The new HTC U12 Plus has been officially announced. It has squeezable sides like the U11 and four cameras. The HTC U11 came with a unique squeezable-sides function for launching certain shortcuts. CNET HTC may release its next flagship phone as soon as next month. Expected to be called the HTC U12, the phone would …
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Now playing: Watch this: Otter’s app makes free voice transcriptions easy and… 2:08 If you don’t hate transcribing, it’s probably just because you don’t have to do it very much. Otter, a new, free mobile app from a team of vets from Google and speech-recognition company Nuance, aims to make voice transcriptions become as easy and accessible as typing into …
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The first time I tried Samsung’s new AR Emoji feature on a Galaxy S9, launched earlier this week at Mobile World Congress, I thought I knew what to expect. I smiled, and the camera app’s new feature scanned my face, taking a picture. And then, sure enough, it spat out my new avatar. But it didn’t look like me. Aiming …
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The basic attention token, developed by browser maker Brave Software, uses blockchain to oversee online ad payments that can flow among advertisers, publishers and anyone using its browser. Brave Software The Brave web browser can now channel virtual money from its users to people who stream videogame action on Amazon’s Twitch service. Brave announced the Twitch payment support Thursday, a …
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With a chart-topping overall score of 99, the Samsung Galaxy S9 Plus is the new smartphone camera to beat, says DxOMark, creators of some of the industry’s most rigorous and well-respected independent camera tests. The overall score of 99 is the highest DxOMark has ever given, and good enough to edge out the Google Pixel 2 by just one point. …
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Some of the features of Samsung’s newest phones, the Galaxy S9 and the Galaxy S9 Plus, have left me shook. Not because of the onward march of technology but because it feels like Samsung has been spying on me. The new Galaxy phones contain Bixby Vision, a tool within the camera app that uses optical image recognition. You can turn …
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AT&T is offering some pretty decent incentives if you’re looking to get a Galaxy S9 or S9 Plus. Starting Friday, preorder Samsung’s latest flagship phones and you’ll receive bill credit worth $150 from AT&T. There is a caveat though: You’ll need to bring in a new line from a competitor to get the credit, meaning existing AT&T users will miss …
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Google’s artificial intelligence researchers have a new trick up their sleeves: giving selfie videos a new background the way you can with still photos today. Switching out background scenery is a decades-old technology, but it’s generally complicated and time-consuming — think of making movies with superheros acting in front of green screens so computers can later replace the uniform green …
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Google’s messaging app for groups — Hangouts Chat — used to be only for people in the company’s early adopter program. But this week, Google is releasing it to any corporate customer who wants to use it. Hangouts Chat lets co-workers, or any group of people, message each other in dedicated chat rooms. People can also share files, photos and …
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Our first take of the Google Clips, the newest self-proclaimed automatic camera that promises to be there for the moments you might miss, struck a chord with me. The device is the latest camera designed to surreptitiously record things in your life — to remember in case you don’t. I get the attraction of having that handled digitally, because I …
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