This story is part of Elections 2020, CNET’s coverage of the voting in November and its aftermath. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says it’s wrong to suggest the social media platform is designed to enrage people. In an interview with Axios on HBO, Zuckerberg admitted that partisan content on Facebook often gets high engagement — such …
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Remember the opening scene from the original Iron Man, when Tony Stark’s convoy is ambushed and the eccentric billionaire whips out a phone that swivels open to call for help? The year was 2008, and that was an LG VX9400, one of the company’s earlier forays into phones that rotate to open, rather than flip. We may be getting a sequel. …
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Sony on Thursday revealed the two games that’ll be free for subscribers of its PlayStatioin Plus online gaming service: PUBG and Street Fighter V. You’ll be able to download them to your PS4 from Sept. 1. PUBG — PlayerUnknown’s Battleground— is a battle royale shooter that’s similar to Epic Games’ Fortnite, while Street Fighter V is the latest iteration of a gaming dynasty that …
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Apple is developing augmented reality content to accompany its Apple TV Plus offerings, Bloomberg reported Wednesday. The move is apparently intended to stoke interest in AR technology, as well as drawing more subscribers to the streaming service. The AR feature, which was revealed to Bloomberg by anonymous sources, would display elements of a TV show in the room where the viewer …
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BlackBerry is back, again. Sort of. The smartphone brand once synonymous with corporate success and government-level security will return thanks to security startup OnwardMobility and FIH Mobile, a subsidiary of Chinese device manufacturing giant Foxconn. OnwardMobility plans to launch a new 5G BlackBerry Android phone in the first half of 2021, the company said in a press release Wednesday. This isn’t the first …
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This story is part of Elections 2020, CNET’s coverage of the voting in November and its aftermath. Your social media feeds from Facebook, Twitter and Instagram are fueled by algorithms, but are they also influenced by human political bias? A new survey released Wednesday by the Pew Research Center indicates that most US adults think so. About three-quarters of respondents …
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Samsung’s got jokes. At least according to a new teardown by tech DIY repair site iFixit, which revealed Samsung’s new Galaxy Buds Live wireless earbuds have internals labeled, “Bean Right” and “Bean Left.” We’re glad we’re not the only ones who think they look like you could lose them in a bowl of chili. In addition to sharing their shape with …
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Google has contracted with Samsung to design and manufacture a chip that’ll be used to track body movements, according to South Korean tech blog ETNews. The report comes as Google faces staunch opposition to its acquisition of fitness tracking pioneer FitBit in the EU. Samsung is reportedly both designing and manufacturing the chip, as opposed to building a chip to spec based …
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Disney Plus, the popular new streaming service from Disney, is giving Netflix a run for its money. The filmed version of the Broadway smash hit Hamilton streamed exclusively on Disney Plus earlier in July, and on Friday, Beyoncé’s visual album Black Is King started streaming exclusively on the platform, too. The new visual album, a companion to her Lion King-inspired album …
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Even though you’ve been working from home for a few weeks now, there’s a good chance you still don’t have all the gear you need. Or maybe you’ve been brushing up on your culinary chops during quarantine, but now your knives are dull and you’re tired of cooking rice on the stovetop, but you haven’t upgraded any of your kitchen tools …
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