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AT&T’s iPhone 12 offer includes free phones for those who upgrade

When it comes to the iPhone 12, AT&T is getting aggressive to both court new customers and keep existing ones locked in to its network. On Tuesday, the day of the latest Apple event, the nation’s third-largest wireless provider announced new deals tied to Apple’s latest device that enable both new and current customers to …

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iPhone 12 launch day: Apple’s big event was quite a whirlwind

Apple set Oct. 13 as the date for its latest iPhone’s debut, and the day finally arrived. Here’s everything Apple announced on Tuesday, including four versions of the iPhone 12 and the $99 HomePod Mini. And here’s how to preorder the entire iPhone 12 lineup. Like Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference and the Apple Watch and iPad launch event earlier this year, the iPhone event took …

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5 iPhone 12 features I’d love to see Apple borrow from Samsung

In a virtual event earlier this year, Samsung released the new Galaxy Note 20 and Galaxy Note 20 Ultra two phones that really caught my eye. As Samsung rattled off the small novel of new features for each phone, I longed to see some of them come to the next iPhone aka the heavily rumored iPhone 12, which will likely be …

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AT&T’s new WarnerMedia Ride streaming service appears online

AT&T has another streaming service coming, and this one is designed for the car. After first being revealed in a trademark filing in August WarnerMedia Ride made a brief online appearance Monday when a verified Twitter account devoted to the streaming service started tweeting.  The tweet, which has since been deleted, included links to download a WarnerMedia Ride app on …

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Lenovo ThinkPad C13 Yoga Chromebook is a small 2

Lenovo has a new Chromebook designed for the sudden explosion of remote workers. The ThinkPad C13 Yoga Chromebook is a 13.3-inch, full-HD resolution two-in-one. It starts at $579 (approximately £445 or AU$800 converted) and is built for Chrome Enterprise, a version of Google‘s operating system with increased features for manageability, security and scalability.  Even if you don’t need all of …

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6 best iOS 14 features: Try these on your iPhone as soon as you upgrade

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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Judge makes permanent the injunction preventing Apple from banning Epic’s Unreal Engine

The battle royale between Epic Games and Apple continues, with a judge on Friday denying a request to force Apple to allow Fortnite back into the App Store while legal proceedings continue. But the US District Court for the Northern District of California also ordered Apple to allow Epic to operate its Unreal Engine developer account in the App Store, …

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Google Doodle honors pioneering Black journalist and suffragist

Google is celebrating the 197th birthday of Mary Ann Shadd Cary, an American-Canadian newspaper editor and publisher — as well as a journalist, teacher, lawyer, abolitionist and suffragist — on Friday with a dedicated Doodle. Shadd Cary is credited as North America’s first Black female newspaper editor and publisher. She was also the second Black woman to earn a law …

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Microsoft reportedly planning app for Xbox Game Pass to get around Apple rules

Microsoft is developing an iOS app to bring Game Pass to the iPad and iPhone, circumventing Apple App Store rules, Business Insider reported Thursday. “We absolutely will end up on iOS,” Microsoft gaming boss Phil Spencer told employees at an all-hands meeting Wednesday, according to Business Insider. Microsoft announced in August that its Project xCloud video game service would be …

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Microsoft takes jab at Apple, Google with new app store principles

Microsoft announced 10 new app store principles in a blog post Thursday, needling Apple‘s and Google‘s policies in the process. The new guidelines from Microsoft are intended to promote choice, fairness and innovation for software developers on Windows 10. “Developers will have the freedom to choose whether to distribute their apps for Windows through our app store. We will not block competing …

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