Samsung‘s heavily rumored Galaxy Note 9, announced Thursday in New York, is a 6.4-inch phone with dual rear 12-megapixel cameras, up to 512GB of storage and a new Bluetooth S-Pen stylus. Now playing: Watch this: Galaxy Note 9 vs. S9 Plus: What’s the difference? 2:58 It goes on sale on Aug. 24 with a starting …
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Samsung on Thursday launched its new Galaxy Note 9 flagship phone at the Barclays Center in New York, home of the Brooklyn Nets. It’s a massive, great phone, as you might expect, and it costs a bomb. But there was much more that Samsung showed off, including Fortnite’s Android debut, the Galaxy Home smart speaker and a Galaxy Watch. Here’s all our …
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Floating holograms. Space-age goggles. The Magic Leap One, the mysterious augmented reality headset, has been promised for so many years, it started to seem as unreal as the worlds it supposedly creates. We’re here to tell you: Magic Leap is a real thing. Its debut headset is now available to buy, but at $2,295 with availability in only a few …
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Magic Leap’s augmented-reality vision started as a comic book. And I’ve read it. The same art in the lobby at the check-in desk at Magic Leap’s Fort Lauderdale headquarters is from a comic that Andy Lanning, co-creator of Marvel’s 2008 revamp of the Guardians of the Galaxy comic and now Magic Leap’s executive creative director, wrote along with Rony Abovitz …
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Siri may soon get better at recognizing the name of your favorite local watering hole or burger joint. Apple’s Siri Speech Recognition Team said Thursday that it’s improved the voice assistant’s ability to identify names of local destinations and points of interest. Virtual assistants have been great with big brand names like Starbucks, but they’ve had a harder time recognizing …
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The Samsung Galaxy 7 is reportedly at risk from hackers due to a microchip security flaw. The Meltdown vulnerability can be exploited to attack the Galaxy S7, researchers from Graz Technical University in Austria told Reuters on Wednesday. Samsung phones were previously thought to be immune to Meltdown, which is said to endanger most computing devices. The team will release …
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Though we don’t expect to see the rumored Google Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL introduced officially until this fall, we may have gotten a sneak preview from a Ukrainian Telegram user. As reported by Android Police, Telegram user @LuchkovCH has posted an extensive series of photos (and a brief unboxing video) of what they say is a Pixel 3 …
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In a piece of good news for the troubled manufacturer, Essential has announced its PH-1 phone has become the first non-Google phone to receive the latest Android operating system on the day of release. Though this is a welcome development for the Android OS in general, Essential’s own future is uncertain. While the company says that its PH-1 phone will continue to receive updates …
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In a move presaged by weeks of mounting pressure, Apple, Facebook, Google’s YouTube and Spotify cracked down on conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his Infowars media empire, removing wide swathes of content or terminating his accounts entirely. All the actions seemed to happen within 24 hours. Was it a long-overdue crackdown or a conspiracy of censorship? That depends on who you …
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Huawei’s Honor Play, a gaming focused phone, will go on sale Tuesday in four new countries in Asia. This marks the Play’s first appearance outside China since it was first announced back in June. The gaming focused phone will likely also be announced at IFA Berlin at the end of the month. Loaded with a feature called GPU Turbo, the …
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