When Apple announced the iPhone X and its completely new design, the notch forced Apple to make a change that can lead to frustration. Your iPhone’s battery percentage is no longer viewable at all times. Instead, it’s somewhat hidden. With the iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max and iPhone XR using the same design, the same …
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YouTube TV, a live TV streaming service designed to replace a traditional cable TV package, will raise its monthly price from $40 to $50. Subscribers billed through Apple will have to pay $55. To keep bringing you the best service possible, we’re updating our membership price to $49.99/month ($54.99 if billed through Apple). This price continues to include unlimited DVR space and …
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The upcoming USB 4 will restore a useful feature we lost with the technology’s modernization: USB hubs that let you multiply the utility of a single port on your PC. USB, short for Universal Serial Bus, is a remarkably successful standard more than two decades old now. It’s spread far and wide, but the newer USB-C technology doesn’t work well …
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The global market for personal computers continued its years-long downward spiral in the first quarter, according to preliminary numbers released Wednesday by market analysts. Worldwide shipments of PCs, including desktops, notebooks and workstations, declined 3% during the first three months of 2019, compared with the same period last year, market researcher IDC reported Wednesday. Market researcher Gartner tallied the same …
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Apple products are rarely available at discount, but Best Buy this week has a number of MacBook Pro models marked down. The sale includes four different configurations (and two color choices) of the 13-inch MacBook Pro without the Touch Bar, each of which is $200 off of its list price. And Amazon shoppers should know that two of the four …
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These are not the Boston Red Sox I grew up with. After an 86-year drought from 1918 to 2004 in which the Red Sox went without a championship, the club last season won its fourth World Series title in the past 15 years. The Red Sox won a franchise record 108 games in the regular season before beating the Yankees, Astros …
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Qualcomm, best known for mobile phone chips, plans to build AI chips that run in data centers packed with thousands of powerful servers. Artificial intelligence — or neural network tech based loosely on human brains — is revolutionizing computing with the abilities like distinguishing what’s in a photo or understanding human speech. Lots of AI runs on your phone or laptop, …
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The future of 5G on the iPhone is getting messy. Starting in 2016, Apple used chips from both Intel and Qualcomm to power its iPhone’s modem, connecting it to 4G cellular networks. But in 2018, the company switched entirely to Intel’s wireless chips for its $999 iPhone XS, $1,099 iPhone XS Max and $749 iPhone XR. And it’s believed the …
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The Final Four has become the Terminal Two. After starting with 68 teams last month, only two are still playing in the 2019 NCAA men’s basketball tournament. On Saturday, No. 1 Virginia squeaked by No. 5 Auburn on a controversial call in the final seconds, while No. 3 Texas Tech ended No. 2 Michigan State’s title hopes. On Monday night, Virginia …
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if you’ve upgraded to Windows 10’s October 2018 release (and are current on updates), you can now remove USB storage devices without ejecting them first. If you ever bothered to do it in the first place. In the past, you needed to eject writable removable USB storage because Windows defaulted to “Better performance,” which delayed writes to improve speed, rather …
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