Well, it’s official: After years of more twists and flips than a Cirque-du-Soleil trampoline performer, the MoviePass discount-ticket service shut down for good on Sept. 14. What was once heralded as a potential savior of movie theaters is now the stuff of Silicon Valley legend. Meanwhile, competitor Sinemia abruptly shut its doors back in April. …
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19 September
Google releases Chrome 77 with custom colors and tab groups
Google’s Chrome gets a splash of color Thursday and some new ways to get a grip on the browser if you have an overabundance of website tabs open. You can now select the colors that’ll show on the tab strip, the background behind it and the new tab page. The colors are a nice touch if you want to personalize …
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19 September
Facebook users have raised over $2B for nonprofits and causes since 2015
Facebook wants to remind you that it’s still making an impact for charities even as it battles a series of scandals. The social media giant said Thursday that since 2015, its users have raised more than $2 billion on Facebook for the causes they care about. About half of that total comes from fundraising that happens on people’s birthdays. The …
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19 September
New Roku streamers add tricked
Fresh off introducing its first soundbar with built-in streaming, Roku has taken the wraps off its complete lineup of new 2019 media streamers — the little boxes and sticks you hook to your TV to get Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Hulu, YouTube TV, Sling TV and, coming soon, Disney Plus and Apple TV Plus. As befits that bewildering array of services, Roku has …
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19 September
Huawei Mate 30 Pro ditches Google Apps, keeps Android. Why it matters
Can Huawei make great phones without the full power of Google’s Android operating system behind it? We’re about to find out. The Chinese giant on Thursday unveiled the Mate 30 and Mate 30 Pro, its latest flagship phones, at an event in Munich. The phones will ship with state-of-the-art hardware, including four rear cameras, but without full Android support. The …
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19 September
Twitter will let users in the US and Japan hide replies to their tweets
Twitter users in the US and Japan tired of seeing hurtful or irrelevant remarks on their tweets now have a new tool: hiding replies. The feature is part of an experiment the social media site is conducting that could help fuel more positive conversations. To hide a reply, you click on a gray downward arrow on the right-hand corner of …
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19 September
Jeff Bezos unveils ambitious set of Amazon projects to take on climate change
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos on Thursday announced The Climate Pledge, a plan to make the sprawling e-commerce and tech company carbon neutral by 2040 and reach a goal of the Paris climate agreement 10 years early. Amazon is asking other companies to sign the pledge too. Now playing: Watch this: Jeff Bezos announces climate pledge 1:05 To reach the carbon-neutral goal, …
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19 September
Apple reopens flashy, redesigned Fifth Avenue NYC store
Apple on Friday will take the wraps off its latest and biggest store redesign: its Fifth Avenue location in New York. CNET got a sneak peek at the revamp on Thursday. The new store, which is in the same location right off of Central Park on 59th Street and Fifth Avenue, is double the size of the old one. New …
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19 September
Facebook will be sticking ads with polls, games and AR into News Feed
Facebook is introducing new, interactive advertising to its News Feed, adding ads that integrate polls, simple gaming and augmented reality into the main destination people go when they check the most popular social network in the world. With more than 2 billion daily active users, Facebook is one of the world’s most powerful advertising giants. Its massive advertising revenue totaled …
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19 September
iOS 13 is now live. Install it on your iPhone
This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. After announcing new hardware last week, including the iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro, Apple is ready to release iOS 13 but iPad users will have to wait a little longer for iPadOS. This is the first time that there have been two different versions of iOS. iOS …
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