WhatsApp is king of the messenger apps, with over a billion daily users. Now, the Facebook-owned company looks to better expand its reach to businesses. WhatsApp Business is a free Android app released Thursday in the US, UK, Mexico, Italy and Indonesia, with more countries coming soon. WhatsApp did not state when or if an …
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Athletes the world over are preparing for the 2018 Winter Olympics, which kick off on Feb. 9 in Pyeongchang, South Korea. They’ve already got some good news: They’re all getting a free, Olympic-edition Samsung Galaxy Note 8. Samsung unveiled the phone on Tuesday, saying it’s making around 4,000 to give to athletes and Olympic officials. The iconic Olympic rings adorn …
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The OnePlus 5T is one of the best phones you can buy today — but for now, you can’t buy it with a credit card. Following customer complaints about fraudulent activity on their credit card after using it on the company’s site, OnePlus is disabling credit as a payment form. OnePlus’ online store is the only official place to buy …
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Apple has had its ups and downs in the ever-important Chinese market, but on Monday some good news reached the electronics giant. The iPhone 7 Plus was the second-best selling phone in the populous nation last year, accounting for 2.8 percent of all smartphone sales, according to Counterpoint Research. It was bested only by the Oppo R9S, a phone from …
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If you own a laptop, you already have the Meltdown and Spectre security flaws to worry about. If you own a HP laptop, add another potential woe to your list. A small number of HP laptops and mobile workstations shipped between December 2015 and December 2017 will need their batteries replaced because they have a “potential to overheat, posing a fire …
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Instagram is giving more power to the hashtag. As of Tuesday, it announced, you can now not only follow people, but hashtags too. There’s some good news and bad news here. Spoiler: it’s mainly bad news. First, the good news. This is quite a nifty feature. I, having completely mainstream hobbies, have been getting really into Japanese pro wrestling recently, …
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Three years ago, the World Wrestling Entertainment took all of its monthly pay-per-view events and put them on its own streaming service, the WWE Network. Now, the company is flirting with another type of streaming. WWE announced “Mixed Match Challenge” on Wednesday, a 12-episode show that’ll stream on Facebook Watch, Facebook’s go at an original-content broadcaster to take on Netflix and …
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Christmas Island, an Australian territory tucked just underneath Indonesia, is home to around 2,000 people. And crabs. Tens of millions of crabs. Each year, the females among these land crabs migrate to the sea, where they lay their eggs. It happens only once a year, but thanks to Google, you’ll soon be able to see it whenever you like. The …
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Instagrammers sure do love popstars. And soccer, aka football. Instagram on Wednesday revealed its annual list of most popular accounts, with Selena Gomez at the top for the third year in a row. The singer and actress has 130 million followers, beating fellow singer Ariana Grande by about 15 million. Quickly climbing the ranks is soccer/football star Cristiano Ronaldo, who …
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VR took my breath away the first time I tried it. Literally. I was so terrified by a horror game I could barely breathe by the end of it. “This isn’t some gimmick,” I thought at the time. “This is the future.” It’s a sense of wonder Kanye West must feel when he listens to music by Kanye West. That …
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