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The worst Galaxy S9 features Samsung can fix for the Galaxy S10

I love the Galaxy S9, I really do. But there are some things Samsung needs to change about this top-scoring, top-performing phone, and if we don’t see them in the upcoming Galaxy Note 9, I hope Samsung will have fine-tuned its software by the time we get to the Galaxy S10, SX, or whatever Samsung will …

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Smule may be the biggest music app you haven’t heard of

Smule wants everyone to know its name.  The company, a San Francisco-based startup named from a portmanteau of “sonic” and “mule,” runs a collection of music-related apps. The biggest by far is “Sing! Karaoke,” an interactive singing app with people belting out 20 million songs with each other daily.  Fifty million people use it at least once a month. That’s …

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ZTE is officially alive again as US lifts ‘death

ZTE is finally, officially free of the crippling US ban that threatened to sink the entire Chinese telecom company. It’s been a long, painstaking process, but the US Department of Commerce announced Friday that the company has deposited the final $400 million in an escrow account — and so the ban is lifted. That $400 million, which will be held …

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What you need to know about YouTube Premium

Recently, Google launched YouTube Music and YouTube Premium. One of those is a streaming music service that offers features similar to what you’d expect in Google Play Music. The other is a streaming music service, with the added bonus of an ad-free YouTube experience.  Now playing: Watch this: Google replaces YouTube Red with YouTube Premium 1:55 But here’s the deal: …

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Magic Leap’s long

The Magic Leap One is now available to order for $2295. We got some hands-on time with the Magic Leap One, but if all you want are the facts, here’s everything you need to know. We also spent some time at the Magic Leap headquarters in Florida to get the inside story. On Wednesday, after nearly four years of secrets and speculation, the $2.3 billion Magic Leap …

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Give your student a refurbished HP 14 Chromebook for $110

First things first: My apologies for the confusion regarding yesterday’s bonus deal, the TechVilla Wing 1 portable speaker for $7.99. I make it a point to test every promo code before publishing a deal, but that one, well, it slipped through the cracks. The code worked, but only deducted $7.99 rather than providing a $7.99 final price. The speaker is …

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Sony Xperia XA2 Plus is bigger and badder

Sony just took the wraps off of its new Sony Xperia XA2 Plus phone. The phone is a follow-up to the midrange Sony Xperia XA2 and Sony Xperia XA2 Ultra released earlier this year. As the name implies, the 6-inch Sony Xperia XA2 Plus is larger than the Xperia XA2, but the same size as the Xperia XA2 Ultra. Now …

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Your iPhone now does Morse code, thanks to Google’s Gboard keyboard

Google just made it easier for people with limited mobility to type and communicate. Google announced that today it’s rolling out Morse code on the Gboard keyboard for iOS. Gboard is Google’s keyboard with Google search built in. Morse code is currently available for Gboard for Android, but Google says that it’s adding improvements with today’s update. Morse code for …

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Phones and apps to replace your old Windows phone

Windows Phone is dead and it’s not coming back. Microsoft has long since pulled support for push notifications, and even Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates gave up his Windows phone in favor of an Android device. Once upon a time, Windows-based phones vied with BlackBerry, Palm and Nokia’s platforms to dominate the nascent smartphone world. But in the years following the 2007 introduction …

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Philo cheap live

Philo, a cheap skinny-bundle TV streaming service, said Tuesday it raised $40 million in funding from its TV network backers AMC Networks, Discovery and Viacom.  The live-TV streaming company is also launching its Apple TV and Amazon Fire TV apps, after announcing those apps earlier this year.  Philo, which launched in November, is the latest in a parade of virtual TV …

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