Three years ago, the World Wrestling Entertainment took all of its monthly pay-per-view events and put them on its own streaming service, the WWE Network. Now, the company is flirting with another type of streaming. WWE announced “Mixed Match Challenge” on Wednesday, a 12-episode show that’ll stream on Facebook Watch, Facebook’s go at an original-content …
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13 December
iPhone 8/iPhone X rank as 2017’s top Google searches
Google has released its annual Year in Search, revealing the top trending search terms of 2017. The iPhone, not too surprisingly, ranked high — specifically the iPhone 8, which hit No. 2 on the global search list, and the iPhone X, which ranked third. The top trending worldwide term was Hurricane Irma. 2017 was a big year for the iPhone. …
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13 December
How to make phone calls on your Mac
Thanks to Apple’s Continuity feature, you can start tasks on your iPhone and then pick them up on your Mac and vice versa, from handing off documents and long-form articles to sending and receiving emails, texts and phone calls. Making and receiving calls from your Mac can save you from having to get up to retrieve your phone and can …
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13 December
Microsoft expands AI into Bing search, Outlook email, Office and apps
If you ask Google “Is Hamilton a good musical?” it will send back a link to Quora, the question-and-answer service, where people ask that same question. The next link, a story published in Slate last year, is an interview with a critic who argues why the Pulitzer-, Grammy- and Tony-winning musical isn’t revolutionary (their pun, not ours). Microsoft thinks it can …
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13 December
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T-Mobile is getting into the the television business with the acquisition of Layer3 TV, a TV tech company. The new service will launch next year, according to T-Mobile CEO John Legere. The wireless carrier is billing the service as a breakthrough for people who “love their TV, but … hate their TV providers.” The service will combine streaming TV and …
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13 December
CES TVs preview: What to expect from the big screens of 2018
For those of us who care about new TV technology, Christmas comes in January. CES 2018 in Las Vegas presages the coming year of TV tech with the latest in display innovations, and if previous shows are any indication, there’ll be plenty of massive, jaw-dropping screens to go around. At CES 2017 we saw the first wallpaper TV and another …
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13 December
Parents spy on their kids online more than kids think
Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Guess what? Your mom knows. Getty Images Hey, kids. You think your parents aren’t very smart, don’t you? You know far more about technology than they do. And, well, they couldn’t snap a chat if they tried, right? A new survey, released Wednesday, might make …
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13 December
2 million net neutrality comments were fake, says NY attorney general
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s staffers have likely been burning the midnight oil. Just a day before the FCC’s scheduled vote to reverse net neutrality rules, Schneiderman reported that as many as 2 million comments submitted to the agency on the topic misused identities of real Americans. He says he found more than 100,000 “fake comments” per state from …
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13 December
FCC’s net neutrality repeal ‘boggles the mind,’ says commissioner
In 2015, when the FCC’s net neutrality rules became the law of the land, Mignon Clyburn was one of three Democrats who made it happen. Enlarge Image FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn addresses demonstrators who gathered in Washington on Dec. 7 to oppose FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s plans to scrap Obama-era net neutrality protections. Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images Clyburn, along …
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13 December
Apple invests $390M in Finisar for iPhone laser chips
Everyone gets spendy in the run-up to Christmas, even tech giants such as Apple. The company announced Wednesday that it’s investing $390 million in laser chip maker Finisar. Finisar will use the money to refurbish a manufacturing plant in Texas, where it will build chips designed to power iPhone features including Face ID, animojis and portrait photography. The 700,000-square foot …
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