Now playing: Watch this: Asus finds its Zen with the world’s thinnest convertible… 1:04 There wasn’t a new ZenFone to be seen at Computex and it feels deliberate. Instead of launching a new phone like last year at one of the biggest PC-focused events in the region, the Taiwanese manufacturer is going back to its …
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It looks like Motorola isn’t a fan of Samsung’s battery testing. After the long-winded saga over the Galaxy Note 7’s burning troubles, Motorola jumped in to roast Samsung’s flaws some more. Motorola engineer Russ Gyenes said the phone company would have caught the flaws that caused the Galaxy Note 7 to overheat and catch fire. Considering that hindsight is 20/20, …
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Here we thought the next cool screen tech would be foldable displays. Turns out, they could be stretchable. Samsung this week showed off new display technology that looks kind of like a trampoline. The 9.1-inch stretchable OLED display prototype, which Samsung called the first of its kind, can be flexed in two directions, unlike conventional flexible OLED displays that can …
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Now playing: Watch this: Pepper the humanoid robot knows how you feel 1:14 Fear of artificial intelligence is real, and Canada has a problem on its hands: The country may soon be killed by cuteness. After taking trips to the US and Europe, Japan’s Pepper robot will soon start working for Canada’s ATB Financials bank. The humanoid robot will be …
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Parrot might be best known for its consumer drones like the Bebop and Disco, but it’s been working on professional solutions since 2012. The results of that work, bolstered by company acquisitions like Pix4D mapping software and drone maker senseFly, are the new Parrot Professional range for small and medium business. The Parrot Disco-Pro AG, Bebop-Pro 3D Modeling and ParrotBebop-Pro …
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Correction, May 4, 2017: It’s free for schools to upgrade from Windows 10 S to Windows 10 Pro. May 2, Microsoft held an event to launch a new education-focused version of its Windows 10 operating system that can run on ultracheap laptops. Windows 10 S is a locked-down version of Windows 10 Pro: Microsoft made it crystal-clear that you can …
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I have screwed up on camera more times than I can even count. At CNET, we have a team of awesome (and patient) video producers who edit out our f— ups, and don’t talk s#!& to us when we c*%k up the whole bloody thing. But on live TV? You sure as hell get a lot less wiggle room. That’s …
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Facebook Live is living well. One out of every five videos shared on the social network is Live, Fidji Simo, the company’s head of video, wrote on her Facebook page on Thursday. The amount of time people spend watching those videos has grown more than four times over the last year, she added. “A year ago today, we made it …
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Get ready for some Amazon Prime live-streaming football. The online retailer won a bidding war among Facebook, Twitter and Google’s YouTube to snag the global streaming rights for 10 Thursday night National Football League games for $50 million. That price is five times more than Twitter paid last season. We debate why Amazon spent so much and what the company …
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Amazon may be nearing one of its biggest acquisitions in years, this time with its eyes on growing in Middle East e-commerce. Reuters reported Wednesday that Amazon agreed in principle to buy Dubai-based Souq.com, one of the biggest e-retailers in the Arab world. The site, started in 2005, sells over 400,000 products including electronics, clothes and household goods. Wednesday’s story …
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