Pretty much every phone can use your face (as well as your fingerprint) as a key. But some biometric unlocking is also more secure, faster, or just a better experience overall. Phones like the iPhone X, Galaxy Note 9 and LG G7 use biometric information to unlock your device, like your unique eye and facial pattern. Many people find it …
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In the section of Apple’s XCode developer software, which provides the information software uses to target the capabilities of specific devices, three unnamed “iPhone xx” models sit among the legion of existing products. (And no, that’s likely not the real name.) One of them has specs that sound remarkably like the current iPhone 7‘s, making it a possible replacement when …
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The next-generation of wireless technology, known as 5G, is poised to change our lives. Once it actually gets here. But how will 5G look and work when it does? T-Mobile is aiming for broad coverage and has committed to building a nationwide 5G network by 2020. “Our view is 5G should be everywhere,” President and Chief Operating Officer Mike Sievert …
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If you like using Windows on your Mac, then Parallels Desktop 14 for Mac may fit your needs. The updated software, released Tuesday, lets you run Microsoft Windows as a virtual machine on your Macbook or Mac and sports features that lets you seamlessly copy and paste information back and forth between Windows and MacOS. Parallels said the 14th version comes with …
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Not everyone is an expert. That’s the message an ad campaign called Don’t Believe Every Tweet — seemingly from Twitter itself — is trying to drive home. The irony, though, is the campaign isn’t an effort by the platform to educate users about being critical of what they see. It’s the work of a 35-year-old Los Angeles-based writer and director …
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Netflix is testing a way to get around the fees it must pay Apple when people sign up and pay for subscriptions through iTunes The streaming-video giant is telling new or lapsed customers in markets across Europe, Latin America and Asia that iTunes payments are unavailable and is redirecting them to subscribe via a mobile version of Netflix’s own site, according to …
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The Apple Watch Series 4 may be just around the corner. Apple recently registered six new product model numbers (A1977, A1978, A1975, A1976, A2007 and A2008) with the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC), as spotted by French site Consomac. Enlarge Image The EEC filing gives some clues about Apple’s products. Consomac/EEC According to a translation of the filing’s text, the model …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. At WWDC 2018, Apple took the name for its Mac operating system down from Northern California’s majestic mountains and moved southward to the Golden State’s famed desert. After a run of mountain themes — Yosemite, El Capitan, Sierra and High Sierra — Apple …
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Microsoft on Monday said Minecraft: Education Edition is coming iPads next month. The education-focused version of the popular video game, which was previously available on Windows 10 and MacOS devices, helps educators teach everything from science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) to language, history and art. Currently, the program has been licensed by 35 million teachers and students in 115 …
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School is already back in session for some lucky students; others have just a few precious days of summer vacation left. Either way, you’ve missed all the back-to-school bargains, right? Not quite. Best Buy just unveiled some college-student deals, including $150 off all MacBooks, up to $150 off various laptops and $100 off select Microsoft Surfaces. To get the discounts …
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