Facebook said Thursday it identified and removed hundreds of pages and accounts linked to Myanmar military efforts to spread fake news and hate speech, which has fueled deadly violence in the country. In all, Facebook said it removed 425 Facebook pages, 135 Facebook accounts, 17 Facebook groups and 15 Instagram accounts linked to the Myanmar …
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More American adults than ever are expected to sport a smartwatch on their wrist next year, and many of them will be older Baby Boomers, according to new projections released Thursday. The percentage of US adults who use a smartwatch will cross the 10 percent milestone for the first time in 2019, predicts research firm eMarketer. About 28.7 million Americans …
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Amazon has good news for last-minute holiday shoppers: the internet retailer said Thursday it’s extending its free shipping without a minimum purchase until Dec. 18 for items that arrive in time for Christmas. And for Amazon Prime customers who really like to procrastinate, Amazon said it will offer free two-hour delivery right up to midnight on Christmas Eve — just …
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The world had World Cup fever this year. And so did the internet. And that was evident in what people searched for online. Google said Wednesday that its top trending topic in the US and worldwide in 2018 was “World Cup.” In Google parlance, “top trending” means it had the highest spike in traffic over a certain period of time …
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Amazon Prime customers went bananas for the e-commerce giant’s fast delivery option in 2018. Literally. Amazon Prime subscribers, who pay $119, £79 or AU$59 annually for perks such as free shipping and access to music, movies and TV shows, purchased more than 2 billion items on the site with one-day or faster delivery, the internet retailer said Sunday. And the …
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Users of Apple’s wireless earbud line can expect some major upgrades in the next two years, a prominent Apple analyst predicts. Apple will release upgraded AirPods with “wireless charging support” in the first quarter of 2019, Ming-Chi Kuo forecast in a note seen by AppleInsider. The earbuds are also expected to get an upgrade to Bluetooth 5.0 and a W-series …
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Microsoft has been awarded a $480 million contract to supply the US Army with prototype HoloLens augmented reality systems for use in combat missions and training, according to a filing with the General Services Administration. The contract could eventually lead to the military purchasing over 100,000 AR headsets as part of a program to “increase lethality by enhancing the ability …
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Apple is in talks with the Department of Veterans Affairs to give military veterans portable access to their electronic medical records, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. Apple would create software tools to allow the VA’s 9 million veterans to transfer their electronic health records to iPhones under the plans being discussed, the Journal reported. An update to Apple’s mobile …
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It’s official. Amazon on Tuesday announced New York City and Arlington, Virginia, as the locations for new headquarters. The company plans to employee more than 25,000 people at each location. More specifically, the locations are Long Island City in New York City’s Queens borough and National Landing (a new name for the Crystal City neighborhood) in Arlington, Virginia. Amazon also said …
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The worldwide smartphone slump is officially a year old. Global shipments of smartphones tumbled to 360 million units in the third quarter, an 8 percent annual decline, market researcher Strategy Analytics said Thursday. The results mark the fourth-straight quarter that smartphone shipments have declined. The smartphone market “is effectively in a recession,” Linda Sui, director at Strategy Analytics, said in …
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