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Twitter drops the number of people you can follow in a day

“Don’t worry, you’ll just be fine,” says Twitter. The social media platform on Monday said it decreased the number of people you can follow everyday from 1,000 to 400 in an effort to curb spammers.  “Follow, unfollow, follow, unfollow. Who does that? Spammers,” the company wrote in a tweet. “So we’re changing the number of accounts you can follow each …

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New Logitech Zone Wireless headphone is built for the open office

Logitech stopped by recently to give me an early look its new Zone Wireless stereo Bluetooth headset that’s specifically geared toward folks working in open-office environments. It hits stores later this month for $200 (£200, $AU320). While Logitech is calling it a headset, it’s really an on-ear active noise-cancelling headphone with an integrated boom microphone. What makes it unique is …

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Netflix axes Apple AirPlay support

If you stream Netflix on your iPhone or iPad, the app will no longer support Apple AirPlay. This means that you won’t be able to cast shows on Netflix from your iOS device to your Apple TV.  The change on the streaming site’s support page was spotted late last week by MacRumors.   Netflix’s note says AirPlay is “no longer supported” due to “technical …

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Microsoft releases its Google Chrome

Microsoft, having given up on its own core browser technology, has released test versions of its Edge browser built instead on the same foundations as Google’s Chrome. “In these first builds we are very much focused on the fundamentals and have not yet included a wide range of feature and language support that will come later,” said Joe Belfiore, Microsoft’s …

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Back in 1995, printing company Quad/Graphics didn’t let its employees in Saratoga, New York, access the internet. But that didn’t stop the workers from figuring out a way to get online during business hours. The employees dialed long distance — that was a thing back then — to a free dial-up internet service called Libraries Without Walls that was offered …

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iPhone XS: 9 biggest annoyances and how to fix them

It’s been over a year since Apple released the first iPhone ($899 at Amazon) without a home button, the iPhone X, and switched to gesture controls. We now have the iPhone X, iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, and iPhone XR that all rely on gesture navigation and facial recognition to unlock the phone and move around. Whether you just upgraded from an older iPhone or …

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Yank out that USB drive in Windows 10 without ejecting first

if you’ve upgraded to Windows 10’s October 2018 release (and are current on updates), you can now remove USB storage devices without ejecting them first. If you ever bothered to do it in the first place. In the past, you needed to eject writable removable USB storage because Windows defaulted to “Better performance,” which delayed writes to improve speed, rather …

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Samsung Galaxy S10 sensor reportedly duped by a 3D

The all-new ultrasonic fingerprint reader baked into the Samsung Galaxy S10 and Galaxy S10 Plus is meant to be so secure that you can’t fool it with a fake finger. A video posted to the image-sharing site Imgur claims to have done just that in under 15 minutes. Imgur user Darkshark said a 3D print of his own fingerprint fooled the Samsung Galaxy …

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