Twitter users in the US and Japan tired of seeing hurtful or irrelevant remarks on their tweets now have a new tool: hiding replies. The feature is part of an experiment the social media site is conducting that could help fuel more positive conversations. To hide a reply, you click on a gray downward arrow …
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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos on Thursday announced The Climate Pledge, a plan to make the sprawling e-commerce and tech company carbon neutral by 2040 and reach a goal of the Paris climate agreement 10 years early. Amazon is asking other companies to sign the pledge too. Now playing: Watch this: Jeff Bezos announces climate pledge 1:05 To reach the carbon-neutral goal, …
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Apple on Friday will take the wraps off its latest and biggest store redesign: its Fifth Avenue location in New York. CNET got a sneak peek at the revamp on Thursday. The new store, which is in the same location right off of Central Park on 59th Street and Fifth Avenue, is double the size of the old one. New …
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Facebook is introducing new, interactive advertising to its News Feed, adding ads that integrate polls, simple gaming and augmented reality into the main destination people go when they check the most popular social network in the world. With more than 2 billion daily active users, Facebook is one of the world’s most powerful advertising giants. Its massive advertising revenue totaled …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. After announcing new hardware last week, including the iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro, Apple is ready to release iOS 13 but iPad users will have to wait a little longer for iPadOS. This is the first time that there have been two different versions of iOS. iOS …
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If you’re looking to pick up an iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, iPhone 11 Pro Max, or any phone for that matter, T-Mobile has announced an exclusive partnership with Apple that allows Apple Card owners to receive 3% Daily Cash back on all purchases in-store. T-Mobile is the exclusive US wireless partner for Apple Card and, since the iPhone 11 …
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Despite losing reigning NL MVP Christian Yelich for the season, the Milwaukee Brewers refuse to die. The club remains very much alive in the NL Central and Wild Card races with the Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals. Milwaukee Brewers fans who also happen to be cable TV cord cutters have a number of ways to watch the Brew Crew …
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Huawei unveiled its newest products, including the Mate 30 and Mate 30 Pro phones, on Thursday in Munich. The Chinese company’s lineup leaked a day early, revealing the possibility of a Watch GT 2, a fitness tracker, a tablet and a TV that uses the Harmony OS. Huawei’s most notable announcement was its new lineup of flagship phones. Mate 30 …
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Nvidia is moving slowly with its GeForce Now cloud-gaming service at a time when it really can’t afford to do so. On Thursday, the company announced a new look (more information!) and an updated search engine for its still-in-limited-beta service, following up its August announcement of an upcoming Android app. But it’s still without a price or launch date at …
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Popular travel-planning app TripIt unveiled new features Thursday aimed at helping women and LGBTQ travelers navigate neighborhoods safely. The app’s new Neighborhood Safety Scores include the following categories: physical harm, women’s safety, health and medical, political freedoms, theft and LGBTQ safety. The app also displays a separate day and night safety rating for each neighborhood. “The last thing you want …
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A new feature in iOS 13 will all but eliminate robocalls, spam calls and solicitors from ringing your iPhone ($899 at Amazon) — whether it’s a new iPhone 11 or 11 Pro or an older iPhone 6S ($190 at eBay). In fact, with the new Silence Unknown Callers feature turned on, the only time your iPhone will ring is if you …
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Airbnb has announced that it intends to go public in 2020. The home-sharing site on Thursday posted a brief press release announcing that it plans to become a publicly traded company next year. It declined to provide additional details in today’s announcement. In a press release published yesterday, however, the company highlighted a number of recent milestones. Airbnb says it took in …
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Huawei unveiled its latest premium smartphones — the Mate 30 and Mate 30 Pro — on Thursday, at an event in Munich. The new phones, particularly the Mate 30 Pro, will compete with Apple’s new iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro, Samsung’s Galaxy Note 10 phones and the upcoming Google Pixel 4, launching on Oct. 15. The Mate 30 phones …
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Update, April 22: Read our iPhone SE 2020 review. Original story follows. The iPhone 11 may not launch until Friday, but our review is already out and according to CNET’s Scott Stein, it’s the best midtier phone Apple has ever made. New iPhones aren’t the only thing Apple is launching this week — Apple releases iOS 13 for iPhone and iPod Touch …
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Apple’s cameras and photo tools stole the show, as per usual, when iOS 13 was announced at WWDC 2019, and with the release of the iPhone 11. The last few versions of the iPhone have made the devices’ cameras competitive with those used by professionals. And iOS 13 has several new features for its camera and photo app that will take …
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