The tendency of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 to catch fire has led to the company’s global recall of around 2.5 million of the phones, to be replaced with new, safe units. Samsung could have another problem on its hands, though, as a Chinese man says a brand new Note 7 exploded on him, Bloomberg …
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More than 80 million people tuned in Monday night for the first presidential debate. And that was just on TV. The numbers are still being sorted out, but millions more watched the spirited give-and-take between Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other streaming services. Facebook said real-time video of the debate was streamed 55 …
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Now playing: Watch this: Snapchat is getting really serious about voting selfies 1:25 Happy election season! The internet really, really wants you to vote A Google Doodle shows you how to register to vote Where can you vote? This f*&%ing site can help With the 2016 presidential election just a few weeks away, there’s no better time than right now …
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Yes, for years Facebook failed to notice it was overestimating a video metric, but don’t worry about it: None of its now 4 million advertisers paid any attention to the measurement to begin with, Facebook executives said Tuesday. “Universally, I’ve heard that nobody has actually unitized that metric,” Carolyn Everson, the company’s vice president of global marketing solutions, said at …
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Want your hit of YouTube videos without the massive data bill? Unveiled in India earlier this week, YouTube Go is a new app designed to solve a particular problem for a big subset of users. Billed as a way of “bringing YouTube to the next generation of viewers” by YouTube’s VP of product management Johanna Wright, it’s a low-data, low-connectivity …
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Amazon is adding muscle to its original offerings for 2017. Boosting a lineup that already includes “Transparent” and “The Man in the High Castle,” Amazon Prime will stream three new original programs: “The Tick,” “Jean-Claude Van Johnson” and “I Love Dick.” Amazon Studios gave the go-ahead to all three shows Tuesday. They’ll be available in the US, UK, Germany, Austria …
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Taking a selfie in front of the Eiffel Tower at night is illegal. Sound ridiculous? Perhaps you’re not familiar with an outdated European Union copyright law. To help you protest the law, should you wish to protest, Mozilla released a web app called Post Crimes. Simply upload a picture and the app will superimpose it onto a photo of a …
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If a shiny new OnePlus 3 is on your shopping list, you’re no longer limited to the company’s website in the UK. O2 announced today that is will sell the midrange Android phone in stores and online starting Thursday, September 29. This will make it the first network in the country to sell a OnePlus device. The phone will sell …
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Federal authorities have charged an ex-Verizon employee with selling phone records. Daniel Eugene Traeger pleaded guilty to a felony count of unauthorized access to a private computer. From 2009 to 2014, Traeger sold call records and location data to an unnamed private investigator. Over the course of that period, Traeger was paid more than $10,000 according to court records. He …
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