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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Now playing: Watch this: Apple Pay lets you send money to friends and family 1:23 Soon you’ll be able to pay your friend for that ski trip using Apple Pay. Apple on Monday showed off a new person-to-person …

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Augmented reality: what the heck do you do with it? No one really knows for sure, but everyone’s trying. Apple is making a concerted push towards AR with iOS 11, adding a developer toolset called ARKit that helps create augmented experiences on iPhones …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …