Ten thousand steps. Conventional wisdom says that’s how many you should take every day to stay fit and healthy. (You should also skip the French fries, but that’s a topic for another day.) OK, but how do you keep tabs on your step count? Simple: Buy a fitness band. But guess what? There’s another device …
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Now playing: Watch this: Adobe Flash to flicker out in 2020 1:26 The Flash Player has been there for you all along, inside your browser, making it possible for you to play online games, stream radio station music and watch YouTube videos. But after a two-decade run, Adobe is killing it off. Countless nails have been hammered in Flash’s coffin …
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Samsung is reportedly working on Bluetooth earphones that work with Samsung’s new Bixby voice assistant. The earphones are expected to be available around the same time as the Galaxy Note 8, according to Etnews. Since the Note 8 “phablet” — translation: part phone, part tablet — is scheduled to arrive sometime in “late August,” we likely won’t have to wait …
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Looking forward to the Moto Z2 Force? You may want to save up for a plane ticket too. The US version of Motorola’s next-gen modular phone could have worse specs than the global version, including less RAM and less internal storage, according to VentureBeat. Motorola will reveal a new phone on July 25 and various clues suggest it could be the …
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Do you use YouTube’s own web-based video editor to cut together your YouTube videos? Statistically, you probably don’t. Google has noticed that less than 0.1 percent of all YouTube creators are using that particular feature, and so it — and YouTube’s Photo Slideshows feature, which I can’t say I’ve ever heard of — are officially going away on September 20. …
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This is part of our Road Trip 2017 summer series “The Smartest Stuff,” about how innovators are thinking up new ways to make you — and the world around you — smarter. Snowflakes flutter around my face, taking me back to my childhood in Ohio where I’d tilt back my head to gaze at the swirl of tiny crystals spiraling toward my …
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Modular phones sound like a great idea: Add the bits you want to custom-build your own dream smartphone. So far, however, Google’s Project Ara and LG haven’t managed to make them work. Perhaps Facebook could give it a go next, as the social network attempts to patent a modular device. Business Insider spotted the new patent application, published Thursday, for a …
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Nearly 30 years before the World Wide Web was invented, Marshall McLuhan predicted the web technology we have today, as well as its impact. A Canadian philosopher and professor who specialized in media theory, McLuhan rose to prominence in the 1960s with his theory that society is shaped by technology and the way information is shared. Google‘s Doodle on Friday …
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If you’ve got an Android phone, you can now use Google‘s Motion Stills app for turning your crummy video into something more presentable. A year ago, Google released Motion Stills for iOS so iPhone customers could stabilize shaky video, shorten videos into a fast-forward version and create looped cimemagraphs that blur the boundary between still photos and moving videos. On …
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Actions speak louder than words. Especially when that action is Nokia briefly “announcing” the rumored Nokia 8 on one of its official websites, before quickly taking it down again. Luckily, fans noticed Nokia jumping the gun and immortalized the moment in screenshots. That’s enough of a confirmation for us. The Nokia 8 represents the brand’s first-ever premium Android handset, and its best chance …
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