October, 2019

• 27 October

  World's Most Wanted Terrorist Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi Reportedly Killed In US Raid in Syria

  

  Jihadist supremo Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the world’s most wanted man, was believed Sunday to have been killed in a US special operation in northwest Syria.  News agency AFP reported that the elusive chief of the Islamic State group was thought to be dead after a US military raid in the Idlib region. US media reports …

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• 26 October

  Pixel 4 reviews hit, Zuckerberg grilled

  

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• 25 October

  Google Pixelbook Go review: Chromebooks are great, but you don’t need this one

  

  Is a Chromebook a laptop? Is it a budget machine? Is it something you’d just use online? Is it something you’d make your main computer? I can’t entirely answer all these questions, because I haven’t come to terms with them either. I’ve used Chromebooks for years. My kid lives on them at school. I had to work on a Chromebook, …

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• 25 October

  7 best scary Halloween music playlists you can stream for free on Spotify

  

  Like Christmas, Halloween has its own tunes to get you in the spirit of the season. No matter what you’re into — classic movie soundtracks, family-friendly kids songs, chill lo-fi beats or metal — there’s probably a Halloween-themed playlist for it. While there are dozens of playlists, albums and podcasts available across platforms to get you amped up for spooky …

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• 25 October

  Amazon’s next

  

  Amazon’s string of record quarterly profits appears to have collapsed after the company’s bold plan to speed up its shipping saddled it with more expenses. The world’s largest e-commerce company on Thursday posted third-quarter earnings that badly missed expectations, despite better-than-expected sales. Its revenue prediction for the all-important fourth quarter, during the peak holiday retail season, was also soft. Shares plunged …

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• 25 October

  Verizon, AT&T, T

  

  Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint said Thursday they’ve formed a joint project to “transform messaging.” In a rare move, all four big US carriers are working together on the Cross Carrier Messaging Initiative, which will use the Rich Communications Service standard to make text messages as smart as iMessage — and it will work on Android phones. The service will …

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• 25 October

  How to use Pixel 4’s Face Unlock and Motion Sense features (bye, fingerprint scanners!)

  

  With the launch of the Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL, Google has ditched the fingerprint sensor that we’ve grown accustomed to on previous phones. You’ll no longer be able to rest your finger on the back of the phone to unlock it or sign into your mobile banking app or password manager. Instead, Google is using facial recognition similar to …

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• 25 October

  Apple iPad could get hard

  

  Apple Arcade may be getting all of the attention for its range of 100-plus games that appeal to families, kids and casual gamers, but Apple may have another plan in mind for the iPad that will appeal to more hard-core gamers in the future.  Apple brought mouse support to iPadOS only for accessibility purposes this fall, but the company may …

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• 25 October

  Facebook News debuts as social network battles misinformation

  

  Facebook said Friday that it’s testing a tab that will display curated news stories, a move that could help the social network surface more credible media outlets as it tries to curtail the spread of misinformation. “It’s no secret that the internet has really disrupted the news business model,” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Friday at an event in New York …

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• 25 October

  AT&T plans to include HBO Max for free at launch for 10M current subscribers

  

  As it gears up for its spring 2020 launch, more details are finally starting to come out about AT&T’s forthcoming HBO Max service. While we still don’t have all the details on what will be on the new HBO-centered service — that will likely need to wait until AT&T’s WarnerMedia investor day on Oct. 29 — a new report is …

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