This story is part of Elections 2020, CNET’s coverage of the voting in November and its aftermath. Facebook on Thursday said it’s launching its Fourth of July voter registration drive this week, the “largest voting information campaign in American history.” This follows an announcement by the company late last month that it aims to get 4 million …

Waze on Monday rolled out new “Moods,” or avatars for users to share how they’re feeling on the road. Dozens of Moods now represent emotions including happy, adventurous and “zombified.” The navigation app is also revamping its logo, opting for more-minimal detail in the accompanying animation.  Waze is rolling out new Moods. Waze The brand update also includes refined typography …

TikTok will reportedly stop reading content on users’ clipboards, after a new feature in Apple’s iOS 14 revealed just how often the social video app does so. The feature informs users when apps are accessing text from their clipboards, and TikTok appeared to be a major offender, The Telegraph reported on Thursday.  “Hey @tiktok_us, why do you paste from my …

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple now lets you add face coverings to Memoji, the company shared Monday during its Worldwide Developers Conference. The iOS 14 update comes amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The iPhone maker also added more age options to Memoji, in addition to three new Memoji stickers. …

Comcast on Friday said it’s extending free access to its 1.5 million public Xfinity Wi-Fi hotspots to everyone, including people who aren’t customers, for the rest of the year. This follows a Thursday update in which the company said it was extending its free Internet Essentials offer, which provides 60 days of internet service to low-income households with students, for …

Instagram is likely to overtake Twitter as a source for news within the next year, according to the 2020 Reuters Institute Digital News report. Use of the Facebook-owned app for news has doubled across age groups since 2018, the report says.  Instagram, which in recent years has expanded to include features like Stories and IGTV, now reaches more than a …

Bose is shutting down its augmented reality program, according to a Monday report by Protocol. Key AR employees have reportedly left the company, and Bose has notified partners that their apps will no longer work in the coming weeks.  “Bose AR didn’t become what we envisioned,” a company representative told Protocol. “It’s not the first time our technology couldn’t be …

Mobile-only streaming video service Quibi has added support for Chromecast to its iOS and Android apps. While Quibi is primarily designed for mobile viewing, COVID-19 shelter-in-place orders have made it more appealing for many people to watch things on a bigger screen, perhaps with family members in the living room.  Late last month, Quibi added AirPlay support for iOS, and said …

Google Maps on Monday rolled out several new features for Android and iOS to keep travelers and commuters up to date on how COVID-19 might impact their trip. That includes information like travel restrictions and how crowded public transportation might be. TechCrunch earlier reported the news.  Transit alerts from local agencies will now show up in Maps to keep people informed …

Google has reportedly pulled an app from the Play Store designed to find and remove Chinese apps from people’s phones. India-based Remove Chinese Apps was suspended for violating Google’s Deceptive Behavior Policy, which, in part, bans apps that “mislead users into removing or disabling third-party apps.” Gadgets 360 earlier reported the news.  OneTouch AppLabs, the maker of Remove China Apps, tweeted …