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Intel Unison is the latest attempt to bring your PC and phone together

Apple’s Continuity software lets you use an iPhone and Mac together. Google offers something similar (if a little less versatile) for folks who use a Chromebook and an Android phone. Since those companies make the operating systems for both computers and phones, it makes sense that they can offer tight integration. Trying to do the […]

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Fisher-Price adds Bluetooth to classic Chatter phone so you can embrace your inner child

Fisher Price has made tons of iconic toys for children over the years. One its most memorable, the Chatter phone, got a 21st-century reissue this year. The updated Chatter phone features Bluetooth connectivity, allowing you to pair it with your smartphone to make and receive calls. This cheerful little device can even be used as […]

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Instacart adds new options for grocery delivery during the pandemic

With millions of people staying at home to help slow the spread the coronavirus and COVID-19, grocery delivery services like Instacart, Shipt, Amazon Fresh, Walmart Grocery, and Mercato are under heavy strain. After adding items to your shopping cart, you might find that delivery dates are a week or more away, if there are any […]

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Mozilla brings new features to Firefox Focus privacy-focused browser

Firefox Focus is a mobile web browser designed first and foremost for private browsing. It deletes your cookies every time you exit the browser and never tracks your history. Basically it’s a mobile web browser that only has an incognito/private browsing mode. It also blocks ads that use any data tracking. When Mozilla first launched Firefox […]

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Google is bringing big changes to its search engine (more pictures and videos, Google Lens, etc)

Google Search turns 20 this year. And while Google was just a search engine in 1998, these days it’s also the home to YouTube, Gmail, Google Maps, the Chrome web browser (and operating system) and Android, among other things. But the company still has a search engine that you may use from time to time… and today […]

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Steam Link beta for Android launches: stream PC games to your phone, tablet, or TV

As promised, Valve has released a Steam Link app for Android. It’s still in beta, and an iOS version is coming soon. But I took the app for a spin on my Pixel 2 smartphone, and it seems to work pretty well… for the most part. In a nutshell, it allows you to stream any […]

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Intel may not be done with mobile processors after all

This year Intel announced that it was ending development of its Atom chips for smartphones and scrapping the next-gen Atom chips that had been planned for tablets and 2-in-1 PCs. Instead, Intel would develop modems for smartphones and low-power processors (among other things) for drones, smart home devices, and other Internet of Things products. Now […]

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Reddit finally has official Android, iOS apps

Since the rise and fall of Digg, Reddit has pretty much dominated the social news/link-sharing & discussion space. But while reddit’s barebones website is optimized to load quickly and be easy to read on desktop and more recently on mobile devices, the company has largely left the development of mobile apps to third parties… until […]

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Sony to bring PlayStation-related games to smartphones

Sony is launching a new effort to bring PlayStation content to smartphones and other smart devices. The Japanese company has announced the creation of a new organization called ForwardWorks that will “leverage the intellectual property of the numerous PlayStation dedicated software titles and its gaming characters” to develop content and services for smart device users […]

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WhatsApp pulls the plug on BlackBerry, Symbian, Android 2.2 apps

Facebook-owned chat app WhatsApp is used by as many as a billion people. But a small number of those people might have to look for other solutions later this year, because WhatsApp has announced it’s ending support for a few platforms. The news probably says more about the tiny amount of market share held by those […]