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You can watch YouTube TV from any screen. How to get started

It’s hard enough to keep up with all of your favorite shows when you’re at home, but add travel into the mix and it’s easy to fall behind. Or maybe you want to share the fun at a friend’s house. Either way — whether you’re going somewhere that doesn’t have a cable subscription or going …

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If Chrome fixes privacy too fast it could break the web, Google exec warns

There’s a growing consensus that it’s the browser’s job to protect our privacy on the web. But on Tuesday, a Google Chrome leader warned that trying to make that change too soon could actually hurt the web by driving developers to mobile apps instead. “At our scale, it’s not reasonable to move too fast, because it’s too destructive,” said Justin …

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Secure your Google account by turning your iPhone into a physical key

Hopefully, you’re protecting the personal information stored in your Google account — like your passwords and email, location, search history and a record of your purchases — using two-factor authentication (2FA). This system is a good second layer of protection to guard against hackers, but it also makes you go through an extra process to retrieve and enter a six-digit …

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Huawei is the world’s top 5G phone vendor, analyst says

Huawei was the world’s top 5G phone vendor in 2019, with 37% market share (or 6.9 million devices), according to a Tuesday report from Strategy Analytics. Global 5G phone shipments reached 19 million units last year, the report says.   “Demand for 5G smartphones is higher than many expected,” Ken Hyers, director at Strategy Analytics, said in a release. “Fierce …

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Apple’s AirPods Pro, services deliver a record holiday for the iPhone maker

Apple on Tuesday reported an all-time record quarter for revenue and earnings — and it’s partly thanks to its newest AirPods and its services business.  The company credited its services and wearables lines, as well as its newest iPhones, for the performance. Both sales and earnings in the three months ended Dec. 28 were well above Wall Street forecasts. Apple …

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iPhone 11’s new multicam app lets you shoot video with two cameras at once

Your phone is studded with cameras. You’re probably only using one at a time, though. That could change in the near future: imagine shooting video with two, or even someday three or four simultaneously. I’ve gotten a brief taste of what that weird phone future will feel like. I spent some of the weekend trying out two-camera simultaneous recording on …

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Phones in 2020 are coming with more killer cameras, 5G and foldable screens

This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. In exactly two weeks, Samsung is set to reveal the Galaxy S20 series of flagship phones and the Galaxy Z Flip, a foldable clamshell device whose screen folds from top to bottom down the middle. Rumors are pouring in that the …

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Apple iOS updates for iPhone, iPad tackle location tracking, screen time issues

Apple released two minor updates to its iOS operating system Tuesday. iOS and iPadOS 13.3.1 aim to resolve privacy issues found in the December release of iOS and ‌iPadOS‌ 13.3, after researchers discovered that certain location tracking features couldn’t be disabled in the iPhone 11 and that security features were being bypassed in Screen Time. Addressing the location tracking problem, …

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Amazon’s first

Earlier this month, CNET’s David Carnoy praised Amazon’s first-ever true-wireless earbuds, the Echo Buds, but suggested you “wait for a sale.” Because while he liked the hands-free Alexa features and Bose-powered noise reduction — the latter putting the Echo Buds on the same playing field as Apple’s AirPods Pro — he felt the sweet spot would be more like $99. …

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iPad’s 10th anniversary leaves us asking if Apple’s tablet is a computer

In late 2009, one of the worst-kept secrets in technology was that Apple planned to launch a tablet of some sort, probably within months. Would it be a locked-down device like the iPhone, launched just two years earlier in 2007? Or would it be a more traditional platform like the MacBook, following in the footsteps of personal computers since the …

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