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Hey, karma, thanks for biting me so fast. Tuesday, I wrote about this wolf optical illusion, which satisfyingly resolves itself if you sit for 43 seconds and watch the video. And in passing, I mentioned Magic Eye puzzles, which were displayed all over US shopping malls in the 1990s, and which I could never, ever see. Then actress Blake Lively, …

Facebook lovers on Android have another reason to never leave the social network’s entangling arms with the addition of SMS support directly through the Facebook Messenger app. The update, announced yesterday by David Marcus, Facebook’s VP of Messaging Products, will let you send not just texts, but also voice clips, stickers and your location. You’ll be able to use the …

Vizio TVs from the 2010-2011 model year will no longer support the Amazon Video app. That’s the word from Amazon, which notified users of the affected televisions via email. The app will cease to work on August 15. Amazon is offering an olive branch, however: the same email offers affected users a $15 discount on the Amazon Fire TV Stick …

Mobile network Three kicked off its ad-blocking trial on Wednesday by providing the service to a number of customers who have been recruited specifically to take part. Using ad-blocking specialist Shine, Three will expose some users to ad-free browsing experiences while they are connected to its network over a 24-hour period. Ad blocking is on the rise as consumers become …

Users of iOS who have longed dreamed of deleting Apple’s preinstalled apps from their devices will finally get their wish with iOS 10. And now, Apple is taking its own step in that direction by removing its Game Center from the first iOS 10 beta update to developers. Though Apple did not specifically mention Game Center’s removal during its WWDC …

CNET Executive Editor David Carnoy hands me a set of Bose SoundTrue Ultra in-ear headphones and says, “What do you think?” First impressions are really positive, so I keep listening; the sound is clear and extremely open, and these headphones are super-comfortable. It’s been ages since I wrote about a Bose product, but this one demanded my full attention. There …

Privacy, security, corrupt corporations and abuse of power were the big issues addressed in the first season of USA Network’s hit show “Mr. Robot.” However, as the series progresses into ideas of revolution and economic anarchy, it will also experiment with unusual visual-storytelling techniques including virtual reality. “We just shot a VR scene for ‘Mr. Robot,'” Jeff Wachtel, NBCUniversal Cable …

Uber is rewarding your loyalty with free rides — if you’re a Capital One customer. Uber, the globally popular app that lets you dial up a private-hire car from your phone, has partnered with personal-finance company Capital One for the ride-hailing app’s first loyalty program. If you pay with a Quicksilver or QuicksilverOne credit card from now until next March, …

Sky Movies will shortly become Sky Cinema, as the UK broadcaster gives its film offering a revamp. Sky promises that the rebranded service, which kicks in on 8 July, will feature a new premiere every day, as well as 20 percent more movies available to watch on demand. More international films will be part of the proposition, as well as …

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. My first impressions of iOS 10, seeing it up close, were of those smart notifications that now pop up whenever the phone is lifted. No button-pressing necessary. Sure, Android has done that already. But what I liked the most on iOS 10 was …

Apple is stepping up its fight to rid the world of Adobe Flash. Apple’s Safari 10 browser, which will ship with MacOS Sierra later this year, will deactivate Flash by default. Instead it will favor the newer HTML5 technology that has been gaining traction on websites for delivering interactive content. If you encounter a site that can use either Flash …

It didn’t take long for the backlash to smack PayPal CEO Dan Schulman after his company took a stand for LGBT rights in North Carolina. He was on the receiving end of threatening letters and public criticism for his decision in April to kill plans to create a 400-person operations center in Charlotte and walk away from $3 million in …

The gunman behind the worst mass shooting in modern US history referenced the terrorist organization ISIS in a Facebook post moments before the massacre, a source close to the investigation told CBS News. “You kill innocent women and children by doing us airstrikes..now taste the Islamic state vengeance [sic],” Omar Mateen wrote, according to the source. “In the next few …

Are exciting new features coming to the next generation of MacBooks? Memos from the department of rumors say they’re likely! Apple obsessives who examined changes to the company’s public computer code have spotted signs that future laptops will include both Touch ID — Apple’s fingerprint reading technology — as well as something called an OLED Touch Bar, according to 9to5mac. …