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Bang & Olufsen’s speakers will work with Airplay 2 and HomePod this fall

Bang & Olufsen is ready to take full advantage of the new features of Apple’s Airplay 2.  The high end speaker maker announced it would work with Apple’s audio streaming system in January. After Apple officially launched Airplay 2 on Tuesday, Bang & Olufsen made the integration official Wednesday and announced it would roll out …

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How to play PC games on Android with Steam Link

If you’ve ever dreamed of playing a big AAA gaming title on your phone, now you can. Sort of. Valve’s Steam Link ($160 at Amazon) system originally required a physical box to be plugged into a television and connected to the same network as your gaming computer. You would then use the processing power of your dedicated gaming rig to stream …

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Google AR Expeditions just arrived on iOS and Android

I remember using a selfie stick to try out Google’s educational vision of AR, and it was impressive. My son tried it in his school one day, and felt the same way. Google’s AR Expeditions initiatives were originally designed to be used in classrooms, and still are, but before now schools had to be part of a pilot program to try …

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Fox CEO James Murdoch offers advice to Apple, Facebook and Snap

James Murdoch has some advice for non-media companies looking to enter the space: be tolerant of failure and have patience.  That goes for companies “dabbling” in TV content production. Namely, Apple. “Going piece by piece, one by one, show by show, it’s going to take a long time to really move the dial and have something,” Murdoch said in reference …

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Valve says Apple rejected its Steam Link mobile streaming app

If you were hoping to stream PC games from your powerful gaming rig to your iPhone or iPad, we’ve got some bad news. PC gaming giant Valve says Apple has rejected its Steam Link app, meaning it may not appear on the App Store after all. (It’s available in beta on Android right now.) Valve says that Apple actually approved the iOS version for …

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iOS 11.4 arrives with AirPlay 2, Messages in iCloud

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. We’re about a week away from seeing what iOS 12 will be like, but in the meantime the latest version of iOS 11 is now available to download. iOS 11.4 is here, bringing two overdue features promised last year: AirPlay 2 and iMessages in …

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2019 iPhone will have third camera for AR, says analyst

A 2019 iPhone has been rumored to have three cameras. Now an analyst report speculates that one of the cameras will have a telephoto lens, while the other two will work together to perform depth mapping for AR (the same way 3D cameras do) rather than a dedicated 3D-sensing module.  That’s according to Lu Jialin, a Deutsche Securities analyst, as …

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iOS 11.4: What you need to know about Messages in iCloud

Announced last June, Apple’s Messages iCloud feature was delayed with the release of iOS 11 in the fall of 2017. The feature — which promises to keep all of your messages and shared images synced across all of your Apple devices — made another appearance once iOS 11.3 was released in beta, only to get removed yet again.  With iOS …

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Mozilla Firefox joins Chrome, Safari in making it easier to build sophisticated websites

With Mozilla’s flip of a virtual switch, life got easier for the people who make websites and the people who use them, which is to say, everybody. On Monday, Mozilla accepted an update for its Firefox browser that enables technology called web components. You probably won’t directly care about them unless you’re a programmer. But you’ll almost assuredly care about …

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Apple rumored to use OLED displays for 2019 iPhones

Apple will reportedly use OLED displays in three of its expected 2019 iPhones. The Cupertino-based company will use OLED screens in three new iPhone models planned for next year, according to MacRumors, citing a report in South Korea’s Electronic Times. The site suggests the trio of new phones will come out during Apple’s traditional September release window.  Apple is expected to …

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