So, social media (and all media actually) got it wrong with the predicted outcome of the US presidential election. Enlarge Image #Calexit was trending nationally on Twitter Wednesday morning. Screenshot by CNET But it’s moving onward and upward…or at least westerly in the case of #Calexit. The Brexit-inspired hashtag for a movement calling for California’s …
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Nexedi, a French open-source software developer, is not happy that Apple won’t let rival browsing engines onto the iPhone. So unhappy, in fact, it’s taking the tech giant to court. “We hope (the suit) will help Apple to sooner support the latest Web and HTML5 standards on its iOS platform — the operating system used by all iPhones,” the company …
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You couldn’t pay me to use Microsoft’s new Edge browser. Or could you? Almost three-quarters of Windows 10 users are not using the new operating system’s default Edge browser. So Microsoft is now paying them to make the switch. Microsoft Rewards, announced Wednesday, is a rebranding of Bing Rewards, which gave people points for using Bing as their search engine. …
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Finally, the Pokemon Go app has met its match in Android-land. Google Duo overtakes Pokemon Go in the Google Play Store. Screenshot by Michelle Meyers/CNET Just three days after Google rolled out its new Google Duo video-calling service, the app has climbed to the No. 2 spot on Google’s list of top-free apps for Android. That’s one above the crazy …
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It looks like the email scandal facing the Democratic National Committee amid the presidential race is not likely to go away. In an interview with CNN about the dump last week of 20,000 internal DNC emails, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said his organization has “a lot more material” concerning the US presidential election and might publish it soon. “This is …
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Now playing: Watch this: Password manager LastPass fixes security flaw 1:46 Editor’s note: This story has been updated with news of LastPass fixing the hole. See below. Turns out even LastPass, a service promoted as a password “vault,” might be putting its users at risk of being hacked. A security researcher with an established record of tracking down security flaws …
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Debbie Wasserman Schultz, chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, resigned her position Sunday, the apparent fallout of a WikiLeaks email dump that showed she and other committee officials had disparaged the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign. Schultz, a Florida congresswoman, said in a statement that she would leave her post at the end of the Democratic National Convention taking place this …
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Good news for those still intrigued by the Rayburn family and all its dark secrets. Netflix said Wednesday that it renewed its original series, “Bloodline,” for a third season, to be aired in 2017. Like the recently released second season, Season 3 will be 10 episodes long. Based in the Florida Keys, “Bloodline” centers on a family of adult siblings …
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Yahoo on Wednesday launched new Yahoo Sports and Yahoo Finance pages that it says are cleaner, more modern and more personalized. The redesigns mesh with Yahoo’s new homepage and news site, which were revamped earlier this year. Yahoo Sports is simplified and hopes to do a better job at surfacing “what’s most important to fans: original content, scores, video, news …
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A warning to those San Franciscans who’ve gotten into the illegal hotel business by offering short-term rentals on more than one home: Airbnb is after you. The home-sharing site on Saturday said it’s investigating hosts in the city with multiple listings and plans to give “unwelcome commercial operators” the boot. The company, also based in San Francisco, released data showing …
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