As the Food and Drug Administration continues to dip its toes into digital health, it announced on Thursday the launch of the Drugs@FDA Express mobile app, which lets people search for information about FDA-approved brand-name and generic drugs and therapeutic products. “Consumers are embracing digital health technologies to inform everyday decisions,” said FDA Commissioner Scott …
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Five years ago, Apple appeared to own the education market. Its iPad was selling like crazy, and Apple partnered with major publishers to digitize their textbooks. Many schools bought the tablet — most notably, Apple won a $1.3 billion deal with the Los Angeles Unified School District to provide nearly 700,000 iPads bundled with Pearson curriculum for every student and …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. A good idea? Or a touch annoying? Android Authority/Twitter screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET It’s not easy being shunned. You can feel hurt. You might even want to protest. This may be what inspired Huawei to place mobile billboards outside Apple and Samsung Experience stores in …
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“The hypnosis session you’re about to experience has been designed to enable you to forget one of your favorite TV series, so you can experience it as if for the first time, even though you’ve already seen it.” That’s what you’ll hear when you visit Unspoil Me, a site Samsung set up to promote its new QLED TVs. The soothing …
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Sony fans holding out for a cheaper OLED TV, prepare for a bit of disappointment. The new A8F series, first shown off at CES 2018 in January, will cost $2,800 at the 55-inch size and $3,800 at the 65-inch size. Those prices are $300 more than the cost of LG’s 2018 C8 series in the same sizes. Meanwhile the Sony …
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It was soft. It didn’t leave marks on my face. And the VR looked just fine. That’s my first-impression feel of Oculus Go, an upcoming bid by Facebook to get new people interested in VR for a sub-$200 price, no phone necessary. That $199 roughly converts to £150 or AU$255. The Oculus Go is a VR headset that’s self-contained. In …
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CNET’s Cheapskate scours the web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. Find more great buys on the CNET Deals page and follow the Cheapskate on Facebook and Twitter! Enlarge Image The DJI Spark, shown here in Meadow Green, is even better when flown with the remote …
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The Samsung Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9 Plus have scarcely been on sale for a week and already some Galaxy S9 owners are reporting dead zones. Numerous complaints on the official Samsung forums and all over Reddit (here, here and here) describe how portions of the screen won’t respond to touch input. Samsung has said it’s responding to the issue. …
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Will Samsung put a fingerprint sensor within the Galaxy Note 9 display? That’s been a topic of debate for weeks now as arguments both support and contradict the rumor. Enlarge Image The Vivo Apex concept phone shows what an embedded fingerprint scanner would look like. Andrew Hoyle/CNET But a new report says that Samsung is likely to adopt in-display fingerprint scanning for the …
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It’s going to get harder for Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei to sell its smartphones in the US. Best Buy, the nation’s largest electronics retailer, has ceased ordering new smartphones from Huawei and will stop selling its products over the next few weeks, according to a person familiar with the situation. The retailer will also stop selling its laptops and smartwatches. …
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