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 …
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Cable provider Altice USA is looking to shake up the wireless market in the US with a new offer that dramatically undercuts the competition. On Thursday, it said it will offer customers unlimited mobile service for just $20 a month. Even its non-cable subscribers can get in on the action for just $30 a month. Altice Mobile will use AT&T …
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Apple’s recent iPhone lineup has been all-in on its Face ID facial recognition system, which took over as the authentication system of choice following the iPhone X’s introduction in 2017. While that might not be going away, it now appears that fingerprint recognition is set to make a comeback. Apple is working on in-display fingerprint sensors for future iPhones, according …
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Wow, Garmin has a lot of watches. September is the time for flagship fitness watches: Fitbit Versa 2, Samsung Galaxy Watch Active 2, the Apple Watch and now Garmin. The company’s just launched a handful of Apple Watch competitors: the Garmin VivoActive 4, and a step-up Garmin Venu, which adds an AMOLED display that has an optional always-on mode. Garmin also …
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Smartphone prices have been creeping up over $1,000 in recent years, but it was Apple’s less expensive iPhone XR that topped all other smartphones in shipments in the first half of 2019, says IHS Market. The iPhone XR shipped nearly 30 million units in the first half of 2019, according to a Thursday report from the market analysts. At $749, the …
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It’s a paper battle between two professional monitors that haven’t even shipped yet: the Apple Pro Display XDR and the 32-inch Asus ProArt PA32UCG. Both promise the world for video editing: a peak brightness of 1,600 nits (and sustained full screen of 1,000 nits), true 10-bit color covering at least 99% of P3, reference color profiles in hardware, support for …
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AT&T’s 4G LTE network took some well-deserved hits earlier this year for rebranding to the arguably deceptive “5GE,” but it turns out that on the backend the wireless carrier actually did more to its network than just call it a new name. In a report released Wednesday, mobile network evaluator Global Wireless Solutions found that AT&T was, in fact, the …
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YouTube Wednesday announced massive changes to how it treats kids videos, as the US Federal Trade Commission hit Google with new rules and a record $170 million penalty to settle a probe into the privacy of children’s data on giant video site. It’s the largest penalty ever levied for violations of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, or COPPA. YouTube’s CEO and some …
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Look out Roku, Amazon’s Fire TV streaming system is coming to more products than ever. The retail giant just dropped 15 new Fire TV-equipped gadgets on attendees at the IFA show in Berlin. Most of them are televisions destined for Europe and the UK — including the first OLED TV with Fire TV, which will only be available in Germany …
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There are a lot of efforts trying to rein in advertising tech that tracks you online, and the newest option is coming from the ad industry itself. The IAB Tech Lab, a partner to the Interactive Advertising Bureau that has long represented online ad companies, proposed a new digital token on Wednesday designed to offer a better balance between advertisers’ …
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