You may have to wait if you want to watch Will Smith and John Legend perform singalongs in a car on Apple Music. The 16-episode “Carpool Karaoke” series, produced by James Corden, will premiere later this year, according to a report by Reuters. It began life as a viral segment on CBS’ “The Late Late …
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25 April
Sick of your plain white AirPods? Skin ’em, dude
A few weeks back I wrote about Catalyst’s strangely awesome AirPods Case, a protective waterproof cover for the AirPods charging case. Turns out it wasn’t the only new accessory for the AirPods. Like other hot Apple products in the past — even products that are accessories themselves — Apple’s distinctive white ‘buds seem to be spawning an entire cottage industry …
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25 April
Your face might not be secure enough to buy things… for years
Samsung’s facial recognition unlock lets you activate your Galaxy S8 just by looking at it. But it could be a more than four years before it’s secure enough to be used for Samsung Pay, reported The Korea Herald, citing a source within the electronics giant. Today, fingerprint readers (and in Samsung’s case, the iris scanner) secure mobile payment services like …
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25 April
AT&T revenue down and subscribers fall
With T-Mobile tearing up the wireless industry, what’s a carrier to do? If you’re AT&T, start looking outside the wireless business. AT&T doesn’t want to be known as just a telecom company anymore. It’s using its DirecTV Now streaming service to take control of what you watch and of how you watch it. AT&T owns one of the key services …
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25 April
Galaxy S8 gets Telstra tick of approval for regional 4G
The Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus are already the fastest phones currently available on Telstra’s network, but now that prestige extends all the way out into the bush. Telstra has today confirmed that Samsung‘s two new flagship devices are the first to be certified under the telco’s new 4G Blue Tick rating system. City dwellers won’t necessarily care about …
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25 April
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No choice appears to be the right choice for T-Mobile customers. The backlash over T-Mobile One — the company’s unlimited data plan — seems like a distant memory. When the carrier in August first unveiled its decision to remove all of its plans in favor of a single unlimited option, it drew heaps of scorn as customers complained that they …
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24 April
Verizon Fios launches near
If you live in the northeast, Verizon is the new ticket to blazing internet speeds. The broadband provider is rolling out what it says is the nation’s largest deployment of gigabit internet on Monday. Called Fios Gigabit Connection, it promises download speeds of 940 megabits per second and upload speeds of 880 Mbps. That’s hella fast (though not 1 gigabit …
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24 April
Parents, your phone use is annoying your teens
Mums and dads, step away from your phones. It turns out that as much as parents worry about their children’s internet use, children worry about their parents’ habits. Thirty-six percent of children between 11 and 18 have asked their parents to stop checking their mobile devices, according to a survey of 2,000 students and 3,000 parents carried out by nonprofit …
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24 April
Unroll.me ‘heartbroken’ after being caught selling user data to Uber
You know what they say: If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product. Now some are realising the price they paid for using free inbox clean-up service Unroll.me, after the company opened up about its practice of selling users’ email data. Unroll.me promises to organise your inbox by sorting subscription emails and letting you unsubscribe from the …
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24 April
Google Maps now helps you travel abroad like a local
Not understanding a foreign language can be one of the most challenging things about traveling abroad. This can be especially disconcerting when using a service like Google Maps to find a local restaurant or shop only to discover that all the reviews are in a different language. Google Maps has made all this easier with a feature that translates the …
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