In 2019, you may check your email with the help of a balloon 12 miles up in the sky. Project Loon, from Google parent company Alphabet, uses high-altitude solar-powered balloons instead of the usual land-based cell towers to provide your phone’s wireless connection to the network. It began as a somewhat bizarre project from the …
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With the flood of iPhone publicity this last month — this last decade, actually — you might think personal computers have become ho-hum. But Ron Coughlin doesn’t. The leader of HP‘s PC division thinks his industry has snatched the initiative for technological improvements back from phones. “The innovation is happening in PCs,” Coughlin said in an interview with CNET. His …
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When Siri can’t give you an answer, it’ll now be Google filling in the gaps in Apple’s knowledge instead of Microsoft’s Bing search service. The Siri voice assistant built into iPhones, Macs and soon Apple’s HomePod smart speaker can handle plenty of requests, like reporting a stock price or defining a word you don’t know. When it can’t, it searches …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Can Google turn millions into Pixellites? CNET Try this experiment. Walk up to people who don’t work in tech — surely you know at least one — and ask them what they think about Pixel phones. I fancy they’ll stare at you benignly and wonder …
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With the Google Pixel 2 likely debuting less than two weeks away, you may be ready to retire your current phone in anticipation. All signs point to Google trying to make the process smoother. The company launched a trade-in program (scroll down on the right-hand side of the page for details) for those who send in their old phone when buying a …
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Apple’s iPhone 8 Plus camera has earned high praise from DxOMark, a website that publishes in-depth reviews of camera sensors, lenses and phone cameras. “The Apple iPhone 8 Plus is the best-performing mobile device camera we have ever tested,” DxOMark’s David Cardinal said in the review of the phone’s camera the site published today. DxOMark just revamped the way it …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Could the wily Apple store employees sell me? No, they could not. Andrew Hoyle/CNET Outside, there was a trolley filled with croissants, pastries, fruit and coffee. It was 9:45 a.m. at my local Marin County, California, Apple store. Why was there still so much food, …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. It’s made of sterner stuff. JerryRigEverything/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET It seems a lifetime ago that the devoted foamed at the gills, as the iPhone 6 was bent out of shape in torture tests. iPhone 7 had a much stiffer upper lip. Now, with the …
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Back in August Bose accidentally leaked shots in a newsletter of what appeared to be a new version of its top noise-cancelling headphone, the QuietComfort 35. The tip-off was an extra button on the headphones that tech sleuths speculated had something to do with a possible voice assistant. Now Bose has officially announced the not-so-secret QuietComfort 35 II or QC35 II and …
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It isn’t fun watching an old love suffer. On Wednesday, Google announced it’s casually dropping $1.1 billion on a deal with HTC that will allow it to hire some of the beleaguered company’s staff, as well as license some of its intellectual property. Rumours of a tie-up had circulated for a while, but the deal turned out to be different than what we …
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