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Here’s our full review of the Red Hydrogen One phone.  “There is no way to describe or show the 4 view (4V) display other than seeing it in person. There’s just no way,” says Red founder and CEO Jim Jannard to a crowd gathered at Red Studios in Hollywood on Saturday. “We want everybody’s first …

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. With a new feature called Group FaceTime, up to 32 people will be able to chat online together, Apple said Monday at its developer conference. Now playing: Watch this: Now you can group FaceTime with multiple friends 2:04 The change is significant for …

Popular phone apps that receive regular updates often emphasize compatibility with the very latest big-name phones, like the iPhone X or Samsung Galaxy S9. But, that march toward the newest hardware can sometimes leave older phones out in the cold, struggling to run apps that demand ever-more-powerful processors, more RAM and more storage space. Microsoft Voice and video chat app …

Are kids ready for social media? Until December, the answer was no. Even Facebook had rules against children under the age of 13 joining more than 2 billion other people around the world who logged on to the service each month. But since then, the company has created an app called “Messenger Kids,” designed to let children communicate with people …

Apple on Tuesday removed Skype and a few other apps from its app store in China, after the country’s government told Apple the apps violated local laws, Reuters reported Tuesday. “We have been notified by the Ministry of Public Security that a number of voice over internet protocol apps do not comply with local law, therefore these apps have been …

By some estimates, there are as many as 7,000 languages on the planet and many of us just speak one of them.  That’s led to a cottage industry of Hollywood dream-technology like the babel fish from “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” or the always-there computers on “Star Trek.” In the real world, we’ve fallen a bit short of that promise. …

Now playing: Watch this: 5 cool things you didn’t know you could do with Facebook… 2:45 I remember when Facebook made the decision to “liberate” Messenger from Facebook proper and turn it into a standalone app. I was not happy, as it was not only one more app I had to install, but also an extra step I had to …

Skype is getting a makeover, though it’s hard to tell whether it’s cool or just trying to look cool. Starting Thursday, the 13-year-old video conferencing and chat software, which was bought by Microsoft six years ago, is getting a radically new look that ditches the bubbly buttons that were so in two decades ago. Instead, Skype now sports a user …

I had about an hour to make the decision. I was packing my bags for a three-week trip to Asia when the call came. My grandmother — Mom’s mom and our family’s shining light — had undergone emergency surgery. Doctors addressed one problem only to discover more. My grandma’s frail body was riddled with so many tumors that even if …

Microsoft is the latest US tech giant to help keep Indians connected. Skype Lite is a new version of the company’s popular video and voice-calling app that’s “built in India.” Microsoft unveiled the service on Wednesday at its Future Decoded conference, reports ZDNet. Skype Lite functions much like its big brother Skype, but it’s designed to work well on low-speed, …