Now playing: Watch this: Adobe Flash to flicker out in 2020 1:26 The Flash Player has been there for you all along, inside your browser, making it possible for you to play online games, stream radio station music and watch YouTube videos. But after a two-decade run, Adobe is killing it off. Countless nails have …
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Qualcomm is defending itself against critics who say its patent dispute with Apple is really about quashing competition. Earlier this month Qualcomm filed a complaint with the US International Trade Commission, accusing Apple’s iPhones of infringing six of its mobile patents. As part of the filing, Qualcomm wants the ITC to ban the import of certain iPhones that don’t use …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Enlarge Image Did Xai Thao buy a defective iPhone 4S? A lawsuit alleges that was the case. Josh Miller/CNET Exploding phones were all the rage after Samsung’s Note 7 debacle last year. But Samsung is hardly alone among phone makers that have seen, at one …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. It’s so exciting because, well, The Rock is in it. Apple/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Oh, how those Hollywood types love to hype. On Sunday, The Rock insisted that he and Apple had made a “movie” together, one that would star himself and Siri and …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Woz believes iPhones are worth it. Sean Gallup / Getty Images In the end, it comes down to love. That’s seems to be Steve Wozniak’s view about buying high-priced Apple products. Speaking to journalists in Dongguan, China, earlier this week, the Apple co-founder explained why …
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Now playing: Watch this: This app turns your Mac or PC into a super-cheap Apple… 2:18 Matt Elliott/CNET If you’ve got an old iMac lying around — or any Mac or PC for that matter — you can repurpose it as a cheap alternative to an Apple TV so you can stream your iPhone or Android phone to its larger …
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Intel has jumped into the fray surrounding the Apple-Qualcomm patent spat by accusing the world’s biggest maker of mobile phone chips of trying to use the courts to snuff out competition. The chip giant made the allegation late Thursday in a public statement (PDF) to US International Trade Commission. The commission had requested the statement as part of its investigation …
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Eager to take a peek at the upcoming Galaxy Note 8? We are too, and although the phone won’t be announced until next month there’s no shortage of unofficial renders to keep us satisfied in the meantime. The latest look comes from tech site BGR, which got its hands on leaked images that show off the Note from multiple angles. If …
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This is part of our Road Trip 2017 summer series “The Smartest Stuff,” about how innovators are thinking up new ways to make you — and the world around you — smarter. Tiny drops of rain hit my face as I run through the sleepy residential neighborhood of Littleton, Massachusetts, about an hour’s drive north of Boston. There’s a slight incline to …
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Apple could be angling for another way to get its Siri personal assistant into your home. Last month, the iPhone maker debuted the HomePod, a high-end speaker with Siri built in. But if a patent just granted to Apple is any indication, the company could be looking to enable Siri with more hardware. The patent is called “Smart dock for …
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