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Samsung S21 Ultra uses pixel binning to make your photos better

Megapixels used to be so much simpler: A bigger number meant your camera could capture more photo detail as long as the scene had enough light. But a technology called pixel binning now sweeping across flagship smartphones is changing the old photography rules for the better. In short, pixel binning gives you a camera that …

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Denon’s Home Sound Bar 550 boasts Dolby Atmos and Alexa smarts

This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. Denon has announced the smart all-in-one Home Sound Bar 550 ($599) at CES which includes support for Dolby Atmos/DTS:X and 4K HDMI (eARC).   Denon says the soundbar has “the ability to deliver Dolby Atmos and DTS:X 3D surround sound from a six-driver …

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Google TV is the new Android TV, coming to Sony smart TVs this year

This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. At CNET our favorite smart TV system is the Roku platform, but it could face stiffer competition than ever later this year. ArCES Sony announced its latest lineup of televisions and all of them will run Google TV, the search giant’s newest streaming system. The …

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Sony TVs get brighter OLED, cognitive processing, Google TV streaming at CES 2021

This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. Sony is probably the most storied TV brand still standing and while it’s no longer a top 5 seller, it remains a powerhouse among high-end models — aka TVs that cost a lot of money. Its 2021 lineup of new sets, …

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Holograms for your phone: How second screens could share 3D AR in 2021

This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. The future of holographic augmented reality seems like it’s on glasses, but it’s also on phones. One company is planning an in-between solution this year that sounds bizarre, but also is not far off from what already exists. Ikin is a …

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Sony debuts Airpeak drone for taking aerial photos and videos

For those who want to give their cameras a bird’s-eye view, Sony announced a new drone called Airpeak at the CES show this week. The four-rotor remotely piloted aircraft can carry a Sony A7S III camera, a full-frame, interchangeable-lens model that can shoot 4K video. The Airpeak is capable of “precise, stable flight, and aims to contribute to the world …

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LG’s transparent OLED TVs are now even more see

This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. LG Display, the company that produces the OLED panels used in TVs by LG, Sony, Vizio and others around the world, also demonstrates some of the coolest, most futuristic concept technology at CES. Its private booth is where I first got …

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Google Stadia support is coming to LG’s 2021 TVs

This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. Game streaming has been slowly growing in recent years with the launches of Nvidia’s GeForce Now, Google’s Stadia, Microsoft’s xCloud and Amazon’s Luna. This year, however, it looks to finally be picking up more steam. At CES 2021, LG announced that some …

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Nvidia at CES 2021: RTX 3060 desktop, RTX laptop chips it says outperform Sony’s PS5

This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. The fall was undoubtedly the time of desktop computers. Many gamers and the tech industry were obsessed with desktop-class chips, be they AMD’s newest Ryzen central processors, its latest Radeon RX graphics chips or rival Nvidia’s latest RTX series of chips. In …

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Our CES 2021 Day 1 recap: Rollable phones, giant TVs and tech for the coronavirus era

This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. Day 1 of the weirdest CES ever is complete. (Here’s how to follow along for Day 2.) Instead of hundreds of thousands flocking to Las Vegas to see the biggest tech of the year to come, companies like LG, Samsung and …

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