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Apple is notorious for littering its operating systems with hidden features that make using their devices easier. For instance, there’s no visible backspace button in the stock iOS Calculator app. Yet, the everyone lost their minds when someone discovered swiping on the numbers entered (not the keypad numbers) would backspace one time. That’s just one …

Microsoft renamed its game-streaming service and gave it some upgrades. Co-op live-streamers might be thrilled. Microsoft Beam is now Mixer. If you have no idea what that means, a quick refresher: Microsoft bought Beam, a livestreaming game-sharing app, in 2016. Beam was added to Xbox One and Windows 10 this year. Mixer’s new focus is on being faster — according …

A new service that syncs your calls and texts across multiple devices is coming soon to T-Mobile. It’s also mostly free. With Digits, your phone number works on compatible internet-connected devices. It’s been in beta this year, but it’s coming to the US starting May 31. It sounds like great news for anyone who’s juggling extra phones, tablets or even …

Now playing: Watch this: Google Photos gets smarter with suggested sharing 2:22 Ever wished you could hide photos or videos from the main photo album in your Google Photos app? Now you can with a new Archive feature. As reported by 9to5Google, the feature is currently rolling out to Android users. An app update isn’t required for the feature to …

The Hilton Union Square Hotel in San Francisco was busier than normal as people hustled to grab boxed sandwich lunches. The food was provided by Samsung, which played host to a developer conference last week to promote its homegrown Tizen operating system. With a turkey sandwich in hand, I struck up a conversation with a photographer who has never made …

Now playing: Watch this: Get to know your Google Assistant on iOS 2:11 Google on Wednesday released a stand-alone Google Assistant app for the iPhone. It’s the first time Google’s assistant has been made available outside Google’s Android and Google Home platforms. You can’t fully replace Siri with Google Assistant, but with a little patience you can use Google Assistant …

Google revealed a cascade of exciting innovations to its Google universe this week at the annual I/O developer conference. Apple should be quaking in its boots. The search and software giant is making tremendous strides in AI through Assistant; image search and detection through Google Lens; web search through Instant Apps; and search through Jobs on Google. In other words, …

The iPad offers excellent battery life but after so many charges, battery life invariably begins to fade. How can you keep your iPad’s battery running for a good, long time on a single charge? Let us count the ways: 1. Lower screen brightness Apple states, “There are two simple ways you can preserve battery life — no matter how you …

Last year after Google announced Android N (which became Android Nougat), I wrote that Android had blown past the iPhone and iOS. Granted, it was deep in the iOS 9 era, just a few weeks before Apple unveiled iOS 10 at its own developer conference. But with N, Google wowed me with its better search, better AI than Siri and …

“PC” stands for personal computer. And that idea of personalization has only expanded as the definition of computer has morphed to include the mobile devices that we carry with us, such as the phones that most people now consider an extension of their body. I bet your phone is within your reach right now — or at least in the …