If you’re looking for a new set of headphones to give as a gift this holiday season, the first thing you’ll notice is that you’re faced with a multitude of options. There’s no shortage of headphones, which is why our “Best headphones for the holidays” roundup has so many products in it. You can check …
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Google, Apple, Adobe make your phone photos better by boosting raw format
If you take your smartphone photography seriously, it might be time to change your habits. That’s because of improvements to a core camera technology: the raw photo format. Photographers with SLRs and other higher-end cameras have known for years the advantages of skipping ordinary JPEGs and instead shooting raw, which means using the unaltered data directly from a camera’s image …
Read More »From Netflix to Spotify, Game Pass and beyond: Give the gift of a subscription this year
Buying a subscription service for someone has never been easier. There are more services now for more things than ever before. However, choosing which service to gift, well that’s where the difficulty lies. Which is why we’ve simplified your subscription service choices into top threes, over three different categories: video streaming, music streaming and console gaming. CNET may get a …
Read More »CES 2018: Where are they now?
There are tons of products and companies vying for our attention during the chaos and bustle of the CES, the annual consumer electronics trade show held every January in Las Vegas. But whether or not those products actually hit store shelves by the end of the year — or any year — is a different question altogether. Some “concept products” …
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The O-shaped notch rumored to come to the Galaxy S10 is the talk of the town, but Huawei already got there first. The Honor View 20 sidesteps the controversial notch by fitting the front-facing into the screen. It’s similar to a feature that the anticipated Galaxy S10 is rumored to have as well, using the Infinity-O screen that Samsung showed …
Read More »Comcast joins up with Movies Anywhere
Comcast Xfinity TV customers will be able to sync their accounts with Movies Anywhere, the company said Thursday. Movies Anywhere allows film buffs to watch movies in one spot, irrespective of where they were bought. CNET’s Iyaz Akhtar described the service as a “digital bridge” between online video vendors. So if a customer has bought a title through another Movies …
Read More »The tiny Nano1 astronomy camera shoots for the stars
You may not need an expensive DSLR to shoot the stars, that is, if you get the upcoming Nano1 astronomy camera from Singapore-based startup TinyMOS. The makers behind the pint-sized Tiny1 camera are back with a new version, and while three times smaller, it is still more than capable of shooting the stars. As with the previous Tiny1 shooter, the Nano1 …
Read More »Qualcomm: 5G Android flagship phones will storm the 2019 holidays
Get ready for lots of 5G phones in time for the holidays next year. The first devices for the fast, next-generation network will hit the market in early 2019. Samsung, for one, said it will have a phone for Verizon, AT&T and other networks in the first half of the year. By the holidays next year, every flagship handset — …
Read More »Mission: Impossible is coming to VR
I’m no Tom Cruise. That’s honestly the first thing I thought when Doug Griffin, the CEO of Nomadic, told me he’d struck a deal with Paramount and developer VRWERX to create a Mission: Impossible-inspired VR experience. Of course, the best part of virtual reality is you don’t have to be an action star like Mission: Impossible’s leading man to have …
Read More »Revamped Capture One 12 takes on Adobe’s Lightroom for photo editing
Phase One has released a new version of its Capture One software with some features aimed at matching and beating Adobe Systems’ Lightroom, its dominant rival for photo editing and cataloging. Some of the big changes come to the critical task of masking — selecting particular elements of a photo that you might want to change, for example, to increase …
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