Editor’s note: As of Monday, February 20, Snapchat Spectacles can be purchased online and Snapbots will continue to pop up around the U.S. The Snapbot was last seen heading north. It is described as yellow and friendly-looking. If you encounter it, do not approach it, but find your spot at the end of the long …
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Facebook seems to have a thing for Snapchat Stories. The popular feature, on the social network that’s giving Facebook a run for the money, lets people post a string of photos and videos that disappear after 24 hours. In August, Facebook-owned Instagram introduced its own version, called Instagram Stories. And Facebook is currently testing Facebook Stories in its mobile app …
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While Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 was going up in smoke, the company’s reputation was going down in flames. The Korean electronics giant came in at No. 49 in Harris Poll’s annual US Reputation Quotient Report, the market researcher said Monday. Last year, Samsung was ranked No. 7 in the corporate reputation rankings for the 100 most visible companies in the …
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Sick of having to sit through 30 seconds of boring ads before your YouTube video plays? We have good news for you. Google will scrap the unskippable 30-second advertisements that sometimes play before YouTube videos, BBC reports. The bad news? It’ll only happen next year. Shorter ad formats, such as ones that can be skipped after five seconds, will remain. …
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Bekkie Morgan wakes up at 7 am everyday, takes her temperature with a standard oral thermometer, enters it into fertility app Kindara and promptly rolls back into bed. Morgan, however, isn’t trying to get pregnant. She’s actually using Kindara as a digital age form of birth control. As apps increasingly do everything from ordering our food to hailing us a …
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Now playing: Watch this: Snap to it, Spectacles are sold online 1:29 Don’t fancy chasing a Snapbot for a pair of Spectacles? You’re in luck. Snapchatters in the US can now buy all three colors (black, teal and coral) at Spectacles.com. The Snapbot vending machine at the pop-up store in New York City. Sarah Tew/CNET Spectacles are sunglasses with a …
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Apple has reportedly acquired Israeli startup RealFace, which makes facial recognition software to authenticate users by simply showing their mug, rather than having to enter a password or fingerprint. Israeli business news site Calcalist reported the news Sunday, estimating the deal to be worth a couple million dollars. Apple did not immediately respond to a request for confirmation and comment. …
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It might be time for Kim Dotcom to pack his bags. The founder of the now-defunct file-sharing site Megaupload faced a significant setback in his piracy battle in the New Zealand High Court today, with Justice Murray Gilbert finding Dotcom and his co-accused eligible for extradition to the United States over copyright offences. The United States Government has been fighting …
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Google’s Android Wear 2.0 watch platform is the company’s biggest shot yet at jumping into the fitness tracking world dominated by companies like Fitbit. Is it there yet? Not quite. The company’s revamped smartwatch operating system improves upon many of the problems that plagued Android Wear watches for the past two and a half years. I’ve had a chance to …
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