Looks like the $1,299 price tag isn’t scaring customers away from the Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Plus 5G after all. Sales of the premium, 5G-capable smartphone represented one third of all Galaxy Note 10 sales at Verizon in August, Cliff Maldonado, principal analyst and founder of BayStreet Research, told CNET sister site TechRepublic and confirmed …
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Movado unveiled its newest smartwatch, the Movado Connect 2.0, on Friday — the same day the Apple Watch Series 5 went on sale. Like the Apple Watch, the Movado Connect 2.0 includes a heart rate monitor and fitness tracking but runs on Wear OS by Google. The watches come in 15 styles for women and men, with 40mm or 42mm …
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Huawei unveiled its latest premium smartphones — the Huawei Mate 30 and Mate 30 Pro — on Thursday at an event in Munich. The new phones include professional-grade cameras that put them in direct competition with Apple’s new iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro. The quad-camera setup on the Mate 30 Pro stole the show at the event. The four …
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Huawei unveiled its latest premium smartphones — the Mate 30 and Mate 30 Pro — on Thursday, at an event in Munich. The new phones, particularly the Mate 30 Pro, will compete with Apple’s new iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro, Samsung’s Galaxy Note 10 phones and the upcoming Google Pixel 4, launching on Oct. 15. The Mate 30 phones …
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Lest you believed the term “slofie” was nothing but a cruel joke from the techno gods at Apple, the company has applied to trademark the name for the slow-motion video selfie feature found in the iPhone 11, according to a document filed with the US Patent and Trademark office this week. Many early reactions to the slofie feature were negative, …
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The Federal Communications Commission named New York City and Salt Lake City as its first two “Innovation Zones” on Wednesday. The two metro areas will act as city-scale test-beds for advanced wireless communications and network research and experimentation, including 5G, according to a press release. Both cities already have licensed experimental programs under way. The Innovation Zone extends the areas …
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Deepfakes are a major security concern for their ability to make it appear as though people are doing or saying something they never actually did. But startup Descript is trying to use the artificial intelligence technology for something simpler: podcast editing. On Wednesday the company launched a beta of a new feature in its Descript podcasting software. The feature, called …
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Amazon quietly changed its search algorithm last year to favor products that earn the company a higher profit, instead of those that’re most relevant or best selling, people who worked on the project told The Wall Street Journal. Any change to Amazon’s secret search system can have a major impact on the products and brands involved, as most purchases are …
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Crafter and techie parents, unite. Retail craft chain Joann is partnering with the GoldieBlox children’s media company on a monthly subscription box meant to encourage kids’ development of STEM skills, the companies said Thursday. Each box includes tools to make science-based projects, along with information about the science and technology behind them. The Joann GoldieBlox Box is made for kids …
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Apple’s rumored venture into smart glasses did not come to fruition at the Apple iPhone 11 Pro event on Tuesday, but they’re still an imminent possibility, as code found in the upcoming release of the company’s iOS 13 mobile software suggests. On Twitter on Tuesday, developer Steven Troughton-Smith pointed out that the iOS 13 beta now contains StarBoard frameworks, Apple’s shell system for …
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