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Magic Leap brings in Microsoft exec as CEO

Peggy Johnson will become virtual reality start-up Magic Leap‘s new CEO, the company said in a release Tuesday, taking the position co-founder Rony Abovitz vacated in May. She’ll step into the role Aug. 1 Johnson was executive vice president of business development at Microsoft, having joined the company in 2014. Before that, she held various …

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Windows 10 Start menu gets a new, streamlined design

Microsoft has announced that it is rolling out a handful of Windows 10 upgrades to a small number of testers. These features are not tied to any scheduled update to the operating system, as the announcement made clear, but they do give a window into changes Microsoft may consider adopting in the future. The new menu features a more subdued …

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Apple’s ‘walled garden’ walls will get even higher with iOS 14, iPadOS 14 and MacOS Big Sur

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. The tech industry often refers to Apple’s ecosystem of devices as a “walled garden,” an idyllic world of tech where each of the company’s devices work together because Apple controls intricate details of how they work. In a few months, that wall will …

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Pager, Discman and Game Boy: This is the tech we used in 1995

This story is part of CNET at 25, celebrating a quarter century of industry tech and our role in telling you its story. The year was 1995. Nirvana played on the radio, Toy Story was a hit movie, and as Netscape had its IPO and Microsoft released Internet Explorer, the World Wide Web boomed like a supernova. People went online, …

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Apple’s future AR pieces hid in the corners during a virtual WWDC

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple’s making an AR headset. Or glasses. Or an AR/VR headset. Something like that, something coming in 2021, 2022… or 2023. Reports have been everywhere; the pieces seem to be coming into place. And yet, at this year’s video-only WWDC conference in a …

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Microsoft to close all 83 retail sites, turn 4 flagship stores into ‘Experience Centers’

Microsoft is shuttering its retail stores around the world, the company said Friday, transitioning its direct sales focus to online outlets like Microsoft.com and the stores inside Xbox and Windows.  Flagship Microsoft Store locations, including stores in London, New York, Sydney and at the company’s Redmond, Washington headquarters will become “Microsoft Experience Centers.”  The Windows-maker says that the closing of …

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White House reportedly considering federal intervention in 5G

5G networks across the US could get a boost from the federal government, according to a report Thursday by The Wall Street Journal. Trump administration officials are considering the move so they can compete better against Huawei globally, the report says. The Trump administration has reportedly met with US networking companies including Cisco to discuss the acquisition of Western European …

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Apple packs iOS 14 with new accessibility features, like AirPods Pro audio tweaks

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. With iOS 14, Apple brings tons of new accessibility features to its devices, including some that people without disabilities could also find helpful. The list ranges from the ability to customize Transparency mode in AirPods Pro to capturing multiple frames with the iPhone …

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Apple’s WWDC keynote was like no other. Why that’s a good thing

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. If you’ve ever wondered how quickly 5,000 seats in a convention center auditorium can fill up, Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference is a good gauge. I can say from personal experience that the running crowd of enthusiastic Apple fans, some of whom have literally …

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Apple gives Macs a brain transplant with new Arm chips starting this year

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple is overhauling its Mac computers with its own Arm chips, close cousins to those it designs for its own iPhones and iPads. Moving away from the Intel processors it’s used for the last 14 years is a historic change that disrupts software …

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