The Made By Google event held by the company on Tuesday in New York was an opportunity for the company to launch several new hardware products. From new Pixel phones and the Home Hub smart screen to a ChromeOS tablet, there was a lot to cover. Most of the products are available to preorder right …
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Google’s new Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL will come with a new accessory in the box: a pair of wired Pixel Bud-style earbuds. The phones, unveiled at a Google event on Tuesday, come with the new Google Pixel USB-C earbuds, as well as a USB-C to 3.5mm adapter for using legacy headphones. The new wired earbuds are available only in white, …
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Google announced on Monday that it will sunset the consumer version of its social network Google+ by the end of August 2019 after a vulnerability exposed the personal data of up to 500,000 users between 2015 and March 2018. A review of Google+ as part of the company’s Project Strobe “crystallized what we’ve known for a while: that while our engineering teams …
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Magic Leap, one of the most talked-about, overhyped startups in the tech industry, reached a major milestone this summer when it released its mixed reality headset to developers after years of promises. Now CEO Rony Abovitz and his team are working to convince developers and creative types who’ve paid $2,295 for the first-generation Magic Leap One “Creator Edition” to invest …
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Microsoft revealed Monday that it’s testing an Xbox game streaming service, currently called Project xCloud. The company demonstrated its work on the service so far in a video showing Forza and Halo, games designed to be run on an Xbox One console, being played on Android phones and tablets. The games work both with an Xbox wireless controller paired over Bluetooth …
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T-Mobile’s newly rebranded prepaid service, Metro, is jumping on the 5G bandwagon too. The service, rebranded from MetroPCS, launched with new plans on Monday. But the company also said at an event at Grand Central Terminal in New York that it’s committing to offering 5G for Metro next year. “When we talk about 5G for all, it’s not just nationwide …
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The OnePlus 6T has been officially announced and here’s our review. Speaking in his native Mandarin, OnePlus‘ founder and CEO Pete Lau exudes a reserved persona, despite being only weeks away from unveiling the OnePlus 6T phone. Compared to the company’s other founder, Carl Pei, Lau carries himself more formally. Though the two look unassuming in their own ways, Pei …
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If you’ve taken a selfie on the iPhone XS, you might think it looks a little different to other selfies you’ve taken in the past, especially from previous iPhones. We already know the cameras on the iPhone XS are different from those on the X. Now playing: Watch this: Explaining the iPhone XS ‘beauty mode’ 5:36 But some users on …
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Sliding into an October already full of watches and wearables, the Fitbit Charge 3 — which hits stores today, starting at $149 (£130, AU$230) — promises to be the company’s best general fitness tracker. And yet: Fitbit already has a watch, the Fitbit Versa, that does a lot of the same things (and a bit more) for just $50 more. …
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Google’s upcoming Pixel 3 smartphones could come with a “Top Shot” mode to capture photos of people at the moment they’re looking their best, the newest in a series of Pixel 3 leaks indicates. “Use Top Shot to get smiles, not blinks, and take groupie selfies that get everyone in the photo (without a selfie stick),” say apparent promotional materials …
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