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The High Price of Delivery App Convenience
By BRIAN X. CHEN
With a tap on a smartphone, consumers in some areas can have almost anything delivered within hours. But the cost of that is significant, and not always obvious.
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Gaming, shopping, video and utility apps that have the potential to make your television truly “smart.”
With a tap on a smartphone, consumers in some areas can have almost anything delivered within hours. But the cost of that is significant, and not always obvious.
Its plethora of innovations and apps leads me to conclude that the upgraded box is now the best TV streaming device.
Many frustrating speed bottlenecks at home can be traced to that dusty old box in your basement.
A look at how the new features in Microsoft’s latest operating system compare with version 8.1, and what to do if you’re getting text messages on your iPad but not your iPhone.
The WhatsApp site offers instructions for emailing the contents of a conversation in a file to yourself — which could then be printed.
The iPhone allows users to manage the storage of their apps and uninstall the ones that are no longer needed. Old files and photos can be dumped too.
Why certain corners of the world may appear in higher resolution than others in Google Earth.
If Airbnb is unavailable for the city you plan to visit, other home-rental apps include HomeAway, HouseTrip, Roomorama and Onefinestay.
Explore games for your smartphone where skulls and skeletons drive the action, and scream, or smile, as apps apply gory special effects to your face.
A collection of apps like Geography Quiz Game 3D and Guess the Place can help you brush up on your world knowledge.
Microsoft is embracing a fragmented view of the future, in which no single device, or even single category of devices, reigns supreme. The plan is rife with risk — but that doesn’t mean it can’t work.
Voice recognition and artificial intelligence have improved so fast that we are nearing “ambient computing,” or robotic assistants that are always on hand.
The online teaching start-up’s “nanodegree” program lets students take their time, offers personalized grading and rewards those who finish.
Sample the speakers and headphones with the music or use you have in mind. Here are a variety, including a set to protect children’s hearing.
The idea that all products will someday be connected to the Internet has spurred inventions like an automatic home brewery and a smart toothbrush.
The TAG Connected brings digital functionality to Swiss watchmaking. Should you buy in?
Autonomous vehicles might remain an expensive novelty, or they might utterly transform society. Either way, they have much to teach us about how to look at the cities we live in.
The company is in talks with banks about a service that would let people use their iPhones to send money to one another as easily as they send messages.
T-Mobile has quietly increased some of its data plan prices even as it offers higher data limits. Some customers may pay less and get more data; others will pay more for more data than they will use.
Facebook is introducing a new iPhone app that lets users sign up for custom notifications from a selection of about 70 news outlets and information providers.
DraftKings and FanDuel were ordered to stop accepting bets in New York as the attorney general said their games constituted illegal gambling under state law.
The company is trying to make it easier to accomplish tasks inside text messaging and to give other app makers the programming hooks that allow them to expand the abilities of text messages even further.
Drone racing enthusiasts envision televised races and significant purses in their emerging sport.
No perfectly curated lives, no friend counts. no “likes.” Snapchat is all about interaction.
Despite its use for illegal activities, Bitcoin is being closely studied by conventional banks and financial firms. The online currency has rallied over 100 percent in the last month.
Bitcoin is both a virtual currency and an online payment system, one that some people believe will transform the global financial system.
Super League Gaming, a new after-school league for children 7 to 14, treats video games like soccer.
Companies from Artsy to Amazon hope to use digital technology to improve a business that has long relied on the personal touch of traditional auction houses.
As with painting and plumbing, it may be wise to hire a professional when it comes to connecting your home to the Internet.
What happens when an amateur tackles a technology installation project.
A 2006 federal law intended to make it more difficult to gamble on the Internet has, by almost any measure, been a spectacular failure.
Find out which parts of your identity may have been stolen in major hacking attacks over the last two years.
A series from The Well blog explores how technology can help us better understand our personal health.
The Times tested some of the latest and most popular trackers to compare how they work and the various features they offer.
High-tech fitness and activity trackers all share one thing: an accelerometer. Here’s how they work — and don’t.
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