Google’s Stadia video game service expanded to Android TV and Google TV on Monday, but that doesn’t mean Google is done making moves. On Tuesday the search giant announced a new partnership that will offer six months of Stadia Pro for free to AT&T wireless and Fiber users. Stadia is Google’s video game streaming service …
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Google’s Stadia is heading to new devices. On Monday the search giant announced that it will begin rolling out the cloud-based video game service to its Chromecast with Google TV streaming stick as well as a handful of other Android TV-powered televisions and devices on June 23. Those devices include: Hisense U7G, U8G and U9G Android TVs Nvidia Shield TV …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple is adjusting its approach to its AirTags sensors, changing the time they play an audible alert when separated from their owner. The company is also creating new ways to warn people if an unexpected AirTag or Find My network-enabled device is nearby. The …
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Apple’s annual developer conference, WWDC kicks off Monday June 7 at 10 a.m. PT. We’re likely to see iOS 15, a new version of the iPhone’s operating system. WWDC21 comes a month after Google’s I/O developer conference which gave us a more complete look at Android 12. The new Android OS, which will debut this fall on the Google Pixel 6 phone, adds more …
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With the Nord N10 5G and N100, OnePlus expanded its more affordable Nord family of phones after launching its first OnePlus Nord in 2020. Available in Europe and North America, the N10 5G currently costs $300. This is cheaper than the UK-only OnePlus Nord (which you can currently find on Amazon for $428) along with the company’s 2020 flagship OnePlus 8 ($449) …
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Google’s Pixel Buds A-Series are kind of unusual, in that they’re new but not exactly an upgrade. They look and sound very similar to last year’s Pixel Buds 2, which debuted at $179 but are now selling for less. However, instead of adding new features — like active noise canceling — they’ve actually lost a few. Why? They only cost …
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So many phones have one signature gimmick — whether it’s a foldable screen, camera with zoom lens or lidar. But Nokia’s flagship Nokia 8.3 has so many selling points that I hardly know where to start. It’s Nokia’s affordably priced flagship ($700) with dual SIM slots, a respectable camera cluster and global 5G support. Right now, the price might be …
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Eagle-eyed shoppers spotted an interesting pair of Walmart listings Thursday: two new media streamers. Each is a Chromecast-enabled Android TV device with Google Assistant voice controls built into the remote. Both of them are branded under Walmart’s own Onn personal electronics line, and as the store brand might indicate, they’re priced to sell, ringing in at $25 and $30. The …
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Huawei held global launch event Wednesday, where it announced a bevy of new hardware products for a global rollout. But the big news is the upgrade to Harmony OS, the software some of those products run on. Harmony has been around since 2019, but this second-gen version will run on a much broader array of Huawei products for the first time, …
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Google made location settings harder to find in its Android phone software so people wouldn’t turn them off, a move aimed at preserving the data collection efforts that power the tech giant’s lucrative ad business, according to court documents that were unsealed earlier this week The decision came after Google conducted research that found a “substantial increase” in devices disabled …
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