Google is starting the process of shutting down its Hangouts app and migrating users to Google Chat, the company said in a blog post Thursday. The move makes good on plans Google originally laid out in 2019, when it retired Hangout support for G Suite customers and hinted that support for individual users would follow suit …
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Zoom on Wednesday unveiled OnZoom, a platform for posting and finding quarantine-friendly virtual events ranging from concerts to cooking and fitness classes. The video chat platform also revealed “Zapps,” or Zoom apps — that live within Zoom and let you access them directly from video chats, for easier workplace collaboration. Finally, Zoom said it would begin rolling out end-to-end encryption …
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Apple’s iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Mini add significant new photography features, but camera hardware and computational photography software on the higher-end iPhone 12 Pro models really show how hard Apple is working to attract photo and video enthusiasts. Among the changes in the iPhone 12 Pro models are new abilities to fuse multiple frames into one superior shot and a lidar …
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Update, Nov. 6: Read our PS5 review. The PlayStation 5 goes on sale less than a month away on Nov. 12, but there are still plenty of things we don’t know about Sony’s next-generation game console. Among them are questions about what exactly the user interface looks like — what menus are we going to be looking at for the best …
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The prices for 5G phones have dropped considerably since last year’s Samsung Galaxy S10 5G Plus. That device was the first phone in the US with 5G built in, but it cost $1,300 when it was released in May 2019. Recent smartphones, including this week’s new line of iPhones, have dropped well below that price. After telling CNET in January …
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OnePlus launched its latest 5G phone, the OnePlus 8T, on Wednesday, just months after it released the excellent OnePlus 8 and OnePlus 8 Pro. The new 8T costs $750, while the OnePlus 8 and 8 Pro launched at $700 and $900 respectively, though it’s currently available at a $100 discount. ($750 converts to approximately £575 and AU$1,040.) The Chinese phone-maker …
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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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Apple’s iPhone 12 family hits the market at an extraordinary time — with the coronavirus pandemic leaving tens of millions of people out of jobs and kicking off a recession that has thrown everything into a state of uncertainty. The new phones feature a boxier look, a magnetic attachment called MagSafe and, yes, super-fast 5G, but the price tag of …
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The iPhone 12 will be officially unveiled today, Oct. 13. Here’s how to watch Apple’s event live, where we expect to see not only the newest iPhone lineup, but perhaps the AirPods Studio and other Apple products we’ve been waiting for. If rumors are true and we see a new 6.7-inch screen size, A14 Bionic processor and 5G, prices could skyrocket — …
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Update, Nov. 12: Read our HomePod Mini review. The time-honored tradition of last-minute Apple leaks right before its main event continues with gadget leaker Evan Blass showing off what appears to be a new sphere shape for the HomePod speaker lineup. Here’s how to watch Apple’s livestream of today’s event, which is expected to be the debut of the iPhone 12. In his post on …
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