With Apple and Samsung wading into the crowded field of personalized emojis, Snapchat wants to expand too. Friendmoji — which are your Snapchat-customized Bitmoji featuring you and a friend — will be available outside Snapchat on iPhones and iPads in the coming days, Snap said on Friday. The cartoon versions of you and your friend will …
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For the entire month of June, Verizon has dropped its prices on Fitbit’s latest fitness smartwatch, LifeProof cases and UE Boom 2 Bluetooth speaker. Disclaimer: CNET may get a share of revenue from the sale of products featured on this page. The Fitbit Versa, which CNET Senior Editor Scott Stein said, “is the best fusion of smartwatch and general …
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Apple’s been served with another class-action suit, this time over the the screen of the Apple Watch’s tendency to reportedly “crack, shatter, or detach from the body of the Watch … through no fault of the wearer, oftentimes only days or weeks after purchase.” The blog Patently Apple noticed the suit filing this week, in which the plaintiffs are seeking $5 …
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With Apple’s AirPower still very much missing in action, those looking to wirelessly charge their AirPods can look to Ortek’s aptly named Wireless Charging Receiver for AirPods APR-100. Resembling the old iPhone docks, the APR-100 plugs into the AirPods case’s Lightning port and acts as a receiver for Qi charging. It does increase the size of the AirPod case by a …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. When my 4-year-old daughter told me she couldn’t get into bed without her “phone,” I knew it was time to rethink my own phone habits. Of course, she doesn’t have a real phone. It’s a plastic pink phone that came in a purple …
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A new “Remote Application Mirroring” policy in Apple’s App Store review guidelines may indicate there’s hope for Valve’s recently rejected Steam Link app. But in order to comply, the owner of the Steam gaming platform, Valve, may have to water down the app significantly compared with its Android version. Section 4.2.7 of the rules, initially pointed out by Reuters, say that …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Four new Apple apps coming to MacOS Mojave later this year began their lives as iOS apps. And if Apple gets its way, that could be the beginning of a deluge of new software rejuvenating its personal computers. At the company’s Worldwide Developers …
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Some phone cases give you more battery life or wireless charging. But how about a case that can scan people for hidden weapons? That’s exactly what Royal Holdings, a Los Angeles-based startup focused on real-time intelligence and threat detection, and run by former intelligence contractor Barry Oberholzer, aims to do with its SWORD smartphone attachment. The company has created a …
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The constant dings. The aimless scrolling. The privacy worries. The neck aches. I don’t feel healthy using an iPhone. It leaves me concerned about my mental health and questioning just how addicted my brain is to all these noisy, shallow apps. And yet this is a tool I need to do my job and survive in this world. So it’s …
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On this podcast, we talk about: Asus revealing the new no-keyboard, double-screen Project Precog prototype laptop. Apple’s Safari getting more privacy features to block online trackers and cookies. ZTE reportedly getting a lifeline to bring back its business. Now playing: Watch this: Asus Project Precog could be the future of laptops (The… 4:38 The 3:59 gives you bite-size news and …
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