Lori Grunin

Samsung appeals $539M verdict in Apple case, because of course

The jury may have made a decision, but the fight isn’t over. Samsung asked a court last Thursday to either dismiss the judgment in its phone patent fight with Apple or retry the case in which the damages were decided. In a 34-page post-trial motion filed with the US District Court in San Jose, California, Samsung says …

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Microsoft kills forum support for Office 2013, Surface Pro, Windows 8.1 and more

Microsoft will no longer officially participate in a variety of product-support forums for some older software and hardware, save monitoring them for bad behavior. None of this comes as a surprise, but you’ve probably been looking elsewhere for your Zune answers, anyway. (And Zune is the only one it’ll be locking against updates.) In a blog post Monday, Microsoft listed …

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Lyft app update adds Shared rides, cost and time compare, mass transit

The new version of Lyft’s app sounds like it takes some hints from Google Maps and Uber to deliver a more streamlined transportation experience. Lyft announced the new app intentions on its site — it won’t roll out until the end of July — describing the new flow and features. It will offer better comparisons of the cost and durations of …

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Apple hit with lawsuit over Watch ‘pop, crack, or shatter’ issue

Apple’s been served with another class-action suit, this time over the the screen of the Apple Watch’s tendency to reportedly “crack, shatter, or detach from the body of the Watch … through no fault of the wearer, oftentimes only days or weeks after purchase.”  The blog Patently Apple noticed the suit filing this week, in which the plaintiffs are seeking $5 …

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New Apple App Store rules just made Steam Link and its ilk viable

A new “Remote Application Mirroring” policy in Apple’s App Store review guidelines may indicate there’s hope for Valve’s recently rejected Steam Link app. But in order to comply, the owner of the Steam gaming platform, Valve, may have to water down the app significantly compared with its Android version. Section 4.2.7 of the rules, initially pointed out by Reuters, say that …

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iOS 12 Face ID supports second face via new ‘appearance’ option, report says

Enlarge Image 9to5mac Add the ability to recognize a second person with Face ID authentication to the list of new features in iOS 12 that weren’t announced in the WWDC 2018 keynote on Monday. That’s according to a report by 9to5mac, which found the option to “set up alternate appearance” in a beta of the new operating system software for …

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Samsung signs on for Windows

Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 850 platform was announced at Computex 2018, along with the news that Samsung is the latest partner to plan a device around it. Devices based on the 850  should ship in time for your holiday purchasing pleasure, according to Qualcomm. Whether you call them by their marketing moniker, “always-connected computers,” or their more technical description of “Windows on …

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Wearables’ market growth slows, but they’re getting smarter

We’re not as gung-ho on the basic wrist device as we have been, or on wearables in general, according to IDC’s latest report on wearables. But smarter devices are making a bigger stand in the market.  The report, published Monday, is based on first-quarter year-over-year unit shipment growth — that’s the number of wearable devices available for sale in inventories, …

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Lenovo Explorer Mixed Reality follows the crowd down to $200

The latest version of Lenovo’s Explorer Windows Mixed Reality headset system has been toddling along at $400 until today, when it was spotted in the Microsoft Store for half off at $200. Now playing: Watch this: Microsoft reveals mixed reality tech for the workplace 3:13 Mixed Reality headsets aren’t exactly flying off the shelves, and prices dropped significantly in January …

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WWDC 2018: Start time, live blog, how to livestream, what to expect

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Now playing: Watch this: WWDC 2018: Best new iOS 12 features and more 5:43 As WWDC 2018 approached, Apple released the last version of iOS 11 recently, 11.4, with important updates such as Messages in iCloud and AirPlay 2 for multiroom, stereo audio with HomePods. We speculated as …

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