Xiaomi, the Chinese phone maker that has taken Asia and Brazil by storm, has its sights set on the US. The world’s second-most-valuable startup plans to sell its phones in the States by the end of 2017, Hugo Barra, former Googler and Xiaomi’s global vice president, said in an interview Wednesday. “I think we have …
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24 February
Use voice commands to write and format text with Google Docs
Google Docs added voice typing last year, and I hope you’ve never heard someone writing in this manner at Starbucks or a nearby cubicle at work. Should you have a workspace to indulge in voice typing, however, then you should know that Google has expanded the capabilities of voice typing. In addition to using your voice to type, you can …
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24 February
Clearing Google’s hurdle, Brave’s ad
Despite troubles convincing Google that its app is legit, Brave Software’s browser is now available to anyone who is sick of annoying mobile ads. Apple added Brave for iPhones and iPads to its app store on Friday, but Google rejected the app twice before publishing Brave for Android devices in the Google Play app store Tuesday night. Google’s opposition, which …
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24 February
Well
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump may be wrong about one part of what makes America great. According to a recent study, more than a third of technological innovation in this country comes from people born outside the US. A Washington, DC-based think tank surveyed more than 900 individuals who have won prestigious awards or have been awarded international patents expected …
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24 February
Sorry, there probably won’t be an LG Nexus 5X successor this year
LG is taking a break from Google’s Nexus phone program. There are no plans to build a successor to Google’s Nexus 5 or Nexus 5X phones, according to a spokesman for the Korean electronics conglomerate. “LG needs to focus on its own brand,” he said at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona on Friday. The decision comes as …
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24 February
Macklemore and Ryan Lewis to debut new album via Amazon live stream
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis will celebrate the release of their new album by performing it for the whole world to see, courtesy of Amazon. At an intimate 500-person venue in Seattle, the rapper/producer duo will perform their new body of work, “This Unruly Mess I’ve Made,” on Friday, February 26, the day that the album will be officially released. The …
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24 February
Panasonic offers a better
Standard-zoom kit lenses for most Micro Four Thirds cameras have typically been 14-42mm (28-84mm equivalent) or 12-50mm (24-100mm). Both Panasonic and Olympus offer some cheap longer zooms as well, but there are tradeoffs: the broader the zoom range you pack into a lens, the slower and softer it tends to get. Panasonic’s new 12-60mm f3.5-5.6 sounds like a great compromise: …
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24 February
Get a Samsung Gear VR headset for $71.99
CNET’s Cheapskate scours the Web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. And find more great buys on the CNET Deals page. Ready to take your VR experience to the next level? By which I mean leaving behind Google Cardboard and stepping up to something …
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24 February
Exclusive: The OnePlus 3 will launch by June
The OnePlus 3 is expected to launch “at the end of the second quarter,” said Carl Pei, co-founder of OnePlus, in an exclusive interview with CNET en Español. Pei declined to disclose many details about the upcoming smartphone, which will be the China-based vendor’s fourth model and new flagship device. But Pei said he hopes the new model will “captivate” …
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24 February
Taken out by Twitter: A brief history of political social
It’s not exactly the new third rail of American politics, but social media can certainly deliver a jolt to the careless campaigner. This week, Republican US presidential candidate Ted Cruz canned his spokesman, Rick Tyler, for misrepresenting a video clip on social media that made it seem as though rival Marco Rubio was mocking the Bible. The week before that, …
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