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LG to unveil V40 ThinQ smartphone in New York on Oct. 3

LG is bringing its next flagship smartphone to the Big Apple.  The Korean consumer electronics conglomerate sent out a save-the-date note for its LG V40 ThinQ launch event, to be held Oct. 3 at 5 p.m. ET/2 p.m. PT in New York.  There’s little to the message beyond the tagline, “Take 5.” Is the smartphone …

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Windows derails Chrome, Firefox installation, promotes Microsoft Edge instead

Microsoft is trying a new tactic to get people to use its Edge browser: a warning dialog box that interrupts the installation of other browsers like Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome. “You already have Microsoft Edge — the safer, faster browser for Windows 10,” a dialog box reads after you launch an installer for another browser. The process, which appears …

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How to watch Apple’s Sept. 12 iPhone event

On Wednesday, Sept. 12, Apple is holding a special event at its campus in Cupertino, Cali. It’s widely expected that Apple will announce new iPhone models and a redesigned Apple Watch. It’s also possible we will see new iPad Pro tablets, and a revamped MacBook or MacBook Air. Now playing: Watch this: Apple confirms 2018 iPhone event for Sept. 12 …

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eBay uses iPhone X camera to let people shop with a move of the head

eBay wants to make shopping more accessible to people with disabilities. The company has developed technology that uses Apple’s ARKit and the iPhone X camera to track head movements, allowing for hands-free shopping. The open source project, dubbed HeadGaze, is available now on GitHub, an online community for sharing code. “As someone with extensive motor impairments, I don’t have full …

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Windows 10 will soon show you your phone’s text messages

Soon you’ll be able to send and receive texts from your Windows 10 device without taking your phone out of your pocket. Microsoft is rolling out a Your Phone feature for Windows 10 that lets you send and receive texts from your Android phone, on your computer. Your Phone was first unveiled at Microsoft Build in May, and the company …

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Should you upgrade to Windows 10 October 2018 Update?

I get it. You are happy with the current version of Windows. It works. You know where things are located. You have no immediate need or desire for new features. And you feel that installing updates lies somewhere between inconvenient and laborious. Microsoft is set to release Windows 10 October 2018 Update soon — next month if its name is …

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Microsoft announces Oct. 2 event for Surface devices and more

Apple on Sept. 12. Google on Oct. 9. And now, Microsoft will hold its own special event between those two dates — we just received an invite to a Microsoft event on Oct. 2 in New York City. The only hint Microsoft’s giving us is the phrase “A moment of your time,” but CNET understands that there will be Microsoft …

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How to record Skype calls

Perhaps you have a big announcement and want to capture your parents’ reaction to becoming grandparents. Maybe you want to record a guitar lesson so you can later review the new chords you were taught. It could be that you want to record a brainstorming session with colleagues so no ideas are lost to posterity and poor note-taking. There are …

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Microsoft Surface Book deal: $1,050 for 13.5

Regular readers know I’m not particularly fond of Microsoft’s Surface tablets — you just can’t do much without the snap-on keyboards, which aren’t included in the box by default. But the Surface Book? That’s a pretty tasty piece of laptop. Pricey, too — or it was when it made its debut back in 2015. The SKU I’ve got for you …

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Google Chrome’s biggest challenge at age 10 might just be its own success

Exactly 10 years ago Tuesday, a newly promoted vice president named Sundar Pichai stood before a group of tech reporters in a conference room at Google’s Mountain View, California, headquarters. There, he revealed the Chrome web browser publicly for the first time. It went well, to say the least. Google’s Chrome’s first browser icon Google Over the last decade, the …

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