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Facebook to beam free Internet to Africa

Facebook is tapping into satellites to provide Internet access to parts of Africa. Facebook Facebook is trying to spread free Internet access to regions of Africa via satellite. On Monday, the popular social network announced a deal with French satellite operator Eutelsat Communications, to get more people in Africa online by creating a system employing …

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Ozon gesture ring concept from 16Lab lets you wrap all your devices around your little finger

TOKYO — As our devices shift and shrink and we find ourselves relying less and less on keyboards and mice and more and more on touchscreens to go about our work and play. In some situations, this makes interactivity a challenge. Voice is a potential solution for some situations, but gesture control looks equally promising and 16Lab has what it …

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CNET’s Cheapskate scours the Web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. Enlarge Image CNET I don’t know how long these will last, so I’m going to skip my usual amusing anecdote, personal history, razor-sharp insight or other throat-clearing and just get right to the …

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Adobe tightens integration among Creative Cloud tools, debuts Photoshop Fix app

As we’ve come to expect from Adobe, among its fall 2015 updates to its traditional and Web Creative Cloud applications there are a few new completely new features, a bunch of “it didn’t do that already?” additions, enhancements to existing features and a reworking of its mobile apps. Plus the continuing sad news that updates to Bridge are not among …

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Jack Dorsey takes on second act as Twitter CEO

@Jack is back. Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey was appointed CEO of the social network on September 30, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing released Monday. The move ends three months of confusion at the socially influential but slow-growing company. It also marks a round trip for Dorsey, who was fired from Twitter’s top job seven years ago but …

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Why I ditched Apple Music for Spotify

CNET Apple Music debuted in June, with an assertion of that it is the music service to end all music services. It has a few good things going for it; it includes hand-curated playlists, has an exclusive live radio station and it’s already installed on iOS gadgets. In the months since its launch, however, Apple Music’s reception has been lukewarm, …

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Smartphone

The war over camera megapixels has moved from the back of the phone to the front as smartphone-makers like Samsung, Apple, Asus and now LG scramble to outfit their handsets with clever and capable tools to make vanity shots look as good as they can on a typically weaker, cheaper front-facing lens. Selfies, the common slang for self-portraits taken with …

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