On this podcast, we talk about: Google Fit adds new features, called Move Minutes and Heart Points. Microsoft shuts down several fake websites, including two that mimicked American conservative groups. A look at the Oppo Find X phone, with its pop-up camera and nearly bezel-less display. Now playing: Watch this: Google wants you to start exercising …
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If you like using Windows on your Mac, then Parallels Desktop 14 for Mac may fit your needs. The updated software, released Tuesday, lets you run Microsoft Windows as a virtual machine on your Macbook or Mac and sports features that lets you seamlessly copy and paste information back and forth between Windows and MacOS. Parallels said the 14th version comes with …
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Microsoft on Monday said Minecraft: Education Edition is coming iPads next month. The education-focused version of the popular video game, which was previously available on Windows 10 and MacOS devices, helps educators teach everything from science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) to language, history and art. Currently, the program has been licensed by 35 million teachers and students in 115 …
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In January, Microsoft began testing end-to-end encryption for Skype conversations. That feature has finally been enabled for customers, MSPoweruser pointed out last week. The feature, called Private Conversations, is available to users on Windows desktops, Android, iOS, Mac and Linux. When Microsoft began rolling out the feature to testers in January, the company said the encryption would work for audio calls …
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Goodbye Windows Phone. It’s almost too painful to watch you go. Last year Microsoft admitted that it was no longer releasing new hardware and features for its Windows Phone OS. With that death sentence, Microsoft has been slowly leading Windows Phone to its demise. On Monday, Microsoft announced that it’ll stop accepting new app submissions for Windows Phone 8.x or earlier …
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School is already back in session for some lucky students; others have just a few precious days of summer vacation left. Either way, you’ve missed all the back-to-school bargains, right? Not quite. Best Buy just unveiled some college-student deals, including $150 off all MacBooks, up to $150 off various laptops and $100 off select Microsoft Surfaces. To get the discounts …
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On this podcast, we talk about: The new OnePlus 6T is coming to T-Mobile, in a first-ever US carrier deal for the phone maker. Amazon is reportedly working on a new DVR device. A look at Microsoft’s transformation under CEO Satya Nadella. Now playing: Watch this: OnePlus scores big with T-Mobile carrier launch (The… 4:37 The 3:59 gives you bite-size …
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At Samsung’s lavish Unpacked 2018, the tech powerhouse announced two new gadgets we all expected — the Galaxy Note 9 phone and a new Galaxy Watch — as well as one we didn’t: the Galaxy Home smart speaker. You know, the speaker that looks like a cauldron, fondue pot or backyard grill. The Home is Samsung’s first speaker based on Bixby, …
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I thought the original $499 Samsung Odyssey might be the Windows VR headset to beat — but VR in general hasn’t been an immediately huge success, and we’ve barely heard a peep out of Microsoft’s Windows Mixed Reality since we discovered the first round of headsets were kind of a mixed bag to begin with. Mostly, we’ve seen price cuts. But as …
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Microsoft’s new Your Phone app for Windows 10 is now available, and although it doesn’t do much yet, it does one thing well: provides desktop access to your Android photo library. That means you can easily drag and drop pictures from phone to PC. The app was initially limited to Windows 10 ($144 at Amazon) Insiders, but anyone can download …
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