Huawei’s feature-packed new super phones, the Mate 20 and Mate 20 Pro, are available now in Europe, including the UK. The beefy phones, launched on Tuesday in London, are Huawei’s answer to the Samsung Galaxy Note 9, Apple iPhone XS and Google Pixel 3 XL. It’s no surprise that they’re not super cheap, starting at …
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Palm is best known as a pioneer in the worlds of personal digital assistants and smartphones. Even though the company has been dead for years, the brand still boasts a cult following among techies who stared at screens before staring at screens was a thing. So it’s surprising that Palm’s resurrection comes in the form of a device designed to …
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Huawei on Tuesday announced a raft of new products at an event in London. You can watch the event as it happened in the video above. Here’s what’s new: Huawei Mate 20 Pro: The company’s newest flagship phone is an Android handset with a 6.39-inch, 3,120×1,440-pixel AMOLED screen. But it has a host of unique features that sets it apart …
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Some companies may be rethinking their US Defense Department contracts, but Amazon’s not one of them, CEO Jeff Bezos said Monday. Bezos, speaking at the Wired25 Conference at the SFJazz Center in San Francisco, said he will continue to support the US Defense Department. Earlier this month, cloud computing rival Google pulled out of the bidding for a $10 billion Pentagon contract …
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Microsoft wants its tech to be used for good, not evil, the company’s CEO said. Satya Nadella, speaking Monday at the Wired25 conference in San Francisco, noted that the tech industry has a responsibility for how its technology is used. “We start from saying, look we want to take tech and empower the world with it,” Nadella said. “Our responsibility …
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The camera tends to be a major selling point for Google’s Pixel phones, and this year’s Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL are no different. And now, Google appears to be listening to fans that’ve been requesting a certain camera feature. Google said in a forum post on Friday that it’ll be adding support for external microphones to the Pixel …
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Check out CNET’s full reviews of the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL, now! For lovers of large-screen phones, the game is on. Google lifted the lid off the new 5.5-inch Pixel 3 and 6.3-inch Pixel 3 XL on Tuesday, tossing the 3 XL into the mix of supersize phones ripe for holiday competition. The talent here runs deep, with the Pixel XL boasting camera …
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On this podcast, we talk about: Palm’s crazy sidekick phone concept that’s not a phone. CNET’s Pixel 3 review. Just a note: Because of technical difficulties, we were only able to record the audio podcast. The 3:59 gives you bite-size news and analysis about the top stories of the day, brought to you by the CNET News team in …
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Google Assistant’s real-time translation’s been limited to Google’s Pixel Buds headphones since they launched a year ago. No longer. Google has rolled out support to any headphones with Google Assistant access built in, such as the Bose QuietComfort 35 II and the Sony WH-1000XM2. Just pair the headphones with a phone that supports Google Assistant and the latest version of …
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FuboTV, which streams live-TV channels with subscriptions starting at $45 a month, said Monday it’s close to 250,000 subscribers, more than double from a year earlier. So is that a lot or not? Depends how much slack you give to a service going up against a wall of Goliaths. Most of FuboTV’s competitors are owned and operated by big tech …
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