Facebook is joining the game streaming world, taking on the likes of Sony, Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Nvidia. All now offer ways for people to play visually complex console and PC games over the internet, using technology similar to how Netflix streams movies. While most companies are focused on the top-tier games like Take-Two’s action …
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Apple’s AirPods and AirPods Pro could soon be getting smaller. According to a Bloomberg report on Monday, the company is looking at making a smaller version of the popular wireless earbuds that ditches the “stem” that protrudes from the bottom of the buds. The result would be an AirPods Pro that instead has a more rounded design that “fills more of a …
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Your Apple iPhone 12 and its new MagSafe magnetic charger could bring some pain to your wallet. And no, we’re not talking about the phone’s $829 off-carrier price. In a new support document posted to its website last week, Apple told users they should always make sure to remove any wallet accessories from the back of their phones before using …
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Apple’s MagSafe, which allows you to magnetically snap on attachments, may be the new feature in the iPhone 12 family that provides you with the most immediate impact. And that’s knowing that the company — and the entire wireless industry — has spent a huge amount of time shining a spotlight on 5G. It’s almost sacrilege for me to write this. After all, …
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Lots of people love the fit and feel of hard-plastic earbuds, which helps explain why Apple’s AirPods are so popular. It’s surprising, then, that so few competitors make a similar product. The vast majority of modern true-wireless earbuds — pretty much everything recent from Anker, Edifier, Jabra, Samsung, Sony and others — incorporate an in-ear design with silicone ear tips. …
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When you think about phone screens, Gorilla Glass is the first name that comes to mind. Corning’s brand of chemically strengthened glass has been covering some of the most popular phones from Samsung, Motorola and Google for years. And while it was implied that Apple also used some version of Corning’s glass on its iPhones ($500 at Best Buy) — …
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The head of Samsung, Kun-Hee Lee, has died at the age of 78, the company said Saturday. It didn’t specify what caused his death, but Lee has been in poor health since a heart attack in 2014. He’s credited as the person who turned Samsung into the electronics giant that it is today after refocusing the company on making high-end …
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The iPhone 12 is now on sale, with a starting price of $799 in the US. (It’s pretty great, too: Read our iPhone 12 review.) The iPhone 12 Mini is available for preorder, starting at $699. There are lots of ways to buy Apple’s latest, but many of them involve financing the phone with a carrier that locks you into …
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“That’s a keyboard?” That was the reaction I got the first time I sent a picture of my new, customized, 36-key GergoPlex keyboard to a friend. A friend who, like me, has spent much of his life within an arm’s reach of some keyboard or another. But across the spectrum of input devices that have been tethered to personal computers …
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Want a way to mount your phone almost anywhere, in a car, on a bike or even to a wall? San Francisco-based Peak Design has built a mounting system that seeks to make it easier to hold your phone securely in all those situations. Called Mobile by Peak Design, the system starts with a phone case for an Apple iPhone or …
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