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With the iPhone 8 ($162 at Amazon) and 8 Plus, Apple has once again changed the button combination used to force restart a frozen phone. Up until the iPhone 7 ($190 at eBay) and 7 Plus ($175 at Amazon), you could hold the wake/lock (or “side” button) and the home button at the same time until the Apple logo appeared. …

It might be a bad idea to throw stones in glass houses, but it’s not too smart to throw the new all-glass iPhone 8 either, according to the results of SquareTrade‘s latest breakability tests.  The device warranty company subjected the brand new Apple phones with their glass front and back panels to a handful of gadget torture tests and found, …

With the flood of iPhone publicity this last month — this last decade, actually — you might think personal computers have become ho-hum. But Ron Coughlin doesn’t. The leader of HP‘s PC division thinks his industry has snatched the initiative for technological improvements back from phones. “The innovation is happening in PCs,” Coughlin said in an interview with CNET. His …

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella showed off upcoming mixed reality hardware and software as part of his keynote at the Microsoft Ignite conference, saying the business will enhance both security and collaboration.  Ignite is an IT-focused event held in Orlando, and during his keynote, Nadella spoke of Microsoft’s mission to use “technology to empower people,” and AI to transform tools and …

In 2019, you may check your email with the help of a balloon 12 miles up in the sky. Project Loon, from Google parent company Alphabet, uses high-altitude solar-powered balloons instead of the usual land-based cell towers to provide your phone’s wireless connection to the network. It began as a somewhat bizarre project from the company’s X “moonshot” group, but …

Time has run out for Verizon‘s Wear24 smartwatch after just four months. Verizon Wireless began selling the 4G LTE-connected Wear24 in May for $300. The smartwatch ran Google’s Android Wear 2 software and featured a 1.4-inch AMOLED display and a 450mAh battery with wireless charging. Apparently that battery power wasn’t enough to keep Verizon charged about the Wear24 and the …

A new Star Trek crew takes to space on Sept. 24 when the premiere episode of “Star Trek: Discovery” launches. For the first time, a Star Trek show won’t make its home on broadcast television, but rather through subscription streaming video services, including CBS All Access in the US and Netflix internationally. (Disclosure: CBS is CNET’s parent company.)   Release …

Microsoft Ignite, the company’s big conference dedicated to IT, kicked off earlier today in Orlando, Florida. And that means a boatload of news about Windows, Office, Azure, Skype — and everything else in Microsoft’s arsenal that the company is targeting to business and enterprise customers. Mixed reality — what most others call augmented reality — took center stage during CEO …

Then-President Barack Obama warned Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg about the impact of fake news on the 2016 US presidential election nine days after the chief executive dismissed the idea as “crazy,” the Washington Post reported Sunday. The two met in private on November 19 at a world leaders forum in Lima, Peru, according to people briefed on the exchange. Obama told Zuckerberg …

Gamers rejoice, Intel‘s latest desktop processors are around the corner — and they’re designed for you. The company’s eighth-generation desktop processors are for gamers, creators and overclockers, Intel said in a Sunday press release. The Intel Core i7-8700K is the pack’s top dog, with the chipmaker calling the CPU its best gaming processor ever. Now you’re playing with power.  The …

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. An iPhone? Don’t be silly. Yana Paskova / Getty Images They were rivals. They were friends.  Steve Jobs and Bill Gates did much to define what the tech industry is today.  Does that mean, though, that the Microsoft co-founder has softened a touch and started …

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