Apple is bringing its Apple Pencil stylus to more of its iPads. On Tuesday, the tech giant said the stylus will now be compatible with a newly unveiled 9.7-inch iPad that starts at $329 for consumers (the same price as the previously cheapest iPad). Previously, the Pencil was only compatible with pricier iPad Pro tablets. Also, …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Wait for it. He’s about to dance. Apple; YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET I’m worried about Apple. No, not about whether it can put ever more gadgets into ever more hands. This is more about the feet. Apple’s dancing feet. The company just released an …
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No doubt about it, the Apple iPod is easily the coolest audio product of the twenty-first century. Introduced in late 2001 it wasn’t the first portable digital music player, there were portable CD players like the Sony Discman in 1984, and they were definitely cool. Then Steve Jobs put his special spin on the iPod, “To have your whole CD …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Don’t worry, FKA Twigs. HomePod will change your life. Apple/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Do you come home at night and stare into a gray, messy living room? Do you sometimes stay out late, drinking with lonely strangers, so that you don’t have to go …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Making things awkward. Samsung; YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Here’s to the crazy ones. Again. Or, rather, the new crazy ones. At least, that’s a little of the feeling I get watching a new Samsung Galaxy S9 ad, released to coincide with Sunday’s Oscars ceremony. …
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Apple and Google are fierce competitors when it comes to phones, digital assistants and map apps. But they get along quite amicably when it comes to Apple’s iCloud service. In its latest iOS Security document, a detailed explanation of the technology choices it makes to keep you from getting hacked, Apple disclosed it’s using Google’s cloud-computing infrastructure to store iCloud data …
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Google’s announcement this week that it’s bringing Nest back under its wing has some former employees of the smart-thermostat maker saying the company never should’ve been spun off in the first place. Tony Fadell, co-founder and ex-CEO of Nest, said both companies’ efforts in connected gadgets were hurt when Google made Nest a separate business less than two years after …
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Smartphones with foldable displays are either a waste of time or the next breakthrough in handsets. It just depends on whom you ask. You can count Lixin Cheng, head of ZTE’s mobile business, as someone solidly in the pro-foldable camp. Last year, ZTE released the Axon M, a clamshell-like phone that has two screens and can be opened up to …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Enlarge Image A trusted friend. Sarah Tew/CNET I take it for granted. I know you aren’t supposed to do that in relationships, but, in this case, I suspect my MacBook Air is flattered. How many tech products can you rely on without thinking? How many …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. A committed Samsung fan. Daniel Zuchnik/Getty Images Apple is renowned by some people for its ability to sell what they see as well-designed but technically inferior products. It’s what many used to call, in the Steve Jobs days, Apple’s reality distortion field. There are those, …
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