Lance Whitney

Dropbox looks to declutter your hard drive

Dropbox wants to make sure your documents and other files don’t gobble up your hard drive. The online file-sharing service introduced a new feature Tuesday called Project Infinite. The idea behind the service is to make your online files look and feel just like those saved on your hard drive. Instead of storing all your …

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Android Marshmallow reaches T

T-Mobile subscribers with a Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge+ or Galaxy Note 5 can finally bite into the latest flavor of Android. The carrier announced Monday it will offer Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow operating system to the two Samsung phones. T-Mobile’s support pages describe how to check your S6 Edge+ and Note 5 to see if you need to run the update. …

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2017 iPhone will replace aluminum body with glass, says analyst

Next year’s iPhone may sport an all-glass body. The 2017 iPhone will dump its traditional aluminum casing, KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said Sunday in an investors note picked up by Apple blogs 9to5Mac and AppleInsider. Instead, the phone will have a glass chassis. The reason for the material switch, according to Kuo, is both to differentiate the iPhone from …

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Apple iPhone SE owners bemoan audio bug

iPhone users have apparently been hit by yet another bug. Released on March 31 as the latest update to Apple’s mobile operating system, iOS 9.3.1 was designed to fix a glitch that caused the Safari browser, Mail and other apps to freeze or crash when you tap on a link. But after the update rolled out, users of the brand-new …

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Android Pay dangles 2GB of free data for Verizon subscribers

Buy a few items via Android Pay and you can pick up some extra data — if you’re a Verizon customer. The deal works as follows, according to Verizon. Shop at a retailer that accepts Android Pay. Tap your phone to pay for your item, and you’ll get 1 gigabyte of free data. On your third tap, or third purchased …

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How to use Google search to find your lost Android phone

We’ve all lost our mobile phone at one point or another — sometimes in our homes, sometimes in the car and sometimes out in the wild unknown. Now instead of searching everywhere to track it down, you can rely on Google for help. This little-known Google feature lets you find your Android phone or tablet using Google’s search engine on …

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FBI hasn’t learned anything from unlocked San Bernardino iPhone, says report

The FBI reportedly hasn’t found anything helpful on the now-unlocked iPhone tied to the San Bernardino terror attack. The law enforcement agency is still analyzing information from the Apple iPhone 5C used by Syed Farook, CBS News reported Wednesday. Farook was one of two shooters involved in the December attack that left 14 people dead. The iPhone was at the …

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PC shipments nosedive worldwide

The good old PC just can’t catch a break. Global shipments of personal computers tumbled in the first quarter from a year ago, research firms Gartner and IDC said Monday. Based on preliminary data, Gartner pegged the drop at 9.6 percent, while IDC tagged the fall at 11.5 percent. Last quarter was the sixth in a row of declines for …

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Google will let you navigate around your phone, hands

Need to use your Android phone but your hands are tied up? A new voice feature from Google can help. Voice Access, currently in beta status, allows you to move around the screen, jump to other screens and open apps through your voice. You can utter specific commands, such as “Open Chrome” or “Go home.” Voice Access also places numbers …

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Windows 10 ‘blue screen of death’ could actually become useful

Windows 10 users who dread the “blue screen of death” could one day find it helpful, if news of an upcoming feature turns out to be correct. An unloved staple in Windows for years, the blue screen of death can pop up whenever some type of hardware or software problem, such as a memory conflict or a bad driver, causes …

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