May, 2015

• 28 May

  Google beefs up user

  

  Google has been working to boost the security of its Web and mobile apps. Juan Garzón/CNET Google wants users to feel safe and secure when accessing websites and apps from their Android devices. It’s why Google is encouraging developers will build in security safeguards with its Google Identity Platform. The Google Identity Platform, announced Thursday …

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• 28 May

  New arrivals on HBO Now for June 2015

  

  Now playing: Watch this: The new arrivals on HBO Now for June 2015 1:33 HBO Now is shaping up into a formidable streaming service with its lineup of original series and high-quality movies. June brings the season finales of “Game of Thrones,” “Veep” and “Silicon Valley.” A couple of new HBO series will debut in late June, including political comedy …

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• 28 May

  Google’s 3D

  

  Google has cut the price of its Project Tango tablet in half. Screenshot by CNET Google’s Project Tango tablet, a device in testing that features 3D mapping and sensing, is now 50 percent cheaper and available to anyone who wants it. Google put the Tango tablet on sale for $512 on Thursday, just hours before the company plans to hold …

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• 28 May

  Child

  

  Google’s new “family star” for the Google Play app store is meant to help parents choose the best content for their kids. Google; I/O photo by CNET’s James Martin Google wants parents to feel more comfortable about the apps and content their kids are encountering on their Android smartphones and tablets. To that end, the company will curate smartphone and …

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• 27 May

  Target CEO: Thanks Amazon, for teaching people to shop online

  

  Target CEO Brian Cornell speaking at Recode’s Code conference. Asa Mathat for Re/code Target CEO Brian Cornell had two surprising words for online competitor Amazon: “Thank you.” Giving credit where credit was due, Cornell said Amazon helped shape the way Americans shopped, making it comfortable for them to make purchases online “I think we almost need to say thank you …

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• 27 May

  Messaging becoming the heart of mobile, Mary Meeker says

  

  Mary Meeker, at the 2015 Code Conference, for the past two decades has offered insights on the direction of technology in her annual reports. Asa Mathat for Recode Messaging apps will likely take over our mobile lives, that is if they haven’t already. That’s one of the insights from venture capitalist Mary Meeker’s annual report on Internet trends, presented Wednesday …

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• 27 May

  Apple will kick off developers confab with keynote June 8

  

  This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. It’s official. Apple will kick off its annual developers confab with a keynote on June 8. Apple CEO Tim Cook at WWDC from 2014. Justin Sullivan, Getty Images Invitations trickled out to the media on Wednesday. Apple will host its Worldwide Developers Conference …

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• 27 May

  iPhone now ‘a pocket watch,’ says Apple Watch honcho

  

  Apple Watch head Jess Williams, right, says the company has sold “a lot” of units, “but not enough.” Asa Mathat for Recode Don’t think of Apple’s iPhone as the end-all-be-all device of the future. Instead, consider it your next pocket watch. That, at least, is how the executive who oversees the Apple Watch would like consumers to think about the …

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• 27 May

  Rare iOS bug can cause text messages to crash your iPhone

  

  A bug in iOS is causing certain text messages to crash your iPhone. CNET A quirky bug in Apple’s iOS can crash and reboot your iPhone if you receive a certain text message. First revealed by a Reddit user on Tuesday, the bug works as follows: Someone texts you a message with a specific string of Arabic characters. If your …

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• 27 May

  What to do with your sleep data

  

  Sarah Jacobsson Purewal/CNET You’ve been tracking your sleep schedule for a couple of weeks now, and you know that you don’t always get the highest-quality sleep possible. But…now what? Sleep data, like all data, is useless when it lives in a vacuum. In order to really figure out why you sleep like a log some nights, and why you toss …

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