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Startup has a way to let your phone make crystal

Cypher CEO John Walker, right, and Vice President John Yoon test out their company’s noise-reduction technology. Steven Tregeagle, courtesy of Cypher In the race to add more capabilities into a smartphone, often what gets neglected is the actual phone part. With the speaker and microphone shrinking down and packed in with computer chips, cameras and sensors, voice quality hasn’t improved …

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Waze now lets you add and edit places

Screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET Waze has enhanced its popular crowdsourced navigation app with tweaks designed to improve the accuracy of its maps. Updated on Monday for both Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android operating systems, Waze version 3.9 unveils a feature called Waze Places. In short, the feature lets you add your own places to the maps. You can add or …

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