Beijing said Monday it would impose a 25% tariff on US goods, retaliation for President Donald Trump’s plan to increase tariffs on goods imported from China. If smartphones aren’t on the list of goods excluded from these tariffs, the iPhone may see price increases, Wall Street analysts say. “We estimate Apple would need to take …
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OnePlus has dropped the notch and upped its design with the OnePlus 7 Pro, an attempt to more directly compete with the Samsung’s Galaxy S10 and Apple’s iPhone XR and XS. The new phone was announced at a New York event and is available Friday starting at $669. OnePlus didn’t skimp on the OnePlus 7 Pro’s specs. The phone features a …
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Adobe’s Lightroom has a new texture-editing tool for photographers trying to get people’s skin to look just right, a rare change to the software’s core tools for fiddling with photos. The texture slider either smooths or amplifies medium-scale details. Moving the slider one way lets you smooth skin without making it look unnaturally plasticky, Adobe said. In my tests, I …
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Google Assistant will finally come to the Sonos One smart speaker and Sonos Beam sound bar, which already support Amazon Alexa, making the company the first to support multiple assistants on one device. Sonos demonstrated the voice assistant on its One speaker at CES 2019 , and is in the process of rolling out firmware enabling Google’s voice system on its smart speakers in the United States …
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When Apple’s iPhone was released in 2007, Erin Lauridsen was frustrated. As someone who’s blind, she was worried mobile phone tech would leave people with disabilities behind. Thankfully, with the iPhone 3GS two years later, it offered VoiceOver, a screen reading technology that’s part of Apple’s iOS mobile operating system. Ten years later, Lauridsen uses her iPhone XR, along with free or low-cost …
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There’s a massive Statue of Liberty foot on the table in front of me. It’s life-size. I forgot about the scale of it. I live in New Jersey but haven’t visited it for years. For anyone who’s never been to the Statue of Liberty in person, the new Statue of Liberty app could be the perfect augmented reality virtual ticket. …
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News flash: There are premium phones made by brands other than Apple and Samsung! I know, hard to believe. But you might be forgiven for missing the recent launch of the LG G8 ThinQ, which happened right around the time a certain other company unveiled five new Galaxy phones. That’s too bad, because as Lynn La reported in her G8 …
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On this podcast, we talk about: Can Facebook be broken up? iPhone owners can sue Apple over App Store. A chat about trust and privacy with Google’s ad chief. Now playing: Watch this: The drumbeat to break up Facebook gets louder (The 3:59,… 5:03 The 3:59 gives you bite-size news and analysis about the top stories of the day, brought …
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Ask anyone who was around before smartphones, and they’ll tell you life was different. But for Nutsiri “Earth” Kidkul, who went blind eight years ago, life-changing doesn’t begin to describe the impact of mobile apps. Before specialized apps came along, Kidkul would have to plan and prepare much more for basic tasks like grocery shopping, traveling or reading documents. What’s …
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Apple launched the wallet-friendly iPhone XR last fall and now it’s got a rival. The most affordable iPhone kept most of the features of the iPhone XS, but it was $250 cheaper. On Wednesday at its Unpacked event in San Francisco, Samsung launched the Galaxy S10E — its answer to the XR. The S10E has most of the features of the Galaxy S10 …
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