By now, you’ve probably heard: The upcoming iPhone X doesn’t have a home button, and it doesn’t have a fingerprint sensor either. How will you log into your phone? How will you tap-to-pay? Apple’s hoping you’ll use the brand-new Face ID — where you simply look at your phone to be logged in automatically. I know …
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British Prime Minister Theresa May will be joined by the leaders of France and Italy in calling for terrorist content to be removed from the internet within one to two hours after it has been posted. World leaders and internet giants including Facebook, Google and Microsoft are set to meet at the UN General Assembly in New York on Wednesday …
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If you like websites that look polished and load faster, good news: A technology called OpenType Variable Fonts is about to arrive. Adobe, Microsoft, Google and Apple created OpenType Variable Font technology in 2016 so designers and website developers could customize their typefaces. A font adapted with the technology essentially comes with a bunch of sliders that let people pick …
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I’ve said it before: the new iPhone X nets a lot of firsts for Apple devices. That makes sense; it represents the tech giant’s boldest, priciest handset yet. The thing is, many of these additions have been floating around on Android phones; some new, some years old. That’s not a bad thing. Device makers borrow ideas all the time, and …
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When Safari 11 arrives on iPhones and Macs later this month, Apple‘s browser will come with a feature called Intelligent Tracking Prevention that makes it harder for advertisers and publishers to track what you do online. Surprise! Advertisers hate it. Six advertising groups published a letter Thursday asking Apple to “rethink” the technology, warning that it will “sabotage the economic model for …
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We’re using our phone cameras to photograph a lot more than friends and flowers. It’s good for taking pictures of restaurant receipts, shopping lists, maps and other documents whose information we want tucked away in our pockets and cloud storage systems. Which is why Microsoft just updated its free Pix camera app for iOS to understand when it’s taking a …
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After sitting in the Steve Jobs Theater at Apple’s Sept. 12 event and looking at the iPhone X and its new technology for myself, I kept thinking about that front-facing camera array. TrueDepth, it’s called. It’s a bundle of sensors. It can detect faces, or moving muscles. It can see 3D objects. It can enable more advanced augmented reality. And, I can …
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Smile! Apple just introduced a facial recognition system for its latest marquee phone. The arrival of facial recognition on the new iPhone X signals a shift in how Apple fans can get access to their devices. Rather than tap your finger on the home button (which is gone), you simply look at the phone to get out of the lock …
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With technology increasingly intertwined with all aspects of business, CNET@Work can help you — from prosumers to small businesses with fewer than five employees — get started. For Todd Spodek, the decision to equip his New York law firm with Google‘s software applications boiled down a single need: collaboration. “We settled on Google because it was at the forefront of …
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Now playing: Watch this: Nokia finally has a flagship Android phone to get excited… 1:43 The Nokia 8 is generating a lot of hype for good reason. The company’s flagship phone has a blazing fast processor, custom camera software and, perhaps most importantly, the Nokia brand name. What it won’t have? American buyers anytime soon. “We are not planning to bring …
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