My family’s What’sApp chat channel is about to get a little bit more festive. Earlier this week, the popular global chat app quietly added the ability to send and receive animated GIFs to its app for iPhone. The easiest way to get started on the fun is to pick from one of the integrated options …
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On a cloudy day this May, in the dull fluorescent light of a plain white Google conference room, Rafa Camargo, Richard Wooldridge and Blaise Bertrand told CNET their plan to disrupt the phone market. Ara, a Lego-like phone with modular parts, would let buyers snap on a better camera, additional batteries or any other creative hardware a developer might dream …
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This is part of CNET’s “Tech Enabled” series about the role technology plays in helping the disability community. David Grissam was worried he’d have to quit his job. Grissam had steadily been losing his hearing, which was a serious problem for the 911 dispatcher based in Norman, Oklahoma. It had gotten to the point where normal hearing aids didn’t work …
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Sprint is bringing on a new DJ. The nation’s fourth-largest wireless carrier is adding Napster, formerly Rhapsody, as a music-streaming partner. The move follows Sprint’s partnership with rival service Spotify in April 2014. It doesn’t offer Sprint customers a special deal or preload Napster’s app on their phones, but it combines billing onto the phone owner’s mobile plan. The alliance …
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Now playing: Watch this: Goodbye peach butt?! Big emoji changes in iOS 10.2 1:53 Enlarge Image Emojipedia Today saw the release of the developer preview for the newest version of Apple’s iOS 10, and with it came what we’ve all been waiting for. The announcement of new emojis. The fresh batch of emojis includes a shrug, an avocado, a face …
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Can text messages get kids to read more? We’re about to find out. Amazon introduced on Wednesday a new mobile app called Amazon Rapids, which offers hundreds of original bite-size stories for kids for a monthly subscription of $2.99. The twist is that each piece is told as a series of text messages between characters, like the one about two …
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Chatting and collaborating with colleagues used to be all about watercoolers and whiteboards. These days it’s more about videoconferencing, email and at least one form of instant messaging. Microsoft is the latest company to jump on the work-chat bandwagon with the launch of Teams at a New York event Wednesday. Teams brings together chats, notes and planning with the intention …
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While other smart TV systems rarely receive substantial upgrades, especially after year one, Roku TVs just keep getting better. Today our favorite smart TV system will begin sending out its latest free software update to every Roku TV model, even the first generation sets from 2014. It brings two major new features, one that will appeal to cord cutters who …
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Twitter has started rolling out its Highlights feature, a tailor-made summary of the best tweets, to users on Apple’s iOS devices. When you opt-in to the feature, Twitter will send you up to two push notifications a day to let you know your Highlights summary is ready. The feature combs through conversations and popular tweets within your network as well …
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The first time I saw the Touch Bar on Apple’s new MacBook Pro laptops, I thought: hey, there’s a little strip of an iPad grafted onto that Mac. Macs don’t have touch. At this point, they’re the outliers in the computing world. Windows and Chrome touch computers have flooded the world for years, now. There are tablets. There are phones. …
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