The 89th Academy Awards will take place on Sunday, February 26. Red carpet coverage begins at 7 p.m. ET, 4 p.m. PT, and the awards ceremony gets underway at 8:30 p.m ET, 5:30 p.m. PT. Jimmy Kimmel will host. Justin Timberlake, Lin-Manuel Miranda, John Legend and Sting will sing. ABC will broadcast. ABC will also …
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Imagine having movies downloaded and ready to watch on your phone, without ever using your data or slowing down your device. In fact, imagine having movies on your phone without you ever having to think about downloading them. That’s the promise of a new service announced at Mobile World Congress by Ericsson, Australian carrier Telstra and 21st Century Fox (through …
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Now playing: Watch this: Start chatting with Google Assistant 3:33 You can soon ask your phones running Android Marshmallow and Nougat for help really soon. Once exclusive to Google’s Pixel phones, Google Assistant will soon be released to the wilds of Android 6.0 and 7.0 devices in the US as soon as this week, while users in Canada, Australia, Germany …
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Huawei on Sunday showed off its new Android Wear smartwatches at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The Huawei Watch 2 and Huawei Watch 2 Classic build on the success of the original model. Both watches are equipped with the new Snapdragon Wear 2100 chip and include an optical heart-rate sensor, GPS and NFC for mobile payments. The main selling point, …
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5G’s coming — and it will be here faster than predicted. 5G New Radio (5G NR), a flavor of the next-generation wireless network that’s expected to be the global standard, should be available for large-scale deployments in 2019, a year earlier than anticipated, nearly two dozen companies said Sunday. The companies who’ve vowed to reach a standard for 5G for …
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If you own a home theater receiver, you can improve its performance by taking some time to set it up properly. Most AV receivers have manual and auto speaker setup or calibration features, and even if you’ve already used an automated system you can make your system sound even better with manual tweaks. But is a manual calibration for you? …
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Nokia. Knock-ia. Know-kia. Noh-keea. However you pronounce it, few companies (other than Motorola, of course) have been so influential in creating the cell phone that we use today. Apple, LG and Samsung may get all of the glory now, but Nokia dominated the mobile industry for two decades. When I started at CNET more than 10 years ago, a week …
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Ready for a flurry of phone reveals? Mobile World Congress 2017 officially kicks off February 27, but there’s plenty of activity going on before the show begins. From the challenges facing wireless charging to the significant absence of Samsung, our coverage has already started. There will be a nearly-endless supply of new phones, tablets and devices shown off during MWC, …
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Reviving BlackBerry is the mobile equivalent of chasing unicorns — it’s a Sisyphean task that’s gotten only more mythical with time. Four years ago, then-CEO Thorsten Heins tried to reinvigorate the company’s flagging sales with the BlackBerry 10 operating system and the Z10, a modern phone designed to take on the iPhone and Android handsets. Eleven months and several misfires …
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Thorens started out making music boxes and clock movements in 1883 in Sainte-Croix, Switzerland, and moved onto manufacturing Edison inspired phonographs in 1903. So it knows a thing or two about extracting sound from grooves, it has been doing it longer than any other turntable maker on the planet. The turntable I’m looking at today is a Thorens TD 190-2. …
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