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Google dials up the creepy factor and targets families

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. A touch on the creepy side? Google/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. Lifelogging, surveillance and self-obsession walk into a bar…. Oh, you watched the Google show on Wednesday too, did you? I was moved by many things in …

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HP Spectre x360 has instant privacy screen, 10

Over its past couple generations, HP‘s 13.3-inch Spectre x360 has turned into an excellent premium two-in-one. With this latest redesign, though, it might now be the best.  Using customer feedback, HP refined the Spectre x360 where users felt it was needed. The system is now available with eighth-gen Intel Core i5 and i7 processors including a quad-core option while its …

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Walmart voice shopping on Google Home is now live

Voice shopping with Walmart and Google is officially here. The world’s largest retailer in August said it would start offering a chunk of its inventories for sale on the Google Express shopping site and app, as well as on the Google Home smart speaker through voice shopping. Timed to Google’s hardware launch event Wednesday, Walmart said customers can now start …

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AT&T CEO makes the case for Time Warner megamerger

The biggest benefit of AT&T’s $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner? Cheaper prices for consumers, fueled mostly by more targeted advertising. That’s what AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson said Wednesday at the Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit in Beverly Hills. Stephenson said not many people can afford the $110 to $120 a month cable companies charge for their traditional TV bundle. …

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How to delete your Yahoo account and move to Gmail

The biggest data breach in history just tripled in size. Yahoo announced Tuesday that every single one of its 3 billion accounts were hacked from a 2013 breach. At the time of the attack, Yahoo claimed 1 billion accounts had been hacked, but after Verizon took over Yahoo, the company investigated further and discovered that all of its approximately 3 billion …

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Google announces ‘Made for Google’ certification program

Google announced a partner certification program called “Made for Google” on Wednesday as part of its Pixel 2 hardware event.  The company will now recommend third-party accessories to accompany your Google-brand devices, so you can easily add them to your shopping cart when you buy your next Pixel phone.  It’s official, we are a #MadeforGoogle partner for the #Pixel2. pic.twitter.com/wnhB5zBeiW — …

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Google Glass lives on inside Google’s new Pixel products

Back in 2013, I was boarding a New Jersey Transit train with a piece of metal and plastic on my head. Google Glass ended up being a symbol of many things — the technology industry’s cavalier invasions of privacy, or its increasing elitism — but its promise of a cyborg future didn’t ever really arrive.  More from Google’s event Google …

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