A swathe of news sites including The Guardian, the Washington Post, The Intercept, HuffPost, NBC News, the Toronto Star, the Christian Science Monitor and Breitbart News have reportedly been blocked in China. The Great Firewall of China already bars citizens from accessing non-Chinese social media sources including Facebook, Google, Gmail, Twitter and Microsoft’s Bing, and …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. The day before he was set to address thousands of developers, Apple CEO Tim Cook walked into a cavernous conference space at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center. The room was empty except for a few reporters, some Apple execs and about a …
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Google apparently has warned the Trump administration that its Huawei ban could endanger US national security. The search giant’s senior executives are pushing for an exemption from the Huawei blacklisting that basically banned US companies from doing business with the Chinese company, according to the Financial Times, which cited three anonymous sources. Now playing: Watch this: What is going on …
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Google Stadia on Thursday unveiled its pricing and some of the video games you can play on its all-new service set to launch in 2020. The company also offered up some guidelines as to the types of network speed requirements it has for various qualities of gameplay: 10Mbps for 720/60fps stereo, roughly 20Mbps for 1080/60fps HDR with 5.1 surround audio, and …
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“Apple builds things that people want to buy.” Seems like an obvious sentiment, coming from the executive who leads software development at one of the world’s most successful tech companies. But that comment underscores why Craig Federighi spent so much time highlighting new privacy features in the operating systems that power the iPhone, iPad and Mac at the start of …
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Facebook has slapped Huawei with yet another ban by no longer letting the embattled Chinese phone marker preinstall its apps. Huawei phone owners will still be able to download and update Facebook’s apps, but fresh Huawei devices can’t come with Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram apps preinstalled, as previously reported by Reuters. “We are reviewing the Commerce Department’s final rule and …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. The mobile version of Lightroom is going to get a big step closer to its PC-based big brother with Apple’s decision to let iPhones and iPads connect to storage systems like flash memory cards and external drives. Lightroom, Adobe’s photo editing and cataloging …
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Google wants to make it easier to find information during a crisis or natural disaster. Google Maps will show you information about earthquakes. Google The search giant on Thursday announced new features for “SOS alerts” on Google Maps. The app already lets you see basic information about a crisis, like what’s happening, emergency phone numbers and Twitter updates from authorities. …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. I’m scrambling around a wooden floor, trying to fend off a giant virtual ball with my iPad Pro. It’s a bowling alley, but it feels like a basketball court. A crowd cheers. Eli faces off across from me, pushing his iPad Pro forward, launching …
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Google has an answer for any skeptics of its Stadia streaming game service: Buy the game from Google, and you can play through Stadia for free. The internet giant laid out its launch plans Thursday, during a livestream in which it announced prices for its service, which includes an effectively free tier offering high-definition visuals for any game you buy …
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