Snapchat appears to be the social-media app of choice for millennials. College students turn first to the ephemeral-messaging app before Facebook, Instagram or LinkedIn, according to data released Thursday by LendEdu, an online marketplace for student loan refinancing. Fifty-eight percent of college students said they open Snapchat first, compared with 27 percent who chose Instagram, …
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16 March
Pinterest is now blocked by China’s Great Firewall
It seems Pinterest has now joined Facebook and Twitter as another popular media site that’s blocked in China. The popular scrapbooking site hasn’t been accessible in China for the past seven days, according to GreatFire.org. The censorship monitoring organization aims to bring transparency to China’s Great Firewall, a tool Chinese government uses to keep its citizen from accessing certain part …
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16 March
7 apps that are quietly killing your data plan
Now playing: Watch this: Your social apps are crushing your data plan 1:20 Curtailing your phone use as you near your data cap at the end of each month is no way to live. A better way is to stop data-hungry apps from using too much data in the first place. The apps that use the most data typically are …
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16 March
Gmail just got its own Venmo feature
You now have a new way to split the bill for dinner: Gmail for Android. While the ability to send money using Google Wallet has been available for quite a while in Gmail on the web, you can now send money from within the mobile app. Once you’ve received the latest update, you’ll be able to send and request money …
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16 March
Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 will cost the same as the Apple iPad Pro 9.7
Now playing: Watch this: Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 is a classy and glassy Android… 1:25 Samsung has finally dished the details on how much the Galaxy Tab S3 will cost and when you’ll be able to buy it. The 9.7-inch tablet will be available on March 24 for $600 — preorders on Best Buy, Amazon and Samsung’s website start today. …
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16 March
Buying a Samsung TV online could jeopardize your data
If you buy a product from Samsung’s online store, your name, address, order information and other data may be accessible to anyone who cares to look. Matt Metzger, a self-described “application security engineer” who said he has worked in shipping-industry compliance, wrote Wednesday on Medium about an accidental discovery. Metzger said he ordered a TV from the Samsung online store …
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16 March
Twitter, Turner and CBS Sports launch NCAA pregame show
Twitter is teaming up with Turner Sports and CBS Sports to stream a 30-minute pregame show that focuses on the NCAA Division I basketball Tournament and how fans are chattering about it on the social network. The show, “NCAA March Madness Now,” is set to begin Thursday and Friday on Twitter, featuring game predictions, celebrity tweets, fan polls and office …
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16 March
Netflix gives a thumbs
At Netflix, the stars are out. Not movie stars, per se, but rather the streaming service’s system for rating the programs they watched with one to five stars. Instead, users will soon be able to express their level of enjoyment with a thumbs up for favorable or a thumbs down for unfavorable. “Five stars feels very yesterday now,” Todd Yellin, …
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16 March
Swatch to release new operating system for smartwatches
There will soon be another watch operating system on the market. In an interview with Bloomberg Technology, Swatch CEO Nick Hayek said the company is making a new operating system aimed at smartwatches. More specifically, Swatch’s Tissot brand, set to be introduced late next year, will be the first smartwatch to use the to-be-named Swiss-made OS. Hayek said the new …
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16 March
The Star Wars connection to Google’s St. Patrick’s Day doodle
If Friday’s Google doodle looks familiar, you likely saw it in a movie. The doodle, which celebrates St. Patrick’s Day, features two shamrocks high-fiving each other as they pass each other on a small island. While the drawing is, well, a bit sketchy, it is meant to represent Skellig Michael, a remote island off the southwest coast of Ireland. Declared …
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