Google shouldn’t have to remove links about European citizens from search results across the whole of the internet, just in the European Union. That’s the recommendation of a top legal advisor to the EU’s Court of Justice. EU Advocate General Maciej Szpunar released an opinion Thursday saying searches made outside the EU shouldn’t be affected …
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CES 2019: Lexar reveals $500 1TB SD card
If you shoot a lot of high-definition content but tire of having to stop working to change SD cards, Lexar has a new, mammoth SD card that should make your job easier. Lexar unveiled The Professional 633x SDXC UHS-I, a memory card with the capacity to store 1 terabyte of photos and video, at CES 2019 in Las Vegas. One …
Read More »CES 2019: AMD’s Radeon 7 pushes PC gaming to ‘the bleeding edge’
CES 2019 marks the first time AMD has ever given a keynote at the international trade show — so naturally, you’d expect the company’s debut conference to be packed. On Wednesday morning, AMD President and CEO Lisa Su didn’t disappoint, talking up the company’s upcoming third-gen Ryzen desktop CPUs, the new Epyc Rome chips for data centers and how, in …
Read More »All the coolest gadgets at CES 2019, Day 3 (The 3:59, Ep. 507)
On this podcast, we talk about: Samsung’s Galaxy S10 announcement. Who won CES: Apple, Google or Amazon? What were our favorite products. Ring’s new smart peephole, with the CEO joining us for an interview. The 3:59 gives you bite-size news and analysis about the top stories of the day, brought to you by the CNET News team in New York …
Read More »Siri on the ReSound Linx Quattro smart hearing aid a first for AI voice control
“Hey Siri, stream iTunes through my hearing aid.” That’s just one of many things you can do with the ReSound Linx Quattro, the first smart hearing aid to use AI to pair with Apple’s Siri assistant. Smart hearing aids are part of a burgeoning field of gadgets set to transform the health care industry. For the Linx Quattro, that means …
Read More »Forget dual cameras, this phone has dual screens
Bucking all of the hot smartphone trends, Chinese company Nubia introduced a new flagship phone with just one camera and no notch. Originally announced on Oct. 2018, Nubia demoed the phone at this year’s CES. The phone is unique because the Nubia X has two screens — one on the front, and a second on the back for setting up …
Read More »Google Assistant’s coming to Sonos speakers in 2019: We tried it out at CES
The good news: Sonos’ smart speakers will add support for Google Assistant in 2019, delivering on a promise the company made when the speaker launched more than a year ago. The bad news: While the Sonos speakers also have Alexa on board, you can’t have both Amazon’s and Google’s voice assistants running concurrently on the same speaker (yet). That was one of the …
Read More »Honor 8X phone looks glorious in shifting purply
The Honor View 20 may be Huawei’s only new phone at CES 2019 (and, in fact, the only satisfying phone of the entire show), but the company threw in a bonus device. Or rather, a bonus color for the Honor 8X: Phantom Blue. Take a look at the photos below — it’s pretty. What makes the color “phantom” is the shifting quality …
Read More »CES 2019 opens to a flying car, a boxing robot and a Google Assistant ride
CES 2019 on Tuesday officially opened its doors (after two days of major pre-announcements and ramp-ups), as tens of thousands of attendees clogged Las Vegas’s roadways or rode the monorail (What’s it called?!) to attend one of the many show venues around town. In fact, it’s not just the Las Vegas Convention Center anymore: CES now has large outposts at …
Read More »Verizon may pay you $1 million for your crazy 5G idea
Verizon wants to kick-start innovation in 5G. And it’s willing to spend a little money to do it. The nation’s largest wireless carrier will offer $1 million in seed money to developers willing to work on new applications for the fifth-generation network, CEO Hans Vestberg said at a keynote address at CES 2019 on Tuesday. It’s called the Verizon “5G …
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