Twitter removes posts celebrating attack in Nice

Twitter reacted to the truck attack in France last week by quickly deleting pro-attack tweets. The attack, in which a truck rammed a Bastille Day celebration in Nice, killed 84 people and injured another 200. In the first hour following the attack, at least 50 accounts appeared on Twitter using #Nice in Arabic to praise …

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Nokia

The Nokia name may get to live on with at least a couple of high-end phones reportedly set to debut in late 2016 or early 2017. HMD Global, which purchased the Nokia brand from Microsoft this past May, is said to be developing two Android smartphones with a metal design and the “famous Nokia feel,” Nokia fan blog NokiaPowerUser said …

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iTunes Match soon coming to all Apple Music subscribers

Apple will roll out its iTunes Match service to all Apple Music subscribers, starting Monday, according to Apple news site The Loop. That means it’ll use an algorithm to judge which song is in your iTunes library and then add it to your account, making it available for you to listen to from the cloud. Apple and music Apple Music …

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Download Amazon videos to your Android SD card

The Amazon Video app allows Android users to download movies and TV shows for offline viewing, but only if the phone or tablet has space to accommodate the videos. Given the sizes of those downloads, you might quickly find yourself short on storage. If only the app would allow you to save downloads to a memory card! That was always …

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How to get emojis on your Mac

Years ago, I was convinced emojis were a fad. That like many tech trends, it would come and go and we would soon forget about the miniature emotion depictions. Fast forward to today and those tiny images have permeated just about every form of digital text. Emojis are included in the vast majority of my text messages and IMs. They …

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Fujifilm’s latest Wonder Photo Shop pops up in New York

Joining its kin in Tokyo, Barcelona, Bogata, Manila, Shanghai and Singapore, Fujifilm’s Wonder Photo Shop gets its US debut this Friday, July 22, in New York City at 176 Fifth Avenue. As with many manufacturers, the company’s brick-and-mortar stores will show off the company’s imaging product lines — these include the Instax print digital cameras and various enthusiast-targeted camera models …

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See Turf dancing in 360 degrees with 100 GoPros

Intense emotions expressed with creative street dancing moves, laid out on a cardboard mat for a crowd that’s feeling it. That’s Turf dancing, and it already looks awesome. But GoPro tried to up the ante by capturing turf dancers in the San Francisco Bay Area with a custom 360 degree array of cameras that shows their fluid contortions from every …

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Netflix’s swelling prices are starting to creep people out

Now playing: Watch this: Netflix reports worst member growth in three years 1:29 Pay close attention to this article, dear reader: Netflix believes you’re getting duped into cancelling by the media. Netflix reported its worst member growth in three years Monday, losing some subscribers in the latest quarter because of rolling price increases in big markets like the US. The …

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SoftBank to grab chip designer ARM for $32 billion

Now playing: Watch this: Chip designer ARM to be acquired by Softbank for $32… 1:52 SoftBank is headed for your smart home, or at least for a device you might use to control that home. The Japanese telecommunications giant took a big step in that direction Monday with the announcement of its planned acquisition of chip designer ARM Holdings for …

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Alleged iPhone 7 goes up against iPhone 6S in video clip

A video of an alleged dummy iPhone 7 reveals only a few enhancements over its predecessor. Published on French website Nowhereelse.fr, Chinese blog site Weibo and YouTube, the video offers a tour of a purported Apple iPhone 7 dummy unit and an iPhone 6S. The video shows off some much-rumored features for this year’s model, including dual speakers and a …

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How to view two Safari tabs at the same time on iOS 10

Now playing: Watch this: Apple’s iOS 10 hits public beta — should you test it?… 5:41 Apple dedicated all of 15 seconds to iOS 10’s addition of Split View Safari tabs on the iPad during this year’s WWDC keynote. Despite how brief the mention was, the ability to view two webpages at once is something that iPad users had begged …

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Video of purported iPhone 7 bores us

Now playing: Watch this: Yet another iPhone 7 leak? 1:19 A video claims to show off a dummy unit of the next iPhone along with an iPhone 6S. The design of the dummy is in line with other leaked images. There’s a big, fat lens that protrudes from the body of the device. Otherwise, the design is more of the …

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​Fingernails with embedded chip make for an easier commute

British jewelry designer Lucie Davis created the kind of manicure that could make daily commutes not only easier, but a lot more fashionable. Davis used an RFID chip from an Oyster card — the kind of prepaid card commuters use to quickly pay for their rides on public transportation — and embedded it in a set of blue and white …

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Yahoo making ‘great progress’ on sale. But to what end?

Once again, Yahoo is giving the world an update on how its business is doing. And once again, no one really cares. What people really want to hear about is what exactly is going on with the lumbering internet giant’s effort to sell itself. The deadline for the next — and possibly final — round of bids is reportedly Monday. …

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