Use the OnePlus Switch app to ditch your old Android phone

OnePlus recently released a new Android app, OnePlus Switch, aimed at making it easier to keep all of your important information when switching to one of the company’s phones. Now playing: Watch this: OnePlus 5T equals a few key upgrades 1:24 As long as your old phone is running Android 6.0 or above, the app …

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Google search gives priority to websites that load fast on phones

Want people with phones to find your website? Better make sure it loads fast, because otherwise Google will punish you in its search results. Google long has given fast-loading web pages preferential placement in search results, but for now that only happens when people search on personal computers. Starting in July, particularly slow websites will be penalized in search results, …

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Samsung Bixby: 7 things to know about the personal assistant

Now playing: Watch this: See Samsung Bixby in action 1:49 Alexa, Siri and Google Assistant have a new frenemy. Samsung’s Bixby is a personal assistant that comes with the Samsung Galaxy S8 ($180 at eBay), Samsung Galaxy S8 Plus, and Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ($240 at eBay). Here are 7 things we currently know about the mysterious assistant. It’s mobile only… …

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How to sign up for Google’s Project Fi

In 2016, Google opened its wireless service, Project Fi, up to the general public. Before that, users had to receive an invite and jump through a few hoops.  Since then, users could sign up and use Project Fi as long as he or she owned a compatible device (more on that in a minute) and was willing to pay $10 …

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5 ways to clean up your Facebook news feed

Has your Facebook news feed become a jumble of uninteresting or annoying posts that you skip over to get to the stuff you do care about? It doesn’t have to be that way. Facebook offers a handful of tools that let you weed out the stuff you don’t want so you can more quickly get to the stuff you do …

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Sprint says Verizon customers aren’t very smart

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Lacking in intelligence? Sprint/iSpotTV screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Have you ever been in an argument and called your opponent stupid?  How did that go? Generally, calling people dumb doesn’t exude emotional intelligence.  Yet here is Sprint suggesting that Verizon customers might not do too well …

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The Surface Book 2 is on the way to the UK and Australia

If you live in the UK or Australia, you’ll soon be able to get your hands on the Surface Book 2. Microsoft’s latest hybrid laptop is now available for preorder in 17 new markets. The Surface Book 2 features a powerful graphics card for gaming and offers both a 13-inch and 15-inch display. As a laptop, it’s meant to compete …

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Google Home speaker crashing routers

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Google’s art selfie app doesn’t work in some states

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Google to expand massive network, new Android spyware discovered

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Origin PC invites you to gear up and see its etchings

Origin PC is all about the customization, so it’s not surprising that the new systems it showed at CES 2018 were mostly (though not entirely) about the razzle dazzle; the company adds first-rate laser etching and textured printing to its Custom Paint options. Of course, there are also some tweaks to system designs, series rejiggering and components. Now playing: Watch …

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CES 2018: Vuzix Blade glasses are powered by Alexa

You can stick Amazon’s Alexa into all sorts of things: speakers, cars, phones, watches, robots and even refrigerators. Add smartglasses to that list. Vuzix, makers of various smartglasses and Google Glass-like head wearables for years, are now making smart eyewear compatible with Amazon’s Alexa. Bloomberg broke the news ahead of CES, but I got to wear the glasses in Las Vegas. Smartglasses, …

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MacBook Air is Apple’s best product ever

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Enlarge Image A trusted friend. Sarah Tew/CNET I take it for granted. I know you aren’t supposed to do that in relationships, but, in this case, I suspect my MacBook Air is flattered. How many tech products can you rely on without thinking? How many …

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Body

Will we ever be able to power electronics with body heat? Matrix Industries is pushing for it to happen, starting with watches and internet-of-things (IoT) sensors. I remember being wowed by the idea of the Matrix Industries PowerWatch a year ago. It was one of the wilder ideas I’ve seen at CES: a perpetually powered fitness watch charged by body …

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Amazon Fire TV guide adds live programming features

Maybe it’s too much effort to grab the remote and click over to HBO and scroll through what’s on.  So Amazon wants to help. Owners of Fire TV streaming devices can discover live programming on a new row called On Now that displays on their home page. The feature, however, is limited to a handful of subscription channels: HBO, Showtime, Starz and Cinemax.  And …

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