Late yesterday afternoon, we told you about a surprise sale that popped up on Amazon. While most sales were in the process of ending since Mather’s Day 2019 is over, Amazon decided to give Prime members a treat by slashing its two most popular Fire TV products to their lowest prices of the year. The Fire TV Stick dropped to $24.99 instead of $39.99, and the Fire TV Stick 4K went on sale for $34.99, down from $50. A bunch of our readers likely missed the news since it was so late in the day, and this is a killer sale so we definitely want to make sure as many people as possible have the opportunity to take advantage. These prices are only available to Prime subscribers though, so sign up for a free trial if you’re not already a member.

Fire TV Stick

• Our best-selling Fire TV Stick, now with Alexa Voice Remote (2nd Gen). Use the dedicated power, volume, and mute buttons to control your TV, soundbar, and receiver.
• Launch and control content with the Alexa Voice Remote. Watch favorites from Netflix, Prime Video, Hulu, STARZ, SHOWTIME, or CBS All Access, plus stream for free with Pluto TV, IMDb Freedive, and others.
• Fire TV Stick devices have more storage for apps and games than any other streaming media stick.
• Experience tens of thousands of channels, apps, and Alexa skills, plus browse millions of websites like YouTube, Facebook, and Reddit using Firefox or Silk.
• Alexa on Fire TV provides the most comprehensive voice experience of any streaming media player—view live camera feeds, check the weather, dim the lights, and stream music.
• Amazon Prime members get unlimited access to thousands of movies and TV episodes, plus ad-free listening to millions of songs with Prime Music.
• No cable or satellite? No problem. Watch live TV and sports with subscriptions to Hulu, PlayStation Vue, and others.
• Switch seamlessly between your headphones and sound system—pair compatible Bluetooth headphones with Fire TV to listen to movies, TV shows, and music.

Fire TV Stick with Alexa Voice Remote, streaming media player: $24.99

Fire TV Stick 4K

• The most powerful 4K streaming media stick with a Wi-Fi antenna design optimized for 4K Ultra HD streaming.
• Launch and control content with the Alexa Voice Remote. Watch favorites from Netflix, Prime Video, Hulu, STARZ, SHOWTIME, or CBS All Access, plus stream for free with Pluto TV, IMDb Freedive, and others.
• Enjoy brilliant picture with access to 4K Ultra HD, Dolby Vision, HDR, and HDR10+. Experience immersive sound with Dolby Atmos on select Prime Video titles.
• Choose from 500,000 movies and TV episodes. Watch favorites from Netflix, Prime Video, Hulu, STARZ, SHOWTIME, CBS All Access, and others.
• Fire TV Stick devices have more storage for apps and games than any other streaming media stick.
• Experience tens of thousands of channels, apps, and Alexa skills, plus millions of websites like YouTube, Facebook, and Reddit.
• Alexa on Fire TV provides the most comprehensive voice experience of any streaming media player—view live camera feeds, check the weather, dim the lights, and stream music.
• Amazon Prime members get unlimited access to thousands of movies and TV episodes, plus ad-free listening to millions of songs with Prime Music.

Fire TV Stick 4K with Alexa Voice Remote, streaming media player: $34.99

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Surprise sale slashes Fire TV Stick 4K to $35 and Fire TV Stick all the way down to $25 originally appeared on BGR.com on Tue, 14 May 2019 at 07:54:35 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The foldable smartphones are already here, and by here we mean that we’ve seen a bunch of them in the past few months, although only a couple are ready to hit the market. In reality, the Galaxy Fold has been delayed indefinitely, as Samsung has to fix the screen and prevent it from breaking. The Huawei Mate X, meanwhile, is yet to hit stores. But forget about foldable phones, because the next big foldable thing is already here. Well, kind of. The Lenovo ThinkPad X1 prototype you’re about to see will launch in the first half of 2020 for an undisclosed price.

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Forget the Galaxy Fold, the world’s first foldable laptop is so much cooler originally appeared on BGR.com on Tue, 14 May 2019 at 07:31:02 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Whether you are riding to work or to grab a coffee at your local spot, you need a lock to keep your bicycle safe. Here’s a useful list of the best bike locks available that we’ve put together.

Best Bicycle Lock Cable

If you are looking for sturdiness, look no further than the Titanker Bike Lock Cable which is made from hardened ABS steel. The 16mm is thicker than almost any other lock on the market and has a four foot, 10mm thick double loop steel cable that adds an extra layer of protection. It is proven to be hard to penetrate with bolt cutters and it stores easily while riding.

Titanker Bike Lock Cable, 4-Feet Bike Cable Basic Self Coiling Resettable Combination Cable Bik…: $11.99

Best Lightweight Bicycle Lock

The Kryptonite Keeper 785 Integrated Bicycle Lock only weighs 1.1 pounds but packs a lot into its 33.5 inches. The 7mm four-sided chain links are made from manganese steel and its patent-pending END LINK DESIGN secures the chain to a hardened deadbolt cylinder that is pick and drill resistant. The look and security of the lock has been raved about by customers for a long time.

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Best Value

Flexzion’s Keyless Lock has a lot of flexibility for use as it extends to four feet and can be used to lock up bicycles, ladders, tool boxes, refrigerators and anything else that might need securing. The keyless lock allows you to set a four digit combination. The affordable price has gone a long way to satisfying customers who love the steel cables.

