When Google announced the camera of its new Pixel 4 on Tuesday, it boasted about the computational photography that makes the phone’s photos even better, from low-light photography with Night Sight to improved portrait tools that identify and separate hairs and pet fur. You can even take photos of the stars. What makes it all possible …
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The hot new feature in Apple’s iPhone 11, 11 Pro and 11 Pro Max phones is its ultrawide-angle camera, which lets you zoom out to fit more in your photos. It’s a super-nifty feature, but it doesn’t come cheap. The iPhone 11 starts at $699, and Huawei’s flagship phones, which have had ultrawide-angle lenses for a year now, are similarly …
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Netflix’s hit show Stranger Things helped exorcise some demons plaguing the streaming giant: The retro sci-fi series helped push Netflix’s global subscribers to 158.33 million, just shy of the company’s guidance but still solid enough to ease fears the streaming giant’s growth had peaked. About 64 million accounts watched Stranger Things in the first four weeks of release, Netflix said Wednesday in …
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Starting today owners of Roku media streamers and Roku TVs can download Apple’s TV app, allowing access to Apple’s video content on their devices for the first time. The app is the exclusive home for Apple’s upcoming Apple TV Plus service, due Nov. 1. The service is a Netflix rival that will launch with nine confirmed titles, including a drama …
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Google has packed a lot of new features into its latest smartphones, but superfast 5G connectivity isn’t one of them. On Tuesday at an event in New York City, the company took the wraps off its Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL, the latest versions of its Google-branded phones. The new gadgets come with a slew of goodies, such as …
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Google on Tuesday unveiled a spate of highly anticipated new devices, including its flagship Pixel 4 phone, Pixel Buds to compete with Apple’s Airpods, and a new version of the Google Home Mini speaker, renamed the Nest Mini. But if you really want to understand Google’s goals when it comes to consumer hardware, one of the company’s less-celebrated products, a …
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Google’s new Pixel 4 phone includes a motion sensor, allowing people to make commands through simple swipes through the air. It’s powered by radar on the front of the phone that can detect motion — and that can lead to privacy concerns. At its “Made by Google” event in New York on Tuesday, the tech giant promised that people would …
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Google unveiled the Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL at an event in New York on Tuesday. The phones, which start at $799, feature dual rear cameras, radar-assisted face unlock and unique features like live video captioning. What they don’t have: headphones or a 3.5mm adapter in the box. Google’s latest Pixel phones don’t have USB-C earbuds or an adapter …
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Google has a new set of true wireless earbuds to compete with Apple’s AirPods, but you’ll have to wait a while to get your hands on them. The company’s new Pixel Buds — or Pixel Buds 2, as some are calling them — are scheduled to ship next spring (2020), Google announced Tuesday at its 2019 Made by Google event …
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Over the last three years, Google’s Pixel phones have earned a well-deserved reputation for photographic strength. With the Pixel 4, the company is flexing new camera hardware and software muscles. The new flagship Android smartphone, which the search giant unveiled on Tuesday, gets a second 12-megapixel camera, a key component in an overhauled portrait mode that focuses your attention on …
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