There are plenty of reasons why your iPhone keeps track of all your locations: Many of your phone apps depend on accurate location tracking to function, from directions in Google Maps to looking for a nearby restaurant on Yelp. That precise location awareness extends to the images you capture with your Photos app, too. Anytime …
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This story is part of Gift Guide, our year-round collection of the best gift ideas. Adobe’s deals on its Creative Cloud All Apps plan is a regular event — so much so, that if you need to subscribe and have the luxury of waiting it’s worth delaying to get the discount off the first year. This time around, now through …
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For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. President Donald Trump‘s case of COVID-19 gave an obscure photo data technology called EXIF its 15 minutes of internet fame as people started scrutinizing photos taken of him this weekend at Walter Reed hospital. But what exactly is EXIF? In short, it’s a …
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This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. TV shows and movies in 4K HDR offer the best home video quality available today, but in some situations it can look too dark. That’s because they’re often created to be shown in a dark, theatrical environment, and when the lights …
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This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. Modern TVs have at least one mode that’s designed to extract the best picture quality from the screen, but finding it isn’t always easy. They’re all called different things — Movie, Cinema, Custom, ISF Expert — and to find them you’ll …
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Most new TVs have high dynamic range capability, which can improve picture quality. Unfortunately there are multiple HDR formats and your TV likely can’t decode them all. Companies like Dolby, Technicolor, Samsung, Philips and others each have different ways to create HDR video. In theory, they can all coexist inside your TV, though that’s rarely the case. Streaming services like Netflix and …
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With MacOS Mojave, you get Stacks, dark mode, a new screenshot tool and a more fully functional Finder. Let’s have a look inside Finder’s new bag of tricks. Gallery view Gallery view replaces Cover Flow. Like Cover Flow, it gives you a large preview of the file you have selected, but the preview is even larger with Gallery view. Unlike Cover …
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Technicolor has been part of the Hollywood landscape for over a century, and now it’s aiming for prominence in your home too. Its weapon is a new format called Advanced HDR. The company faces some strong competition in your living room. High dynamic range (HDR) delivers the best home video images available today, boosting contrast and pop. Done well, especially …
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An Ars Technica investigation discovered Sunday that Facebook has been gathering phone and message metadata from Android phones. Facebook claims it does not sell this data and that it was always an “opt-in” feature. Regardless, if you want to make sure Facebook isn’t collecting this data, it’s a fairly easy process and there’s no real good reason to leave those permissions …
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Panasonic wants to be everywhere. Marking the company’s 100th anniversary, Panasonic at CES 2018 ran through a wide range of areas in tech where it wants to make inroads, including highways, cities, cars and of course, your living room. “We can take pride in our ability to help consumers with their needs of today and tomorrow,” said Panasonic Canada President Michael Moskowitz …
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