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If you don’t do it often (or ever), traveling to another country can be challenging. Scary, even. During a recent trip to Italy, I found myself staring down the barrel of a language I couldn’t speak, read or understand. Thankfully, I had modern technology at my disposal, and that made the travel life infinitely easier. …

Premier League soccer matches are becoming the next tech darling.  Facebook secured a deal to become the only place to stream Premier League matches in Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos starting next year until 2022, in a deal worth about £200 million (or about $265 million), according to a report by the Times of London.  Last month, rival Amazon snapped up exclusive …

AI software reportedly uncovered suspected GDPR breaches by Alphabet, Amazon and Facebook. The software — created by EU Institute researchers and a consumer group — looked at the privacy policies of 14 major technology businesses in June, the month after the EU’s new data privacy laws went into effect, according to Bloomberg. Researchers named the software “Claudette” — short for …

Social media companies work hard to get us addicted to their services, Silicon Valley insiders have reportedly revealed. Features such as infinite scroll and Likes keep people looking at their phones for longer than necessary and feed on their insecurities, they told the BBC’s Panorama for a documentary set to air Tuesday. Aza Raskin, formerly of Mozilla and Jawbone, created infinite …

Say goodbye to Hello. Also to Moves and tbh. On Monday, Facebook said it was bidding adieu to the three apps, none of which generated enough user interest to continue supporting them. The world’s largest social network also promised to delete the user data from all three apps within 90 days. “We know some people are still using these apps …

I’m holding a phone about FaceTime length away from my face as I’m running around a room. If a certain company has its way, everyone will be doing this a lot more soon. I’m playing a game created by Niantic, the startup that was the force behind the 2016 smash hit mobile game Pokemon Go. You know, the game that …

How can Facebook expand past its 2.2 billion monthly active users? Perhaps by bringing the internet to more places. Facebook has tested one method that uses plane-mounted lasers that can shoot a high-speed internet connection through the sky, according to a February 2018 paper seen by Business Insider. With the lasers, the company was able to create a wireless link between …

Snap is reportedly venturing even deeper into gaming. The company behind the Snapchat app plans to launch a platform later this year that’ll let users download and play third-party games through the app, reported The Information. The platform has been in the works for at least a year, and Snap already has one publisher lined up to a game, The …

Facebook is rolling out a test of a new feature called “Keyword Snooze” that lets you hide posts in your news feed that incorporate given keywords for 30 days. You enable it from a post in your feed, via the upper right-hand menu. The feature will let you choose keywords and phrases that Facebook has automatically selected from a particular …

Facebook is trying to get more people to interact with the Stories feature in its main app. The social network on Wednesday announced a few new features for the service, which lets people post a string of photos and videos that automatically disappear after 24 hours. Now, if you reply to a Story, you’ll be able to add other people …