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Apple Launches iPhone 14 Wednesday. Its Success Depends on This Unexpected Thing

This story is part of Focal Point iPhone 2022, CNET’s collection of news, tips and advice around Apple’s most popular product. When Apple CEO Tim Cook and other executives reveal the new iPhone 14 at the company’s headquarters in California on Wednesday, will prospective buyers ooh and aah over new features, like the rumored always-on …

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Nvidia’s Powerful New Chip Aims to Help AI Understand You Better

What’s happening Nvidia is releasing a new chip, the H100 “Hopper,” that has the potential to speed up artificial intelligence that’s sweeping the tech industry. Why it matters The chip helps cement Nvidia’s lead in technology that’s revolutionizing everything in computing from self-driving cars to translating language as people speak. Nvidia will begin selling a new AI acceleration chip later …

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AT&T and Dish big winners in latest 5G auction

In the US Federal Communications Commission’s latest auction, AT&T and satellite TV provider Dish Network were the top winners of airwaves that were once reserved for the military and that’ll soon be used for 5G wireless service, the FCC said Friday.  AT&T spent $9.1 billion and Dish spent $7.3 billion for licenses of wireless spectrum that sits between the 2.5 …

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John Deere breaks new ground with self

This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. Tractors that steer themselves are nothing new to Minnesota farmer Doug Nimz. But then four years ago, John Deere brought a whole new kind of machine to his 2,000-acre corn and soybean farm. That tractor could not only steer itself but …

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5G has no link to COVID

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. As the coronavirus swept across the globe, so did rumors about what caused it and how it’s spread. One that’s persisted online is that 5G networks caused the disease. A new one involves vaccines somehow being linked to 5G tracking. Both are completely wrong. …

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Apple’s iPhone 13 event just proves that no one really cares about 5G

Apple executives didn’t spare any superlatives this week when introducing the new iPhone 13 and the iPhone 13 Pro and Pro Max. The iPhone 13 Pro, they said, is “the most Pro” phone yet. The iPhone camera got an upgrade, and Apple tapped Academy Award-winning director Kathryn Bigelow to show off its many capabilities, predicting that the new Cinematic Mode would open opportunities for …

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Nvidia’s Grace AI chip leaves Intel processors behind

Nvidia has a new chip in the works for boosting artificial intelligence and other high-performance computing work: Grace, a design slated to arrive in mammoth supercomputers in 2023. Instead of accelerating conventional Intel-powered servers, though, the design includes its own built-in Arm processors. Nvidia’s current brainiest chip, the A100, is typically yoked to Intel Xeon processors. Nvidia chips do the …

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Apple WWDC 21: Looks like we’ll see iOS 15 by June

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple’s annual developers conference is coming. The iPhone-maker on Tuesday sent out invites to its annual developer-focused event, WWDC, where it often shows off what’s next for its iOS, iPadOS, MacOS and other software platforms (here’s what we know so far about iOS …

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iPhone 12 Pro Max vs. iPhone XS Max: What big changes did Apple make in 2020?

Back in October, Apple introduced the iPhone 12 Pro Max, along with its three siblings in the first virtual-only iPhone event. There are plenty of superlatives that could describe the iPhone 12 Pro Max: the iPhone with the largest ever screen (6.7 inches), the iPhone with the most durable screen (alongside its siblings) and possibly even the iPhone with the …

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CNET to highlight top trends, latest tech at first all

This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. CNET, the world’s largest consumer tech media brand, will cover all the news from CES 2021, giving its global audience unbiased, in-depth looks at the technology, services, trends and products, with exclusive video hands-on looks at new products, interviews with top …

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