Xiaomi’s still aiming for the US, but it’s not quite ready to make a move. Lei Jun, CEO of the fast-growing Chinese handset maker, on Tuesday said he’s “carefully evaluating the best timeline to come to the US” with its smartphones. By selling some of its other devices in the country, like the Mi Box …
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One of the main characteristics of Instagram Stories is that the posts disappeared after 24 hours. That gave them an ephemeral, fleeting quality, but if you get as attached to your Stories as I do, that expiration date was a bit of a bummer. The only option was to save them on your phone. Instagram apparently felt my pain and …
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If you’re itching to get your hands on a 2-in-1 PC that’s more like a smartphone, you’re about to be in luck. Mobile chip giant Qualcomm, along with partners HP and Asus, on Tuesday showed off the first two Windows 10 PCs that use its chips. The Asus NovaGo and the HP Envy x2 both sport Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 835 processor …
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I pull out my phone. I tap it to the terminal. I’m told I can’t use it, I have to use a credit card. I apologize, reach for my wallet. I feel like an idiot. This is me making payments in 2017. I don’t use my phone to pay for things all that much. Or, my watch. I use my …
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Google has released an app called Files Go that wants to help you free up space on your Android phone, the company announced today on its blog. Some of the features of Files Go include personalized suggestions about which files to delete to make more space available and smart filters that automatically organize the files on your phone. You’ll also …
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After an unexpected early release of iOS 11.2, Apple on Tuesday flipped the switch on Apple Pay Cash. Like PayPal or Venmo, Apple Pay Cash is a peer-to-peer payment feature that lets you send and receive money through iMessage. Not only does Apple Pay Cash make it easy to pay someone, but it also puts a digital card in your iOS …
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Those googly eyes on emojis that currently face left could be made to face to the right next year if Apple or other device vendors decide to give you the option. A draft of the new guidelines announced Monday night by the Unicode Consortium would allow vendors to give you the power to reverse the direction of your emoji. The guidelines are …
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Samsung just announced that it has begun mass production of a 512GB embedded Universal Flash Storage memory chip for mobile devices, meaning that your next Galaxy phone could have seemingly endless storage. High storage phones models currently come with 128GB or 256GB of memory, but Samsung’s new 512GB chip is double or quadruple that. Samsung says the chip consists of …
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Amazon will ship handmade, local goods in select markets as part of Prime Now, the online retailer’s one- and two-hour delivery service, the company announced today. The service will be available in the following areas: Austin, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Minneapolis, Phoenix, Portland, Raleigh, San Diego, San Francisco Bay Area and Seattle. The products will come from Amazon Handmade, a portion of …
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Qualcomm’s next mobile chip isn’t available yet, but it already has a big-name customer: Xiaomi. Lei Jun, CEO of the Chinese phone maker, joined Cristiano Amon, the head of Qualcomm’s chip business, at the chip maker’s tech summit Tuesday to talk about the importance of their partnership. Jun said the next premium smartphone from Xiaomi, currently in development, will run …
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Apple wants to make it easier for you to use your phone instead of your wallet when it comes to treating your friends and family or paying them back when you owe them. The tech giant on Tuesday rolled out its peer-to-peer payments system, which enables iPhone owners in the US to exchange money within iMessage, or by asking Siri …
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Fitbit wants to go after the Apple Watch. Will more apps help? The Fitbit Ionic, Fitbit’s newest watch that debuted in October, didn’t launch with a lot of apps right away. Now it’s got a number of others, available today via a software update. Earlier this year, Fitbit promised that app development would eventually transform what the Fitbit Ionic could do, …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Apple does not make him happy. Matt Kincaid/Getty Images Could it be that Apple doesn’t have a heart of gold? Could it also be that Tim Cook’s company has an ear of tin? Music legend Neil Young seems to believe that Apple has single-handedly wrecked …
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It took a little more than a year for AT&T’s DirecTV Now streaming video service to reach its first million. The Dallas telecommunications provider said Tuesday that more than 1 million consumers have subscribed to its service, which offers a mix of live television channels and on-demand content over the internet to your phone, tablet or TV box like a …
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