Now playing: Watch this: 200 million Yahoo credentials may be for sale 1:41 You come up with complex password for you Yahoo account: two uppercase letters, three numbers and you didn’t use any part of your username. You assume your account is safe. That may not be the case. A hacker known as “Peace” claims …
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NFL cozies up to Snapchat with Discover channel
“We’re excited to expand our partnership with Snapchat, delivering compelling NFL content to a platform where millions of our fans around the world interact on a daily basis,” said Blake Stuchin, Director, Digital Media Business Development for the National Football League NFL will be all over your Snapchat this season. Amazon Studios Snapchat wants everyone’s attention…even die-hard football fans. Snapchat …
Read More »Instagram crash may require app’s reinstallation
Refresh, reinstall and cry because the fun of picking between photo filters Lo-Fi and Valencia was at a standstill. That’s a pretty apt description of what some Instagram users experienced Monday. The popular photo-sharing app crashed on Monday night and a handful of users could not even find it in an app store, International Business Times reported. Instagram sent out …
Read More »Pokemon Go cinches 75 million downloads
While you’re out trying to catch them all, Pokemon Go is breaking records left and right. The instantly popular app now has been downloaded 75 million times, according to Sensor Tower, a mobile app analytics group. That’s on top of some already impressive numbers. Pokemon Go hit its first 50 million in just 19 days, far surpassing the pace of …
Read More »Venmo users can make purchases, split checks
Venmo wants to make buying takeout with your friends as easy as possible. The PayPal-owned company on Tuesday said it will release a feature that enables users to make purchases and split the bill at participating stores’ apps, expanding on its digital payment platform. Venmo launched a beta version for a handful of users in early 2016. Starting Wednesday, everyone …
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Attention, video addicts: T-Mobile has added 16 new video services to its Binge On streaming program. The company’s program now boasts four times more services than it started with, highlighting Binge On’s rapid growth, the company said Tuesday. T-Mobile customers have streamed 765 million hours (or 87,000 years) of video on the platform since it kicked off in November. Among …
Read More »Meet Ava, the wearable that helps couples get pregnant
There’s a wearable for just about everything these days. Fake nails to help you commute. A strap-on chair for tired physicians. A Pokemon Go-connected band. Now there’s a wearable designed to help women trying to get pregnant. Ava, a Swiss startup, on Tuesday started shipping a $199 bracelet that tracks a woman’s fertility cycles and helps her figure out the …
Read More »Game based on Netflix’s ‘Narcos’ lets you play kingpin
Ever wanted to be a drug kingpin? Well, now you can try out the lifestyle without a stint in jail. Narcos: Cartel Wars is a mobile game based on the hit Netflix series “Narcos” that lets you step into role of cartel kingpin. The game was made by Gaumont Television, which produces “Narcos,” and FTX Games, reported Variety, and will …
Read More »RNC tweets spike Thursday night
Even though Stephen Colbert tried to steal the show, the RNC’s Twitter numbers blew him out of the water at the end of the week. The Republican National Convention concluded on Thursday night with its highest Twitter numbers of the week: 2 million tweets were sent out by 470,000 people throughout the prime-time convention broadcast, according to Nielsen Social, which …
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Forget the drama of “Pretty Little Liars” and action of “WWE SmackDown!,” this week people are turning to Twitter to talk about the Republican National Convention. On Monday, 1.6 million tweets were sent by 449,000 people in the US about the first night of the RNC, according to Nielsen Social, which tracks Twitter activity around TV series and events. On …
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