These four iPhone apps make the camera even better

There’s no shortage of photo editors for the iPhone. Take any picture you snap and apply filters, adjust the saturation or white balance, remove unwanted items from the image and so much more. Mobile photo editors have come a very long way in just a few, short years. But what about apps that help you take better …

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FCC votes to loosen media ownership rules, revamp Lifeline

The Republican-led FCC is making good on its promise to deregulate the communications industry, including a revamp of media ownership rules that will make it easier for big companies to own newspapers and more broadcast stations in a single market. But Democrats warn that those efforts will do more harm than good to consumers. Chairman Ajit Pai has aggressively worked …

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T

T-Mobile is celebrating Black Friday a week early, but after seeing its deal we can’t complain. Starting Friday Nov. 17, anyone who buys a new flagship phone from T-Mobile can get another phone of equal or lesser value for free — through a rebate — after adding a line of service. You can’t buy just any phone, but the ones …

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Ears

Eddie Current is known to the hippest cognoscenti for their high-end tube electronics, especially their headphone amplifiers. They’re hand-made, artisan designs with prices starting at $2,450, so when I heard Massdrop had an Eddie Current amp in the wings I was eager to spend some ears-on time with this little guy, the $399.99 Eddie Current ZDT Jr Massdrop ships worldwide and …

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Intel fights to build communication chips into your next phone

Intel’s years-long effort to supply the processor brains for our phones was a flop, but the company is working hard to bring its communication chips to our phones. A series of developments the company announced Thursday could help its mobile prospects and perhaps improve next year’s iPhones with a faster version of today’s network technology called gigabit LTE. Even if …

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HTC’s bringing the NES Duck Hunt gun to VR

HTC doesn’t call it an NES Zapper. It’s technically a “Hyper Blaster.” But you know what it looks like. It’s the rebirth of Nintendo’s old light gun. Sort of. In this case, it’s more of a motion-controlled VR gun accessory, almost like Sony’s PlayStation VR Aim. I held it in my hand. Yep, it feels just like I remembered. Except …

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I might have been wrong about VR

VR took my breath away the first time I tried it. Literally. I was so terrified by a horror game I could barely breathe by the end of it. “This isn’t some gimmick,” I thought at the time. “This is the future.” It’s a sense of wonder Kanye West must feel when he listens to music by Kanye West. That …

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Brave browser lets you pay your favorite YouTube stars

Brave Software on Thursday released a new version of its browser that lets you donate money directly to YouTube stars. The free browser blocks ads by default but lets you distribute money anonymously to websites each month, giving more money to the websites you visit more often and letting you “pin” favorites you always want to fund. Now Brave lets …

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Get the ultimate Echo Dot speaker for $38.95

CNET’s Cheapskate scours the web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. Find more great buys on the CNET Deals page and follow the Cheapskate on Facebook and Twitter! The Vaux swallows up your second-gen Echo Dot in a speaker dock that just happens to be portable. …

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Your PC probably has spatial sound and it’s awesome

Have you read about Dolby Atmos and like the sound of bringing 3D surround sound — spatial sound, they’re calling it — to your home theater but have yet to invest in a new receiver and speaker system? If you are curious to try Dolby Atmos — or Microsoft’s equivalent spatial sound technology — you can check it out with …

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Apple insists iPad Pro is the modern definition of a computer

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. It’s a postcomputer that needs a pen. Oh, I mean a pencil. Apple/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Are you still using the word “computer”?  I fear you might be passe. I fear Apple might think so too. Lately, the company hasn’t talked too much about …

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Twitter testing tweetstorm tool

Enlarge Image The new function allows you to write a series of tweets and send them all at the same time.  Screenshot by Justin Cauchon. The virtual forecast calls for storms. Tweetstorms. Twitter said Thursday that it’s testing a function that’ll let users fire off a series of linked messages, commonly known as a tweetstorm, in a single blast rather …

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You can grocery shop from Amazon when you use Allrecipes.com

Amazon will work with the popular food website Allrecipes to link recipe ingredients directly to AmazonFresh, the online retailer’s grocery delivery service, the companies announced Thursday.  This integration will let send all of the ingredients and products you need for a recipe to an AmazonFresh shopping cart, where you can then order the groceries and have them delivered to your …

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Apple releases fix for unresponsive iPhone X screens

Apple on Thursday released an iOS update to address complaints that the iPhone X’s screen becomes unresponsive in cold weather. Apple recommends operating its iOS devices in temperatures between 32 degrees and 95 degrees Fahrenheit (or 0 degrees and 35 degrees Celsius). But some Reddit users said they experienced an unresponsive screen within that range. iOS 11.1.2 was released less …

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Firefox Quantum update brings double the speed

Mozilla on Tuesday released Firefox Quantum, and even if you long ago switched to Google Chrome, it’s worth giving the browser upgrade a spin. Why? First and foremost, version 57 of the open-source browser is faster, clocking in at twice the speed of Firefox 52 from March, according to the Speedometer 2.0 benchmark. Mozilla knows Chrome won many of us …

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