Google on Tuesday unveiled a spate of highly anticipated new devices, including its flagship Pixel 4 phone, Pixel Buds to compete with Apple’s Airpods, and a new version of the Google Home Mini speaker, renamed the Nest Mini. But if you really want to understand Google’s goals when it comes to consumer hardware, one of …
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The new iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro and 11 Pro Max will undoubtedly appeal to a broad swath of people, but the shiny new Apple phones seem aimed at two people in particular: filmmaker Steven Soderbergh and myself. Soderbergh is the Academy Award-winning director behind such films as Ocean’s Eleven, Magic Mike, Erin Brockovich and Sex, Lies, and Videotape. I, on the …
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This story is part of The 2010s: A Decade in Review, a series on the memes, people, products, movies and so much more that have influenced the 2010s. When I hustled out of CNET headquarters in San Francisco on May 26, 2010, and slipped into a rental car with two of my co-workers to head to a meeting across the …
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It’s a little embarrassing, actually. In my late teens and early 20s, I was Militant Anti Apple Guy. You know the type. Calls Mac users sheep, mocks people when they say they own an iPhone. I’m not proud of it, but I was that guy. “Your new iPhone 5 only has a 4-inch screen,” I scoffed at my friend Taylor …
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HTC did something radical when it designed its newest VR headset for consumers: It listened to its customers. The result is a brand-new headset called the Vive Cosmos. It’s basically better in every way than the original Vive that preceded it. The Cosmos is aimed at existing HTC Vive owners and VR enthusiasts who want better comfort, improved visuals and …
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The long wait for the Pixel 4 seems to finally be reaching its expected end. Google on Monday invited the media to an event in New York City on Oct. 15 to “come see a few new things Made by Google.” The invite itself doesn’t reveal too much, but Google has traditionally used its October events to roll out new …
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I pick up a virtual reality headset and place it over my eyes. Before I can even blink, it transports me to a world far away from the bustling IFA electronics show. I know that I’m in the bowels of the dismal Berlin Messe convention center, but my brain thinks I’ve managed to escape. I wish I could tell you …
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Update, Sept. 26: CNET’s OnePlus 7T review is now live. Read more about the new phone from OnePlus. Original story follows. OnePlus is heading to Sprint, and it’s doing so with a new 5G variant of the 7 Pro it launched earlier this year. The phone, called the OnePlus 7 Pro 5G, will be available in “select” Sprint stores on Tuesday before …
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Sitting in my apartment in New York’s Upper West Side, I’m browsing the web, checking emails and watching YouTube and Netflix the same as I normally do. Things are loading quickly, even with multiple devices hooked up. But this isn’t my normal Spectrum cable connection. All of that data is riding over a Wi-Fi network powered by a hotspot running …
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Like many fans of HBO’s Westworld, I have resigned myself to the fact that the show won’t be back for a new season until next year. On May 19, the night the series finale of Game of Thrones aired, a teaser for the third season of Westworld was released showing off Aaron Paul’s new character and reinforcing the 2020 return …
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