Samsung is bringing its Galaxy smartphone repair service to more than 100 Best Buy stores across the country starting Tuesday, the company said on Monday. Devices in Samsung’s Galaxy S and Galaxy Note lines will be the only ones eligible for repair services through Best Buy at launch, but support for Galaxy Z foldable phones …
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Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen was in London on Monday to provide evidence to a UK parliamentary committee analyzing the country’s incoming Online Safety Bill. The appearance came nearly a month after the former product engineer revealed herself as the person behind a leak of internal research that has brought new scrutiny upon the company — in particular regarding its safety systems. …
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Google is honoring the 127th birthday of French author and Surrealist photographer Claude Cahun on Monday. The animated Doodle features shifting black-and-white self-portraits of Cahun in the middle of the letters spelling out Google’s name. Cahun, who was born in France in 1894, is best known for “unsettling yet playful” self-portrait photography that challenged gender and sexuality rules in the early …
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For the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro, search giant Google is taking a page from Apple — by styling itself as a chip designer with more control over its flagship smartphones. For owners of Google’s new Pixel 6, that could mean a phone with artificial intelligence that you’ll actually want to talk to and battery life long enough to …
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Windows 11 started its wide rollout on Oct. 5 — the first major upgrade in six years. Windows 11 is available as a free download for existing Windows 10 users, but it’s not yet available for every compatible Windows device. And every major new feature promised isn’t available right now. (Microsoft announced this in an August blog post). We’ve already tested and published a full …
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Google’s new Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro, introduced at Google’s Oct. 19 Pixel event, both seem poised to rival the iPhone 13 and the Galaxy S21 as the best phones of 2021. They boast impressive cameras, fast processors and stylish designs. Where Google appears to differ from its Apple and Samsung rivals, at least on the first few days of preorders, …
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What’s old is new again for Apple, which this week refreshed its MacBook Pro line at the high end and touched up its AirPods and HomePod Mini offerings as well. The biggest change: The 16-inch MacBook Pro now runs on Apple’s own M1 chips, rather than those from Intel. And what’s old is inexplicably still with us: This week marks …
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Reflections from the sun, or lights in your room, can be a distraction from an otherwise excellent 4K TV picture. Most modern TVs have a glossy screen that just loves to reflect even the tiniest amount of light. Between sunlight during the day, and any lamps or ceiling lights in your room at night, you could be faced with annoying …
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During this week’s Pixel 6 launch event, Google demonstrated a handful of AI-powered photography tricks built into its new phones. Among the capabilities: erasing photobombers from backgrounds, taking the blur out of smudged faces and handling darker skin tones more accurately. Those features, however, are just the tip of an artificial intelligence iceberg designed to produce the best imagery for …
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The new Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro showcase one of the biggest year-to-year phone upgrades I’ve seen in a long time. In the lead-up to Google’s fall Pixel event on Tuesday, the company behind Android and YouTube did something many other phone makers don’t and announced both new Pixel 6 phones back in August. The Pixel 6 has new camera …
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