October, 2019

• 8 October

  Why Steven Soderbergh needs to upgrade to the iPhone 11 Pro for his next film

  

  The new iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro and 11 Pro Max will undoubtedly appeal to a broad swath of people, but the shiny new Apple phones seem aimed at two people in particular: filmmaker Steven Soderbergh and myself. Soderbergh is the Academy Award-winning director behind such films as Ocean’s Eleven, Magic Mike, Erin Brockovich and Sex, Lies, …

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• 8 October

  MacOS Catalina has arrived, Amazon’s first kids’ Kindle

  

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• 8 October

  Sony makes the PS5 official

  

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• 7 October

  US blacklists 8 Chinese tech companies over human rights issues

  

  The US Commerce Department said Monday it had placed eight Chinese companies on its economic blacklist, including Hikvision, the world’s largest video surveillance gear maker. The move was spurred by accusations of human rights violations against Uighur Muslims and other predominantly Muslim ethnic minorities. Companies added to the “Entity List” (PDF) include fellow video surveillance company Zhejiang Dahua Technology, as …

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• 7 October

  Instagram is removing the Following tab to cut down on creepers

  

  Instagram will get rid of the Following tab in its app Monday. The big reason why is that many users didn’t even know it was a feature.  The Following tab let users see what posts and accounts their friends are engaging with. Instagram introduced the tab in 2011 to help new users find other people to follow. However, not many …

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• 7 October

  Apple Music

  

  As Apple prepares to launch its $5-a-month Apple TV Plus rival to Netflix next month, the gadget giant has kicked off early talks with record labels about bundling the streaming-TV service with Apple Music, its streaming-music service — and at least one big label is wary, according to a report.  Some labels are open to the idea that Apple would bundle Apple …

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• 7 October

  Countdown: The 10 most important tech trends of the decade

  

  This story is part of The 2010s: A Decade in Review, a series on the memes, people, products, movies and so much more that have influenced the 2010s. When I hustled out of CNET headquarters in San Francisco on May 26, 2010, and slipped into a rental car with two of my co-workers to head to a meeting across the …

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• 7 October

  iPhone 11 Deep Fusion camera is now available to try in iOS 13.2 public beta

  

  Deep Fusion, Apple’s new image processing technique for the iPhone 11, 11 Pro and 11 Pro Max, is now available as part of both the developers beta and public beta of iOS 13.2. Deep Fusion will only work with iOS devices running an A13 Bionic processor, which is currently only the newest iPhones. Read: iPhone camera comparison: iPhone 11 with Deep Fusion vs. …

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• 7 October

  Get an unlocked Google Pixel 3 for $399.99

  

  The Google Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL are coming soon — very soon. Oct. 15, to be precise. That means Google Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL deals are coming, well, now. For a limited time, and while supplies last, Daily Steals via Rakuten has the unlocked Google Pixel 3 64GB for $399.99 with promo code SAVE15. If all this sounds a little familiar, it’s because …

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• 7 October

  AMD Radeon RX 5500 takes on the GTX 1650 for entry

  

  AMD‘s new mainstream graphics cards and mobile GPUs will be coming to midpriced gaming systems just in time for the holiday shopping season. The Radeon RX 5500 and 5500M are based on the same Navi 7nm architecture as the higher-end RX 5700 and RX 5700 XT. They’ll go head-to-head with the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 and 1650 in systems designed …

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