Extreme sports enthusiasts can now insert more suspense into their GoPro videos by live-streaming their gasp-worthy adventures through Periscope. Twitter-owned live-streaming app Periscope on Tuesday announced the integration, which can be taken advantage of by owners of GoPro Hero4 Silver and Black cameras. It will require the camera to be connected to an iPhone — …
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AT&T is banking that its video, and not its traditional wireless service, will get you to take a second look at the nation’s second-largest phone company. CNET/Marguerite Reardon Let’s face it, growth in the wireless market, AT&T’s bread and butter, isn’t what it used to be. That’s especially true for the Dallas-based telecom giant, which for the past year has …
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South Korea-based LG will introduce two new flagship phones this year in an attempt to revive its sagging sales. On Tuesday, the company revealed that it lost 43.8 billion South Korean Won ($36.4 million) in its mobile phone division for the final quarter of 2015. That’s a huge drop from the $56 million profit the division showed over the same …
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Parmigiani Fleurier is a noted high-end watchmaker. It also runs a restoration shop to bring old watches back to life. Not content with just timepieces, the company took on the unusual project of restoring a crazy-ornate 200-year-old pistol. Parmigiani Fleurier describes this process as “setting [the pistol] free from the torments of time.” The pistol is nothing like we normally …
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What do Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page and Satya Nadella have in common with Apple’s Tim Cook? They’re all fascinated with virtual reality. The Oculus Rift is a high-end virtual reality system. Could Apple follow with its own version? Josh Miller/CNET That’s what we learned Tuesday when Cook responded to a question about VR during a conference call to discuss the …
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On Monday, Foursquare launched a feature I’m surprised it took this long for the company to roll out: Trip Tips. The gist of the new feature is easy traveling. Visit this page and sign in to your Foursquare account. Add your travel destination, dates, and any applicable notes. Foursquare then provides you with a link to share on Facebook, Twitter …
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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. And find more great buys on the CNET Deals page. Cheeps, I believe this is a first. I may have mentioned the odd 3D printer here and there, but this is the first …
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Add in another change to Twitter’s executive ranks already this week. On Tuesday, the microblogging site announced that its new chief marketing officer will be Leslie Berland, formerly marketing vice president at American Express. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey revealed the new hire via a tweet in which he said that Berland will “join as our CMO to help tell the …
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OS X and iOS grow more alike as the years go by, but OS X El Capitan veers away from its mobile counterpart when it comes to alerting you when an app requests your location. In iOS, an arrow indicator appears when an app is accessing your location. That same arrow indicator appeared in the menu bar by default in …
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Apple may have new MacBooks up its sleeve in the first half of the year. The company is planning to upgrade its MacBook lineup by June, KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said in an investors note picked up Sunday by AppleInsider. Kuo had no specifics about which components or features will be upgraded, though AppleInsider suggests a bump up to …
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iPhones — heck, phones in general — don’t rev you up like they used to, and that’s a problem for Apple. The Cupertino, California-based electronics giant has expanded its horizons over the past few years, entering the wearables market, broadening its phone and tablet lineups, and launching a streaming-music service. But its fortunes are still closely tied to the iPhone, …
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Apple just added your favorite video and audio podcasts to the growing list of what you can watch on Apple TV. It’s only been a month since Apple released TVOS 9.1 for its set-top box, but the company just pushed another incremental update with version 9.1.1. The big news this round is the addition of a new Podcasts app that …
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Every year TV companies come up with new terms to describe their latest, and sometimes not-so-latest, technology. Why? Because marketing works. A catchy name can do wonders for sales. But it’s also confusing, sometimes on purpose. Savvy CNET readers know that LED TVs are actually just LCD TVs, that UHD and 4K are (effectively) the same thing, and that most …
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The ugliness of humanity was on full display in 140 characters after Sunday’s American Football Conference Championship game between the New England Patriots and the Denver Broncos. Twitter erupted with personal attacks on Patriots All-Pro placekicker Stephen Gostkowski, who missed a point in the first quarter that not only would’ve tied the game, but possibly was the difference in the …
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Spotify wants to get you to look as well as listen. The online music service plans to add video content to its Android app sometime this week and to its iOS app by the end of next week. Available in the US, UK, Germany and Sweden, the videos will consist of short clips, along with podcasts, from such providers as …
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