Apple is currently offering $29 iPhone battery replacements, but if you paid full price ($79) for an out-of-warranty replacement before Apple discounted its rate, you may get your $50 back. Apple announced that it’s giving $50 refunds to customers who paid full price for an iPhone battery replacement, for iPhone 6 or later, at an authorized …
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Perhaps Twitter isn’t meant for your TV. Twitter announced that it’s ending support for its Xbox, Roku and Android TV apps on May 24. The social media company suggests you use Twitter on your computer or device instead. These versions of Twitter all use a streamer or console to run on your TV. There are other ways to get Twitter …
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A website meant to set up Xfinity internet service may have exposed customers’ Wi-Fi names and passwords. Luckily, Comcast already has this bug under control. The Xfinity site asked for a person’s account ID and home address in order to activate that home’s router, but once you entered this information it showed that home’s router name and password in plaintext, reported …
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Google Photos is adding two simple features that make it more like Facebook or Apple’s Photos. The online photo storage library is introducing a Favorites and Heart feature to help sort the photos you love the most. When browsing through your own pictures you’ll see a star icon that you can use to mark a photo as a favorite. Tapping …
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Buy the Razer Phone for its gaming prowess, stick around for its photography skills? Razer is pushing out a May update for the Razer Phone, and with it comes a brand-new portrait mode camera feature, as reported by XDA Developers. Portrait Mode — the camera effect that blurs the background of photos to draw focus to your subject — has …
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Apple quietly dropped the price of its Lightning to USB-C cable in the Apple store, which is sure to please some iPhone fans, and some people think it may hint at what’s to come for future Apple products too. When it was released in 2016, $25 for the one-meter Lightning-to-USB-C cable was a hefty price to ask. Now, at $19 …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Siri was more than happy to chat about Apple’s WWDC on Monday, but it turns out she was talking about last year’s developers conference. Now, if you ask Siri about Apple’s upcoming WWDC, the digital assistant says, “You can get all the details …
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The BlackBerry Key2 will be unveiled on June 7, and we may now be getting an idea of how fast the phone could be. Two listings for an unannounced BlackBerry phone appeared on benchmarking site Geekbench (here and here). The listings tell us the BlackBerry phone runs Android 8.1 and comes with a Snapdragon 660 processor. Since no current BlackBerry phone …
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Samsung is expanding its Bixby smart assistant way beyond phones. The Korean electronics giant is reportedly adding its AI voice assistant to the robot vacuum cleaners and ovens Samsung makes as well this year, according to ZDNet. The feature, known as Bixby Voice, will allow you to issue voice commands to control your appliances. So, now you can tell Bixby to queue …
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If you find a pet selfie or food pic while swiping through your Instagram feed, now you can add it to your own Instagram story (and even Facebook) with a few taps. Instagram said on Thursday it’s offering the new feature, which turns other people’s posts into a sort of sticker that you can add your own text to before sharing …
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