Today, every phone is more or less a rectangular slab along the lines of the iPhone X ($285 at Amazon) or Galaxy S9 ($198 at eBay). That’s not inherently a bad thing, but when you stack these devices side by side, it’s easy to feel like you’re drowning in a sea of sameness. From time …
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A new tool by Google will make your trip planning easier. Google Earth launched a measurement feature on Monday that can calculate distance and areas, the company said in a blog post. The feature is available on Chrome and Android, but will be added to iOS soon. You can use it to check out the perimeter and area of a …
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If you’ve been dying to turn yourself into an animated cartoon, you’re in luck. Apple’s public beta version of iOS 12, with its new Memoji feature, is now available for download. The software, which runs on iPhones and iPads, won’t be finalized and officially released until the fall. Those of you who can’t wait until then can enroll in Apple’s …
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Cheeps! I need a vacation — so I’m taking one. You’ll have to live without me for the next couple weeks, but fear not: I’ve lined up a few sweet deals that’ll pop up while I’m gone, and CNET has a deep bench of awesome cheapskates to fill in the gaps. Speaking of benches, are you tired of sitting all …
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Don’t know what something is called and your description isn’t cutting it for a search engine? Besides Google Lens, now you can also search using pictures on Bing. Microsoft on Thursday launched a new function on Bing that lets you search an image on the web using your camera, the company said in a blog post. This AI-powered feature is …
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Google’s latest update for its Measure app makes it compatible with a much wider variety of phones. Previously only working with Google’s augmented reality (AR) platform Tango, the app can now be used on all ARCore phones — such as the company’s Pixel 2, Sony’s Xperia XZ Premium and Samsung’s Galaxy S9. The update also brings a fresh user interface …
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The US Supreme Court has ruled in favor of digital privacy. In a 5-4 decision on Friday, the justices said police need warrants to gather phone location data as evidence for trials. That reversed and remanded a decision by the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. Carpenter v. United States is the first case about phone location data that the Supreme Court …
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Samsung may be testing a budget-priced phone that runs on Google’s Android Go — an operating system meant for lower-end phones. According to SamMobile, a phone with the model number of SM-J260G is reportedly being tested internationally in Europe, Latin America and Asia. 21 hidden Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus features +30 more See all photos The report says that …
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When I say “I work on the internet,” I don’t mean it in an “I have a lot of email” kind of way. I mean my beefy homebuilt computer is constantly running out of memory — because I might have 100 browser tabs open at any given time. But a month or two ago, Google Chrome gave me an unexpected …
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Want to browse the news but don’t have connection to the internet? Google Chrome is getting a new feature for Android that automatically downloads articles when you’re connected to Wi-Fi for you to read offline — even if you haven’t asked for them. Google announced the feature on the Google India blog Thursday. It says that the feature is available …
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