Why is Ellen Pao leaving Reddit? “Ultimately, the board asked me to demonstrate higher user growth in the next six months than I believe I can deliver while maintaining reddit’s core principles.” Justin Sullivan, Getty Images The following is the (unedited) letter Ellen Pao posted to the Reddit community after resigning Friday as CEO: After …
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Amazon.com Nicole Cozma/CNET Amazon provides a relatively private shopping experience. Whether you’re just price-checking on gifts for friends and family, or searching for items that you might be embarrassed to look at in public, you can do it all from your computer. Unfortunately, looking up these items will add them to your browsing history, and they can also appear on …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Screenshot by Rick Broida/CNET Editors’ Note, July 9, 2015, 1:15 p.m. PT:The iOS 9 public beta is now available. You can find updated instructions on how to download and install the beta here. As expected at today’s Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple unveiled iOS …
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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. Charge all the things. ChargeTech This is an update of a deal I shared earlier this year on a product that proved to be immensely popular. Now you can get more juice for …
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T-Mobile CEO John Legere at a company event in March. Sarah Tew/CNET T-Mobile is opening up the borders to Mexico and Canada for its subscribers. The fourth-largest wireless carrier in the US on Thursday said it would allow customers use their smartphones — to make calls, send text messages and browse the mobile Web — in both countries without any …
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The OnePlus One successor is expected to feature a USB Type-C port. Aloysius Low/CNET More than a year after dipping its toes into the smartphone space with the OnePlus One , OnePlus is set to deliver its second model later this month. Thanks to OnePlus’ forums and Twitters posts, we expect a Snapdragon 810 processor and a whopping 4GB of …
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iOS 8 launched in the fall of last year after a necessary beta testing phase. CNET Announced at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference in June, the beta releases for iOS 9 and Mac OS X El Capitan have been available for some time for developers who have an account at Apple. But starting today, anyone with an Apple ID can participate …
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T-Mobile’s “Uncarrier” campaign continues to pay dividends in the form of new customers. T-Mobile and Sprint are in a tight race for the nation’s third-largest carrier. Josh Miller/CNET The Bellevue, Washington-based wireless carrier said Thursday that it added a net 2.1 million subscribers in the second quarter, boosting its subscriber base to 58.9 million as of the end of that …
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Google is pushing out the Android M Developer Preview 2. James Martin/CNET Android M developers get their next taste of Google’s evolving operating system with Preview 2 build, announced on Thursday. Just as Google promised on its timeline, the first update to the Android M developer preview build improves Wi-Fi and Bluetooth location performance, as well as USB connection behaviors. …
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Now playing: Watch this: Showtime enters the streaming game 2:24 Subscribe to Netpicks and stay up-to-date: iTunes (HD) | iTunes (HQ) | iTunes (SD) RSS (HD) | RSS (HQ) | RSS (SD) Crackle‘s free movie library just landed “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” The Steven Spielberg classic has a 96 percent freshness rating over at Rotten Tomatoes. To balance …
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Jawbone and Fitbit are at war over alleged trade secret violations. CNET Two wearable companies that have been battling in the marketplace are now increasingly finding themselves at odds in courtrooms. Wearable device maker Jawbone has filed a complaint with the International Trade Commission (ITC) against competitor Fitbit, arguing that the company stole its trade secrets by poaching employees. The …
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First things first: Yes, Apple has released iOS 9 as a public beta, but that doesn’t mean it’s ready for everyday use. In fact, I’d suggest you stay away if you don’t like troubleshooting issues. And even after you’ve attempted to fix the issue, there are times when you simply have to live with an app not working or a …
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Adventurous Apple users, your public beta updates have arrived. Apple released public beta versions of the upcoming operating systems for iPhones, iPads and Mac computers. It’s the first time Apple has released a major update to the public under beta. (Before, only developers had access.) But if you want to take an early peek, be prepared for bugs: Now playing: …
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Lytro Most pro or enthusiast cameras may receive one or two firmware updates in their first year. The Lytro Illum light-field camera had more than a dozen. Some of those have been bug fixes or other tweaks, but many have been for adding new features and improving performance including its latest update to version 2.0. Lytro’s cameras are best known …
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XBox Music for iOS and Android can now play songs directly from OneDrive. screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET If you’re an iOS or Android user of Microsoft’s Xbox Music app, you no longer need to fork over $10 a month to access most of the software’s key features. Released Thursday, the latest versions of Xbox Music for iOS and Android offer …
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