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 …
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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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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 as much as 14% price …
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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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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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iPhone users can sue Apple for allegedly operating a monopoly through its App Store, the Supreme Court ruled Monday. A majority of justices disagreed with Apple’s argument that app buyers aren’t direct customers of Apple. Instead, the court ruled in a 5-4 decision in Apple v. Pepper that the “iPhone owners were direct purchasers who may sue Apple for alleged …
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Consumer ECG (electrocardiogram) devices, like the Apple Watch Series 4, are one-lead, and can only test for a particular range of heart arrhythmias. But AliveCor’s newest mobile ECG device that just gained FDA clearance could potentially do a lot more. The $150 iOS and Android-compatible KardiaMobile 6L is the only consumer-sold six-lead ECG (other portable devices, like AliveCor’s nearly identical-looking …
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There’s nothing worse than a big life transition to throw off your fitness routine and put a wrench in your healthy habits. Whether the recent grad in your life is transitioning from home to college life, or college to the real world, here are a few gift ideas to help them stay fit and keep them off the takeout food …
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