Amazon is aiming to hire 55,000 people for corporate and tech jobs around the world in the coming months, CEO Andy Jassy told Reuters on Wednesday. That includes 40,000 jobs in the US. This comes as the e-commerce giant prepares to hold its annual career day on Sept. 15. The new hires would expand Amazon’s corporate …
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Facebook said Tuesday it’s expanding an experiment the company started earlier this year to reduce the amount of political content in people’s New Feeds. In February, the social network said it would test reducing political content for users in the US, Canada, Brazil and Indonesia. After receiving a positive response, Facebook is now testing the reductions in other countries, including Costa …
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Instagram added the ability to limit comments and DM requests from people who don’t follow you, or who only started following you recently, it said in a blog post Wednesday. You can toggle the Limits feature within Instagram’s privacy settings. The Facebook-owned social media platform developed Limits due to creators and public figures experiencing sudden spikes of comments and DM …
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Amazon is updating its returns policy to make filing complaints about faulty products from third-party sellers easier. From Sept. 1, you’ll be able to contact Amazon directly with property damage or personal injury claims, and the company will connect you with the seller. Right now, the e-commerce giant encourages customers to contact sellers directly about problems with their products. Under …
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Pokemon Go developer Niantic on Thursday responded to fan complaints about undoing changes it made to the PokeStop and gym ranges due to the pandemic. The ranges were extended last year to make playing the mobile game from home easier in lockdown. The community urged Niantic to reconsider its decision in an open letter, saying it made the game safer …
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Hulu Plus Live TV is gearing up for 2021’s football season by adding the NFL Network. The service added the live sports offering for subscribers of its core $65-per-month plan. It’s also launching a $10-per-month sports add-in that includes NFL RedZone, Outdoor Channel, Sportsman Channel, MAVTV Motorsports Network, TVG and TVG2. The NFL season is scheduled to kick off on …
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The still-hard-to-find PS5 became Sony’s fastest-selling games console after hitting more than 10 million sales worldwide on July 18, the company revealed Wednesday. The next-gen PlayStation, which came out last November, reached that milestone a month faster than the PS4 did after its 2013 launch. It also highlighted some PlayStation Studios games sales — Spider-Man: Miles Morales has sold more …
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An antiterrorism forum that includes Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube is expanding the types of content its members share to include white supremacists and far-right militias, Reuters reported Monday. The Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism was set up in 2017 to combat terrorist groups’ use of social media sites to share ideas and recruit people to the cause. Its …
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Nintendo on Tuesday revealed its Switch OLED model, the long-awaited upgrade to its hybrid console. It’ll be available on Oct. 8 — the day Metroid Dread comes out — and will cost $350, or $50 more than the original. As of Wednesday morning, Best Buy and GameSpot had product pages for the new Switch, but you can’t preorder just yet. …
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The PlayStation Store is shutting down for PSP next week, but its digital games library isn’t going away. Sony will continue to sell PSP games through the PS3 and Vita stores, as previously reported by Kotaku. From next Tuesday, you’ll no longer be able to search for games on your PSP or make any in-game purchases The company highlighted the …
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