As Apple gears up to show off its latest smartwatch, rival Huami has developed a couple new models of its own: a square Amazfit GTS and a round sports watch, the Amazfit Stratos 3. The company showed off the new watches at the IFA electronics show in Berlin on Friday, and CNET got a sneak …
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The US federal government has filed a court order asking Apple and Google for the names of at least 10,000 people who use a gun scope app, according to a Friday report from Forbes. The data requested would also include phone numbers and other identifying information, according to the documents. The Department of Defense didn’t immediately respond to a request …
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Apple vulnerabilities are rare and often worth millions, so it was a revelation when Google disclosed a string of security flaws that allowed for the hacking of any iPhones used to visit certain websites laced with malware. Now Apple is responding to those attacks, offering more details on the scope of the security issues, in a post on Friday. On Aug. …
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A new, cheaper phone isn’t the only new product OnePlus has in the works. The company is also planning to debut its first smart TV this year, with founder and CEO Pete Lau continuing to tease the forthcoming television in new tweets. After previously revealing that its new Android-powered TV will be called the OnePlus TV and have a QLED …
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In years past, Europe’s biggest electronics show, IFA, was the place Huawei chose to unveil a new Mate, the biggest of its flagship phones. That’s not the case in 2019. We won’t see the Mate 30, the latest in the series, until Sept. 19, when it’s due to launch in Munich. But ahead of its unveiling, Huawei did give us …
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So you want to go to Apple’s annual fall event next week — where it’ll likely reveal the iPhone 11 — but you didn’t get one of the sought-after invites. No worries, because the company is going to stream the Sept. 10 event on YouTube. Apple quietly posted a YouTube page on Friday inviting people to tune in to the …
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Siri was one of the first digital assistants, but in recent years it has fallen well behind rivals like Amazon’s Alexa and Google’s Assistant. It now, however, appears that some major improvements are finally on the horizon. As part of leaked Apple documents obtained by the Guardian, which detail how Apple engineers adjusted Siri to “deflect” questions about feminism and …
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Samsung’s got another 5G phone — and it’s one of the cheapest available. The new Galaxy A90 5G will cost 749 euros (about $827) when it hits the market, making it nearly $500 less than Samsung’s other 5G phones. The 6.7-inch device, which Samsung unveiled at the IFA electronics show in Berlin, sports three rear cameras, including a 48-megapixel lens and one 32-megapixel …
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With Labor Day behind us, we’re in the thick of back-to-school season — and retailers are offering up some of their best deals since Black Friday. This is a great time to pick up a new laptop. Some of our top college laptop picks are discounted right now. Best Buy has the 2018 MacBook Air for $950. You can currently pick …
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Apple Music has launched a public beta of the web browser version of the streaming service. It works across all browsers, including Firefox, Chrome and Safari, and on all devices, as reported Thursday by The Verge. With the killing-off of iTunes in the MacOS Catalina update, Apple Music is now the only way to access Apple’s 50 million-song library. Now …
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