Google’s upcoming flagship phone, the Pixel 6, will be powered by a Google-made chip, says a Friday report by 9to5Google. The processor, code-named Whitechapel, was first rumored a year ago to be powering the Pixel phones and Chromebooks of the future. Pixels sporting the GS101 Whitechapel chip could be launching in the fall, 9to5Google reported, …
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Apple Arcade on Friday made its biggest upgrade since it first launched in the fall of 2019, adding 32 new games to its $5-a-month gaming service. That’s roughly a third as many games as the subscription service unveiled two years ago, and it also includes some new strategies in the types of games available on Arcade. The new catalog includes …
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Casio unveiled its latest G-Shock smartwatch on Thursday. The GSW-H1000, part of the rugged G-Squad line of watches, has an optical sensor to measure heart rate, as well as an accelerometer, gyrometer, GPS and a sensor to measure altitude and air pressure. In addition, it comes with a microphone and a charging terminal, and is powered by Google’s Wear OS. “This …
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Have a cracked iPhone, busted Galaxy or waterlogged Pixel? Verizon wants you to trade it in for a shiny new 5G phone on one of its “premium” unlimited plans. In a promotion announced on Wednesday, the nation’s largest carrier unveiled a new deal that offers up to $440 in credits towards the price of a new 5G phone for existing …
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Happy Wednesday, fellow cheapskates! A few random notes before we dive into today’s deals: Godzilla vs. Kong debuts today on HBO Max and I am here for it. (So is CNET’s Jen Bisset, who reviewed the new movie.) Alas, there’s no longer a free trial available so you can sneaky-sneaky watch the movie for free, but even if you sign …
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Without a crucial software development tool called the compiler, we’d have to descend into the incomprehensible world of machine-code mutterings before we could control computers. Which is why two researchers who helped develop the compiler, Alfred Aho and Jeffrey Ullman, just won the prestigious 2020 A.M. Turing Award. The collaboration between Ullman and Aho that pioneered compiler technology began in …
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Arm, whose chip technology reaches every smartphone and just about every corner of the computing industry, announced a new processor architecture Tuesday designed to significantly improve security and performance. The architecture, called Armv9, should make its way into an estimated 300 billion processors starting this year through the next decade, the UK company said. Armv9, a successor to the Armv8 …
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Google is rolling out a new experimental app called Stack on Tuesday that could help you digitally organize your paperwork. Take a picture of a receipt, a bill, an ID or any number of other types of physical document and Stack will automatically scan it, categorize it and pull out the most pertinent information so you can find it easily …
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In the middle of February, as the Australian government was passing a bill that would force Google and Facebook to pay publishers for news that surfaces on their platforms, Australia’s 16 million users found that news content had vanished from Facebook’s website and app. Now, with Canada’s government mulling similar legislation, it’s possible the story could repeat itself across the …
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Believe it or not, it’s been five years since VR seemed like the technology of the future. But then, it’s always seemed like the technology of the future. In the 1990s, I read about metaverses and tried VR in mall arcades. Then, in 2013 in a hotel room in Las Vegas, I was blown away by a demo of VR …
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