Anil Dash/Twitter/screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET Twitter is rolling out an option that can hide offensive tweets from your view. Revealed in a tweet posted Monday by ThinkUp CEO Anil Dash, the feature known as “quality filtering” is intended to “remove all Tweets from your notifications timeline that contain threats, offensive or abusive language, duplicate content, …
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An Apple invention may one day help you track others minute to minute. Apple/USPTO Apple’s current Find My Friends feature could one day expand into more of a Track My Friends feature. Granted to Apple on Tuesday by the US Patent and Trademark Office, a patent called “Sharing location information among devices” describes a process that would let you view …
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Now playing: Watch this: Enable ‘God Mode’ for better Netflix browsing 1:13 Netflix users, are you tired of scrolling left and right on your PC to find a movie or TV show you want to watch? A new bookmarklet for your browser puts an end to all that scrolling. Created by a developer named Renan Cakirerk, the bookmarklet turns on …
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You apparently will be able to hide certain preloaded apps from Samsung’s new Galaxy S phones. Josh Miller/CNET Buy a Samsung Galaxy S6 or S6 Edge, and you apparently won’t be stuck looking at all the apps that come with it. Screenshots of the upcoming Galaxy S6 Edge smartphone posted late last week on the XDA Developers forum show that …
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You’ll soon pay more for Windows Store apps, but only if you live outside the US. Microsoft Windows users who live outside the US will soon have to pay more money for Windows Store apps. Microsoft is raising the prices for apps on currencies in such countries as the UK, Russia, China, Denmark, Sweden and Mexico, blog site Windows Central …
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The road ahead may soon lead to a digital driver’s license on your mobile phone. The printed plastic driver’s license has been a standard for decades, acting not just as proof that you can drive but as an ID to verify your age and identity. Getting issued a license is a rite of passage for many a teenager. The license …
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Microsoft has clarified a recent comment about owners of unlicensed versions of Windows 7 and 8.1 being able to upgrade to Windows 10. At the WinHec conference in China on Tuesday, Microsoft’s operating system chief Terry Myerson told Reuters that “we are upgrading all qualified PCs, genuine and non-genuine, to Windows 10.” The remark was aimed at China where software …
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Reuters is blocked in China along with other news organizations. CNET Reuters is the latest news site to go offline in China. Since late Thursday, Chinese users have unable to access the English or Chinese versions of Reuters news sites, the news service reported Friday. A check at GreatFire.org, which monitors the accessibility of websites in China, showed Reuters as …
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Trade-in site Gazelle has a place for the soon-to-be-released Apple Watch. Apple The Apple Watch is already being eyed for the trade-in market. Web site Gazelle, which buys and sells used devices, announced on Thursday that it plans to add the Apple Watch to its collection. The site will offer to buy the watch from owners who wish to sell …
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The Windows 10 Start screen in the latest build is now transparent. screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET Microsoft has rolled out a new build of its Windows 10 Developer Edition with new features, fixes and enhancements. Launched on Wednesday, Windows 10 Build 10041 adds some tweaks to the Start menu/Start screen, as detailed in a blog post by Gabe Aul, a …
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