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Free iPhone XR on T

On Wednesday, T-Mobile made it easier for you to get your hands on a new iPhone XR. The carrier launched a promotion that nets you the XR when you trade in an old iPhone. The iPhone XR launched last year alongside the iPhone XS and XS Max. In his in-depth iPhone XR review, CNET’s Scott …

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Scientists pulverize phones to discover what’s inside

Generally when someone says smoothie, I think banana. But two scientists at the University of Plymouth in the UK think a little differently.  They think “iPhone”. To encourage greater recycling rates to better appreciate exactly what materials go in to producing the handheld supercomputers we slip into our pockets every day, two geologists at the University of Plymouth have stuck …

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Huawei’s website seems to leak the P30 Pro ahead of launch event

Huawei’s P30 series of phones appears to have peeked out of the phone maker’s website a little early. A page of Huawei’s site that was spotted by Evan Blass earlier this week (h/t Engadget) seems to have revealed Huawei’s P30 series of phones ahead of the company’s planned announcement event. The Huawei P30’s official reveal is currently set for Tuesday …

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AirPods 2, iMac update, new iPad Mini and everything else Apple announced

This week Apple released major updates to three of its products: two new iPads (Air and Mini) on Monday, an upgrade to its iMacs on Tuesday, and second-generation AirPods on Wednesday, all this before its actual launch event set for Monday March 25. With hardware out of the way, it would seem like the Cupertino giant is setting the stage to …

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Best Buy sale: MacBook Pros are up to $400 off and iPhone X is $700 ($200 off)

As part of its three-day Tax Day sale that runs through March 23, Best Buy has a few deals worth highlighting on the Apple MacBook Pro laptops — and they’re the current version, not a generation or two old, as sometimes happens with these sales. Also, an unlocked version of the older iPhone X (64GB), which has a dual-lens camera (albeit …

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Apple’s TV streaming service: It’s showtime at last

On Monday, we’ll finally find out where Apple’s billion dollars have gone. That’s the amount the company earmarked for a video streaming service that it hasn’t yet confirmed is coming. For years, rumors of Apple diving into a market dominated by YouTube, Netflix and other streaming companies floated around. It’s even talked up the shows and celebrities it’s cast. Still, …

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The 10 coolest mobile games we saw at GDC 2019

PC and console developers were showing off their AAA games in giant booths from Microsoft, Sony, Epic Games and others on the show floor at this week’s Game Developer Conference. Not to be left out, casual games for mobile devices played a key role at GDC, too.  We found a bucket of engaging games that have just shipped or are …

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Beats’ answer to Apple’s new AirPods is arriving in April

Apple may make what it says is the “world’s most popular headphone” — the AirPods — but lest anyone forget, it’s the owner of another headphone company, Beats, which will have its own true wireless competitor hitting the market shortly. A cord-free version of the Beats PowerBeats wireless sports earphones will be announced in April, according to a person close …

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Apple’s news subscription likely won’t include New York Times

Apple’s new digital news service won’t be welcomed by everyone. The New York Times, one of the biggest and most prestigious newspapers in the US, will likely not be featured in Apple’s subscription news service, expected to be announced on Monday. “We tend to be quite leery about the idea of almost habituating people to find our journalism somewhere else,” …

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Review: iPad Mini is back and Apple’s 2019 update offers new mojo for small tablets

I remember when I met the iPad Mini. It was back in 2012, when I first moved to New Jersey and began my routine of hour-long commutes into Manhattan. I loved that it was small, but not too small. It was my favorite iPad. I now carry a lot of gear on that same train ride: A Nintendo Switch, a …

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