March, 2018

• 12 March

  Facebook

  

  Facebook-owned WhatsApp is changing the amount of time you have to delete messages you’ve sent for all recipients. According to WABetaInfo, since the release of WhatsApp beta for Android 2.18.69, the messaging app allows users 2¹² seconds (4,096 seconds, which is 68 minutes, 16 seconds) to take back a message you didn’t want to send. …

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• 12 March

  Lyft’s revenue growth in fourth quarter nearly triple that of Uber’s

  

  Lyft wants to give Uber a run for its money. The San Francisco-based ride-hailing company released financials Monday that show its revenue growth in the fourth quarter of 2017 was 2.75 times faster than Uber’s. Lyft revenue growth was 168 percent in the fourth quarter, according to a company spokesman. Uber’s was 61 percent, though from a much larger revenue …

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• 12 March

  Toshiba’s Windows 10 AR glasses is augmented reality for the workplace

  

  I don’t get to wear a hard hat to work all that often. This one has a heads-up display on the side. It reminds me of using Google Glass. Or, many other single-lens types of AR that use heads-up displays instead of any holographic effects. In essence: it feels unexciting. But it’s not designed to be wild and crazy: it’s …

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• 12 March

  Last chance for $35 YouTube TV: Price jumps to $40 on Tuesday

  

  Today is your last chance to lock into the $35 per month price for YouTube TV. The streaming video service price jumps to $40 per month for new subscribers as of tomorrow. But if you sign up by 11:59 p.m. PT today — Monday, March 12 — you’ll be grandfathered in to the lower monthly price going forward. YouTube TV …

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• 12 March

  Trump order blocks Broadcom

  

  Now playing: Watch this: Trump blocks Broadcom-Qualcomm merger 1:24 President Donald Trump on Monday blocked Broadcom’s proposed $117 billion acquisition of rival chipmaker Qualcomm, saying the deal threatened to “impair the national security” of the US. “The proposed takeover of Qualcomm by the Purchaser is prohibited, and any substantially equivalent merger, acquisition, or takeover, whether effected directly or indirectly, is …

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• 12 March

  7 fun and useful things you can do with the Google app in iMessage

  

  iPhone owners may have noticed a new icon showed up in the iMessage app drawer. If you are diligent with your app updates and updated the Google app recently, then you can now do a few new things with it right from within the iOS Messages app. Let us count the ways. Now playing: Watch this: Cool things to do …

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• 12 March

  Apple AirPods 2 may get noise cancellation and other updates

  

  The next version of Apple’s AirPods wireless earbuds may include a feature we see in a lot of high-end headphones: noise cancellation. A recent report by analysts from Barclays (via 9to5Mac) claims that Apple is working on the next generation of AirPods. The new AirPods are said to come with noise-canceling capabilities and other improvements, too. This falls in line with an …

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• 12 March

  NBN Co’s monthly customer experience reports don’t tell us enough

  

  The good news: NBN Co is going to start releasing monthly reports to let you know exactly how the rollout of your national broadband network is going. The bad news: There are still some really important details they won’t be sharing — details that could massively impact your speeds. The NBN rollout is rolling on. Every month, the company responsible …

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• 12 March

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• 12 March

  Toshiba’s hard hat

  

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