Make it pink. Make it blue. Or make it pink and blue stripes. With color-changing smart fabric, you can change your outfit with the press of a button on an app. Researchers at the University of Central Florida are taking wearables to the next level with a new color-changing fabric they call ChroMorphous. Controlled by …
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Apple Music has 50 million users, if you count those listening with free trials, Apple CEO Tim Cook said Tuesday on Bloomberg TV. It seems like a big jump from the 38 million subscribers Apple Music touted in March, but Apple typically didn’t include people listening with three-month free trials in its previous tallies until Cook’s interview Tuesday. Tuesday, Cook said that …
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When it comes to smartphones, is the whole greater than the sum of its parts? Apple thinks so. But on Tuesday, in a patent suit with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake, the company’s lawyers faced off against a Samsung legal team that thinks different. In opening arguments for a damages phase of the patent suit — Samsung already …
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It’s been years since Samsung smartphones were found to have infringed several Apple iPhone patents, but some folks are still sore. “It was blatantly ripped off. They tried to steal the essential flavor of the iPhone,” said Richard Howarth, a senior director of Apple’s design team and one of two lead iPhone designers, testifying at a damages trial for Samsung’s …
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Google is rolling out new tap features to the Google Pixel Buds, making controlling your buds a breeze. The Pixel Buds already come with various tap controls, but this update, announced Tuesday, brings new triple- and double-tap functions. Here’s what you can now do: Triple tapping the right earbud will turn your Pixel Buds on or off Double tapping the …
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Onkyo has announced its receivers will soon be able to controlled directly via the Sonos app — but only when connected to a Sonos Connect unit — as part of the new “Works with Sonos” certification. Onkyo says select receivers from both Onkyo and Pioneer connected via Sonos’ dongle will act as if they were one unit, following a firmware update …
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Can a $40 over-the-ear headphone possibly rival one costing 2-3 times as much? No. Don’t be silly. However, a $40 over-the-ear headphone can look gorgeous, feel comfortable and sound pretty darn good. And because you read the headline, you already know that I’ve roped one for half that price. Check it out: For a limited time, and while supplies last, …
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You might not have to worry much longer about being judged for your YouTube viewing history. That’s because the YouTube app is reportedly testing an Incognito Mode that won’t keep track of your watched videos, as spotted by Android Police. YouTube automatically saves your viewing history and ties it to your account. By doing this it can recommend videos or …
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When Google revealed Gmail’s new look in April, it unveiled some new features too. There’s a new offline mode, a new tool for sending self-destructing messages, and Smart Replies. Going one step further than basic replies, Google announced a new Smart Compose feature at Google I/O last week. The feature was promised to launch in the coming days and weeks, but …
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President Donald Trump is doubling down on his defense of Chinese telecommunications giant ZTE. Trump said on Twitter on Monday that ZTE, the fourth-largest smartphone maker in the US by market share, “buys a big percentage of individual parts from U.S. companies.” HE also said ZTE was “reflective of the larger trade deal we are negotiating with China and my …
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