Now playing: Watch this: OnePlus 5’s new nifty software tricks 2:19 OnePlus took to its Facebook page Tuesday to announce that “5omething new” is coming soon. The image accompanying the announcement shows a white outline accompanying the other two hues of its current marquee phone, the OnePlus 5, which hints that the phone may come in …
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Facebook wants the internet to feel faster, and it’s using its power as the world’s largest social network to make that happen. Starting next month, Facebook will begin filtering articles in your News Feed to punish sites that load more slowly and reward ones that are faster. The reason why is that it’s simply what people want, said Greg Marra, …
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Now playing: Watch this: Samsung’s virtual assistant Bixby Voice is here 1:36 Bixby Voice is a mixture of a personal assistant you can ask questions and command to set reminders, and an automation tool you can instruct to open apps, tap on buttons and enter text without touching your phone. If that sounds confusing, that’s because it is. It’s certainly …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Sometimes, less is more. Apple/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Sometimes, the trailer is a lot better than the movie. And I’m not specifically referring to this year’s “Baywatch” movie starring The Rock. I am, though, moved to the thought because Apple and The Rock released …
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Facebook is about to get even more social. The social media site is apparently working on a device specifically for video chatting, according to Bloomberg. Citing “people familiar with the matter,” the product will be a 13- or 15-inch touchscreen with a wide-angle camera, microphones. It will also have some artificial intelligence technology baked in, so the cameras can automatically …
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Do you know how long you can go without mobile data, or how much you need every month? In Singapore, half of 900 respondents in a survey said they can’t last more than a day without mobile data, according a survey done by Circles.Life, the city-state’s newest mobile operator. Respondents were between 16 to 54 years of age. Two thirds …
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When India threatened to put people responsible for fake news behind bars, it didn’t exactly know how it’d do that. The Indian Minister for Electronics and Information Technology admitted that the country is “helpless.” It’s unable to access “objectionable” content because of encryption, according to The Economic Times. WhatsApp‘s encryption is the only obstruction to the government’s ability to act on …
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A pair of chatbots has recently done something children often do: create a secret language. Last month, researchers at Facebook found two bots developed in the social network’s AI division had been communicating with each other in an unexpected way. The bots, named Bob and Alice, had generated a language all on their own: Bob: “I can can I I everything …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Does she know great photography? Is that why she bought an iPhone? Noam Galai / Getty Images What makes a photograph better? Not an Android phone, apparently. This, at least, seems to be the view of former Google executive Vic Gundotra. In a spirited chat on …
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I’ve been an iPhone user since the beginning. Occasionally I’ve dabbled in Android, but my brain just likes iOS better. My wallet, however, is increasingly frustrated. Although I’ve been perfectly happy with my iPhone 6S Plus, which I purchased nearly two years ago, the $849 price tag caused me considerable pain. Today’s equivalent — the 7 Plus with 128GB — …
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