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Facebook axes its Onavo VPN app over data collection

Facebook appears to have pulled its controversial Onavo mobile VPN app from the Google Play Store. The app, called Onavo Protect, will immediately stop pulling user data for market research, TechCrunch reported Thursday, but will remain as an active VPN while users look for a replacement. The app will eventually shut down, according to the …

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Premiere Pro CC 2019 fixes MacBook Pro speaker

Adobe on Friday pushed out an update to Adobe Premiere Pro CC via its Creative Cloud app to fix the glitch in the previous version that seemed to kill the speakers on late-model MacBook Pros. The message was posted to the Adobe Community thread tracking the situation: UPDATE: Adobe had a small number of user reports about an issue in …

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Apple, Goldman Sachs reportedly launching iPhone

Apple and Goldman Sachs will issue a credit card this spring with money-managing features tucked into the iPhone, according to a report. Employees will test the card in the coming weeks before an official launch later in 2019, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday, citing unnamed sources. We got a hint last May that this partnership, which brings both companies into a new …

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Nike’s Android app doesn’t run well with its Adapt BB self

A faulty app has tripped up Nike’s $350 self-tying shoes. Nike released the Adapt BB, its tech-infused sneaker, on Sunday during the NBA’s All-Star game, along with an app that can control the shoe’s fit and light-up colors. You’re able to loosen and tighten the sneakers through two buttons on the sneaker’s side, but Nike executives talked up the app …

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Apple will reportedly combine iPhone, iPad and Mac apps by 2021

Apple is planning to let developers create a single version of their apps that’ll work across iPhone, iPad and Mac, a report said. The Cupertino, California, company hopes to have this universal approach to apps in place by 2021, Bloomberg reported Wednesday, citing unnamed sources. In the new way of doing things, developers wouldn’t submit their apps to Apple’s various …

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Samsung puts Bixby into its new Fold, S10 phones and Galaxy Buds

If Samsung’s Bixby voice assistant was supposed to be dead on arrival, someone forgot to tell Samsung. Bixby wasn’t close to being the main course at Samsung’s Unpacked press event in San Francisco on Wednesday, where the Korean tech titan unveiled a new foldable phone and its latest lineup of Galaxy S10 phones. But the company managed to weave its …

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Galaxy Fold is here

Update, Sept. 5: We’ve gone hands-on with Samsung’s revamped Galaxy Fold ahead of its revised release later this month. Original story, last updated in February, follows. The foldable future is finally here, and it’s called the Galaxy Fold. Samsung on Wednesday showed off the new foldable phone during its Unpacked event in San Francisco. The device has a 4.6-inch display when folded, …

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Samsung Galaxy Buds: AirPod alternatives with wireless charging arrive March 8 for $130

Samsung’s new Galaxy S10 phones have brand-new wireless earbuds, and they charge right off the back of the phone. Are they Samsung’s answer to Apple’s AirPods? Well, kind of. But also, they’re an evolution of Samsung’s existing fitness earbuds, too. Apple wasn’t the first company to make wireless earbuds. In fact, Samsung beat Apple to the punch several years ago with …

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Galaxy Home will launch by April, Samsung CEO says

Samsung’s long-awaited Galaxy Home speaker will launch by April, the company’s co-CEO said Wednesday.  DJ Koh, the head of Samsung’s mobile business, made the comments to CNET following the company’s Unpacked event in San Francisco. The company unveiled four new Galaxy S10 smartphones (including a model that runs on 5G networks), its Galaxy Fold foldable phone, Galaxy Buds earbuds and three new …

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Samsung allows apps full access to its Galaxy S10 camera tech

Samsung opened its camera software development kit (SDK) to give apps full access to the tech used by its new Galaxy S10 phone’s camera. Photos taken within other apps will retain the same quality level as those taken with the camera proper, and you’ll be able to access all the camera’s features — like low-light shots and HDR. It showed off …

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