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How to enable Twitter’s new Highlights feature on Android

Jason Cipriani/CNET Twitter on Thursday announced a new feature, called Highlights, that’s intended to help you stay informed on the most important tweets and conversations among your followers. The feature is limited to English-language readers with the Twitter app installed on an Android device, however. While Highlights is officially launching today, April 23, it requires …

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LG Watch Urbane rolling out this week

The LG Watch Urbane is kicking off its worldwide launch. LG’s new smartwatch will go on sale in South Korea this week. But those in the rest of the world won’t have to wait much longer. The LG Watch Urbane will then expand its reach this month, meaning next week, to the US, UK, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, …

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Facebook’s network keeps expanding, Zuckerberg’s mobile bet pays off

All those other social networks Facebook runs? They’re getting big. James Martin/CNET Facebook is well on its way to building another Facebook. The world’s largest social network has been steadily growing its audience outside its namesake website and mobile app, encouraging people to connect using its Instagram photo sharing network, Messenger communicator app and WhatsApp text message replacement service. The …

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Intel Core M systems compared: Benchmarking the 12

Sarah Tew/CNET No computer component in recent years has been as tough to pin down as Intel’s Core M processor. First seen in late 2014 and turning up in more systems in early 2015, this energy-efficient chip came with an appealing pitch. According to Intel, Core M would power laptops, tablets and hybrids designed to be thin and light, and …

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Google’s Project Loon balloons can beam signals to iPhones, too

Google X chief Astro Teller, speaking at the Tribeca Film Festival, said his lab’s Project Loon is capable of steering Internet-connectivity balloons to within a couple hundred yards of a target. Joan E. Solsman/CNET NEW YORK — Google may be able to pinpoint the location of its stratospheric Internet balloons with military precision, but it won’t be combative about the …

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You can thank millennials for HBO Now

Millennial habits, such as preferring streaming to regular TV, spurred programmers to loosen the reins on online television options. Getty Images/Blend Images All of you who pined for HBO to launch an online subscription service, like its new HBO Now, can thank millennials for making that happen. The younger viewers are, the more likely it is that they will prefer …

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Confessions of a headphone ‘addict’

Astell & Kern AK240 (left), Chord Hugo (center), Audeze LCD-XC (right). Franklin Williams When Franklin Williams was still in college, he bought a pair of Etymotic ER-4S in-ear headphones that forever changed the way he listens to music. He still listened to speakers, but headphones connected the musical dots better, so then he bought Grado, Sennheiser, Shure, and Ultimate Ears …

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