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HP Pavilion - 14-bf116tx, Core™ i5-8250U 1.6GHz 1TB 8 GB 15.6" (1920x1080) Touchscreen NVIDIA GeForce 940MX Graphics DVD-RW BT WIN10 Webcam SILVER Backlit Keyboard CPU Intel® Core™ i5-8250U (1.6 GHz base frequency, up to 3.4 GHz with Intel® Turbo Boost Technology, 6 MB cache, 4 cores) RAM 8 GB DDR4-2400 SDRAM  Graphics NVIDIA GeForce 940MX 2GB Graphics Memory 8 GB DDR4-2400MHz;  Display 14" diagonal FHD IPS BrightView micro-edge WLED-backlit (1920 x 1080) Connections 1 USB 3.1 Type-C™ Gen 1 (Data Transfer up to 5 Gb/s, DP1.2, HP Sleep and Charge); 2 USB 3.1 Gen 1 (1 HP Sleep and Charge); 1 HDMI; 1 headphone/microphone combo Networking 802.11ac (2x2) and Bluetooth® 4.0 combo Storage  1TB HDD  Webcam HP Wide Vision HD Camera with dual array digital microphone Battery 3-cell, 41 Wh Li-ion Pointing Device HP Imagepad with multi-touch gesture support Dimension & Weight 32.4 x 22.76 x 1.99 cm 1.63KG Audio Bang & Olufsen; Dual speakers

BEST OVERALL OnePlus 5T ($499) ONEPLUS The OnePlus 5T (9/10) is one of our favorite Android phones at any price. It has the chops (and chips) to go head to head with any device, but costs $200-$500 less than its rivals. You just don’t see devices with top-of-the-line Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 processors, AMOLED screens, 6GB of RAM, and 64GB of internal storage for $500. And if you do want to spend another $60, you can future proof it for another year or two, giving it 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage. Our only real complaints were that the camera has a few quirks (still very good), it’s only “splash” proof instead of waterproof, and OnePlus doesn’t have the best history with software updates. You'll probably want to buy a case ( this one  should protect it from drops) with the money you save. It also only works on GSM carriers like AT&T and T-Mobile. I could go on, but I’ll just say this: It’s a comfortable, pleasant, fast phone to use. I used to go back to usin...

People can use the “share button” for some data control. But what are they giving up when they just log in to Facebook? Facebook co-founder, chair, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg prepares to testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill April 11, 2018, in Washington, DC.   Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Mark Zuckerberg   really wants you to know   there’s a button there for you to decide who among your friends and acquaintances sees the pictures, messages, and news articles you share on Facebook. He’s less willing to talk about how or if you can decide what advertisers and marketers see when you log in to Facebook in the first place. The 33-year-old founder, chair, and CEO of Facebook returned to Congress on Wednesday to answer a variety of   questions about his social media platform   before the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Among the numerous items on the agenda were data ownership and access a...

There are three   primary ways to monetize (that is, generate revenue from) a website: Ecommerce   . Receive profits from direct sales of products or services. Affiliate marketing . Receive referral fees from merchants when a product or service you linked to results in a sale as a result of your link. Advertising . Receive ad revenue for displaying advertising on your website, blog, or e-mail newsletter. It’s the third approach that we’ll be exploring in this article. Your dream may be to build a website, have people visit in droves, and then rake in ad revenue while relaxing at the beach. It’s a common dream, but an unrealistic one — for most people and businesses, that is. If you have the right kind of site and if you work hard and smart, however, you might be able to achieve at least modest advertising revenue from your site. Whether you’ll put in much beach-time, remains to be seen. Stating the Obvious Before I begin, let me state a few obvious principles of...