When Google announced the camera of its new Pixel 4 on Tuesday, it boasted about the computational photography that makes the phone’s photos even better, from low-light photography with Night Sight to improved portrait tools that identify and separate hairs and pet fur. You can even take photos of the stars. What makes it all possible …
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Apple’s AirPods have been a runaway success, but a new version with a new design may be close to launching with features like noise cancellation and water resistance. In this week’s Apple Core roundup we look at all the latest rumors about the AirPods 3 and as a bonus check on the status of Apple’s long-awaited AR glasses. AirPods 3: …
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Amid a steady stream of leaks related to its upcoming Pixel 4 phone, Google released a “leak” of its own in July. The search giant posted a 22-second YouTube video of a woman in front of the new phone, waving her hands in the air to control the device from a few inches away. The video was accompanied by a …
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The iPhone 11 Pro, its triple rear cameras, Night Mode and new selfie camera are surely meant to be Apple’s photography antidote to Android’s three camera kings, the Huawei P30 Pro, Google Pixel 3 and Samsung Galaxy Note 10. But the newest iPhone also has to show existing iPhone owners that there’s a step up in terms of camera features …
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Huawei could soon be allowed to do business with US companies again. The Trump administration is ready to issue licenses to some US companies that would allow them to sell nonsensitive equipment to the beleaguered Chinese telecom giant, The New York Times reported Wednesday. The decision to begin the process of approving licenses was made by President Donald Trump in …
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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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Google’s security researchers said Thursday that they have found a new Android exploit that lets hackers take over a person’s phone. The Project Zero team discovered the vulnerability in late September. They’ve already seen evidence of the exploit being used in the real world before it could be patched, making it what’s known as a zero-day vulnerability. The exploit is in …
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More than two decades ago, Microsoft started designing software for mobile devices. Two years ago, it gave up on phones, conceding that Google and Apple had won the OS battle. On Wednesday, Microsoft reversed course, unveiling a dual-screen smartphone. But rather than push a homegrown operating system in phones, Microsoft has taken up rival Google’s Android software, which powers over …
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Huawei‘s new Mate 30 phones reportedly lost their ability to install Google‘s Android apps, Bloomberg reported, eliminating a workaround for President Donald Trump’s ban on the controversial Chinese company. Security researcher John Wu outlined the process that let Huawei Mate 30 owners manually download and install major apps Google Maps and Gmail. This method, which used an app called LZPlay, …
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Microsoft is making an Android phone. And it has two screens. The Windows software maker showed off its device, called the Surface Duo, at an event in New York on Wednesday. The company said the two screens (a slightly different design than Samsung’s foldable Galaxy Fold) would make users more productive, and it showed video of people using a stylus with …
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