Facebook is changing its News Feed again, and you’ll never guess how!

Five Reasons You Should Care Facebook Is Changing Again The Inside Scoop On The Latest Change To Facebook You’ll Never Guess What Facebook Is Doing This Time! So much for headlines like that. The world’s largest social network is going up against internet journalism’s biggest scourge: click bait. You know what I’m talking about. They’re …

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This carrier still boasts the fastest network in the nation

You’re streaming a stroll through Central Park on Facebook Live. You walk to Belvedere Castle and the feed freezes. You’re in a dreaded deadzone. It’s at this moment when you wonder who actually has the best wireless coverage. OpenSignal, a wireless coverage mapping firm, is attempting to answer that question. In a test of network quality, T-Mobile came out on …

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Rounding up the latest VR

Now playing: Watch this: Testing the newest Nvidia 1080 gaming desktops 1:31 The rise of virtual-reality headsets, including the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, has led to a surprising arms race in gaming desktops, a category that’s languished in the past few years. Adding fuel to the fire is a new generation of graphics cards, the most important component in …

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Who leaked that ‘Suicide Squad’ song? Reddit has answers, record label says

Atlantic Records is on the hunt for whoever leaked a song from the “Suicide Squad” soundtrack, and it’s demanding Reddit help to find the culprit, according to TorrentFreak. Sometime around June 15, the song “Heathens” by Twenty One Pilots was uploaded to dropfile and leaked to the band’s subreddit, a forum made by Reddit users to discuss the band. Atlantic …

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Apple Music’s Android app officially ready to rock

Apple Music is now available as a fully fledged app and service for owners of Android smartphones. A test version of Apple’s streaming-music service had been up for grabs for Android since last November. But now Apple must feel the product is ready for the masses as the official edition landed in the Google Play store on Wednesday. The Android …

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Microsoft wields Windows 10 notifications against Chrome browser

Microsoft is keeping up its campaign against Google’s Chrome browser, using Windows 10 notifications to persuade users to stop using Chrome and switch to its own Edge browser instead. The software giant in June came out with a blog post that claimed Edge delivers more battery life for users of Windows 10 than Chrome, Firefox and Opera. The notifications, such …

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Strava adds new Beacon feature aimed at keeping runners and cyclists safe

Strava, a popular app for runners and cyclists, has announced a new safety feature for premium members. The feature, called Beacon, lets users broadcast their real-time location to friends and family members. Here’s how it works. You turn Beacon on before you start an activity and then select up to three contacts you would like to share your location with …

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Thrifty Thursday: 3 deals you won’t want to miss

CNET’s Cheapskate scours the Web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. And find more great buys on the CNET Deals page. Hey, cheeps, quick note — in the past week I’ve struck out twice trying to bring you a killer Bluetooth-speaker deal, by which …

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Staring match: Galaxy Note 7 locks eyes on tougher security

It’s OK to be a little afraid. Over the last few years, hackers have stolen customer data from household names like Target, Home Depot and T-Mobile. A hacker reportedly has 200 million Yahoo credentials for sale. You can’t be blamed for feeling paranoid. That goes double when it comes to your phone, which is increasingly the center of your life. …

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Netflix glitch puts Aziz Ansari stand

Aziz Ansari already has a pretty thick resume — he’s an actor, stand-up comic and even an author. Now, he can add documentary narrator to that list. Sort of. Reddit user BenMeiri84 this week apparently discovered that Netflix had inadvertently taken subtitles from Ansari’s “Live from Madison Square Garden” special and added them to a nature documentary. The internet suspects …

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iPhone 7 Plus purported mockup reveals blue paint job and more

The iPhone 7 Plus may come in a shade of blue, at least according to a mockup of the device displayed in an online video. The mockup isn’t a real iPhone but rather a body, designed by a developer of wireless headphones named Besound, that’s supposedly based on the specs for the real thing. YouTube account Unbox Therapy received the …

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Why you should enable Data Saver in Chrome for Android right now

If any one company knows how people consume video online, it’s Google, which claims people watch over 1 billion hours of video in Chrome every week, much of which is done via mobile. Video is easily one of the biggest reasons you blow past your monthly data allotment each month and, likewise, the cause of those awful overage charges on …

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Google gets sweet on Olympics with Fruit Games doodles

Google wants you to know that the Olympics aren’t the only games in town. To mark the opening of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro on Friday, the web giant is launching a series of interactive doodles championing its own 2016 Doodle Fruit Games. During the next couple of weeks, fruit such as coconuts, strawberries and watermelons from …

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How to set up, use the new Apple TV Remote app

The day has come, Apple made good on its promise and released an improved Apple TV Remote app. It’s an entirely different app from the rather old Remote app Apple that has been available for several years now. Effectively, your iPhone is now capable of replacing the Siri Remote that comes with the newest Apple TV. Setup is a breeze …

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