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How to port your landline number to Google Voice

Still hanging onto your home phone? Worse, still paying for it? I suspect this is pretty common. It’s a hassle to give up a landline, if only because that number you’ve had for so many years is “on file” at so many places. It’s your home number — and you need to keep that, right? …

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Red Lucid 8K 3D camera uses Hydrogen One phone as viewfinder

On Saturday, high-end cinema camera maker Red held an event to show off its unreleased Hydrogen One phone. Red was eager to let people experience the phone’s 4-View holographic screen, which displays 3D content without the need for glasses. Booths from companies partnering with Red on the phone dotted the perimeter of the event. One of those companies was Lucid, …

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The Honor 10 is even more affordable if you buy it in Asia

Oppo and Vivo will need to watch out. Honor looks to be gunning for their piece of the pie. Chinese phonemaker Huawei’s sub-brand took to Asia after its European launch, and its new Honor 10 flagship looks set to disrupt the market with its competitive price of just S$579. That’s about $430, £320 or AU$570 converted — way lower than …

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Google Photos now lets you show love with ‘hearts’ and ‘favorites’

Google Photos is adding two simple features that make it more like Facebook or Apple’s Photos. The online photo storage library is introducing a Favorites and Heart feature to help sort the photos you love the most. When browsing through your own pictures you’ll see a star icon that you can use to mark a photo as a favorite. Tapping …

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Siri changes her tune on WWDC

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Siri was more than happy to chat about Apple’s WWDC on Monday, but it turns out she was talking about last year’s developers conference. Now, if you ask Siri about Apple’s upcoming WWDC, the digital assistant says, “You can get all the details …

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Nokia maker HMD snags $100M funding to bring you more phones

HMD Global, the Finnish startup that makes Nokia phones, just scored itself $100 million in funding, which it will use to “aggressively expand” its product lineup, it said on Monday. HMD, which licenses the Nokia brand to make phones bearing its name and logo, was founded in December 2016 and burst onto the scene at Mobile World Congress 2017, where …

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Will we see a new MacBook Air, iPad Mini or Mac Mini at WWDC 2018?

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. In April, Apple killed off its entire networking product line. The company announced that it would be sunsetting the AirPort Express, AirPort Extreme and AirPort Time Capsule. You can still buy the remaining stock (if you don’t mind Frozen-era networking tech), and they’ll …

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Samsung owes Apple $1B

A patent trial between Apple and Samsung, two of the largest tech companies around, could end up looking like a trial between two of the largest car companies around. On Friday, an eight-person jury began its deliberations at US District Court in San Jose, smack dab in the middle of Silicon Valley and a 10-mile drive to Apple’s headquarters. They …

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Google may be working on a standalone AR headset

A project codenamed Google A65 is thought to be a standalone AR headset, and now we may have more details about it. German news site Winfuture.de says it has documents that indicate Google’s working with Taiwanese manufacturer Quanta on the augmented reality headset. Google’s previously worked with Quanta on the Pixel C tablet. The headset is expected to include camera sensors and …

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More than 4M Samsung phones a year need service, court case reveals

If you had to send your Samsung phone in for service, you’re in good company. Samsung sells tens of millions of smartphones every year, but more than 4 million of them were returned to the company for service in the US, the company revealed in a trial this week. Specifically, it was between 4 million and 5 million a year …

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