Marrian Zhou

After Apple Card news, Apple yanks credit card support for Apple Pay Cash

While Apple was showing off its new credit card, the Apple Card, at a splashy event on Monday, it was also quietly making changes to its Apple Pay Cash feature. Apple Pay Cash is a peer-to-peer payment feature that lets you send and receive money through iMessage. The feature also puts a digital card in …

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Samsung Galaxy A70 sports massive ‘Infinity

Samsung on Tuesday unveiled another phone in its midrange Galaxy A series, the Galaxy A70. The Galaxy A70 offers a large, 6.7-inch super AMOLED Infinity-U display. Samsung said that’s the largest display in its Galaxy A lineup (and it’s also bigger than that of the Galaxy S10 Plus). The phone has a 4,500-mAH battery and supports fast charging at 25 …

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Telegram’s delete button lets you take back what you said, literally

You can take back what you said, no matter how long ago. At least on Telegram. The encrypted messaging app on Sunday said it’ll let users unsend anything, taking a strong stand on privacy. The delete button allows you to unsend messages in a one-on-one chat from both the sender’s and receiver’s devices. And there’s no time limit, according to …

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Crunchyroll reportedly raising price to $7.99 a month

You might soon have to pay more to stream anime. Crunchyroll is raising the price of its premium plan from $6.95 to $7.99 a month in the US and Australia, according to TechCrunch’s report on Friday. In the UK, the price will go from £4.99 to £6.50, according to TechCrunch. You can stream anime on Crunchyroll for free, but the …

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Apple’s news subscription likely won’t include New York Times

Apple’s new digital news service won’t be welcomed by everyone. The New York Times, one of the biggest and most prestigious newspapers in the US, will likely not be featured in Apple’s subscription news service, expected to be announced on Monday. “We tend to be quite leery about the idea of almost habituating people to find our journalism somewhere else,” …

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AT&T and Comcast say they’ve hit new milestone in fight against robocalls

One way wireless carriers are working to stop the flood of unwanted robocalls is through authentication systems that verify caller IDs. One drawback so far has been that these systems work only on calls to and from the same provider. On Wednesday, AT&T and Comcast said they’ll offer call authentication between networks later this year. Customers will be able to …

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Alamo Drafthouse movie subscription to launch nationwide this year

Alamo Drafthouse, a theater chain known for its food and drinks, will launch its movie tickets subscription service, Alamo Season Pass, by the end of this year nationwide, according to an Alamo spokesperson. The theater chain has been testing the beta version of Season Pass since July, according to Business Insider, which earlier reported news of this year’s nationwide launch.  …

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Facebook’s new AI tool will help battle revenge porn

Facebook is taking on revenge porn. The social network has added new detection technology and an online resource hub to help prevent non-consensual intimate images, also known as revenge porn. The artificial intelligence-enabled tech is able to detect “near nude images or videos that are shared without permission on Facebook and Instagram,” the social network said Friday, adding that it’s …

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Facebook blames server slipup for longest outage in its history

Facebook’s daylong outage has finally ended.  The troubles first hit the social network — which has more than 2 billion users around the world — around 9 a.m. PT Wednesday, according to outage tracking site Downdetector. At this point on Thursday, more than 24 hours later, users have by and large regained full access. On Thursday, Facebook blamed the problem on …

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DuckDuckGo is now a default search engine option in Chrome

DuckDuckGo is now a default search option in Google’s Chrome browser.  Google included private search engine DuckDuckGo in its updated lists of default search engines for Chrome 73, which the search giant released Tuesday. TechCrunch reported the news earlier. “Starting Chrome M73, we have updated the list of default search engines available in Chrome settings,” said a Google spokesperson in an email statement. …

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