This is part of our Road Trip 2016 summer series “Life, Disrupted,” about how technology is helping with the global refugee crisis — if at all. Editors’ note: On October 24, French police began to clear refugees out of the Jungle as a prelude to demolishing the camp. Earlier in the year, we visited the …
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It’s going to get a whole lot easier to use Android Pay for mobile web purchases. Google on Monday announced new partnerships with Visa and Mastercard that will eventually allow Android Pay users to shop on thousands of sites where Visa Checkout or Masterpass are accepted. This should eliminate the need for you to remember multiple usernames and passwords for …
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Now playing: Watch this: Master the bokeh effect on the iPhone 7 Plus 2:09 The upgrade to iOS 10.1 lets Apple’s iPhone 7 Plus take full advantage of its dual lens camera to create a greater sense of depth in portraits. The result? That signature blurry-background effect of dSLR photos. In the new Portrait mode, the iPhone uses the 12-megapixel …
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No Spotify. No Twitter. No Netflix. Last Friday, millions of US residents woke up to that reality, the result of a major distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. Although not being able to stream “Stranger Things” on a weekday is merely an inconvenience — a serious one, I grant you — the attack crippled any number of smaller sites and …
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Now playing: Watch this: Two reasons eye-tracking is the future of VR 1:32 Virtual reality is pretty neat — until you run into a wall, or trip over a cord. Generally, you’re not going to do a lot of walking in VR. But Google may be working on a totally wireless, standalone headset that can map out the real world …
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As far as scientists go, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek may be the ultimate DIYer. Van Leeuwenhoek, whose birth 384 years ago Monday in Delft, Netherlands, is being honored in an animated Google doodle. He is commonly known as the father of microbiology and widely considered the first microbiologist. He was first to observe and describe microorganisms, which he originally referred to …
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The new Google Pixel phone has a super camera, with snappy performance and image quality that beats Apple’s iPhone 7 Plus overall. So how did Google do it? A lot of the success comes from a technology Google calls HDR+ that blends multiple photos into one to overcome common problems with mobile phone photography. Knowing that photography is a top-three …
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CNET’s Cheapskate scours the Web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. And find more great buys on the CNET Deals page. “There is no Dana… only Zoolz!” Sorry, couldn’t help myself. I love making fun of ridiculous company and product names. (Sony Clie, anyone? …
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FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler wants consumers to know he has their backs as he makes a final push to get new rules in place to protect online privacy and open competition in the cable set-top box market. In a commentary published Wednesday on CNET, Wheeler ticked off several consumer-friendly policies and rules his agency has adopted since he took office …
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If you thought you were going to stroll into a Verizon Wireless store on Thursday and pick up a 128GB Pixel XL when it goes on sale, think again. Verizon, the exclusive wireless carrier for the Google Pixel and Pixel XL in the US, tweeted Wednesday that the biggest storage version of the larger phone is “sold out” but that …
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