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Vrse, a company that makes virtual-reality films and is known for helping create The New York Times’ VR projects, is changing its name to Within, and it announced a $12.56 million round of funding. “When you’re in VR, you’re experiencing something that you are within,” Drew Larner, the company’s chief operating officer, said in an …

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Orlando gunman posted chilling Facebook messages during attack, senator says

Orlando gunman Omar Mateen’s Facebook activities were apparently very telling, according to a letter a US senator sent to the social network’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg. Sen. Ron Johnson’s letter, dated Wednesday, requests that Facebook provide all data on the gunman’s “activities on his account and any affiliated Facebook accounts, including but not limited to activity logs, Facebook timeline information, Facebook …

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Snapchat readies ‘Real Life,’ an online tech magazine

Snapchat hasn’t given up on original content after all. The Venice, California-based company plans to launch a new online magazine called Real Life, which aims to break away from the norm by focusing on our lives with tech. “Real Life will publish essays, arguments, and narratives about living with technology,” Snapchat employee and social media critic Nathan Jurgenson explained in …

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Twitter takes on Facebook Live video

Now playing: Watch this: Twitter live streaming (sort of) comes to iOS, Android 1:15 Facebook makes it super easy to start a live stream of whatever you want. The feature is built into the status update. A change to Twitter’s iOS and Android apps let you quickly live stream, but you have to use the Periscope app to do it. …

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Bam! Amazon wants to ‘Eat the World’ with Emeril Lagasse’s help

Come September, Amazon Prime members can experience different cuisines around the globe with Emeril Lagasse as their guide. “Eat the World with Emeril Lagasse” is a six-episode Amazon original series that has the world-famous celebrity chef meeting up with other well-known chefs to introduce him to the culinary history, traditions and techniques of other cultures. The season will include a …

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Facebook, Twitter, Google sued by father of student killed in Paris terror attacks

Facebook, Twitter and Google are on the receiving end of a lawsuit from a man who claims they’re providing “material support” to terrorist groups such as ISIS. Reynaldo Gonzalez, whose daughter Nohemi was among the 130 people killed in the Paris attacks last November, filed his lawsuit Tuesday in the US District Court in the Northern District of California. The …

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Nine tips to get the most out of the Gear Fit 2

You’ve set up your Gear Fit 2, now what? Start within going through these settings to get the most our of your brand new smartwatch, fitness tracker combo. From changing watch faces or installing new ones from the store, to controlling Spotify from your wrist, there’s plenty of functionality hidden in the Fit 2. Watch faces There are a couple …

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