Instagram on Tuesday introduced a feature that lets you Mute accounts without unfollowing them. With it, you can filter out the oversharers, brands you only follow for the deals, miserable photographers, people who costume their cats or hashtag-happy friends from your feed — and they’ll never be notified, so no hurt feelings. But when asked …
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Acer’s quick to grab the credit for shipping out Alexa-enabled laptops, but the reality is more complicated. The manufacturer sent out a press release Monday morning declaring “First!” on shipping laptops with Amazon’s voice assistant preinstalled. That’s fine, but the first notebook to ship with it installed will be the Acer Nitro 5 Spin, which won’t be shipping until next month. …
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The pressure is easing off on Huawei, and the company is taking full advantage. The Chinese mobile hardware manufacturer first announced its MateBook Pro X laptop at MWC in February. But thanks to bad karma such as government agencies banning its phones and Best Buy dropping its products, the laptops been scarce in the US. Now that things are cooling off a …
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If you were worried there would be no way to combine your love of Apple products with your zealous following of all things royal-wedding related, fear not: Purveyor of golden Apple products, Goldgenie, has got you covered with its limited-edition 24-carat gold iPhone X engraved with Harry and Meghan. Not just the couple, either — on the iPhone X Diamond …
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Gray G. Lee, head of the AI Center at Samsung Research, says the company’s next flagship smartphone will incorporate an upgraded version of its AI, Bixby 2.0, according to an interview with the Korea Herald. Enhancements to Bixby will include better natural-language processing, improved noise cancelling and faster response. The next big Samsung unveiling is probably its summer Unpacked event, which …
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A project codenamed Google A65 is thought to be a standalone AR headset, and now we may have more details about it. German news site Winfuture.de says it has documents that indicate Google’s working with Taiwanese manufacturer Quanta on the augmented reality headset. Google’s previously worked with Quanta on the Pixel C tablet. The headset is expected to include camera sensors and …
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Facebook is rolling out updates to its Stories feature. The aim is to make it more attractive to people who can’t use Stories the way it is now — and therefore don’t use it at all. The changes allow people to save or archive Facebook Camera clips in their accounts. This saves the limited storage space while giving you the …
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I could try to describe Microsoft’s upcoming Surface Hub 2 — a scalable, 4K, 50.5-inch touchscreen display, videowall collaboration conferencing system that you can roll around, but I bet you already yawned halfway through that sentence. Just watch the video. I’ll wait. Doesn’t it make you want to sneak into the office at night and see what games and movies …
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There’s no doubt about it now. The Galaxy Tab S4 is on its way, and it’ll likely be here in July. Sammobile has been watching the development of the Tab S4 and the site reported Tuesday that the most recent Bluetooth certification for Samsung’s device in progress used the name outright. The Tab S4 is likely to be launched in …
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WhatsApp is adding new features to streamline group chats and make it easier to manage your groups. Facebook’s popular messaging client announced the new features on its blog Tuesday. They include: A group description visible to all members Restrictions over who can edit the subject, icon and description of a group A single-tap “what’s new” button to see new postings …
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