Google on Thursday introduced its new Datally app, which lets you monitor and save mobile data. It’s available in the Google Play store for any Android phones running Android 5.0 Lollipop or newer. You can see your usage on an hourly, daily, weekly or monthly basis and get recommendations for how you can save more. …
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I don’t know exact numbers, but I suspect some 80 bajillion people bought an Amazon Fire tablet on Black Friday or Cyber Monday. And why not? With prices ranging from $30 to $100, those babies were the bargain to beat. Now that you’ve got one, let’s make it better. Although the Fire tablets are pretty good out of the box, …
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Andy Rubin, known as the father of Android, has taken a leave of absence as CEO of upstart smartphone maker Essential, according to The Information (subscription required). The Information, citing unnamed people, reported that Rubin left Google three years ago after an internal Google investigation found he had carried on an inappropriate relationship with a subordinate. The people didn’t elaborate …
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Were it not for Gertrude Jekyll, much of the world might be a much drabber place. Born in 1843, Jekyll was a British horticulturist, garden designer, artist and writer who created more than 400 gardens in Europe in the US and wrote 15 books and more than 1,000 magazine articles on garden design. To honor Jekyll, described as “a premier …
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Get ready to watch a lot more bite-size videos on YouTube. Reels, a feature announced Wednesday, lets YouTube’s “creator” community string together videos of up to 30 seconds long to fashion a sort of playlist separate from their other work. It’s the latest example of a tech company borrowing from Snapchat’s popular “stories” function, which was instrumental in making Snapchat …
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Comcast said it has no plans to offer fast lanes on the internet after the Federal Communications Commission eliminates Obama-era regulation, which banned the practice. On Tuesday, the nation’s biggest cable operator responded to a report from the website Ars Technica, which stated Comcast might be considering offering a service that would charge companies like Netflix and Google to deliver …
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Now playing: Watch this: iPhone X takes on Pixel 2 in camera shootout (The 3:59,… 4:40 Which premium smartphone has the best camera? It depends. On Tuesday’s podcast, we talk about: Whether the iPhone X or Pixel 2 camera is the right one for you. The latest NSA breach, which spilled over 100GB of top secret data. Google trying to keep …
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When Apple introduced iOS 11 in September, it boasted how new compression technology called HEVC shrinks your video files about 40 percent. On Tuesday, Firefox took a step to do even better. The latest Firefox test version, called Nightly, debuts compression technology called AV1 that Mozilla said makes video files 25 percent to 35 percent smaller than those compressed with …
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Microsoft has a great new idea that might change the way you use a computer. But the company’s not sure it’ll work. Wanna try it? In the coming weeks, the world’s largest software maker will send an update for its 3-year-old Windows Insiders program to people who want to experience bleeding-edge prerelease software. The update will include a feature that …
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A phone these days is a lot of things: a tiny TV, a game console, a home for your Animoji farm. Despite years of retailer effort, though, it hasn’t functioned all that well as a storefront to sell you actual goods. The big kickoff to the holiday shopping season shows that may finally be changing. US sales on phones this …
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