Apple Watch screens aren’t as scratch-resistant as they probably should be, which is why a lot of people are interested in buying screen protectors for them. The problem is there aren’t a whole lot of good ones out there that seamlessly blend into the Watch, preserving its sleek aesthetic. Thanks to its curved black border, …
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Sanho has a made something of a name for itself with its Hyper line of dongles that restore useful ports that USB-C can displace from laptops. Now it has a new trick: wireless charging. The newest HyperDrive adapter, which debuted Monday at CES, combines eight ports with the Qi wireless charging standard that will let you plop on an Apple iPhone …
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Apple on Monday released an update to iOS, the software that runs iPhones and iPads, that fixes a major problem that haunted the processors in those devices. The flaw, dubbed Spectre by the researchers who found it, made the silicon chips vulnerable to a hacking attack that could reveal secret information your devices normally keep locked down. The update comes …
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Packing and wearing blood pressure cuffs, if you have hypertension, isn’t easy. I measure my high blood pressure, and wish I had a smartwatch to do it. Omron, makers of medical-grade blood pressure monitors, have a fitness watch coming this year, called the HeartGuide. I love the idea of it. I hope it works as well as promised. More: The …
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If you have one of the many Android Wear watches compatible with Android Wear 2.0 (full list in link), you’re in for a treat. With Android Wear 2.0, and the more recent Android Wear update bringing the platform in sync with Android Oreo, Google redesigned the interface and added new features that are aimed directly at competing with the Apple Watch, and …
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It was a very happy New Year for Apple’s App Store. Owners of iOS devices made New Year’s Day the biggest sales day ever for the App Store, logging $300 million in purchases, the gadget giant said in a statement Thursday. That sales total is 25 percent higher than the same day a year ago. The App Store has been …
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Jimmy Iovine’s tenure at Apple may come to an end this summer. The music mogul, who joined Apple as part of its acquisition of Beats Electronics, could be leaving the company in August, according to a Hits Daily Double report Thursday. Iovine’s expected departure is likely timed to his Apple shares fully vesting, the report said. The 64-year-old Iovine, a …
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What’s in a color? You can buy an Apple Magic keyboard with a numeric keypad for $129 (£129, AU$179), but it comes in the company’s usual shade of silver with white keys. Boring. Truly classy Mac owners want the rarest of animals: a space-gray keyboard, trackpad and mouse that only comes bundled with a $5,000 iMac Pro. For that, they’ll …
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No matter how you describe Apple’s deliberate battery slowdown — be it gaffe, snafu, royal screw-up or just #batterygate — the company’s PR mess could cost it 16 million iPhone units in 2018, according to analysis from investment firm Barclays Capital. Depending on a number of factors, Apple’s iPhone 6S could have slowing performance. Josh Miller/CNET That estimate …
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Here’s a New Year’s resolution for tech companies: Stop ruining things by releasing them early. Yes, I know it’s tempting to test the waters and beat the competition to the punch, but what if things go bad? What if your shiny new phone ruins your company’s reputation? What if your world-changing gadget isn’t so world-changing because you forgot a key …
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