Facebook, Instagram push masks for COVID

Facebook on Thursday said it’ll start pushing information on face coverings and other preventive measures for COVID-19 on its platform, as well as on Instagram, which it owns. This comes as the US sees an increase in cases across the country.  All US users will see an alert at the top of their Facebook news …

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Following Facebook, Intel invests in Indian internet giant Jio

Intel is investing millions of dollars for a small stake in India’s largest telecom operator as it seeks to further tap into the world’s second largest internet market.  The deal will see the US tech company sink in $253 million dollars for a 0.39% stake in Jio Platforms, according to a statement published on Friday. Jio Platforms — a digital unit of …

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The five best laptop deals at Dell’s summer Cyber Savings sale

If you’re in the market for a back-to-school or work-from-home laptop, Dell has a number of models on sale. The company is currently offering deep discounts on a wide variety of products, from monitors and desktops to Chromebooks and gaming laptops. You can see all of Dell’s Cyber Savings deals here, and keep reading to check out five of the …

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Fake 5G coronavirus theories have real

Telephone engineer David Snowdon was just returning to his van after an assignment repairing a cell site when a car sped past him, spun around and stopped right in front of him. Two men got out of the vehicle and asked him if he had anything to do with 5G masts. “You better not be or there will be fucking …

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Twitter removes image from Trump tweet for violating copyright policy

Twitter removed an image from one of President Donald Trump’s tweets on Wednesday for violating copyright policy.  The now removed image, which was reported on earlier by Axios, was a photo of Trump taken by Damon Winter for The New York Times in 2015. The president had added text to the top and bottom of the image turning the photo …

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Sprint customers say goodbye to their 5G service

T-Mobile has switched off Sprint’s 5G network, three months after the carrier’s $26.5 billion merger with Sprint was completed on April 1. It’s redeploying the airwaves as part of its own 5G service, but unless Sprint’s 5G customers have a Samsung Galaxy S20 5G, they’ll need a new phone to use T-Mobile’s 5G network. Though T-Mobile already made this move in …

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YouTube TV gets stronger in 2020

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Zuckerberg to meet with boycott group, iPhone may face delays

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The 2021 Hyundai Elantra is a bold move

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Digitizing my old Hi8 tape collection

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Not even the coronavirus can derail 5G’s global momentum

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. This was supposed to be the year 5G went mainstream. Huge swaths of the world would be blanketed with coverage. Every major handset maker — including Apple — would offer a wide variety of 5G phones. After years of hype and last year’s …

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Samsung’s mistake

This story is part of CNET at 25, celebrating a quarter century of industry tech and our role in telling you its story. I knew I wanted to work at CNET the moment Samsung introduced its Galaxy S4 in March 2013. The S4 itself wasn’t the reason — it was a great phone, but that point was lost in the awkward way …

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Galaxy Note 20 Ultra may have leaked on Samsung website

Samsung’s rumored to unveil the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra as one of its new Note phones on Aug. 5. Now, we may be getting an early look at the phone directly from Samsung.  A purported image of the Note 20 Ultra was spotted Wednesday on the Russian version of Samsung’s website. It was apparently noticed by a Russian YouTuber and later …

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Get this 20,000

These days, I’m not interested in a power bank unless it packs a lot of power — at least 20,000 mAh, for example — and has some really interesting features, like Power Delivery (PD), Quick Charge (QC), lots of ports, USB-C, a flashlight or solar charging. Today I have one that checks a lot of those boxes, Not all of …

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