LG will officially unveil its LG G7 ThinQ phone on May 2, but hardware specs are already pouring in. According to internal documents Android Headlines said it was able to obtain and verify, the LG G7 will have a notch screen design that you can toggle off if you don’t like it, two 16-megapixel cameras on the …
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11 April
Mark Zuckerberg testimony day 2: Start time, how to watch
Yesterday, it was the Senate Judiciary and Commerce Committees. Today, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is answering questions from the Energy and Commerce Committee of the House of Representatives. The session started at 10 a.m. ET, and has resumed after a short morning recess. The live feed is embedded below: Follow CNET and CBS News for live coverage: CNET: Zuckerberg faces …
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11 April
Google Lens can tell you fun facts about your pet
Heard of Google Lens? It’s the tech giant’s new augmented reality feature in its Google Photos app that can analyse your pictures. Still in preview phase, it was last month rolled out to iOS devices. Now, Google is giving us a reason to adopt: information about our pets. Google Lens scans your photos and extracts information from them. For instance, …
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Worldwide PC shipments flat in 2018’s first quarter
HP and Dell still managed to grow their PC businesses amid a first quarter that was stagnant for worldwide shipments, according to reports Wednesday by market researchers IDC and Gartner. PC makers shipped 60.4 million units in the first three months of 2018, effectively flat from a year ago, according to IDC, which found that HP again claimed the top …
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11 April
Spotify and Hulu offer $13
Spotify and Hulu widened a popular bundle Wednesday to all of Spotify’s US subscribers. They’ll soon be able to get both services for a total of $12.99 a month. Spotify is also tweaking its free tier to be easier to use on mobile phones, according to a report by Bloomberg. The changes could give free mobile listeners more control over what’s playing …
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Zuckerberg hearings get Congress weighing EU
What if more privacy was the law? The European Union has already made it so with its General Data Protection Regulation, which gives users the ability to request information on who has their data, as well as the right to ask for copies or have it deleted. Until recently, however, the law appeared likely to have only limited benefits for …
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11 April
6 things to know about your Facebook account
With so much attention on the social media giant we can’t seem to live without, it’s easy to get worked up regarding its policies. Now playing: Watch this: How to check if your Facebook info was shared 1:16 It’s totally understandable! Especially given the revelations over the past few weeks about user data collected and sold to Cambridge Analytica. Apps …
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11 April
Apple now will warn you if your Mac has old, 32
Apple on Thursday will start alerting you if you have old Mac apps hanging around. If you have the latest version of Apple’s MacOS software downloaded, you’ll get a warning when you open older apps that run on 32-bit technology. Apple has been pushing developers to update their apps to 64-bit technology. That enables faster apps that can juggle large …
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11 April
Federal filing hints at new Snapchat Spectacles
The Federal Communications Commission published a new filing late Tuesday from Snapchat’s parent company that could relate to the next generation of the app’s Spectacles. First reported by Variety, the FCC documents from Snap, Inc. is for a “wearable video camera” that includes labels that call the camera “model 002.” Snapchat didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. Snapchat’s …
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New HP Pavilion Gaming is the highlight of the spring line
The war for your $1,000-or-less game-friendly computer budget is heating up. Dell recently expanded and rebranded its Inspiron gaming systems with the Dell G series, Acer launched its Aspire Nitro line several years ago and now HP’s joining the fray, reworking and rebranding its former Pavilion Power systems as Pavilion Gaming. All have well-respected gaming arms — Alienware (Dell), Predator (Acer) …
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