With the iPhone X and its notch taking up a good portion of the status bar along the top of the display, Apple had to move some indicators to Control Center. Now playing: Watch this: 9 iPhone X tips and tricks 2:51 For example, you can no longer display the battery percentage on the iPhone …
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11 January
CES 2018, day 3: Live from the CNET Stage in Las Vegas
CES is almost at an end, but you can still see a wealth of superb CNET live programming, right from our dedicated stage in the South Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center. A quick overview of the planned schedule is below (all times are Pacific), and you can watch the full day’s worth of programming in the window above. 9:00 …
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11 January
USB speeds could double again to 40Gbps
USB’s performance is doubling right now, but you speed freaks should be pleased to hear another doubling is possible for the ubiquitous connection technology. USB, short for Universal Serial Bus, is the wildly successful port that you probably use to plug your phone in to a charger and plug your external drive in to your laptop. When it arrived two …
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11 January
LG shakes up its smartphone launch strategy
LG is taking a new approach to its phones. The Korean consumer electronics conglomerate hinted at a shake-up on how and when it would launch phones. “We will unveil new smartphones when it is needed,” said LG Vice Chairman Sung-jin Cho at a press conference at CES, according to the Korea Herald. “But we will not launch it just because …
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11 January
CNET Asks: Which one of these dream TVs would you love to have in your living room?
TV manufacturers really brought it to you at full volume at this year’s CES, and CNET was there to capture it all! Major announcements from LG, Hisense, and Samsung had viewers on the edge of their seats. LG made sure it wowed us with the world’s first 65-inch 4K OLED rollable TV. This fancy TV is hidden when not in …
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11 January
CES for startups
Deep in an underground hall of the Sands Expo Center is a section of CES 2018 called Eureka Park. It’s here, a short walk (well, short for Las Vegas) from the gold casino of The Venetian hotel, where the startups of the giant tech show gather. It’s not a particularly inspiring place, even in the bland world of exhibit halls. …
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11 January
CES 2018: YouTube shares how it grapples with vetting clips
At YouTube, every time a user uploads something appalling, a cat-and-mouse hunt begins, to find and purge the pest. Now imagine the cat having to sort through 400 critters a minute to find the offending rodent. With 400 hours of video uploaded to YouTube every 60 seconds, the site has an “absurd” scale, Chief Product Officer Neal Mohan said in an …
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11 January
Flying from Heathrow? Check your flight details with new Alexa app
A new Amazon Alexa skill makes finding out your critical flight information that bit easier. The Heathrow Airport skill allows you to ask questions about your flight going into or out of Heathrow to your Alexa-enabled device and have the answers you need helpfully read back to you. The skill has access to information on over 1,300 flights per day, …
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11 January
AMD: Yes, Spectre does affect our processors
Is it or isn’t it? There was some confusion when news first hit last week that researchers had found serious flaws, called Spectre and Meltdown, in many of the chips that power computers and phones. Yes, chips from Intel and Arm were affected, but what about chips from AMD? AMD on Thursday put out a new statement that left no room …
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11 January
Samsung A8 ad says you’re beautiful
Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. When you’re told something you may not have expected. Samsung; YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET When it comes to flattery, some people are weak. Even when they’re, say, leaders of the free world. There are those, however, who don’t necessarily hear compliments very often, if …
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