Sony’s new PS4 update adds new voice commands and much more. Sony/screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET Sony PlayStation 4 owners should get set for a major update. Due out on Tuesday, version 2.0 of the game console’s software carries with it a variety of new features, improvements and other surprises. In a blog posted on Monday, …
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Microsoft is baking some trackpad features into Windows, which should make gestures more consistent across different manufacturers’ Windows laptops. Tom Warren/YouTube; screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET Microsoft will outfit Windows 10 with new trackpad gestures that borrow more than a few tricks from the Mac. In a speech at the TechEd Europe conference on Tuesday, Microsoft corporate VP Joe Belfiore took …
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Screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET Apple’s Touch ID protects your iPhone or iPad by allowing access only through your fingerprint. For those of you with the latest iPhone or iPad, here’s how you set up, enable and disable the feature. Introduced with the iPhone 5S, Touch ID requires you to register your fingerprint by pressing the Home button several times. Once …
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The iPhone 6 is racking up healthy preorders in Korea. Apple The iPhone 6 is already proving hotter than the Galaxy Note 4 in Samsung’s home base of South Korea, according to preorder data cited by the Wall Street Journal. Apple’s latest iPhones hit the preorder stage last Friday with all three of the country’s mobile carriers jumping in to …
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Camera+ offers greater control over your photos. Screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET iPhone users looking for a more versatile and powerful camera app than Apple’s default one can now grab a good one for free. Camera+ normally sells for $3 in Apple’s App Store. For a limited time, though, Apple is offering the app for free through its Apple Store app, …
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Tim Cook at the Apple Store in Palo Alto, California. James Martin/CNET Apple plans to open another 25 retail outlets in China over the next couple of years. The goal was voiced by Apple CEO Tim Cook, according to a Chinese transcript of an interview posted by Sina.com, the English version of the site reported on Thursday. The new stores …
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Google’s Nexus 6 smartphone will feature Android 5.0 Lollipop right out of the box. Google Android Lollipop 5.0 will reportedly start rolling out on November 3. The launch date for the latest version of Google’s mobile operating system was apparently revealed in a note to app developers obtained by Android Police . The note tells developers that the Software Development …
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The Google Apps Dashboard showed problems with several services. Screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET Google users were unable to access several services early Wednesday, but everything seems to be back up and running at this point. A glimpse at the Google Apps Dashboard showed problems with a number of services, notably Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Talk, Google Drive, Google Sites, Google …
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You can apparently use Apple Pay outside the US if you meet the right conditions. Apple Apple Pay is designed to function only in the US, but you can apparently coax it into paying for goods in other countries by using a US credit card and changing your iPhone’s location status to the US. On Monday, Apple officially launched Apple …
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Apple/USPTO Apple wants to turn your iPhone into an advanced remote control for your car, but this idea may go a bit further than current such devices. Published on Tuesday by the US Patent and Trademark Office, a patent application called “Accessory control with geo-fencing” imagines a virtual field or boundary around your car known as a geofence. By detecting …
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