The latest smartphone from OnePlus, the OnePlus 6, is inexpensive and, frankly, quite impressive. With a giant display and a pretty darn good camera, there’s a lot to like about this phone. Here are some tips and tricks to help you get the phone looking and working the way you want. Now playing: Watch this: OnePlus …
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1 June
How to take Portrait mode shots on almost any iPhone
If you don’t have an iPhone X or a big, honkin’ iPhone 7 Plus or 8 Plus, then your biggest gripe about your current iPhone is likely its inability to capture Portrait mode shots with the cool, artsy, blurred backgrounds. A cottage industry of apps has sprung up to approximate Portrait mode’s depth-of-field effect, but you don’t need to install …
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1 June
Mozilla’s Firefox tries closing more privacy holes with new network tech
Browser makers are trying to thwart network snoopers by encrypting your connections to the web servers that host websites, but Mozilla on Friday began a project to go one step further. Firefox Nightly, a rough-around-the-edges test version of Mozilla’s browser, now includes technology called DNS over HTTPS, Mozilla said. DNS is the Domain Name System used to find the numeric addresses needed …
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1 June
Instagram Giveaway! You could win* the OnePlus 6
The CNET giveaway team keeps the prizes coming. We’ve partnered with OnePlus to give away its latest flagship phone, the May 2018 winner of our Editors’ Choice award. Now playing: Watch this: OnePlus 6 review: Slick looks and blazing speed make… 3:53 According to our review, “the OnePlus 6 is blazing fast, shoots photos, has a polished refined design, and …
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1 June
Original Jurassic Park for $4 at Amazon, plus big $5 movie sale at Vudu
Amazon, Vudu, iTunes and other online retailers regularly feature limited-time deals on digital movies. Here’s a few deals worth highlighting as we head into the weekend. Note that many but not all digital movie purchases will port over to Movies Anywhere, which enables you to link multiple online retailers and access your purchased content from any one of them. On …
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1 June
12 things we want to see on Apple’s iOS 12 at WWDC
This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple’s WWDC conference is almost here, and while we expect a focus on software and services over hardware, we can be sure of one thing: a preview of the next version of iOS. The last version of Apple’s iPhone and iPad operating system, iOS …
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1 June
Instagram explains why it made you so mad with the algorithmic feed
Instagram users weren’t too happy when the platform announced it was implementing a new algorithm in July 2016. It gave higher priority to posts the photo-sharing app believed people cared about most, rather than displaying the most recent posts at the top of its feed. Instagram says the changes have been effective. Users had been missing half of what their …
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Uganda imposes tax on Facebook and Twitter to cut down on ‘gossip’
Uganda’s parliament has passed a law to tax people’s social media use. The Excise Duty (Amendment) Bill imposes a 200 shilling (5 cent) daily charge for messaging services such as Facebook, WhatsApp, Viber and Twitter in the African country, BBC reported Thursday. Uganda President Yoweri Museveni has been pushing for the tax since March, when he wrote a letter to Finance …
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1 June
What is Amazon Prime?
In 2005, Amazon introduced a service called Prime — and it’s not an exaggeration to say it transformed online shopping. As of April, 2018, the company boasts over 100 million subscribers. But what the heck is Prime? How much does it cost? And what benefits does it offer? Let’s take a look at what this service is all about. A …
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1 June
Will Zuck face the UK parliament? Meet the politician fighting to make it happen
Mark Zuckerberg and British MP Damian Collins have been stuck in a tug of war for two months now, and neither wants to give in. Collins, a Conservative member of Parliament representing Folkestone and Hythe since 2010, wants the Facebook CEO to answer questions on the Cambridge Analytica data scandal. Zuckerberg? Well, he’s not so keen. Collins chairs Parliament’s Digital, …
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