Flexzion Bike Cable Lock Bicycle Cycling Security Keyless Tool 4 Digit Combination 4 ft x 5/16I…: $7.99

More Options

• The IDEALUX Bike Lock is resettable and comes in multiple different colors. It is lightweight and can be used on anything around your house. It is weatherproof and comes with a 12-month warranty.
• ABUS offers the 1385 Key Tressor Chain Lock which has a 7mm square special hardened steel chain. It has a pinned fabric sleeve that won’t damage any paint job.
• For sport bikers, Aduro has the Bicycle Master Cable Lock that comes with a free mount for the back of a mountain, sport, or children’s bicycle. The braided wire is wrapped in PVC materials which makes it preventative towards scratching.

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Best Bicycle Locks originally appeared on BGR.com on Tue, 14 May 2019 at 07:00:47 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Google’s newest Pixel phone is a mid-range device that delivers great features for its price. But make no mistake, this isn’t a real alternative to some of the best 2018 and 2019 flagships out there, iPhones included. By the way, don’t consider trading your old iPhone for a Pixel 3a model, unless that iPhone is iPhone 6 or older. The Pixel 3a lacks the build quality and the top hardware of the Pixel 3, but it also packs a feature you won’t find on the Pixel 3 phones. That’s the headphone jack, which Google removed from its Pixel flagships back in fall 2017.

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Google just told us why the Pixel 3a has a headphone jack, and it’s exactly what you think originally appeared on BGR.com on Tue, 14 May 2019 at 06:50:23 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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As scientists continue to toil away at creating machine learning algorithms that will one day enslave humanity save us all, artificial intelligence researchers have discovered that computers are outpacing human doctors in a number of important areas. We’ve already seen the ability of AI to spot things like cancer, and a new study reveals that a digital brain may also be better at predicting overall mortality and specific conditions such as heart attack with greater accuracy than a trained individual.

The research, which was presented at the International Conference on Nuclear Cardiology and Cardiac CT, suggests that we may be fast approaching a day when artificial intelligence works hand-in-hand with medical professionals to anticipate life-threatening problems before they occur.

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AI is now better at predicting mortality than human doctors originally appeared on BGR.com on Mon, 13 May 2019 at 23:07:21 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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After so many years of talking about the miracle that 5G will be for everything tech-related, it finally happened: 5G is here. “Here” is Korea, the US, and Switzerland, for the time being, although more and more countries will be getting 5G coverage in the coming months.

What that means is that you’ll need new, more expensive phones to get on 5G, and pay a little extra on your monthly cellular bill. But it doesn’t mean that 5G will give you or your children cancer, or hurt anyone’s health in any other way. If you’ve heard any of that lately, it’s all a conspiracy theory originating from Russia in an attempt to reduce the gap when it comes to 5G deployment.

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NYT: Conspiracy theories that 5G phones cause cancer originate from Russia originally appeared on BGR.com on Mon, 13 May 2019 at 22:05:16 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Once companies started to notice the runaway popularity of ephemeral “Stories” within apps like Instagram and Snapchat, the format started showing up everywhere from Facebook to Tinder and YouTube as part of an evolution of the infinitely scrollable permanent feed in favor of content that disappears after a time.

Facebook, for its part, believes in the format so much that the world’s biggest social network has shoehorned Stories into Messenger and the main Facebook app, hoping to duplicate at least some of the success the format has enjoyed within Instagram. And now it looks like Spotify will be the next app to bring this kind of Stories-like format into its wheelhouse.

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Spotify might be the next app to add Instagram-style Stories originally appeared on BGR.com on Mon, 13 May 2019 at 21:03:11 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Game of Thrones season 8 has been a mixed bag for many viewers, if all the reactions I’m seeing every week on Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit are anything to go by. That’s not to say that there haven’t been great moments, or that it’s easy to bring the biggest, most expensive show of the decade to a satisfying conclusion, but many of the choices that showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss have made aren’t landing for some fans.

But it’s not just the fans that are struggling to make it through this season. Someone has sliced together a collection of clips from interviews and red carpet appearances in which various cast members of the show — from Kit Harington to Peter Dinklage — in which they seemingly express their disappointment with the direction that the show has taken in its final season. After last night’s episode, it’s honestly somewhat cathartic.

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Watch the ‘Game of Thrones’ cast try to pretend they’re excited about season 8 originally appeared on BGR.com on Mon, 13 May 2019 at 20:08:01 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Earth isn’t the only place that “quakes.” Rocky planets and moons regularly experience similar movements, and faults can form between massive chunks of crust on other worlds the same as they can here on Earth. The Moon is one place we know that experiences those kinds of shifts, and new research suggests that it might actually be making the Moon smaller over time.

The study, which was published in Nature Geoscience, explains how the cliffs observed on the Moon’s surface hint at a cooling spell that occurred after the Moon formed. As it cooled, it “shriveled like a raisin,” and large cliffs formed on the surface when the Moon’s crust was compressed. These regions, known as thrust faults, may still be growing today, and the overall size of the Moon may be shrinking as a result.

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New study suggests the Moon may be shrinking originally appeared on BGR.com on Mon, 13 May 2019 at 19:37:22 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Whether you’re a fan of Tesla or convinced that the company is destined to fail spectacularly, it’s impossible to deny that Tesla manufactures some of the safest cars the automotive world has ever seen. With that said, it’s a bit peculiar that we’ve seen a handful of stories involving Tesla vehicles spontaneously catching fire for no apparent reason over the past few months.

The latest incident comes to us via the Tesla Motors Club forum where a member relays that a 2016 Model S in caught fire out of the blue while parked in Hong Kong. Details surrounding the incident — which hasn’t been officially confirmed, we should note — still remain a bit hazy. And while we’d ordinarily gloss over such a seemingly incredulous story, the reality is that we’ve seen a handful of similar stories hit the news over the past few months.

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Another Tesla may have spontaneously caught fire in Hong Kong originally appeared on BGR.com on Mon, 13 May 2019 at 19:06:08 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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