Epic Games has a new way to get Fortnite players to watch its content, such as the upcoming Fortnite World Cup, and it’s called YouTube Drops. All people have to do is link their Epic Games and YouTube accounts and then watch some shows. YouTube Drops are Fortnite cosmetics available for players who watch either …
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18 July
Twitter is testing little profile icons that show up in replies
Twitter wants it to be easier for you to follow and join conversations on its platform. Part of that apparently is adding small icons to users’ profile pictures in replies. Twitter on Thursday said it’s testing icons instead of labels within replies. The icons appear toward the bottom right of users’ profile pictures in replies. Twitter is testing three icons: …
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18 July
Verizon 5G launches in St. Paul along with $650 mobile hotspot
Verizon continued the rollout of its 5G network with the addition of St. Paul, Minnesota, the company said in a press release Thursday. This is the carrier’s fifth city with the higher-speed service, following Chicago, Denver, Minneapolis and Providence, Rhode Island. Not all areas of St. Paul will be able to access Verizon’s 5G network. Parts of downtown, Lowertown and West …
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18 July
AT&T hit with lawsuit over sale of customers’ location data
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is suing AT&T and two data aggregation services over the sale of customers’ location data. In a lawsuit filed Tuesday in US District Court for the Northern District of California, the EFF alleges that AT&T sold customers’ real-time location data to credit agencies, bail bondsmen and other third parties “without the required customer consent and without …
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18 July
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The Department of Justice may be preparing to move on T-Mobile’s merger with Sprint, and the companies’ subsequent side deal with Dish over Sprint’s divested assets. In a report on Thursday, CNBC’s David Faber says that the deal has reached its “decision days,” which would have the DOJ approve T-Mobile’s $26.5 billion merger with Sprint and then see Dish acquire …
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18 July
YouTube Music will now let you roll between tracks and video
YouTube Music fans, you can now easily switch between songs and music videos. With a tap of a button and no pause, subscribers can flip between tracks and videos, according to a blog post YouTube on Thursday. The new feature automatically sources a music track’s respective music video. The video-sharing site says it’s matched over 5 million tracks to videos. If …
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18 July
Instagram is back up but having a rough week
Instagram has suffered two outages so far this week. On Tuesday, the photo app was unusable for some who were unable to open it at all. The issue lasted for several hours, according to Downdetector. Then on Wednesday, Instagram went down again for a shorter period of time, with users citing the same issues of the app not opening or …
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18 July
More people are trading their iPhones in for Androids, study says
Fewer iPhone owners are trading in their old handset for a new Apple phone, according to a report by BankMyCell. The company which lets you sell your used phone and upgrade to a new one, collected data from over 38,000 people trading in their phones since October through June to track Apple brand loyalty during the upgrade cycle. It found that 18.1% …
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18 July
Top Gun: Maverick trailer debuts at Comic
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18 July
Trailer for Cats movie featuring Taylor Swift arrives
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