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10 ways the iPhone changed everything
یکشنبه 19 دی 1395 14:19
Ten years ago, Nokia was the world's largest phone maker. Microsoft was gearing up to launch Windows Vista. And the best new products at CES included a wireless TV and an MP3 player that streamed internet radio. Then, on Jan. 9, 2007, Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled a device that went on to change the world -- a $499...
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10 things to tweak when setting up a Windows 10 laptop
یکشنبه 19 دی 1395 00:01
Start the new year off right by setting up your new laptop right. Here are 10 settings to check or change. 1. Check for updates Microsoft releases a steady stream of Windows updates. Your new laptop checks for updates automatically, but you can check manually by going to Settings (click the gear icon above the Start...
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LG UP970 4K BD player a tortoise to Samsung's hare at CES?
شنبه 18 دی 1395 23:59
While several companies jostled to be the first to release a 4K Blu-ray player last year LG uncharacteristically waited a full 12 months to announce its own: the UP970. There are advantages to this approach: Firstly, there are about 100 4K discs available for purchase right now as opposed to a handful back then....
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Ford gets another inexpensive GPS option at CES 2017 with Sygic
شنبه 18 دی 1395 23:58
The Sygic Car Navigation app for Android and iOS will become the first GPS app to gain touchscreen compatibility with Ford's Sync 3 AppLink when it launches for 2018 Ford vehicles. I'm sure that a number of drivers stopped paying attention to Ford's AppLink the moment that Sync 3 started supporting Android Auto and...
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Cambridge Sound Management Nightingale
شنبه 18 دی 1395 23:56
Most people can relate to the frustration of a bad night's sleep -- waking up groggy, wishing you could stay in bed for another hour... or three. Sadly, busy schedules often keep us from hitting the snooze button for too long. Related Links: New Sleep Number bed wants to take the weary out of your rest (hands-on)...
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Google buys Limes Audio for better sound in Hangouts
شنبه 18 دی 1395 23:54
Google has bought Limes Audio, a company with technology to improve sound quality in video calls, to improve its conferencing products like Hangouts, according to a blog post Thursday. The tech giant said audio quality -- "so that you can hear the person you're talking to, and they can hear you" -- is...
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T-Mobile will credit low-data users $10 a month
شنبه 18 دی 1395 23:53
T-Mobile is making the case that you should be on its unlimited data plan -- even if all you do is view photos of your grandchildren. At the CES 2017 show, the nation's third-largest carrier on Thursday introduced its "Kickback" program, designed to give customers who don't use a lot of data a credit of $10...
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Google Calendar update makes it easier to track fitness goals
شنبه 18 دی 1395 23:51
Just when you were ready to ditch that New Year's resolution to go running every morning, Google is here to help. Well, it's here to help people who use the Goals feature in Google Calendar. Google on Thursday said you can now connect Google Fit and Apple Health to your fitness goals in Calendar. "When you do,...
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Google's AI continues to crush humans at ancient game Go
شنبه 18 دی 1395 23:49
The AI program developed by DeepMind, a Google-owned artificial intelligence company based in the UK, has been secretly playing and beating some of the world's best Go players online. DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis revealed in a tweet Wednesday that AlphaGo has been playing under the usernames "Magister"...
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8 tech tips I learned while traveling abroad
شنبه 18 دی 1395 23:47
During the week between Christmas and New Years, I was lucky enough to visit the City of Light. It was breathtaking from start to finish, and if you heard reports of a man being dragged kicking and screaming onto a flight leaving Paris, well... The last time I'd been abroad, there were no smartphones . Meaning no...
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2017: The year digital assistants for kids began to flourish at CES
شنبه 18 دی 1395 23:45
I've spent days now, walking the show floors at CES, listening to pitches from baby- and kid-tech developers, and writing up analyses on all of it. I'm a smart-home reporter, so I knew coming into CES how ubiquitous Alexa and her retinue would be. But I wasn't prepared for how fundamentally it would affect kid-tech....
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T-Mobile CEO, fortune teller, offers 8 predictions for 2017
شنبه 18 دی 1395 23:43
T-Mobile's bombastic CEO, John Legere, brought out his crystal ball to offer some bold predictions for the wireless industry in 2017. Speaking at the company's CES press conference in Las Vegas on Thursday, Legere rattled off eight possibilities for 2017. These predictions include everything from big cable companies...
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Watch two Google Home voice assistants arguing
شنبه 18 دی 1395 23:41
It's no " Robot Wars," but you can now watch two Google Home devices argue with each other in a never-ending loop. The two voice assistants, named Vladimir and Estragon after "Waiting for Godot" characters, have been pitted against one another on live-streaming service Twitch. On Friday, the pair...
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Nvidia Spot is like a Google Home you stick on your wall
شنبه 18 دی 1395 23:39
The Google Assistant's expanding its repertoire as an entertainer. At CES, Nvidia showed off the new Shield TV. Say the word and you can search for content, pause or rewind with your voice, all powered by Google's software. The Shield TV will even display information if you search the internet, and it works with...
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A smart home scoreboard for CES 2017
شنبه 18 دی 1395 23:37
How about a good, old-fashioned technology arms race? You could just buy a smart light bulb set, but for a lot of consumers (reportedly more than 5 million of you, as of November 2016), it's Amazon's voice-activated Alexa that will be the entry point for controlling devices around your home. Along with Amazon, Apple...
