Baldo: The Guardian Owls, Asphalt 8: Airborne and DoDonPachi Resurrection HD are the latest games to join Apple Arcade on Friday. Baldo: The Guardian Owls is a new open-world adventure RPG from indie Italian developer Naps Team. Asphalt 8: Airborne from Gameloft is a fully unlocked version of the racing game already available in the …
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Google has shared a video promoting its new Pixel 5A smartphone that parodies Apple while also announcing the phone has a headphone jack — a feature most phones on the market now lack. The Google video starts with a picture of a circle and a Jony Ive-alike announcer saying: “Perfect. Simple. Some might say simply perfect.” It’s only 40 seconds …
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The PC market in the US continues to grow as it appears many people have accepted a future that includes hybrid work, according to the latest quarterly report from market research firm Canalys. In the second quarter of 2021, the PC market grew 17% year over year, with a total of 36.8 million shipments, according to Canalys. Notebooks saw the …
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Samsung’s Galaxy Buds 2 are small but powerful earbuds with good sound and reliable active noise canceling. And at $150, they’re less expensive and just as capable as Apple’s AirPods Pro. And if you look around enough, you’ll find the Buds 2 on sale. In fact, last week Woot ran a deal that got you a pair of Buds 2 …
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Snapchat is expanding the repertoire of its visual search with an update to a feature called Scan. Scan has been a part of the popular messaging app for awhile as a way to identify songs or solve a math problem. Thursday’s update will put the feature front and center with a button on the main page of the app while …
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I’d love to say the new Samsung Galaxy Watch 4, which starts at $250 (£249), delivers the ultimate Android watch experience. I can’t quite say that, but it’s close. After wearing Samsung’s newest watches for two weeks, however, I’ve liked it more over time. It’s the first to run a whole new Google Wear OS co-designed by Samsung and Google, and …
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Apple is making changes to how it works with news publications. In a blog post Thursday, Apple introduced its Apple News Partner Program, which is aimed at subscription-based news publications already using its Apple News format. Under the new program, Apple is lowering its commission rate on “qualifying in-app purchase subscriptions” to 15%, down from 30% for publications’ first year. …
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Let’s say you already know you want an iPhone, specifically the Pro version, and let’s say you’re not interested in waiting around for the iPhone 13. (Apple’s next flagship lineup should be here very soon, and it’s starting to look very cool but once we find out the price, Apple’s previous lineups will likely go on sale.) For those who …
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If you’ve got the cash to spend and are on the lookout for a top-of-the line fitness tracker, then chances are the Apple Watch 6 and even the Fitbit Luxe are on your short list. Both wearables have always-on displays and track health metrics like sleep and stress, but each has a slew of marked differences that you should know …
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Samsung’s recent generation of its Galaxy Book family tackles Apple head on, right down to the attempt to get its Galaxy phones to integrate with Windows and the rest of its products as deeply as Apple’s iOS devices integrate with each other. So it’s no surprise that Samsung’s new thin-and-light clamshell Galaxy Book Pro laptop bears some resemblance to its …
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