YouTube’s have a rough couple of years, but that’s just because it’s been growing up, its chief executive said Monday. CEO Susan Wojcicki, speaking at the Wired25 conference at SFJazz in San Francisco, called the past 18 months YouTube’s “growing-up years.” Now playing: Watch this: YouTube says it’s working on growing up 3:13 “We used to have …
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Google has been experimenting with a censored search engine that would work in China, but it’s not sure if it will ever launch the service, CEO Sundar Pichai said Monday. Pichai, speaking during the Wired25 conference at the SFJazz Center in San Francisco, said Google started the internal project — dubbed Project Dragonfly — to see what was possible in …
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Check out CNET’s full reviews of the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL, now! The Pixel 3‘s lone rear camera makes a brazen statement to any phone with two rear cameras or more: “Google’s single lens is better than all your fancy cameras combined.” Those are fighting words in a landscape where a dual-camera setup is now so coveted, even budget phones like the …
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DuckDuckGo now runs 30 million private searches a day. The privacy-focused search engine on Thursday said in a tweet that “it took us seven years to reach 10 million private searches in one day, then another two years to hit 20 million, and now less than a year later we’re at 30 million! Thank you all. #ComeToTheDuckSide.” DuckDuckGo fun fact: …
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Samsung’s long-rumored foldable phone still hasn’t appeared, but its mobile chief offered one compelling case for a product that could easily be written off as a gimmick. D.J. Koh, CEO of Samsung’s mobile business, said you’ll be able to use the device as a tablet with multitasking capability before being able to fold it up into a more portable phone. …
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Google has dominated headlines in the tech world this past week. The search giant is permanently shutting down its social network Google+ after failing to disclose a data breach that exposed up to 500,000 accounts between 2015 and March this year. In addition to the Google+ breach, there are claims that between the years 2011 and 2012 Google bypassed the …
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Half of all iOS devices are now running the latest version of Apple’s mobile operating system, less than a month after it was released. As of Thursday, iOS 12 has been loaded on 50 percent of all iOS devices, which includes iPhones and iPads, according to Apple’s App Store Distribution page. The adoption rate climbs higher for Apple mobile devices …
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Looking for a way to step up your competitive mobile gaming? The answer could be simple: Get a bigger phone. Mobile esports company Skillz announced today that it’s conducted an analysis of over 800 million tournaments and found that people competing with larger phones won significantly more often than people using smaller phones. Skillz hosts a mobile esports platform on which …
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On this podcast, we talk about: Why Samsung felt the need to add four rear cameras to a phone. AT&T’s tease for a new streaming TV bundle. Google omitting the camera being a savvy move for the Home Hub. The 3:59 gives you bite-size news and analysis about the top stories of the day, brought to you by the CNET …
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Mozilla has given its read-it-later Pocket app the ability to read text out loud with human-sounding voices so you can turn a website into an instant podcast. The new feature, released Thursday, spotlights the growing competence of computers to change text into speech. Other high-profile examples include Amazon’s Alexa and Apple’s Siri. But perhaps the closest to an actual human …
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