Never got around to reading Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen? What about The Time Machine by H.G. Wells or Frankenstein by Mary Shelley? Well, now you can listen to them in audiobook form, for free. Apple now offers six classic audiobooks free to download. Plus, they’re voiced by celebrities like Kate Beckinsale, Kelsey Grammer …
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Following in the footsteps of AT&T and Verizon, T-Mobile now supports Apple’s eSIM technology, which lets customers activate a phone plan remotely and maintain two active lines simultaneously. T-Mobile customers can now activate a second line on the iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max or iPhone XR through the T-Mobile eSIM app. They’re restricted to one of three prepaid phone service …
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If you take your smartphone photography seriously, it might be time to change your habits. That’s because of improvements to a core camera technology: the raw photo format. Photographers with SLRs and other higher-end cameras have known for years the advantages of skipping ordinary JPEGs and instead shooting raw, which means using the unaltered data directly from a camera’s image …
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The 32GB version of the newest 9.7-inch iPad, regularly priced at $329, was selling for $250 everywhere on Black Friday and Cyber Monday. That deal remains in place at Target. But now Walmart has jumped in with a significant discount that we haven’t seen before, selling the 128GB version for $329, a savings of $100 on that model. So, you can pay $329 for …
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Slideshow presentations can be notoriously snooze-worthy. Nearly all of us can remember sitting patiently while someone flipped through a seemingly endless stream of slides. Most people have realized that when it comes to presentations, less is more and being visual is better than putting all of our bullet points in each slide. Our tools for creating presentations have also taken …
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I absolutely love the blocky, petite iPhone 5S. Second to the discontinued 4-inch iPhone SE, the 5S is one of the last truly small smartphones. But Apple giveth, and Apple taketh away. Despite discontinuing the iPhone 5S/SE form factor, the company gave iPhone 5S users a glorious gift: iOS 12. In the past, if you had an old iPhone, updating …
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Now playing: Watch this: CNET UK Podcast 548: Taylor Swift’s Spotify deal and… 46:19 Ho Ho Hold on a minute, is it really time for a Christmas episode? Of course! We bring 2018 to a close with a bumper episode where we look back on the most exciting tech topics of the year. Andy waxes lyrical about Apple, Samsung and …
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Apple will send out a software update to reverse a court ban on older iPhone models in China. It’ll push the update “early next week,” according to Reuters, after a court ordered that Chinese subsidiaries stop selling the iPhone 6S, iPhone 6S Plus, iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus and iPhone X. The ban stemmed from …
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After a year of anticipation, Amazon last month announced its winners for two new, 25,000-employee campuses and was summarily met with a flood of derision and mockery. There was even a protest in Queens, where one of the offices will go, with people lambasting the billions of dollars in incentives Amazon will receive for the projects. That backlash was the …
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While Black Friday and Cyber Monday have come and gone, there are still plenty of good deals out there for those of us who don’t want to spend too much but also don’t want to appear too cheap. What price range is that? That’s easy: $50 to $100. Sure, I may be a little biased because I rounded up a …
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