In the list of big security flaws that could let hackers compromise phones, there’s one name that comes up a lot: Android. In 2015, we learned that Google’s operating system for phones was vulnerable to the StageFright bug, which hackers could exploit just by sending a text message. In 2016, security researchers revealed that millions …
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Streaming service Spotify is testing its own voice assistant, which could give navigating its app a significant speed boost. The feature, spotted first by Twitter user Hunter Owens, is available to some users through its iOS app and can be found inside the search bar. It appears to allow users to skip tapping and typing in order to find and …
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Perhaps you’ve gone away for the weekend only to discover — horror of horrors — that you forgot to pack your Bluetooth speaker. Or perhaps you are simply trying to listen to a podcast while cooking dinner and can’t hear over the running water and sizzling skillet. There are a number of scenarios where you may need to boost the …
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The Google Assistant is now available as an iPad app, the company announced Tuesday in a blog post. The Assistant, which is most notable for powering the Google Home and Google Home Mini speakers, was already available as an iPhone app released last May. While that iPhone version could run on the iPad, this tablet-specific version adds true support for …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple announced Tuesday that its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) is kicking off June 4 in San Jose. The confab is a one-stop shop for software developers across Apple’s varied and growing universe of products, including the iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Apple TV, Mac computers and the new HomePod speaker. …
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iPhone owners may have noticed a new icon showed up in the iMessage app drawer. If you are diligent with your app updates and updated the Google app recently, then you can now do a few new things with it right from within the iOS Messages app. Let us count the ways. Now playing: Watch this: Cool things to do …
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Today is your last chance to lock into the $35 per month price for YouTube TV. The streaming video service price jumps to $40 per month for new subscribers as of tomorrow. But if you sign up by 11:59 p.m. PT today — Monday, March 12 — you’ll be grandfathered in to the lower monthly price going forward. YouTube TV …
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Fortnite, released last July for the PS4, Xbox One and PC, is best described as a game that’s kinda like PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG). But now it’s truly setting itself apart with a mobile port. The mobile version of Fortnite, announced on Thursday by Epic Games, is ambitious: It’ll feature the same 100-player battle royale gameplay that its console brethren is famous …
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Good news: There are no more 16GB iPhones ($285 at Amazon) in Apple’s lineup. Even the lowest-end iPhone SE and iPhone 6s ($190 at eBay) SKUs come with 32GB, which, let’s face it, is the bare minimum you need these days. Of course, maybe you’ve already got an older model with just 16GB of space. Or you decided to hop …
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Now playing: Watch this: Android P developer preview now available 1:34 Google wants your photo files to be smaller with its upcoming Android P software, and it’ll get you there taking the same approach Apple did in 2017. The next version of Google’s software for powering smartphones and tablets will support a photo compression technology called the High Efficiency Image …
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