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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. It’s hard when your tricycle leaves you. Apple/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Are you running away? For a vacation, I mean. Perhaps a permanent one, far away from the woes that surround you. With perfect timing, Apple has just released …

Now playing: Watch this: Check out the hidden mouse in your iPhone’s keyboard 1:07 Over its 10-year history, Apple’s iPhone has undergone many improvements to make typing on it a good experience. Editing text, on the other hand, can still be a pain. To remedy this, iPhones with 3D Touch (6S, 6S Plus, 7 and 7 Plus) have a hidden feature that makes moving …

Your next Apple Pay purchase might help the country’s national parks. From July 1 to 25, Apple will donate $1 to the National Park Foundation for every purchase made with Apple Pay at Apple’s stores, website or app store, the company announced today. “America’s national parks are an inspiration to us at Apple, and we know they are as important …

The iPhone really did change everything. Sure, there were smartphones before Apple’s came along in 2007, but BlackBerry and Windows Mobile devices were largely the tools of white-collar workers and productivity beasts who needed to have e-mail all the time. The iPhone was the first smartphone that anyone could easily use — even if the original was expensive and surprisingly …

If you’re strapped for cash or just don’t want to spend the money on Samsung‘s Galaxy S8 and larger S8 Plus, you do have options. Lots of good ones, in fact. Because at $750 and $850 in the US, £689 and £779 in the UK, and AU$1,199 and AU$1,349 in Australia, Samsung’s phones cost a pretty penny. The cheap-but-good Android alternatives cost …

Editor’s note: We’ll be on holiday on July 3 and July 4 next week, and then taking a hiatus from July 10 to July 24. But, be sure to still tune in, as we’ve got some hidden gems we’re pretaping and releasing during our hiatus.  What a weird decade it’s been since the iPhone first came out.  Some of us …

Now playing: Watch this: OnePlus 5’s new nifty software tricks 2:19 OnePlus’ latest OnePlus 5 flagship phone has a lot of new hardware — including the Snapdragon 835 chipset, a long-lasting battery and rear dual-cameras — that helps it hold its own against the mighty iPhone 7 Plus and other impressive Android rivals. The combination of hearty hardware with these useful …

This year’s crop of winners from the iPhone Photography Awards are making the world a more beautiful place, and it’s all thanks to the much-maligned phone camera. From pictures of children framed against a pillar of smoke in the background in the Iraqi town of Qayyarah to protesters in freezing North Dakota to a beautiful shot of the inside of the …

I’ve been using iOS 11 public beta for a week and I never knew that it had a secret little bit of 3D magic hidden inside. Apple’s augmented reality in ARKit isn’t available to try out in the public beta of iOS 11, but there is something that’s close: Apple Maps. Walkthrough 3D flyovers in major cities come close to …

Now playing: Watch this: It’s real: Vivo phone scans fingerprints under the screen 1:07 First came fingerprint-enabled buttons. Next, expect screens with fingerprint sensors included. Qualcomm unveiled its own under-screen fingerprint-sensing technology at Mobile World Congress 2017 in Shanghai, and Chinese phone maker Vivo is the first to use the technology in a phone. A video, released by Vivo, shows …