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Apple wants Siri to read your mind and take over your home

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. With more voice assistants competing for your attention than ever before, the time was right for Apple to introduce a slew of Siri upgrades on Monday, June 5, at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference. On top of that, …

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Pokemon Go looks even better with ARKit

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple is throwing some shade detailing on Pokemon Go. With its new ARKit, Apple is going all in with augmented reality. The platform for iPhone and iPad apps aims to push AR forward with more realistic looking digital objects projected onto the real …

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Are Macs safe from viruses?

Macs were immune to the widespread WannaCry ransomware attack, the huge cyberattack last month that targeted older versions of Windows. Before Mac users become too comfortable or smug, you should know that although Macs are less frequently the target of cyberattacks than Windows PCs, they have been attacked in the past and will undoubtedly be targeted again. Wait, there have …

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iPhone 8 could bring you wireless charging, face recognition

Apple’s annual WWDC conference is less than a day away, but you may not have to wait until then for some saucy Apple news. A trio of people who work within Foxconn, the Chinese manufacturer that makes many of Apple’s products, did an Ask Me Anything (AMA) session on Reddit over the weekend, where they dished on the iPhone 8, Apple Glasses, …

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Dear Apple, please can I have something simple?

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. See how simple that staging looks? I’d like that sort of simple. Stephen Lam / Getty Images We’re lazy, but we’re also a little tired. We don’t want to make too much effort, largely because we don’t have too much time. Here we are in …

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How iOS 11 could change the iPhone

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. The iPhone improves every year in two ways: through a big hardware launch every September that also comes with a software refresh. Everyone knows that a new iPhone debuts every fall. But three months earlier, Apple‘s annual WWDC developers conference gives an early …

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Google Android Pay available in Taiwan

Android Pay is now available in Taiwan, Google announced Thursday. The contactless payment system was introduced in September 2015 in the US and since then has expanded to a handful of other countries.  Android Pay lets you make purchases by tapping your phone on a credit card terminal. It came out a year after Apple Pay, which lets you do the …

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Google, LG and Lenovo modular phones: Here’s what went wrong

For a while there, everyone was going mad for modular. A phone with swappable hardware parts was going to be the industry’s next radical evolution. Google demoed Project Ara with its clever endoskeleton frame, LG launched its G5 flagship with a detachable chin that connected with other accessories, and Lenovo’s trio of Motorola Moto Z phones had magnetic modules for …

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Motorola mods: Modular phones should be more exciting than this

During a full-day briefing of Motorola’s product vision a week ago, I listened to a lot of talk about Mods. Motorola’s clever snap-on accessory system is a dream of a superconnected phone future. And yet, what I mostly saw were battery packs. Practicality aside, that’s not going to get anyone to upgrade to a modular world. Motorola might want to …

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Apple says iOS app developers earned $20 billion last year

The market for iOS apps is growing, and so are the rewards. That’s the word from Apple, which said Thursday that since the Apple App Store launched in 2008, app developers have been paid more than $70 billion, or $20 billion more than the total Apple announced last year. Downloads from the App Store have also increased, growing 70 percent …

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