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How to watch the Republican National Convention from anywhere

Are you a political junkie hungry for Republican National Convention news? Are you suffering FOMO because you’re not in Cleveland? Are you just craving for gavel-to-gavel action at the Quicken Loans Arena? Well, here’s how you can peep the action from anywhere in the world. If you’ve got a phone, download the official RNC app …

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GOP convention sponsors have second thoughts as online activists notch win

One by one they dropped out. HP, which donated $1 million in funds and tech equipment to the past two Republican National Conventions, abruptly said it would snub this year’s GOP gathering in Cleveland. Apple, which committed computers and iPhones to the last two Republican conventions, also sent its regrets. Motorola, which donated more than $600,000 during the 2012 RNC, …

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Google nabs AI startup to help phones see better

As computers around the world get smarter and more powerful, internet heavyweight Google is determined to stay ahead of the game. The company said on Wednesday that it is buying a French artificial intelligence company called Moodstocks that specializes in image recognition. Moodstocks focuses on building image-recognition capabilities into phones, and first introduced software that could do this back in …

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Home networking explained, part 5: Setting up a home router

Editors’ note: This article was first published on March 26, 2013 and updated on July 1, 2016 with up-to-date information. It might seem like a daunting task to set up a new home router. But it doesn’t have to be if you understand the most common way routers are managed: through the web interface. The hardest part of using the …

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Google Chrome in ‘3D’? A VR Cardboard app may make it so

Need a break from sitting on your flattened butt, staring routinely at a screen? New tools built into Google Chrome Beta for Android may make it possible to experience your favorite websites in the virtual world. (So the same thing, really, but different.) There’s already a platform called WebVR that helps developers create websites you can watch in virtual reality. …

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The best $5 I ever spent on an iPhone app

When you think of smartphones and automation, your mind might immediately gravitate towards IFTTT or even Tasker for Android. Automation apps let you create “recipes” that enable devices and services to intermingle and act based on “triggers.” For example, you can make your smart lights pulse a certain color if you’re mentioned on Twitter or have Youtube videos you’ve selected …

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9 essential IFTTT recipes for iOS users

When everything is operating smoothly and all your devices and services are working together, it’s still cumbersome, at best. Whether you’re traveling for business or setting up a complex smart home, taking the time to set up some IFTTT recipes is worth the investment. Things you used to spend several minutes doing will happen in the background, automatically — thereby …

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10 features of Google Docs you should be using

Google Docs is packed with powerful tools. Here are 10 that will help you get more out of Google’s free word-processing app. Talk instead of type For times when you’d rather use your voice than your fingertips to type, give Google Docs’ voice typing tool a try. From the top of an open document, go to Tools > Voice typing. …

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Phab 2 Pro Tango phone and modular Moto Z: Everything Lenovo announced at its annual Tech World Conference

Now playing: Watch this: The Lenovo Phab2 Pro makes your current reality a bit… 1:06 Lenovo held its annual Tech World conference today in San Francisco with a live broadcast featuring Chairman and CEO Yang Yuanqing, who took the stage to share his vision for the future and of course, to launch a handful of new cross-connected products including the …

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​Google’s AI software is moving into your iPhone

Google’s artificial intelligence software, smart enough to help vanquish the world’s top Go player and answer your email, is coming to your iPhone. On Monday, Google published an early version of TensorFlow (the 0.9 release candidate) that adds support for iOS, the software that powers Apple iPhones and iPads. TensorFlow is “neural network” software that lets computers process data in …

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