Patreon, which gives fans a way to pay their favorite creators on a recurring basis, is selling the merchandise-distribution startup Kit that it acquired last year. Geniuslink, a tech company that offers link shortening for marketing products, is the buyer.  Financial terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.  “When the Kit team was acquired by Patreon …

Google on Thursday outlined updates to its ARCore platform, which lets developers build augmented reality experiences for your phone. The search giant also previewed a feature it’s describing as a “save button” for AR. Google said it’s looking for more developers to help it test an AR technology called persistent Cloud Anchors before the company makes it available more broadly. …

I see a little black square held up in front of me. It looks like nothing, just a lump of black plastic with a row of gold contact pins on the bottom. It could be a little memory stick. Or maybe a garage door opener. It’s surprisingly nondescript. This is the new Jacquard Tag. What Google’s showing me is the …

Google is giving Photos an update to help make it easier to find past photos in the app and share those moments with or without a phone. The new first of the new features, Memories, is designed to fight the problem of sorting through hundreds or thousands of photos. Using Google’s machine learning, the Photos app will now create a …

Apple’s competitors aren’t going to sit idly by while you gaze longingly at the new iPhones released yesterday. Microsoft is hoping to catch you before you order an iPhone 11 or iPhone 11 Pro with a tempting trade-in offer that can put a big hole in the price of a new Samsung Galaxy Note 10 or Galaxy Note 10 Plus. You can …

Huawei founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei is willing to share his company’s 5G technology with a Western buyer, creating a rival, he told the Economist. He reckons it’d level the playing field in a climate where many countries are nervous about giving the controversial Chinese company access to their next-generation wireless networks. Ren’s deal would let the buyer access Huawei’s …

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When Apple CEO Tim Cook introduced the current HD version of the Apple TV streaming box in 2015, he famously said, “The future of TV is apps.” Now an Apple app on a bunch of other devices could make that box obsolete. Four years later, at the iPhone 11 event on Sept. 10, Cook and company once again took the …

One of the biggest surprises at Apple’s iPhone 11 event concerned the price of its new Apple TV Plus service. No, we’re not talking about the normal price: $5 per month, with the first shows starting streaming on Nov. 1.  We’re talking about the throw-in price: free. Apple TV Plus will be free for the first year — ostensibly a …

Whenever Apple holds a product launch, the world is reminded that these are premium products — with prices to match. So imagine our collective surprise yesterday when the iPhone 11 debuted at $699, a full $50 less than the “entry-level” iPhone XR last year. There’s already debate around the CNET offices as to whether this is Apple’s best iPhone value …

In bringing dark mode to the iPhone, Apple has seen the light. The new theme touches down on your iPhone on Sept. 19, along with the rest of iOS 13. It’ll come baked into the new iPhone 11, 11 Pro and 11 Pro Max, which Apple announced on Tuesday.  Dark mode is, quite literally, a skin you can apply to your entire …