A popular meme proclaims: “Always be yourself. Unless you can be Batman. Then always be Batman.” Well, here’s your chance. If you’ve got an Apple Watch, iPhone, or other device that uses Siri, you can Batman the heck out of yourself. In a promotion for the “Lego Batman Movie,” Siri will now respond to you …
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Now playing: Watch this: Google’s Android Wear 2.0 is here, starting with LG Watch… 2:37 Android Wear 2.0 recently launched, adding new features and a revamped interface to Google’s smartwatch platform. The idea of using an Android Wear watch with an iPhone is admittedly, well, odd. However, with Pebble no longer around, the Android Wear lineup is a worthy alternative …
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There’s an old football saying: When you have two starting quarterbacks, you have none. I’ve watched the New York Jets go through a lot of seasons with a lot of quarterbacks on the roster, but no single hero. I just spent a week with Google’s new Android Wear 2.0 software update on two different watches, and I feel like Android …
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Casting a YouTube video from your phone to your TV is a great way to share videos with friends or just watch by yourself on a larger screen and Chromecast ($80 at Walmart) makes it easy to do. Thanks to a recent update to the YouTube app for iOS, casting YouTube videos from your phone is easier than ever. The …
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Now playing: Watch this: How to choose your next iPad 2:18 If you’ve had your eye on the 9.7-inch iPad Pro tablet but couldn’t justify the $600 price tag, now’s the time to take the plunge. Effective today, Target is discounting the tablet by $150 at all storage capacities. That translates to: 32GB iPad Pro for $450 (25 percent off …
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Apple may have a solution for short battery life on the Apple Watch. Put the battery in the band. An Apple patent application dated today illustrates a battery on the strap of a wearable device, presumably the Apple Watch. The proposed patent also shows that watch’s circular face, which is a different shape than the Apple Watch’s usual rectangular display. …
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Familiarity breeds comfort. At least, that’s the case with the iPhone 7. Apple hardly changed the body of its flagship phone, yet consumers cozied up to the device like never before. Apple sold more iPhones than ever before — 78.3 million — and snapped a three-quarter streak of iPhone unit sales declines. Analysts had expected the company to sell 78 …
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Now playing: Watch this: Apple’s ‘theater mode’ debuts on a smaller screen 1:24 Get ready to be a little less annoyed by all of those Apple Watches in movie theaters. Maybe. Apple on Monday introduced a beta version of its WatchOS 3.2 software to developers, letting them take advantage of new features Apple will eventually distribute to all Apple Watch …
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The smartwatch race should be over. Apple should have won, but that hasn’t exactly been the case. While the Cupertino company remains the leading smartwatch maker, shipments of the Apple Watch have fallen and its market share is slowly diminishing due to increased competition from Samsung, Garmin and traditional watchmakers such as Fossil. Apple’s market share could be further disrupted …
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CNET’s Cheapskate scours the web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. And find more great buys on the CNET Deals page. Thanks for all the get-well wishes yesterday! Happy to report I’m feeling a bit better — at least well enough to sit at …
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