Google released an app for its Google Lens augmented reality helper on Monday, directing users to a service that provides a quick link between the real world and the digital one. The software serves as a quick-launch icon for the service, according to Droid Life, similar to an earlier app for Google Assistant. Google Lens, introduced at Google’s …
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Best-value phone for price! Undercuts the premium models! OnePlus once again made magic with the OnePlus 6, a phone whose performance-for-value was good enough to snag a rare CNET Editors’ Choice Award. Here’s the thing, though. The power of OnePlus, a Chinese brand out of Shenzhen, isn’t that it’s crested the pinnacle of mobile design and performance. It’s that the …
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What do we know about Samsung’s Galaxy Note 9? If we were to guess based on previous years, Samsung’s upcoming stylus-centric flagship would launch in August and come with an improved camera and a faster processor. That’s what Bloomberg is now reporting, quoting unnamed sources, but it gets rather specific about one point: The Galaxy Note 9 will be launched …
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I’m in a plane 10,000 feet above Hawaii when a skydiver gives me the signal to jump. My heart skips a beat as I fall out of the plane and suddenly, with the wind rushing around me, I’m hurtling toward Earth. Now playing: Watch this: Skydiving in VR is ridiculous and fun 3:23 Being too scared to actually throw myself …
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Best Buy has kicked off its Memorial Day sale and there are some pretty nice discounts. Until Monday at 11:59 p.m. CT (Tuesday, 12:59 a.m. ET or Monday 9:59 p.m. PT), the retailer is offering price cuts on a range of products including laptops, HDTVs, headphones and more from brands including Apple, Bose, HP and Beats by Dre. A handful …
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The iPhone won a huge — and lucrative — legal battle against Samsung Galaxy phones, but will wind up giving some of it back to pissed-off iPhone owners, and next-gen iPhone chips might already be underway. Here’s what happened in the world of iPhone this week. After a major seven-year litigation between the two biggest phone makers in the world, …
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Samsung must pay Apple $539 million for infringing five patents with Android phones it sold in 2010 and 2011, a jury decided Thursday in a legal fight that dates back seven years. The unanimous decision, in the US District Court in San Jose in the heart of Silicon Valley, is just about halfway between what the two largest mobile phone …
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HTC recently teased the launch of its next marquee phone, promising on Twitter, “A phone that is more than the sum of its specs.” The meaning of that statement has turned into a whole other kettle of fish, with HTC explaining that the parts in question “represent the jumble of parts (specs) that our competitors inelegantly cram into their phones, …
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By the end of June, a new wave of phones with trendy AI features will start to sell for less. That’s when the first handsets to use Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 710 processor will be ready for business. Mobile processors, or chipsets, are the brains behind everything from photo processing to device security and data speeds. The nuts and bolts of chipsets …
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Moore’s Law, the drumbeat that for decades has marked progress in the chip industry, has been faltering of late. But Samsung has a few more generations of processor improvements planned, it detailed Tuesday at its Samsung Foundry Forum. A key part of chip progress is shrinking the components called transistors — extraordinarily tiny electronic switches that process data so we …
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