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The field of 68 is down to four. The Final Four, as the NCAA basketball tournament semi-finals are called. As in past years, this March has not been without its madness. Loyola-Chicago is the Cinderella of this year’s dance, advancing to the final weekend of the tournament as a No. 11 seed. The Ramblers will …

And to think it was right under my nose — and fingertip — the entire time. Thanks to Cult of Mac (seriously, thank you, Cult of Mac), I have been able to remove the biggest annoyance of the stock iOS Photos app. And that is the furious swiping I believed was required to return to the most recent photos at …

Apple has apparently patched an error in a new ad for the iPhone X that appeared on YouTube.  In the original video, published March 16 (the same day the rival Galaxy S9 went on sale), a student strides, runs and rolls around her high school unlocking various objects with a glance. At the end of her Face ID jamboree, she …

Need to send money to a friend? Now you can ask Google Assistant to handle the transaction. How the new Google Assistant capability works. Google Starting Thursday, Google’s digital assistant will be able to manage peer-to-peer money transfers using Google Pay on Android and iOS. People will be able to ask the assistant via voice or text things like “Hey …

After its rocky start years ago, Apple Maps may have been banished to an out-of-the-way folder on your iPhone — or deleted altogether — while Google Maps occupies a coveted spot on your home screen. Google Maps remains my iPhone navigation app of choice, but Apple Maps isn’t without its charms. Here are four reasons to use Apple Maps instead …

Surprise, surprise: The unstoppable juggernaut that is PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) is now available for your phone and tablet in the United States. And unlike its record-breaking PC and Xbox releases, the game is free of charge. It’s a remarkably faithful recreation of the full PC game, from what we’re told. Here’s the iOS link.  Here’s the Android link.  Update, March …

The good news is that the next version of Google’s Android smartphone software, Android P, has a feature to shrink your photos to half the size of an ordinary JPEG. The bad news is there’s no guarantee that every phone will actually be able to use it. That’s because of hardware and patent licensing limits on the technology used, called …

Microsoft’s Windows software will support technology called HEIF to shrink photo sizes — the third big operating system to embrace the JPEG alternative along with Apple’s iOS last year and Google’s Android P this year. Windows 10’s wallpaper Stephen Shankland/CNET A test version of Windows 10 — a step on the road to a version due this fall — has …

Google will soon give iOS users the chance to try Google Lens, the augmented-reality technology that lets you use your camera to search for info. Over the next week, you’ll be able to try Google Lens in the Google Photos app for iOS, the company announced Thursday.  The feature will roll out over the next week. You’ll have to have …

Google just rebranded its Android Wear watch platform with a new name: Wear OS. This news arrives less than two months before Google I/O, the annual developer conference in which Google announces its new initiatives and software broad strokes. New Google hardware generally (though not always) hits around October. Maybe Wear OS is an indicator that Google’s smartwatch strategy is …