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Google beefs up user

Google has been working to boost the security of its Web and mobile apps. Juan Garzón/CNET Google wants users to feel safe and secure when accessing websites and apps from their Android devices. It’s why Google is encouraging developers will build in security safeguards with its Google Identity Platform. The Google Identity Platform, announced Thursday …

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New arrivals on HBO Now for June 2015

Now playing: Watch this: The new arrivals on HBO Now for June 2015 1:33 HBO Now is shaping up into a formidable streaming service with its lineup of original series and high-quality movies. June brings the season finales of “Game of Thrones,” “Veep” and “Silicon Valley.” A couple of new HBO series will debut in late June, including political comedy …

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Google’s 3D

Google has cut the price of its Project Tango tablet in half. Screenshot by CNET Google’s Project Tango tablet, a device in testing that features 3D mapping and sensing, is now 50 percent cheaper and available to anyone who wants it. Google put the Tango tablet on sale for $512 on Thursday, just hours before the company plans to hold …

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Child

Google’s new “family star” for the Google Play app store is meant to help parents choose the best content for their kids. Google; I/O photo by CNET’s James Martin Google wants parents to feel more comfortable about the apps and content their kids are encountering on their Android smartphones and tablets. To that end, the company will curate smartphone and …

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Target CEO: Thanks Amazon, for teaching people to shop online

Target CEO Brian Cornell speaking at Recode’s Code conference. Asa Mathat for Re/code Target CEO Brian Cornell had two surprising words for online competitor Amazon: “Thank you.” Giving credit where credit was due, Cornell said Amazon helped shape the way Americans shopped, making it comfortable for them to make purchases online “I think we almost need to say thank you …

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Messaging becoming the heart of mobile, Mary Meeker says

Mary Meeker, at the 2015 Code Conference, for the past two decades has offered insights on the direction of technology in her annual reports. Asa Mathat for Recode Messaging apps will likely take over our mobile lives, that is if they haven’t already. That’s one of the insights from venture capitalist Mary Meeker’s annual report on Internet trends, presented Wednesday …

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Apple will kick off developers confab with keynote June 8

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. It’s official. Apple will kick off its annual developers confab with a keynote on June 8. Apple CEO Tim Cook at WWDC from 2014. Justin Sullivan, Getty Images Invitations trickled out to the media on Wednesday. Apple will host its Worldwide Developers Conference …

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iPhone now ‘a pocket watch,’ says Apple Watch honcho

Apple Watch head Jess Williams, right, says the company has sold “a lot” of units, “but not enough.” Asa Mathat for Recode Don’t think of Apple’s iPhone as the end-all-be-all device of the future. Instead, consider it your next pocket watch. That, at least, is how the executive who oversees the Apple Watch would like consumers to think about the …

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What to do with your sleep data

Sarah Jacobsson Purewal/CNET You’ve been tracking your sleep schedule for a couple of weeks now, and you know that you don’t always get the highest-quality sleep possible. But…now what? Sleep data, like all data, is useless when it lives in a vacuum. In order to really figure out why you sleep like a log some nights, and why you toss …

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