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A royal

If you were worried there would be no way to combine your love of Apple products with your zealous following of all things royal-wedding related, fear not: Purveyor of golden Apple products, Goldgenie, has got you covered with its limited-edition 24-carat gold iPhone X engraved with Harry and Meghan. Not just the couple, either — …

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Google may be working on a standalone AR headset

A project codenamed Google A65 is thought to be a standalone AR headset, and now we may have more details about it. German news site Winfuture.de says it has documents that indicate Google’s working with Taiwanese manufacturer Quanta on the augmented reality headset. Google’s previously worked with Quanta on the Pixel C tablet. The headset is expected to include camera sensors and …

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Apple

It’s a billion-dollar question: Should we care that there’s a GH59-09418A printed circuit board inside a Samsung smartphone? At US District Court in San Jose, California, the heart of Silicon Valley, Apple and Samsung are trying to persuade a jury to see smartphones in very different ways. An earlier trial in the seven-year case already determined that Samsung infringed three …

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Samsung slams iPhone speed in latest ad

Samsung isn’t shy about the message of its latest ad: iPhone owners should upgrade to the Galaxy S9. But it doesn’t compare the Galaxy S9 against its natural rival, the iPhone X, or even one of Apple’s two iPhone 8s. Instead, during the roughly minute-long video posted to YouTube (also below), we see a woman’s slow loading speeds on her …

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OnePlus’ Carl Pei: The OnePlus 6 is the company’s boldest design yet

With sunlight pouring in from a giant sliding door in a suite at Palo Alto, Calif.’s luxury Nobu hotel, Carl Pei sits on a firm grey couch. It’s early April and he has a lot on his plate. The company he helped co-found is a month away from announcing the new OnePlus 6 in London. On top of that, nearly …

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Apple

The verbal sparring began in earnest Wednesday between Samsung lawyers and Apple witnesses as the two tech titans got to the heart of their dispute over how much Samsung must pay Apple for patent infringement. Two Apple expert witnesses — industrial designer Alan Ball and graphic designer Susan Kare, who designed the icons for the original Macintosh computers in the …

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Feast your eyes on the iPhone X Tesla, a case so crazy it comes with its own phone

Maybe you think the iPhone X is too boring, or maybe you think it isn’t expensive enough. Luckily for you, Russian accessory maker Caviar is selling its own custom iPhone X, the iPhone X Tesla, for $4,587 (that’s about £3,398 or AU$6,103). What’s unique about this phone versus a normal iPhone X? It can harness the power of the sun …

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Microsoft reportedly planning low

Microsoft is reportedly planning to release a line of cheaper Surface tablets that will allow it to compete more effectively with Apple’s iPads. The company’s smaller, lower-cost Surface tablets could arrive as soon as the second half of 2018, said Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the matter.  With 10-inch screens, the devices would be more diminutive than the 12-inch Surface …

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OnePlus 6 launch: How to watch, livestream, start time

Update: The OnePlus 6 is now official. Check out the CNET hands-on of the OnePlus 6, the release of the OnePlus Bullets Wireless, and our interview with OnePlus CEO Carl Pei.  The London event has ended, and the OnePlus 6 has been officially announced. Pricing for the 6.3-inch Android phone starts at $529 and £469, and it will be available …

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Apple Music surpasses 50 million subscribers, sort of

Apple Music has 50 million users, if you count those listening with free trials, Apple CEO Tim Cook said Tuesday on Bloomberg TV.  It seems like a big jump from the 38 million subscribers Apple Music touted in March, but Apple typically didn’t include people listening with three-month free trials in its previous tallies until Cook’s interview Tuesday.  Tuesday, Cook said that …

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