Google Assistant is getting smarter and more useful around the house. In a new update Tuesday, Google announced that its digital assistant can now move music between Home and Nest smart speakers. It can also move YouTube videos between Chromecast and Nest smart displays. The new feature means you can start playing music in your bedroom …
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Amazon announced a heap of devices last month, including five new Echo smart speakers, more Ring smart home security, new Alexa commands and pair of smart glasses it’s calling Echo Frames. But the new Echo Loop smart ring ($130) is the one making most people scratch heads and wonder what they would do with it. Echo Loop puts Amazon’s digital Alexa assistant on your body in a way that’s different than the …
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This story is part of The 2010s: A Decade in Review, a series on the memes, people, products, movies and so much more that have influenced the 2010s. When I hustled out of CNET headquarters in San Francisco on May 26, 2010, and slipped into a rental car with two of my co-workers to head to a meeting across the …
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This is part of CNET’s “Tech Enabled” series about the role technology plays in helping the disability community. When the Americans with Disabilities Act was passed in 1990, the internet wasn’t yet a critical part of our lives. We weren’t connected to it 24/7, and we didn’t rely on it to handle everyday tasks and provide a steady stream of information. …
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Deep Fusion, Apple’s new image processing technique for the iPhone 11, 11 Pro and 11 Pro Max, is now available as part of both the developers beta and public beta of iOS 13.2. Deep Fusion will only work with iOS devices running an A13 Bionic processor, which is currently only the newest iPhones. Read: iPhone camera comparison: iPhone 11 with Deep Fusion vs. …
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The Google Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL are coming soon — very soon. Oct. 15, to be precise. That means Google Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL deals are coming, well, now. For a limited time, and while supplies last, Daily Steals via Rakuten has the unlocked Google Pixel 3 64GB for $399.99 with promo code SAVE15. If all this sounds a little familiar, it’s because …
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Microsoft did something unexpected in launching the Surface Duo, a phone with two screens that fold around a hinge down the middle. After two years completely out of the phone game, Microsoft is ready to try again — just not with its own software running the show. Instead, the Surface Duo will run on Android, a former rival OS. In …
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Foldable phones versus dual-screen devices that have a seam down the middle. Any way you bend it, phones that fold in half are touted as our mobile future. Microsoft’s take on the doubled-screen device, the Android-based Surface Duo (no, not a Windows phone) is the first formidable challenge we’ve seen to phones with folding displays like the Galaxy Fold and the …
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Editor’s Note, Feb 4 2020: Sony shut down the PlayStation Vue service on January 30, 2020, but for a list of the best alternative live TV streaming services go here. Sony’s PlayStation Vue has a name problem. It’s a live TV streaming service that doesn’t include “TV” in the name at all. Worse, the name could imply that it only works on Sony’s PlayStation …
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The Google Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL are coming soon — very soon. Oct. 15, to be precise. That means Google Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL deals are coming, well, now. Case in point: For a limited time, Best Buy is offering the unlocked Google Pixel 3 XL 64GB for as low as $499.99 when you activate service. (The …
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