Google is calling the Pixel 3 its most secure phone yet. On Android, there’s not much competition. During Google’s Pixel 3 event in New York last Tuesday, the company mentioned that its latest phones would be the first devices to have its Titan M security chip. If the name sounds familiar, it’s because Google first …
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Now you can control your Spotify music from your wrist. Spotify on Wednesday announced its new app for Wear OS smartwatches. The app lets you pick a song or playlist, and pause, play or skip tracks on your smartwatch. That way you won’t have to pull out your phone in the middle of a jog if a song you don’t …
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Skydio’s R1 camera drone doesn’t come with a controller because it almost entirely flies itself thanks to its 13 cameras, a powerful computer brain and a whole lot of software smarts. Using an iOS or Android app you launch the quadcopter — from the ground or your hand — and then tap on a subject to track. From there you …
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A long-promised chip manufacturing technique is now here. And that means our phones will keep getting faster, while our batteries will last longer. Samsung on Wednesday said it’s now building 7-nanometer chips using technology called extreme ultraviolet, or EUV. EUV has been in development for decades, but it’s been difficult to roll out in real world factories. Samsung now is …
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The Pixel 3 — sleek and slick in the hand, a refinement over past Pixels — has the specs to take on the iPhone XS and Galaxy S9, and win. There’s no one killer feature, but its camera is fantastic and it will be the first in line for Android software and security updates. That’s a real bonus that avoids the anguish experienced …
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Huawei on Tuesday announced a raft of new products at an event in London. You can watch the event as it happened in the video above. Here’s what’s new: Huawei Mate 20 Pro: The company’s newest flagship phone is an Android handset with a 6.39-inch, 3,120×1,440-pixel AMOLED screen. But it has a host of unique features that sets it apart …
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Palm is best known as a pioneer in the worlds of personal digital assistants and smartphones. Even though the company has been dead for years, the brand still boasts a cult following among techies who stared at screens before staring at screens was a thing. So it’s surprising that Palm’s resurrection comes in the form of a device designed to …
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Huawei’s feature-packed new super phones, the Mate 20 and Mate 20 Pro, are available now in Europe, including the UK. The beefy phones, launched on Tuesday in London, are Huawei’s answer to the Samsung Galaxy Note 9, Apple iPhone XS and Google Pixel 3 XL. It’s no surprise that they’re not super cheap, starting at 799 euros for the standard …
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Even if you haven’t heard of Arm, you’ve known about its chip technology, because it powers just about every smartphone out there. Now with a new chip family called Neoverse, the UK company hopes every internet service your phone taps into will also be powered by Arm. Arm got its start as Advanced RISC Machines, a spinoff from Apple’s ill-fated …
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A new app for the iPhone and Apple Watch wants to improve communication between patients and surgeons before and after knee and hip surgery. The Mymobility app, launched Monday by Apple and orthopedic manufacturer Zimmer Biomet, lets patients send and receive messages for surgeons and care teams. It also allows patients to access exercise videos and reminders. Surgeons and care …
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