What’s the most improved product in Apple’s lineup this year? It might be the sixth-gen iPad Mini. The company’s smallest tablet got the makeover I thought it needed years ago: Now it has the iPad Air’s better display, a USB-C port instead of Lightning, a much better processor and better cameras too. You can also …
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The Surface Pro 8, announced at the Microsoft Surface event on Wednesday, brings Microsoft’s top two-in-one up to par with its competition just in time for Windows 11. Also announced at the event was the Surface Laptop Studio, Surface Duo 2, Surface Slim Pen 2, Surface Go 3 and some new accessibility features. The Surface Pro 7 hit the market in Oct. …
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Expanding its paid services push, browser maker Brave on Wednesday launched a videoconferencing service called Brave Talk designed to protect privacy better than existing options like Zoom. It’s free, though a premium option costing $7 per month adds features like recording video and supporting groups of three or more. Videoconferencing use has exploded during the COVID-19 pandemic as school, work, …
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Laptop designs have changed significantly since Microsoft debuted its Surface Book, a laptop with a tablet that detached from a keyboard base with discrete graphics for more power. It awkwardly straddled the two-in-one (with displays that rotate around 360 degrees, like the HP Spectre x360) and detachable (where the keyboard snaps onto the tablet, as with the Surface Pro 8) categories. …
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Update, Sept. 22: Here’s everything announced at today’s Microsoft Surface event. We got a first look at the new Surface Pro 8, Surface Duo 2, Surface Go 3 and the Surface Laptop Studio (formerly the Surface Book). Here’s how the Surface Duo 2 compares to the Surface Duo, some cool camera tricks you can try on the Surface Duo 2, …
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Microsoft unveiled its latest Surface PCs to the world today, delivering a nearly total revamp of the line. including the Surface Pro 8, the Surface Pro X, the Surface Duo 2 dual-screen phone and the all-new Surface Laptop Studio. The latter product has an impressive hinged screen that resembles Apple’s Magic Keyboard for iPad. All of these new products are …
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This story is part of Tech for a Better World, stories about the diverse teams creating products, apps and services to improve our lives and society. Microsoft broke welcome ground when it launched its Xbox Adaptive Controller, the hub of an ecosystem designed for gamers who can’t use a standard game controller to customize their input device to the nth …
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At a virtual hardware event on Wednesday, Microsoft unveiled the Surface Duo 2, the latest version of its folding phone, which adds intelligent new camera features to help you capture and edit professional-quality images. It is available for preorder now and will ship in October. The Duo 2 (which has two rigid screens separated by a hinge) includes a front …
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Now that Microsoft lets you ditch your passwords for Outlook.com, Xbox Live and other online accounts, you might want to consider taking the jump. Dumping your logins can improve security and convenience. Ditching your password can improve security, if only because it means you don’t have to rely on your memory to get into your accounts. We all have too …
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The Bezos Earth Fund on Monday pledged $1 billion to help protect vulnerable nature and Indigenous peoples around the world, with an initial focus on the Congo Basin, the tropical Andes and the tropical Pacific Ocean. The goal of the $1 billion pledge is protect 30% of land and sea from mass extinctions and climate change by 2030. The commitment …
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