Wednesday an event in San Francisco, Google announced its newest phones: the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL. The announcement comes after an accidental leak revealing the phones last month. The new Pixel phones are nearly identical in every way aside from the 2 XL being bigger with a larger battery and a higher price. …
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4 October
Google dials up the creepy factor and targets families
Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. A touch on the creepy side? Google/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. Lifelogging, surveillance and self-obsession walk into a bar…. Oh, you watched the Google show on Wednesday too, did you? I was moved by many things in …
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4 October
Pixel 2 doesn’t need dual cameras, Google says. Here’s why
At a time when every major smartphone maker has switched to a dual-camera setup for their highest-end phones, Google just did the opposite. Both the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL phones use a single 12.2-megapixel lens on the back instead of two. Why would Google, a company at the forefront of cutting-edge technology, retreat from the dual-camera trend? Well, …
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4 October
Qoobo is the robotic, headless cat pillow you never knew you wanted
On first blush, I wasn’t quite sure what to make of Yukai Engineering’s Qoobo, but as soon as I picked the thing up it was pretty clear that it didn’t matter. It’s adorable and I couldn’t stop petting it and that’s pretty much the point. Qoobo is, basically, a fluffy plush pillow with a tail. It’s designed to look more …
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4 October
HP Spectre x360 has instant privacy screen, 10
Over its past couple generations, HP‘s 13.3-inch Spectre x360 has turned into an excellent premium two-in-one. With this latest redesign, though, it might now be the best. Using customer feedback, HP refined the Spectre x360 where users felt it was needed. The system is now available with eighth-gen Intel Core i5 and i7 processors including a quad-core option while its …
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4 October
Walmart voice shopping on Google Home is now live
Voice shopping with Walmart and Google is officially here. The world’s largest retailer in August said it would start offering a chunk of its inventories for sale on the Google Express shopping site and app, as well as on the Google Home smart speaker through voice shopping. Timed to Google’s hardware launch event Wednesday, Walmart said customers can now start …
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4 October
AT&T CEO makes the case for Time Warner megamerger
The biggest benefit of AT&T’s $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner? Cheaper prices for consumers, fueled mostly by more targeted advertising. That’s what AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson said Wednesday at the Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit in Beverly Hills. Stephenson said not many people can afford the $110 to $120 a month cable companies charge for their traditional TV bundle. …
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4 October
How to delete your Yahoo account and move to Gmail
The biggest data breach in history just tripled in size. Yahoo announced Tuesday that every single one of its 3 billion accounts were hacked from a 2013 breach. At the time of the attack, Yahoo claimed 1 billion accounts had been hacked, but after Verizon took over Yahoo, the company investigated further and discovered that all of its approximately 3 billion …
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4 October
Google announces ‘Made for Google’ certification program
Google announced a partner certification program called “Made for Google” on Wednesday as part of its Pixel 2 hardware event. The company will now recommend third-party accessories to accompany your Google-brand devices, so you can easily add them to your shopping cart when you buy your next Pixel phone. It’s official, we are a #MadeforGoogle partner for the #Pixel2. pic.twitter.com/wnhB5zBeiW — …
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4 October
Google Glass lives on inside Google’s new Pixel products
Back in 2013, I was boarding a New Jersey Transit train with a piece of metal and plastic on my head. Google Glass ended up being a symbol of many things — the technology industry’s cavalier invasions of privacy, or its increasing elitism — but its promise of a cyborg future didn’t ever really arrive. More from Google’s event Google …
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