January, 2018

• 22 January

  Facebook to offer digital training to 1 million Europeans

  

  Facebook is opening three centers across Europe to train more than 1 million people in digital skills over the next two years, the company said Monday. The sites will be based in Spain, Italy and Poland and will focus on training in media literacy and online safety for underrepresented groups, Facebook said in a blog post. The social …

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• 22 January

  YouTube and Hulu live TV services appear off to strong start

  

  YouTube and Hulu have yet to officially disclose any numbers for their new live TV products, but according to a CNBC report, they’re faring well in wooing cord cutters away from cable TV. The CNBC story on Monday, which cites unnamed sources, says Hulu’s livestreaming service has about 450,000 paying subscribers. And YouTube TV has just over 300,000. Hulu and Google-owned YouTube …

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• 22 January

  How quantum dots could challenge OLED for best TV picture

  

  We’ve said it before but it bears repeating: Samsung’s QLED TV technology is not the same as LG’s OLED TV technology. Sure they have similar names, down to the little slash that makes an “O” into a “Q,” but according to CNET’s tests for picture quality, OLED is superior. It’s also fundamentally different from the LCD-based TVs that comprise the …

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• 22 January

  Our Samsung Galaxy S9 feature wish list (The 3:59, Ep. 342)

  

  On today’s podcast, we talk about: Six features CNET’s Jessica Dolcourt would like to see in the Samsung Galaxy S9. A tour of the new Amazon Go store, a Seattle convenience store that has no cashiers. It opened to the public Monday. Now playing: Watch this: Our Samsung Galaxy S9 feature wishlist (The 3:59, Ep…. 4:56 The 3:59 gives you …

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• 22 January

  Microsoft adds Chemistry to Minecraft, $190 Lenovo laptop

  

  This week at the Bett show in London, Microsoft made its first education announcements for 2018. The highlights include a Lenovo 100e laptop starting at $190, an awesome looking Chemistry update for Minecraft: Education Edition and a 10 percent academic discount on HoloLens (still only in developer kits) through May 31, 2018. While the new durable, Celeron-based Lenovo 100e only costs …

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• 22 January

  Rupert Murdoch to Facebook: Pay us for our stories

  

  News Corp. Executive Chairman Rupert Murdoch is calling on Facebook and other online news platforms to pay publishers for content posted to their sites. Murdoch issued the statement Monday, a week after Facebook made two major changes to its news feed algorithm. First the social network said it will prioritize posts from friends and family members over those from brands and …

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• 22 January

  Deep dive: All the tech in the 2018 Hyundai Sonata

  

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• 22 January

  5 things you need to know about the 2018 Hyundai Sonata

  

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• 22 January

  Amazon opens high

  

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• 22 January

  2018 Hyundai Sonata: Making sedans cool again

  

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