Five Reasons You Should Care Facebook Is Changing Again The Inside Scoop On The Latest Change To Facebook You’ll Never Guess What Facebook Is Doing This Time! So much for headlines like that. The world’s largest social network is going up against internet journalism’s biggest scourge: click bait. You know what I’m talking about. They’re …
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It’s all fun and good until someone tweets the wrong thing. When the Olympics start Friday, social media is likely to light up with pride for sports, countries and various teams as they come together in Rio to compete for the next few weeks. But your local plumber will have to sit it out. Businesses have long been expected to …
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A new update to Microsoft’s Windows 10 is coming, but you’re forgiven if you didn’t know. It turns out not many people are going to tell you. Admittedly, there’s not much to talk about. The list of refinements for Microsoft’s free paper-anniversary update to Win 10 can fit on a small sheet with about a dozen bullet points. The changes …
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The iPhone isn’t even 10 years old, but its impact on the tech industry and on Apple itself has been huge. Now it has reached a new milestone. Apple sold its billionth iPhone last week. CEO Tim Cook announced the milestone during an employee meeting Wednesday, and then the company noted the news online. “We never set out to make …
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What a difference two years make. Back then, when apps like Periscope and Meerkat arrived on mobile phones, live video seemed like a lark for tech nerds and poor college students looking to watch cable TV for free. But within months, protesters in Ferguson, Missouri tapped into the shaky and visceral feel of live video because they understand they can …
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Some people scraped their knees or sprained their ankles. Others smacked into revolving doors, crashed their cars or accidentally walked off cliffs. Some people even ventured into old minefields — the real-life kind that can literally blow you up. No, this isn’t a warning about the perils of drinking too much or experimenting with drugs. This is what people are …
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Can you Yahoo me now? Enlarge Image The Yahoo logo might have a familiar red swoosh before too long. Justin Sullivan, Getty Images After months of speculation, it appears Verizon will be the owner of Yahoo, according to a series of reports, first in Bloomberg News, then confirmed by The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. The deal, …
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In 2008, Barack Obama did it with a text message. Last week, Donald Trump did in it a tweet. Now Hillary Clinton has done it via tech too. The former secretary of state and presumptive Democratic nominee for president of the United States took to Twitter late Friday to announce that she’s picked Tim Kaine, a US senator from Virginia, …
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Here’s a new feature Apple fans don’t want. A group of people is asking Apple not to include features in its iPhones that could allow police and governments to remotely disable their cameras. The technology, which was described in a patent awarded to the company last month, could allow a phone’s camera to be remotely disabled through infrared signals. “The …
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If all else fails, grab a smartphone. When the Turkish military reportedly began shutting down internet services like Facebook and Google during a coup attempt Friday, the country’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, tried a different way to call for help. He held a phone in front of his face and, using Apple’s FaceTime video-chat software, gave an interview to a …
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