For the first time ever, the NBA is streaming a regular-season game on Facebook Live for basketball fans in India. The league said it will stream Sunday night’s matchup between the Golden State Warriors in Sacramento against the Kings. The game between All-Stars Stephen Curry and DeMarcus Cousins and two of the NBA’s most tech-savvy …
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Now playing: Watch this: Robots everywhere at CES 2017 19:07 CES 2017 will always be remembered as the show where we met our future robot overlords — and were foolishly disarmed by how darn cute they were. Even when, back in December, we predicted the robots were coming, we didn’t realize quite how many bots we would encounter. The droids …
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One of President-elect Donald Trump’s key campaign promises could have a plot twist. During the campaign, the reality star turned politician guaranteed that the US would build a southern border wall and force Mexico to pay for it. On Friday, he changed his tune on who would be stuck with the bill. Social Cues is our look at what’s trending …
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Now playing: Watch this: Make 360-degree photos for Facebook 1:01 Enlarge Image Jason Cipriani/CNET By now, you’ve undoubtedly come across an interactive photo whilst browsing your Facebook feed. Such photos instruct you to hold your phone up and move it around to view different parts of the photo. It’s a fun way of viewing so-called 360-degree photos. And would make …
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The video showed a man in Chicago being tortured, and it was right there on social media for everyone to see. As with other recent cases of live-streamed violence in the US, the reaction was swift, loud and highly politicized. Chicago Police called the incident, first seen in a 30-minute Facebook Live stream, “sickening.” On Thursday, authorities filed hate crime …
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Here’s some advice. Consider everything you post on social media to be public, especially if you’re the president of the United States. You can now search through eight years of tweets, GIFs, Facebook posts, Instagram shots and other social media offerings from President Barack Obama and his administration in the Obama White House Social Media Archive. The archive, hosted by …
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Baby, it’s cold outside, and that’s got things heating up on social media. What’s got everyone’s attention is a heavy-duty winter storm and cold front that will be sweeping its way across the US. Social Cues is our look at what’s trending across Facebook and Twitter. Here’s what people are talking about on social media this Thursday: Winter Storm Watch: …
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T-Mobile‘s bombastic CEO, John Legere, brought out his crystal ball to offer some bold predictions for the wireless industry in 2017. Speaking at the company’s CES press conference in Las Vegas on Thursday, Legere rattled off eight possibilities for 2017. These predictions include everything from big cable companies entering and quickly exiting the wireless market to the unseating of three …
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Now playing: Watch this: iOS 10: What’s new in Messages 2:22 In iOS 10, Messages looks a lot more like Facebook Messenger. Apple added features including Stickers, “Tapbacks” and even apps that you install within Messages. Is it overkill? Maybe. Or maybe it’ll do exactly what Apple wants — make you choose Messages over the increasing number of competing apps …
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The future is artificial intelligence, and that reality is happening now — at least according to Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang. Huang, speaking Wednesday in a packed ballroom at the CES tradeshow in Las Vegas, made it clear that Nvidia’s no longer just a computer graphics chipmaker. It’s one of the companies helping us live in a truly smart world, with …
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