This story is part of 2019 Holiday Survival Guide, featuring tips on the best ways to manage the holiday season. Avoiding traffic and crowded shopping centers at all costs is the best gift you can get this holiday season. The movies make holiday travel and shopping look romantic — the lights, the window displays, the …
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As part of CNET’s job chronicling the best tech released every year, our team of expert reviewers spends time trying out dozens of the top products in consumer technology — everything from smartphones to Wi-Fi routers to gaming systems to TVs and wearable devices. That often means putting them through a variety of tests in our labs to see if …
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Virtual reality‘s promise has always been at least a little enticing: Strap on a headset that puts a screen so close to your eyes it tricks your brain into thinking you’re piloting a spaceship on the other side of the galaxy, or deep-sea diving with a blue whale, or taking lightsaber lessons from Darth Vader. But sales since the latest …
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A ton of new tech came flying at us again in 2019. But weeding out the minor upgrades and the products that aren’t ready for prime time from the stuff that’s actually worth your hard-earned money is what CNET’s all about. Our team kicked the tires on a lot of new products, and a bunch of those ended up in …
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In the last year, Samsung phones like the Galaxy Fold and S10 underwent as big of a transformation on the software side as they did on hardware. That’s because Samsung redesigned its mobile interface, which is layered on top of Google’s Android OS, so that it’s easier and more intuitive to use. In October, Samsung showed off the next version …
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Lightroom for iPad can now directly import photos from a memory card with an update Adobe released Tuesday to its image-editing and cataloging software. The move brings the tablet version of Lightroom closer to the version for PCs running Windows and MacOS — and improves tablets, too. For years, Lightroom users have wanted direct import abilities for iPads, something that’s …
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With less than two weeks left to finish your holiday gift shopping, you may be getting a little nervous about what to give that hard-to-shop-for friend or family member. If you’re looking for inspiration, Google may have the solution. The web giant on Tuesday unveiled Google Shopping 100, a new microsite that highlights products that are trending on Google searches …
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After using Google’s new Recorder app, you’ll never want to use another voice memo app again. It’s true. Instead of simply recording the audio of a lecture or interview like all the other apps do, Recorder transcribes whatever it hears in real-time — on the device — without sending any information to Google. In fact, it doesn’t require a data …
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Apple unveiled additions to its Screen Time tools for the iPhone and iPad on Tuesday, offering parents new ways to clamp down on who their kids talk to via text messages, FaceTime and phone calls. The new features, added to Apple’s free Screen Time parental controls, allow parents to specify who their children can talk to, whether it be a …
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Augmented reality on phones means layering virtual things on top of real ones, but the distinctions might get harder to tell apart. An update to Google’s ARCore technology can sense depth in a room and hide virtual objects behind real ones using just a single phone camera… and the early results look promising. Apple’s newest augmented reality toolset, ARKit 3, …
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