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This story is part of Generation China, CNET’s series exploring the nation’s technological ambition. Until a couple of years ago, if you’d heard of Huawei — and that’s a big if, depending on where you live — you probably knew it only as a maker of phones, an upstart rival to reigning phone giants Apple …

Looking to give NBCUniversal’s Peacock streaming service a try? You’ll want to make sure to create your account on an Android phone or tablet or an Android TV device such as the Nvidia Shield. As part of a prelaunch deal struck with Google, those who sign up for Peacock using an Android device will be able to get three months of Peacock …

My mom once told me that you can never have too many socks. That’s probably true, but I tend to believe that you can never have too many power accessories. I have so many Qi wireless chargers scattered around my house that if they were glasses of water, I’d be able to fight off an alien invasion in an M. …

Update, Aug. 3: The Pixel 4A is here. Read CNET’s review. Original story follows. The Pixel 4A and 4A XL are expected soon. In May 2019, Google launched a line of budget phones as an offshoot to its flagship Pixel line. Starting first with the Pixel 3A and 3A XL, the phones were priced at hundreds of dollars less than itheir Pixel 3 and 3 XL counterparts …

Samsung will introduce five new devices at its Unpacked event on Aug. 5, the company’s head of mobile confirmed Monday in a blog post.  Tae-moon Roh, who took over day-to-day leadership of Samsung’s mobile business in January, called the new products “power devices” and hinted that they’re likely to include wearables alongside phones. Users will “live life to the fullest …

Apple Arcade added Necrobarista, a new anime-stye supernatural game from developer Route 59, to its catalog of over 125 games on Friday. Necrobarista takes place in a mysterious cafe in Melbourne, Australia where the dead are allowed one night to mingle among the living.  See at App Store In Necrobarista, Maddy Xiao — a barista and amateur necromancer — is the …

The US Department of Commerce added 11 Chinese companies to its list of firms implicated in human rights violations, including China’s reported campaign against Muslim minority groups from an area of the country known as the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. At least one of those companies, Nanchang O-Film Tech, is listed as a supplier or undefined “partner” with nearly two …

Back in March I wrote about how Bose’s much-anticipated new true wireless earbuds were delayed, with a Bose spokesperson telling me “product development has taken longer than anticipated” and been compounded by coronavirus issues. The Earbuds 500, which I previewed in a post and video last June, didn’t make their 2019 release and ended up being pushed until 2020. The Noise-Cancelling 700 Earbuds, …

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple is releasing major new software updates in the fall for iPhones and iPads, and now you can download prerelease versions of them for a test-drive. Apple’s new iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 public betas can be installed for free on any recent …

Anyone can sign up to try out the iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 beta, which gives iPhone and iPad owners a preview of the features coming later this fall. But as with any beta program, there are bugs and issues that have the potential to frustrate those who decide to install it. In fact, there are four reasons you shouldn’t install it …