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Google integrates into new camera app

Google is integrating its Google Lens augmented reality helper into a camera app, which will unlock features like letting you grab text that you can copy and paste, and find other objects and clothing that match a style in front of you.  Now playing: Watch this: Here are all the cool things Google Lens can do …

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Google I/O 2018: Here’s what to expect

Update: Watch live coverage of Google I/O here. Google I/O starts next Tuesday, May 8 and — like always — we’ll be there to bring you all the latest from the company as it’s announced.  Just like last year it will take place at Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, California, and we’ll hear what Google has planned for developers as …

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LG TVs get Google Assistant voice controls

Google’s voice assistant is now available on LG’s 2018 OLED and Super UHD LCD TVs. The capability, first announced at CES 2018, allows models like the new C8 OLED TV to accept commands over the remote control’s built-in microphone, as well as talk back to you in Google’s voice. Using voice commands, you can find and play content, for example via …

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Next LCD iPhone could use an MLCD+ display like the LG G7 ThinQ’s

Speculation is swirling about the next iPhones due during Apple’s annual announcements, usually in September every year. The current rumors have three iPhones, one of which will be a bigger 6.1-inch model with an LCD display. Now Patently Apple tosses its guess into the ring, speculating Sunday that if a new LCD iPhone comes to pass, it might use the …

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LG G7 ThinQ specs versus Galaxy S9, Pixel 2, iPhone 8 Plus

We’ve now lived with the pre-production LG G7 ThinQ for five days (that’s pronounced thin-kyoo, not “think,” by the way). We know a little more about how it compares to phones like the Samsung Galaxy S9,  Pixel 2 and the iPhone 8 Plus. The LG G7 is up-to-date on the most crucial specs, like two rear cameras, the newest Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 processor, Android …

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The next LG Watch just got confirmed by the FCC

LG’s next smartwatch is all but confirmed, now that an FCC filing has surfaced for a brand-new Wear OS wearable. The FCC filing describes an LG “portable wrist device” that runs Wear OS, with the model number LM-W315. The listing doesn’t give away too much, but it does hint at a circular display and provides pictures of the device’s app icons. Enlarge …

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iPhone X is the best

While rumors of the next generation of iPhones continue to proliferate, it was Apple’s current lineup, including the $1,000 iPhone X, that captured most of the attention this week. On Tuesday, CEO Tim Cook announced that Apple earned nearly $150 billion in revenue and $34 billion in earnings for the first half of the company’s fiscal year. People have really …

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LG: We didn’t copy the iPhone X notch

LG’s new LG G7 ThinQ phone has a notch, but the company doesn’t want you to think it’s copying Apple’s iPhone X.  “We planned the notch design before Apple,” LG’s mobile chief Hwang Jeong-hwan told The Korea Herald.  We don’t know whether that means LG had the idea before Apple (how would they know?) or whether LG is simply saying the …

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AT&T will skip the LG G7 ThinQ

Were you planning to buy LG’s new flagship phone, the LG G7 ThinQ, from AT&T?  Not so fast — because AT&T won’t be carrying it. Instead, a company spokesperson says AT&T will carry a different, exclusive LG phone instead. Perhaps that’ll be the LG V35 ThinQ rumored a few weeks back? “We offer a strong lineup of devices from LG …

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HTC will unveil latest flagship phone on May 23

HTC teased the unveiling of its latest flagship phone on Twitter on Thursday. The date? May 23. “Coming Soon. A phone that is more than the sum of its specs,” said HTC in a tweet, with an image showing a number of components spread out on a gray background. Update, May 4: If those components look strangely familiar, this might …

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