to win the smartphone game, and with the recent HTC deal, there’s a realistic roadmap to getting there.

  When rumors began swirling about Google buying HTC’s smartphone division, anyone with an opinion on the industry had thoughts; here’s why it’s good for Google; here’s why it’s a terrible idea. Both sides were probably right, to some extent.

  Now that the deal is done, though, we have a more nuanced understanding of exactly what transpired, and why Google chose not to acquire HTC’s entire smartphone division, but instead over 2,000 of its employees, most of which have worked in some capacity on the company’s Pixel lineup. The deal ensures that the Pixel lineup is here to stay, that Google is not just invested in hardware as a division — this is not some ephemeral project that will dissipate into Google’s core business as so many others have over the years — but in the Pixel smartphone as a concept.

  Google was a very different company when it bought Moto…

• Ace the Project Management Professional (PMP) exam with this certification prep course!
  

  Whether you are looking to start a new career or just advance the one you are in currently, you’ll need some certifications under your belt to make you stand out above the others. Unfortunately, getting certifications can be a time-consuming and expensive process. You need time to study, money to pay for the courses, and then you just have to hope that you can keep up with that and your regular job. Well, it doesn’t have to be that way.

  How does lifetime access to more than 76 courses that contain just shy of 40 hours of training sound? Well, with this awesome certification training package you can work towards becoming certified in one of the industry’s most respected certification organizations. You’ll be able to access the material 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, so you can do things on your schedule, and this will also help you meet that 35 contact-hour requirements for the exam and certification.

  For just $50 you’ll have access to:

  Get lifetime access to 76+ courses & 35+ …

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