Just in time for the holidays, Amazon has boosted its augmented reality shopping game. The online retailer on Wednesday unveiled “AR view” on its Amazon shopping app. The new feature, which is only available for now for customers using iOS 11 installed on their iPhone 6S or later, lets shoppers check what new products might …
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Apple has spent the last few months talking up a range of new emojis. There’s an emoji of a bearded person, a T. rex, a zombie and an explodey head for those times you just can’t believe what you’re being told. Another notable change after following the instructions below is the 3D touch multitasking gesture, where you press on the …
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You’ll now be able to send all of the “zombie” and “vomit” emojis you want. Apple on Tuesday released iOS 11.1, the latest software update for its iPhones and iPads. The update includes more than 70 new emojis and a much-needed security update that patches the KRACK Wi-Fi exploit. KRACK left iPhones and any other devices that connect to Wi-Fi …
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Samsung makes fantastic looking watches but it doesn’t always give them the best tools for success. So is Samsung Gear Sport a typical Samsung watch? I’ve been wearing Samsung’s newest Gear watch for about a week, across an iPhone 8 Plus and a Samsung Galaxy Note 8. The Gear Sport isn’t the super-powered mega-watch that last year’s cellular-enabled S3 was. Instead …
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The Los Angeles Dodgers are back in the World Series for the first time since 1988. The Houston Astros are returning to the World Series for only the second time in franchise history — and the team’s first as a member of the American League. The Dodgers won 104 games this year on the strength of having baseball’s best pitcher, …
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With each new iPhone, Apple introduces a new camera feature. This year’s feature is what the company calls Live Photos. A Live Photo consists of 1.5 seconds of video, the photo, then an additional 1.5-seconds of video. The end result is a standard photo a first glance, but when touched, the photo comes to life showing the entire 3-second clip. …
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Budding scientists take note. That’s what Google wants you to do, anyway. The company said Wednesday that it’s added new note-taking abilities to Science Journal, and has made the app available on iOS as well as Android. Science Journal is the year-old mobile app that lets would-be Einsteins turn a phone into a scientific instrument. Using the app, you can …
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Amazon regularly updates its Kindle e-reading app for iOS and Android devices, but now it’s rolled out a major redesign that gives the social-reading platform Goodreads, acquired by Amazon in 2013, a much bigger role. Initially anyway, only iOS users will get the new Goodreads features, but Amazon says they’ll be coming to the Android app in the future. Enlarge …
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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. Find more great buys on the CNET Deals page and follow the Cheapskate on Facebook and Twitter! Screenshot by Rick Broida/CNET It’s been a little over a year since I last wrote about SelectTV, so …
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