The Vatican reinvents the rosary into a $110 wearable

Even the rosary has gone digital. The Vatican on Wednesday said it was launching a “Click To Pray eRosary,” an app-driven wearable that can be used to learn how to pray the rosary. The device is worn like a bracelet and is activated when users make the sign of a cross. It consists of 10 …

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Looking for an Android

Still not sold on the merits of owning a smartwatch? Everyone fusses over things like heart-rate monitoring and GPS run tracking — useful features, to be sure — but those aren’t the true benefits. The true benefits are deceptively simple: Telling time and receiving notifications from your phone. Once you get accustomed to having those features on your wrist, you’ll …

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Inside Pixel 4’s camera: Google improves portrait mode with help from Italian art

Over the last three years, Google’s Pixel phones have earned a well-deserved reputation for photographic strength. With the Pixel 4 and 4 XL, the company is flexing new camera hardware and software muscles. The new flagship Android smartphone, which the search giant unveiled Tuesday, gets a second 12-megapixel camera, a key component in an overhauled portrait mode that focuses your …

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Touch screens are old news. Your next phone could be pressure

I’ve seen touch-sensitive areas on phones and wearable devices before. But I’ve never seen an entire phone case become a touch surface. That’s exactly what San Jose startup Sentons is trying to do, with ultrasonics that work like sonar to register touch and pressure anywhere on a gadget’s surface. The possibilities seem incredibly weird, and extremely useful. In my hands was …

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Microsoft Surface Laptop 3 vs. Apple MacBook Air: 13

Microsoft’s recent Surface Laptop 3 updates to its Surface Laptop line fall into two camps. The 13-inch model, an upgrade to the Surface Laptop 2, offers the bare minimum of enhancements (or less) it needs to compete in the crowded field of lightweights with prices in the $1,000-or-so range. It gets a bump to the 10th-gen Intel processor with the …

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Apple says that 50% of iPhones are now on iOS 13

Apple’s iOS 13 may have only launched last month, but it’s already finding a home on a fair number of iPhones.  In an updated support post to developers on the App Store, Apple revealed that, as of Oct. 15, its latest mobile software is on 55% of all iPhone devices introduced in the last four years and on 50% of …

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Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 is as good as Android tablets get

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FCC approves T

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Facebook getting an oversight board

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Stranger Things Saved Netflix! Well, sort of…

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Don’t buy a new car, upgrade yours

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The Pixel 4 is losing a lifelong fan

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Facebook is ‘addictive, bad for us,’ says Salesforce CEO

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has taken aim at Facebook, saying the social media giant must be held accountable for information posted on its site. Benioff was responding to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement Wednesday that he’ll be making a speech Thursday at 10 a.m. PT about his views on free expression.  “Facebook is a publisher. They need to be held …

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Motorola’s Moto G8 Plus details leak

Motorola’s upcoming flagship phone, the Moto G8 Plus, has had some details leak, according to a report. The phone will have a triple camera with 48MP sensor and laser autofocus, German publication WinFuture reported Wednesday, saying it has official pictures and details. The phone will reportedly have a 6.3-inch IPS display, a full HD 2,280×1,080-pixel resolution, a 25MP front-facing camera …

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This LTE

Tablet shoppers don’t have a lot of options these days. There’s the iPad, of course, and the premium price that goes with it. (The current entry-level model starts at $329.) And there’s the Amazon Fire HD, which runs a reasonable $150 for the 10-inch model but forces you to use Amazon’s custom OS. Out of the box, you don’t get access …

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