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iOS 10: Here are the new features you missed

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Now playing: Watch this: Apple unveils iOS 10, packs it with new features 3:43 Apple’s big 2016 WWDC keynote wrapped up just a few hours ago, and iOS 10 was a big star of the show. But despite …

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It ain’t pretty to look at, but this stereo amplifier sounds beautiful

Right after I finished working on the Tavish Design Vintage 6SL7 phono preamplifier review I wanted to check out another Tavish, namely the Minotaur integrated stereo amplifier. It arrived here in Brooklyn in a huge cardboard box, and I tell you upfront the sound more than lived up to my expectations. Tavish Design’s Scott Reynolds holds a Ph.D. in electrical …

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How Apple can save the iPod

Now playing: Watch this: Why you should buy an MP3 player 2:21 It’s 2016. Why would you ever need a straight-up MP3 player? The iPod Touch I can see. You can use it just like you would an iPhone — pair it with your wireless Bluetooth headphones and use apps like Spotify or Pandora to stream music. To be fair, …

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Carrie Fisher dishes out ‘Advice from the dark side’

Princess Leia’s life has been anything but easy. Her controlling birth father is responsible for helping murder her friends. She kissed her brother without realizing it. She was chained to a ruthless crime lord while wearing a very uncomfortable metal bikini. And her love interest is a space smuggler with commitment issues. Related stories Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill show off …

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How Google’s Tango works

Now playing: Watch this: What is Tango? 1:22 Google’s Tango is hard to explain. The new feature, which will first be available on the Lenovo Phab2 Pro superphone this September, is an indoor mapping technology…but it’s also augmented reality. You can measure objects! Take dinosaur selfies! Live out your Ghostbuster fantasies. Perhaps most impressively, you can construct an elaborate chain …

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Could you live (happily) without music?

Recorded music is more accessible than ever today. You can listen to almost anything, wherever you are, for free, or very little money. Music is all too easy to take for granted, but just how important is music in your life? To put it in perspective: Would you rather trade TV, movies, pizza, ice cream, beer, swimming, reading or –maybe …

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