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By J. D. BIERSDORFER
Plus, comparing HDTV with ultrahigh-definition.
Improvements to navigation systems keep on coming, and a new rival may mean the competition will heat up.
If you’re not satisfied with the quality of music produced by your smartphone’s player, there are plenty of options a sharper listening experience.
Companies like Facebook and Google have stayed away from mobilizing their users to support an issue that primarily affects smaller Internet upstarts.
Plus, comparing HDTV with ultrahigh-definition.
Plus, tracking an Amazon package by text.
The University of California, Berkeley, is working on a smartphone app that would warn users before a quake hits.
In the 20 years since their introduction, banner ads have ruined the appearance and usability of the web, perverted content and diminished privacy.
The overall strategy behind the retailer’s hardware lineup appears puzzling. Its devices sound fantastic in theory but often fall short.
While passwords aren’t likely to disappear soon, new technology that uses eyes and fingerprints as identifiers can protect data more easily.
An update made in 2010, also called Bluetooth 4.0, uses less power and has better pairing capability.
News apps like Flipboard, Circa News and BBC News help keep users updated on breaking events.
Plenty of smartphone apps offer worthwhile and entertaining lessons.
A look at products ranging from sensor-equipped shirts that can track your workout to apps that can turn a long jog into an exercise in play.
The latest version of the Flipboard tablet magazine offers a staff-selected “front page” of stories and a wide range of extremely specialized topics.
The browser’s settings can be changed, or users can click on the address field. Also, a considering the value of a touch-screen PC.
Browse all the mobile app coverage that has appeared in The New York Times by category, and see what Times writers have on their phones and tablets.
A collection of App Smart columns and articles about mobile applications from The New York Times.
A series from The Well blog explores how technology can help us better understand our personal health.
The Times tested some of the latest and most popular trackers to compare how they work and the various features they offer.
High-tech fitness and activity trackers all share one thing: an accelerometer. Here’s how they work — and don’t.
Raspberry Pi, a tiny computer the size of a credit card, has captured the imaginations of students, educators and tinkerers around the world since it became available in 2012.
Microsoft wants the Xbox One to be the center of a home’s entertainment universe, providing Skype video calls and playing television shows, music and more.
The cleaning device figures out the size of your window mirror and then cleans the surface on its own.
Nest, the company founded by the former Apple designer Tony Fadell, released a new version of its self-learning thermostat on Tuesday.
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