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Apple named its favorite and most-popular apps for 2018. Donut Country and Gorogoa, both games published by Ananpurna Interactive, were chosen as the best iPhone and iPad games of the year by editors at the consumer technology giant.  Separate from games, Procreate Pocket, a drawing app by Savage Interactive, and Froggipedia, a biology app by Designmate, …

Pixel’s Call Screen feature makes it all too easy to monitor incoming calls from unknown numbers. When the call comes in, you can let Google answer the call for you and view a live transcript of the caller’s responses. However when the feature first launched, as soon as the call ended the transcript of the call disappeared. This made it …

Gift giving is a delicate balance. On one hand you want to get them something they’ll love. On the other hand you don’t want to get yourself a pain in the wallet. The latest tech gadgets, especially ones highly rated by the ace reviewers here at CNET, are sure-fire ways to make someone’s holiday season special. And as a gift …

I’m not sure the Chromecast Audio is long for the world, which may explain today’s significant discount, but let’s come back to that. For now, the deal. For a limited time, and while supplies last, Google has the Chromecast Audio for $15. You can also find it at B&H for $15, Macy’s for $15 and Staples for $15. But each of …

At 39 years old, Eric Isakson felt he was in the best shape of his life, but his heart told a different story. It was 11 a.m. when he looked down at his fitness tracker and noticed he had already burned 9,000 calories after sitting in meetings all morning. His heart rate: 155 beats per minute, well above the normal …

When Google announced the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL, the company also unveiled new software-based features. Features that one might assume would work fine on older Pixel ($695 at Amazon) phones. One would be partly right. Google doesn’t plan on updating older Pixel devices to bring feature parity with the Pixel 3. Instead, the company will add a handful of …

Google will reportedly kill off its Hangouts chat app in 2020. The reported move may not surprise many because the company has shifted its focus to other communication platforms. Last year, Google said it was “evolving” Hangouts to focus on two new services: Hangouts Meet, a video conferencing feature, and Hangouts Chat, a messaging platform and Slack competitor. Google removed …

A background-blurring portrait mode arrived last year in Google’s Pixel 2 smartphone, but researchers used a hacked-together clump of five phones to improve how the feature worked in this year’s Pixel 3. The portrait mode simulates the shallow depth of field of higher-end cameras and lenses that concentrate your attention on the subject while turning the background into an undistracting …

Casio announced Thursday it expects its Pro Trek Smart WSD-F30 watch to be released on Jan. 18, 2019. The watch, which runs on Google’s Wear OS, was announced in August at the IFA 2018 tech conference in Berlin, where it won eight awards.  The rugged F30 is made for outdoors enthusiasts, with water resistance up to 50 meters, built-in GPS …

The world is filled with depth-sensing camera tech now: in 3D body scanners, drones, AR headsets such as the HoloLens and Magic Leap, and iPhones. But Structure Core, the first in-house depth-sensing camera from Boulder, Colorado-based Occipital, aims to be a self-contained component that could let researchers or creators build their own solutions fast.  The module connects with Windows, Linux, …