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Smart home experts hope 'magic' moments will convert nonbelievers
شنبه 18 دی 1395 23:35
What will it take to convince smart home newbies that the tech is for them? In a panel at CES in Las Vegas on Thursday some of the biggest names in the smart home industry joined CNET Editor in Chief Lindsey Turrentine and Editor at Large Brian Cooley to look at what it will take for the smart home to become a real,...
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How to post 360-degree photos to Facebook
شنبه 18 دی 1395 23:33
By now, you've undoubtedly come across an interactive photo whilst browsing your Facebook feed. Such photos instruct you to hold your phone up and move it around to view different parts of the photo. It's a fun way of viewing so-called 360-degree photos. And would make one believe you need fancy, or expensive...
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SolarGaps turns window decor into solar panels at CES
شنبه 18 دی 1395 23:31
Opening the blinds has never been so helpful. On display here at CES in Las Vegas, SolarGaps turns the actual slats of your window coverings into solar panels. SolarGaps blinds will be smart enough to shift their angle slightly throughout the day in order to maximize their power intake. The company also plans to...
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6 apps to install on a new MacBook
شنبه 18 دی 1395 23:29
These are the first six apps I installed on my new MacBook Pro , from a text expander to a word processor, with four useful apps in between. All are free except the first, which costs only $5 and offers a free trial. Let's take them in alphabetical order. aText aText is a simple, text-expansion app that lets you...
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Google Pixel phones, Daydream View and Chromecast Ultra: Everything Google just announced
شنبه 18 دی 1395 23:26
It feels like forever since the first rumors about Google's announcements for this event started cropping up, but now we can finally lay at least some of them to rest. Just joining us? Here's what you've missed thus far. The event opened with a cute video by the characters of HBO's "Silicon Valley."...
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IMDb to California: You can't stop us publishing actor ages
شنبه 18 دی 1395 14:13
Entertainment industry website IMDb.com has challenged the constitutionality of a California law that can ban it from publishing the ages of actors and other professionals. The law, signed in September, requires IMDb to remove birthday and age information from its website if requested by subscribers to IMDbPro, a...
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The Sure Shot HD brings arcade shooting games into your home
شنبه 18 دی 1395 14:11
The new Sure Shot HD Android game console is all about bringing the fun of arcade games into the comfort of your living room. sure-shot-hd-ces-2017-03.jpg The actual console is quite small. Photo by Patrick Holland/CNET The Sure Shot HD console is tiny -- about the size of a thick smartphone. It has infrared lights on...
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Nick Offerman: Ron Swanson would hate CES (Q&A)
شنبه 18 دی 1395 14:09
Nick Offerman is an avid wood worker, a noted whiskey drinker, an actor and one of the least likely people to show up at the world's biggest technology show. But show up he did. Known to fans of the TV series "Parks and Recreation" as the gruff but lovable Ron Swanson, Offerman was at CES in Las Vegas to...
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Under Armour and Tom Brady want to help you sleep better
شنبه 18 دی 1395 14:07
The fitness brand has teamed up with New England Patriots Quarterback Tom Brady to develop special pajamas. Plus, the company has added new features to its software for smart shoes. Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank says his company's new sleep garment will help you snooze better. Photo by James Martin/CNET Under Armour,...
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The Furrion Prosthesis is the giant racing mech you've always wanted
شنبه 18 دی 1395 14:05
It's no Mobile Suit Gundam, but Furrion's Prosthesis racing mech is one of the most ridiculously neat things we've seen at CES 2017. It's the first mech in what its parent company hopes will become a racing series. It started life as an art project, as a machine that humans could use to walk around. But then the idea...
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BMW wins the future with HoloActive Touch controls
شنبه 18 دی 1395 14:04
When BMW announced last year it would bring some sort of holographic control interface to CES, I was skeptical. Today, I got to use it, and it delivers on BMW's promise and more. The technology, called HoloActive Touch, creates what looks like a floating graphic over the console. For BMW's demonstration, these...
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Tim Cook's pay slips after Apple's 2016 dip
شنبه 18 دی 1395 14:01
Apple failed to meet its annual sales goals in 2016, and CEO Tim Cook paid the price. Cook earned $8.75 million in 2016, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing from Apple on Friday. That compares with $10.28 million in 2015, and $9.22 million in 2014. The Cupertino, California-based company had aimed...
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Uber challenged on diversity by Jesse Jackson
شنبه 18 دی 1395 13:59
A long list of big-name tech companies have released statistics on the racial and gender makeup of their workforces, including Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft. Uber isn't on that list. And on Thursday, civil-rights leader Jesse Jackson wrote a letter to Uber CEO Travis Kalanick pushing the ride-hailing...
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AT&T, Time Warner plan to skirt FCC review of megamerger
شنبه 18 دی 1395 13:58
AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson (L) and Time Warner CEO Jeffrey Bewkes defend the proposed merger of their companies at a WSJD Live technology conference in October. Photo by GLENN CHAPMAN/AFP/Getty Images AT&T and Time Warner may have found a smoother path toward their proposed $85 billion merger: going around...
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Qualcomm says 5G is the biggest thing since electricity
شنبه 18 دی 1395 13:56
It's being compared to the arrival of electricity. That's a big call but Qualcomm has its eyes on a 5G future. And it's not just thinking about speed. At a CES that has given us intelligent robots, autonomous drones and wallpaper TVs, the next generation of wireless technology might not seem like that big of a deal....