Snapchat on Wednesday rolled out a tool to help friends reconnect via augmented reality amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The Friendship Time Capsule uses machine learning to let users “get a glimpse of their friendship in a variety of scenarios in the future,” the company said in a statement. To use the tool, open up the …
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This story is part of Elections 2020, CNET’s coverage of the voting in November and its aftermath. TikTok will be ramping up its fact-checking efforts in the coming days with the goal of limiting false or manipulated content as the Nov. 3 US election draws near. Although the video-sharing social network notes its app isn’t designed to report “real-time news,” the company …
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This story is part of Elections 2020, CNET’s coverage of the voting in November and its aftermath. Facebook has hit its goal of registering 4 million Americans to vote, the social network announced Monday. Around 4.4 million people have registered through its apps, enabling them to vote in the 2020 presidential election, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a post. …
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It happens all the time — you get a song stuck in your head, try to hum it to friends and no one has a clue what you’re talking about. You continue thinking about it until you finally hear a snatch of it again — from a TV show, the radio or in a store. Now, Google has a new …
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For anyone fortunate enough to get a 5G signal — particularly the super-fast version that Verizon touts — the speeds can be mind-blowing. But the price you pay on battery life is equally jaw-dropping because 5G is a power hog. Fortunately, Apple thought this through with its iPhone 12 family. Apple’s newest phones, all of which are 5G-capable, have a …
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It’s been a year since Adobe previewed Illustrator on the iPad and a few months since its huge (for Adobe, at least) beta test cycle. Now it’s ready to roll, and while it has some holes in its feature set and can’t match the desktop version’s power, it’s probably one of Adobe’s most “finished” version 1.0 mobile apps. It’s priced …
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Whether you’re using a free or paid Zoom account, you’ll now be able to get your first look at the videoconferencing giant’s new end-to-end encryption (E2EE) feature as the company rolls out the first phase of a four-step security plan. The E2EE feature is available as a technical preview both for those who join and those who host sessions with …
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The new iPhone 12 phones have improved cameras and 5G, but the iPhone 12 Pro models add 3D scanning and more advanced augmented reality via added lidar sensors. Snapchat is already updating its Lens Studio software for AR creators to take advantage of the iPhone 12 Pro’s lidar, anticipating a new wave of apps that could scan the world in …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Now that iOS 14 has been out for a couple weeks, you might feel confident you’ve found all of its new features. It’s entirely possible you have, but then again, there are a lot of subtle tweaks in the update that aren’t always obvious. …
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It’s easy to ignore the preinstalled Shortcuts app on your iPhone, simply because at first glance it’s not all that clear what it does. Or maybe it’s that it appears to do a lot, and can be overwhelming. Either way, with the release of iOS 14, the Shortcuts app has finally hit the mainstream thanks to its ability to create custom app icons. …
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