Snapchat adds My Places feature to Snap Map for local recommendations

Snapchat is adding more to its location-sharing feature, Snap Map, with a feature it calls My Places.  The new feature lets Snapchatters discover popular locations and save their favorite places to revisit later. They can also see where they’ve been with the “Visited” tab. It also lets you see where others are in your area …

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Last chance to get a month of Visible wireless for only $5

We’ve written about Visible wireless before and also how you can get the prepaid unlimited service from Verizon for as little as $25 a month. This time around the deal gets even sweeter, with the first month of Visible costing only $5 when you sign up with an eSIM using promo code eSIM5. This offer ends July 29. Sign up at Visible …

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If you’re looking to have fun and get stuff done on the same device, a two-in-one computer — a laptop that becomes a touch-screen tablet when you flip it around — can offer the flexibility you need. Best Buy has shaved $250 off a solid two-in-one pick from HP, knocking the price down to $550 with free shipping. But it’s …

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PS5 sales surpass 10 million, making it Sony’s fastest

The still-hard-to-find PS5 became Sony’s fastest-selling games console after hitting more than 10 million sales worldwide on July 18, the company revealed Wednesday. The next-gen PlayStation, which came out last November, reached that milestone a month faster than the PS4 did after its 2013 launch. It also highlighted some PlayStation Studios games sales — Spider-Man: Miles Morales has sold more …

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Robinhood IPO prices shares at $38, for $32B valuation

Robinhood Markets, the company behind the wildly popular investing app, on Wednesday priced its initial public offering at $38 a share, at the bottom of its expected range. The IPO — one of the most anticipated stock market listings of the year — values the company at about $32 billion. Robinhood sold 55 million shares at low end of its …

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Twitter tests banners showing when your account is suspended or locked

Before now, if your Twitter account was suspended or locked, you’d receive an email. But you might not check it before trying to send a tweet. Now, at least for some users, Twitter doesn’t leave any room for guessing what’s wrong, thanks to a new banner.  The social media giant is testing a banner that shows users if their account …

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Save $40 and charge basically everything with this massive Anker battery

If you are returning to a traveling lifestyle for the first time in almost two years, there’s a good chance you need a good battery backup. It’s easy to find big batteries for cheap, but finding good battery backups are a different challenge. For the sake of simplicity, you really do want a single battery that can charge all of …

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Ferrari F8 Tributo: An homage to the paddle shift

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Surface Duo 2 images leak, Instagram turns on default privacy for teens

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Portable projector pros and cons: Read this before you buy one

Battery-powered portable projectors have come a long way in recent years. These tiny PJs can fit in a backpack yet create TV-sized images on any flat surface. Prices have dropped, yet battery life and brightness have both increased. Many even have built-in streaming services like Netflix and Disney Plus.  We’ve reviewed a bunch of these little light-throwers recently and while they’re …

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Facebook pauses sales of the Oculus Quest 2 due to face irritation concerns

Facebook said on Tuesday that it’s temporarily halting sales of the Oculus Quest 2, a month before a planned update to a new entry-level model with more onboard storage. The move comes after several reported cases of skin reactions to the headset’s included foam faceplate, the social media giant confirmed. In a Facebook post on the issue from earlier this …

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Leaked Surface Duo 2 images show a three

Microsoft is expected to jump back into the foldable phone game this fall, and leaked images appear to give us an idea of what we can look for in an upcoming Surface Duo 2. The source of the images is unknown, but Windows Central called them credible.  The photos show a three-lens camera inside a typical camera bump. The photos, …

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Meet Nothing, the startup betting on earbuds

Back in September, OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei started to contact friends in the tech industry to tell them he wanted to start something new. Since then, Pei has dropped small teasers for his new company, Nothing, even as the details were still wrapped in mystery. On July 27, we’ll see the first product from his venture — the Ear 1 …

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Disney’s cryptic ‘The Streamer’ hype is a new streaming

Disney’s cryptic hype around an event and an account identified as “The Streamer” predictably stoked the company’s rabid fanbases into fits of speculation — but this mystery is all marketing, literally.  Disney Plus’ Twitter account posted an inscrutable eyes-emoji-only tweet Monday afternoon directing followers to a new account called TheStreamer, which was virtually empty except for a little blue verified …

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Instagram will make accounts for teens private by default

Facebook-owned Instagram said Tuesday that it’ll make accounts for some teenagers private by default, a move that comes amid concerns from US politicians that social media could have harmful effects on young people.  Instagram users under the age of 16, or 18 in some countries, will have their accounts set to private by default when they join the social media …

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