Google CEO Sundar Pichai signaled Tuesday that his company will take a cautious approach to going back into China, if it ever does. The search giant has been under persistent criticism for its Project Dragonfly, which would bring a censored search engine to China. The project has prompted employee protests and resignations, as well as criticism …
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Is Google’s location tracking so precise that it can know if someone moved from one side of a room to another? That’s a question US Rep. Ted Poe, a Republican from Texas, repeatedly asked Google CEO Sundar Pichai during one of the most pointed exchanges of Pichai’s congressional hearing Tuesday. But by using an iPhone, instead of a Google Android …
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Starting Tuesday, Firefox will nudge you to try out options designed to make the web more interesting, more useful or more productive. Mozilla’s new Firefox 64 keeps an eye on what you’re up to and prompts you to try extensions and features that could help you with that activity, the browser maker said. For example, if you open the same …
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On this podcast, we talk about: Apple facing a potential ban in China, thanks to Qualcomm. Qualcomm throwing shade at Apple and Intel during its Snapdragon Tech Summit. How the EU is clamping down on Silicon Valley with more regulation. The 3:59 gives you bite-size news and analysis about the top stories of the day, brought to you by the CNET News …
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The world’s largest mobile chipmaker is using 5G phones to go after Apple’s iPhones and Intel — hard. That was clear after Qualcomm’s tech summit in Hawaii last week where one after the other, executives compared the speed and battery gains of Qualcomm’s processors that will power 5G and 4G phones and laptops to Intel and Apple’s competing models. The potshots came fast and …
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Microsoft’s Chromium-based Edge refresh will most likely support existing Chrome extensions, a developer revealed. That’ll give you access to a massive library of browser customization options as Edge moves toward Google’s open-source project. “It’s our intention to support existing Chrome extensions,” Microsoft’s Kyle Alden wrote on Reddit, as previously reported by Thurrott. Now playing: Watch this: How Chrome changed web …
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Google Maps can help you discover new places by way of its “For You” tab — and now even more people will get to use it. In a blog post, Google announced that it’s rolling out the For You tab to iOS in 40 different countries, including the US, UK, Japan, Canada, Australia and parts of Europe, Africa and the …
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Just about everything you hear about 5G points out how its higher data speeds will let you download videos or update your apps much more quickly. Well, whoop-de-do. Faster data is helpful, but a different 5G benefit could actually be a bigger deal: reducing network communication delays called latency. Latency is the time it takes to get a response to …
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When Apple announced the new iPhone XS, XS Max and XR on Sept. 12, one particular feature captured the imagination of international travelers and multiple phone-owners alike: the dual SIM. Josh Miller/CNET If the processor is your phone’s brain, then the SIM, or subscriber identity module, is its soul — a tiny little chip that stores your phone number and …
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In 2018, two of the best phones you can buy are the iPhone XS Max and Samsung Galaxy Note 9. If photography is your main focus, each one is ready to meet your needs with nearly identical specs: dual rear cameras, dual optical image stabilization and nifty software that makes photos and video look extra special. According to Apple, the …
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