Apple’s original iPad Air may be followed up by an even thinner model. Josh Miller/CNET Apple’s next iPad Air will be thinner than its predecessor and offer the Touch ID fingerprint sensor, at least based on details and photos leaked by a Vietnamese blog site. As described by 9to5Mac, website Tinhte.vn claims the new iPad …
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Apple This is an update of a deal I shared back in June. And updated in the best possible way: it’s even cheaper now! If you’re looking for an ultralight laptop, be prepared to pay for it. Apple’s bar-setting MacBook Airs start at $899, and a similarly designed Windows machine typically sells for at least as much. Ah, but if …
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The “selfie” phenomenon is inescapable. The Desire Eye will focus on selfie fanatics. Andrew Hoyle/CNET If you log on to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or any other social network, your feed is likely deluged with digital self-portraits, taken with a smartphone’s front-facing camera. “Selfie” was Oxford Dictionaries’ word of the year in 2013. There’s even an eponymously titled sitcom featuring a …
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Matt Elliott/CNET Highlight text on your iPhone and iOS helpfully offers to copy or define the highlighted word, among other options. With OS X and iOS growing more and more alike with each passing year, it’s a wonder that such functionality has yet to show up on OS X. With PopClip, it does. PopClip is available in the Mac App …
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The Galaxy S4-in-a-box developer kit from Elliptic Labs. Tim Stevens/CNET TOKYO — We’ve been seeing demos of Elliptic Labs touch-free gestures for some time now, but at Ceatec 2014 in Tokyo we got a fresh look at a new, more advanced implementation — and some strong clues that this tech might finally be coming to market in the not too …
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James Martin/CNET Apple Pay seems to be spreading its wings further via the latest beta of iOS 8.1. Scoping out iOS 8.1 beta 2, iOS developer Hamza Sood discovered a few new screens related to Apple Pay , the new payment system demoed by Apple at its iPhone 6 launch event on September 9, according to MacRumors. The new screens …
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Despite a drop in shipments, consumer interest appears to be slowly returning to PCs. CNET The global PC market is still ailing, despite a rebound in some markets and waning consumer interest in tablets. Following a 6 percent decline in the second quarter, worldwide shipments of personal computers for the quarter ended September 30 are expected to total 79.4 million …
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To free you from the shackles of a smartphone screen, HTC has created the Re, a camera you may mistake for an asthma inhaler. Watch CNET Update below to learn more about the Re and HTC’s new Desire Eye smartphone , which sports a 13-megapixel camera on the front. Also, Apple sets Oct. 16 as the date to reveal new …
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Screenshot by Michelle Starr/CNET Some people are passionate about coffee. Others about books, movies or games. There are, to paraphrase a certain timeless tale, as many passions as there are people. Dieter Michael Krone’s passion is paper aeroplanes. The Düsseldorf-based mechanical engineer is one of the world’s leading authorities on the art of folding paper to make it glide. He …
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Luidia, Inc. A recent study suggested that students who take notes on a laptop don’t retain nearly as much information as those who take notes with a pen and paper. And whether you’re a student or not, sometimes it’s just easier (and preferable) to scribble — especially when you’re standing up. For those reasons and more, a smart pen can …
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EE UK network EE is no longer content to have control of your smartphone — it wants to be in charge of your living room, too. The alliterative operator has launched a set-top box that will let you watch live or catch-up TV on up to four devices at once, and is included in the price of EE’s broadband and …
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Facebook’s new ad technology works with outside app developers. Facebook / Shazam The next time you see an advertisement in Shazam, it might be coming from Facebook. The social networking company has expanded its advertising technology to allow app makers to insert ads from its network into their programs. The goal, the company says, is to help app developers by …
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The Start menu in Windows 10 is part Start menu and part Start screen. screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET With Windows 10, Microsoft has returned the Start menu to its rightful place. But the new menu offers a few surprises with its dual-personality of part Start menu and part Start screen. How can you use and even personalize the menu so …
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Approximately 1,600 AT&T customers were affected by the data breach. AT&T/CNET AT&T has fallen victim to a data breach after an employee allegedly broke the company’s privacy policy, AT&T confirmed to CNET. AT&T has started to send out letters to Vermont-based customers informing them of the data breach, a letter posted to the Vermont government’s website indicates. The letter claims …
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The Galaxy Alpha features a plastic back but metal framing — one of the first times Samsung has used metal in its smartphone line. CNET Pretty soon, Samsung may need to look to a return to profit growth as its “Next Big Thing.” Three months after warning that the second half of 2014 would Samsung said Monday that it expects …
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