The Roku Streaming Stick Plus has remained one of the best streamers since its 2017 debut, and four years on the company is finally replacing it. On Monday, the streaming giant announced a new player called the Roku Streaming Stick 4K. There’s also a new bundle called, confusingly, the Streaming Stick 4K Plus, which combines the updated stick with …
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Better iPhone cameras and faster chips are great, but one of the biggest improvements Apple could make on the iPhone is adding a USB-C port. That’s why I was cheered this week to see signs Apple might someday make that change. Apple introduced the iPhone 13 on Tuesday with the same old Lightning port the company has used since 2012. Lightning …
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Apple’s new iPhone 13 line debuted Tuesday at Apple’s September event, showing a tweaked design with a variety of new features for those upgrading from earlier iPhone models. The lineup consists of four new phones: the iPhone 13, the 13 Mini, the 13 Pro and the 13 Pro Max. The new phones will run iOS 15, come with a larger battery, …
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HBO Max kicked off an aggressive, half-off promotion Friday for the $15-a-month, ad-free tier of its streaming service, as it aims to woo back lost HBO members who had been paying through Amazon and were essentially disconnected en masse earlier this week. HBO pulled out of Amazon Channels Wednesday, a service of the e-commerce giant that lets people pay Amazon for multiple …
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An app created by jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has reportedly been removed from the Apple and Google app stores in the country as the parliamentary election kicked off Friday. The tech companies removed the app after pressure from Russian authorities, according to reports from The New York Times and Associated Press. The Smart Voting app, also known as …
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With its new iPhone 13 models, Apple has added notable new camera features to get an edge in the smartphone photography market. Cinematic mode, on all iPhone 13 models, uses AI and computational photography to change focus from one subject to another, a technique you’ll often see in the movies. And macro photography on the iPhone 13 Pro lets you …
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SoundPeats, a value brand that sells a lot of earbuds on Amazon, has plenty of fans. I have not been one of them. Over the years, the company has sent me its fair share of review samples and truth be told, I haven’t really loved any of them, mainly because its noise-isolating models haven’t fit my ears that well. But …
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Apple’s iPhone 13 Pro Max and the iPhone 13 Pro are the new highest-end phones revealed at Tuesday’s Apple event. The phones received many of the improvements given to the entire iPhone 13 line, such as longer battery life and a new design featuring a slightly smaller notch. On top of that, these two Pro iPhones receive displays with a …
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A decade ago, Tim Cook got onstage at Apple’s headquarters, ready to lead his first event as the company’s new CEO. He was about to announce the iPhone 4S, which superficially seemed identical to the iPhone 4. Apple even signaled its lower enthusiasm by skipping the usual pomp of a massive hall filled with thousands of developers, partners and journalists, …
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Eagle-eyed observers may have noticed that last week’s Sonos price increases, by 10% on most products, didn’t include the Beam. Now we know why. The company has taken the wraps off a new Beam (Gen 2) soundbar, which offers a number of upgrades over the original, including compatibility with Dolby Atmos and better performance, according to Sonos. The speaker retains the design of …
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