Imagine you’re watching a butterfly as it flits through the air and into the foliage. Normally, as it disappeared into the leaves, you’d bob and turn your head trying to see if you could catch one last look from a different angle. But in a movie, you can’t do that. Think again. Facebook has created …
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Forgot your password for that app? Facebook wants to make it less painful for you to log in again. On Tuesday, the company announced a few new features for Facebook Login, which lets people log into apps automatically using their Facebook credentials instead of a new username and password. The company introduced the updates at F8, Facebook’s annual developer conference …
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Roku TVs are CNET’s favorite entry-level televisions, with the best built-in streaming platform on the planet and good-enough picture quality for the price. I also love how they keep getting updated with new features and functionality, such as a recent add-on that lets antenna users pause live TV, no DVR required (seriously, it’s pretty cool) and listen to TV audio …
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Twitter got sacked big time when it lost out to Amazon in a livestreaming deal with the National Football League this season. We learned Tuesday the social network had been outmaneuvered, after the league chose e-commerce goliath Amazon to stream 10 “Thursday Night Football” games this year. The deal was reportedly valued at $50 million — five times more than …
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Google is bringing tools to fight fake news to its most important and iconic product: search. The tech giant said Friday that it’s adding “fact check” labels to some of the results in its search engine. If you search for something and a story from a credible fact-checking source like PolitiFact or Snopes comes up, it will get that label. …
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YouTube is getting a little pickier about who can make money there. Google’s massive video site said Thursday that channels must reach 10,000 total views before they qualify to run ads, the most direct way to make money there. The logic, essentially, is to remove one of the main incentives that spur bad actors to set up bogus accounts with …
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Big-shot bank executives. They’re almost always portrayed as the bad guys, but are they just misunderstood? Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation (OCBC), wants the public to believe in it, so Dennis Tan, the company’s head of consumer financial services in Singapore, agreed to be Facebook livestreamed taking a lie detector test. “Stay True is our promise to our consumers,” Tan said of …
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Google Maps, online flight check-in, access to TripAdvisor and Yelp on demand — there are a thousand ways the internet makes traveling more convenient and fun. You know what’s not so fun? Roaming bills. It’s a problem Hong Kong-based Tink Labs is trying to solve by putting custom-made phones with free data in hotel rooms across the world for foreign …
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Facebook has been packing in new features recently, and it looks like WhatsApp is following suit. The Facebook-owned app is working on launching a person-to-person payment service soon in India, reports The Ken, citing sources with knowledge of the matter. As the publication points out, WhatsApp’s career page hosts an advertisement that says the company is hiring a digital transaction …
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Be on the lookout for a new app from Verizon. The telecom giant is set to launch a new product for Android users called AppFlash. It’s supposed to find content such as restaurant reviews and movie listing from different apps — even if you haven’t downloaded them. The Electronic Frontier Foundation on Thursday called the app “spyware,” pointing to terms …
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