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If you’re used to getting the bulk of your news from Facebook, your news consumption habits may be about to change. The world’s largest social media platform is testing the waters for a subscription-based news product, Campbell Brown, the head of news partnerships at Facebook, said Tuesday at the Digital Publishing Innovation Summit in New …

Your Facebook Messenger home screen may no longer be just an inbox for messaging friends.   Facebook’s dedicated messaging app will be extending its beta test of ad placement on users’ home tabs globally, building on successful tests in Australia and Thailand, according to the company’s blog post. Advertisers will be able to add Messenger to their campaigns, but ads …

Google News got a redesign this week that’s more about facts than fonts. As with any redesign, the aim is to present a cleaner, uncluttered page that makes content easier to find and digest. The desktop News page has adopted a card format intended to help you browse for stories, which will generally be labeled with publisher names and tags …

Now playing: Watch this: OnePlus 5 vs. iPhone 7 Plus: Dual-camera shootout 3:34 Dual rear cameras on phones are officially a thing. Like the iPhone 7 Plus, the OnePlus 5 uses dual cameras to make zoomed-in pictures look great and create photos with bokeh (gorgeous, out-of-focus backgrounds). But unlike the iPhone, the OnePlus has higher-resolution cameras with slightly wider apertures …

Firefox Focus, a mobile browser that developer Mozilla calls fast, private and simple, has entered the Android world. On Tuesday, Mozilla said that the app, which was released for iPhone and iPad users in November, is now available on Google Play. One of the most prominent features of the app is that it blocks ads that track a user’s online …

Apple Music subscribers can now sign up for a $99 12-month subscription — no gift card needed. Apple Music subscribers now get a $99 1-year subscription option. Screenshot by CNET Previously, the $99 deal for a year of Apple Music was only available through a gift card. Now, subscribers can sign up for the deal, which works out to $8.25 …

Spotify is — still — No. 1.  More than 140 million people stream tunes on Spotify every month, according to a blog post Thursday by head of sales Brian Benedik. The company last updated its listener number a year ago, when it notched 100 million listeners a month.  That means Spotify has nearly twice the number of active listeners as Pandora, its …

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. On Monday, Apple previewed the next version of its software that powers your Mac as part of WWDC, its annual developer conference. Many features include behind-the-scene updates to make your Mac and its apps faster, more secure and more enjoyable. Here are seven …

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Your Apple hardware is about to get a notch smarter as the company builds new artificial intelligence abilities into Macs and iPhones — and lets other programmers tap into that power. AI technology will mean Siri better understands what you want and speaks …

If you’re a Chrome browser user, you’ll start seeing fewer ads in 2018 when Google starts blocking ads that are more aggressive about getting your attention. Google makes most of its money from online ads, but it and other publishers are threatened by the growing use of ad blockers that stop browsers from showing ads. Blockers can be installed in …