It was a dark day in 2017 when Twitter announced it was shutting down Vine, the six-second video-looping social app. In less than four years, Vine became a hub for micro-video memes, creating the rise of a generation of young Vine stars with its potential for quick and quirky humor. As users consoled themselves with …
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This story is part of CNET’s coverage of Apple Arcade, including exclusive first looks we got at some of the service’s high-profile new games. Apple Arcade added another game to its $4.99/month gaming service on Friday: Charrua Soccer. The game aims to capture the spirit of the indigenous South American Charrúa people, and the importance of Uruguayan football in their culture. Uruguay has won …
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For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Apple has extended the closures of its stores in China until the end of next week due to coronavirus concerns, as reported earlier Friday by Bloomberg. While the tech giant planned to reopen its stores on Feb. 10, Apple said Friday the stores …
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The long-sought-for holy grail for those who use a laptop and phone is a seamless handoff between the two for anyone who doesn’t want to stop what they’re doing on one screen to do something else on the smaller display. Now Microsoft helps bridge the divide by letting you make and answer phone calls right from your PC. You can also send …
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Not even Apple is immune to the coronavirus sweeping the globe, with suppliers and stores impacted by the deadly disease. CEO Tim Cook last week said the company has suppliers in China’s Wuhan region, where the coronavirus first emerged. The iPhone maker has alternative sources for those components, he said, and it’s “working on mitigation plans to make up any expected …
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Can you look at someone and tell whether they prefer the iPhone or an Android phone? We decided to put YouTube star Marques Brownlee to this test during a recent visit to CNET’s New York studio. Here’s the setup. In multiple rounds, two people walk up to Brownlee. The goal? To figure out which person is an iPhone user and …
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For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Citing safety concerns for its employees and the general public given the global outbreak of the coronavirus, LG on Tuesday announced that it will “withdraw from exhibiting and participating” at Mobile World Congress 2020. MWC is the world’s largest mobile trade show, and …
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You store a ton of personal information in your Google account — bank account balances, email addresses and phone numbers, pictures of your face, your friends’ faces, your family. If you want to protect that sensitive data with the highest level of security you can get, consider the Google Advanced Protection Program. Google’s program makes it nearly impossible for anyone …
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On Wednesday, Apple released the first developer betas of iOS 13.4 and MacOS 10.15.4, with several new features that will make the platforms more useful. The iOS 13.4 developer beta includes nine new Memoji Stickers (expressing celebration, eye rolling, and huffing with anger, among other emotions) for Messages, FaceTime, and other apps that use your phone’s keyboard. CarPlay also has …
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Apple might be joining the folding-phone craze. A patent now held by the iPhone maker shows a design for a “flexible display” that appears to be similar to some of the upcoming foldable phones such as the Galaxy Z Flip and Motorola Razr. On Tuesday, the US Patent and Trademark Office published a patent filed by Apple titled “Electronic devices …
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