The 1 billion listings for clothes, cars and cameras on eBay can often feel like one big mess. As part of the online bazaar’s effort to make it easier to find the stuff you want, eBay on Tuesday unveiled a beta version of an artificial-intelligence-powered shopping assistant on Facebook Messenger. People will be able to …
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Julian Assange, social media has your back. The top trending topics on Facebook and Twitter right now are related to a cryptic tweet from the WikiLeaks account sent at about 10:30 p.m. PT Sunday. Since then, supporters of Assange, WikiLeaks’ founder, have marshaled their forces across social media. Social Cues is a daily feature on what’s trending among your friends …
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The times, they are a changin’, as Bob Dylan hits the top trending spot on Twitter on Thursday morning. The American rock legend was the talk of social media for winning a Nobel Prize in literature, the first time the prestigious award has gone to a musician. On very different notes, social media also celebrated a new Star Wars trailer …
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Twitter is stepping up its live-streaming game, offering brands and media organizations a more sophisticated tool for producing and sharing high-quality video. Periscope Producer goes beyond video shot with a smartphone and lets content companies broadcast footage from professional cameras and streaming software, Twitter said in a blog post Thursday. And they can do it without losing the audience-interaction perks …
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Amazon wants to take on Apple and Spotify, and the Echo speaker is its secret weapon. The online retailing giant on Wednesday launched Music Unlimited, a $10-a-month service that looks a lot like Spotify and Apple Music. The real standout feature is a $4-a-month option that only plays to your Amazon Echo speaker. It’s just another way Amazon wants to …
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It’s 26 days until the US presidential election, and Ohio, a crucial swing state, is getting a head start on voting. On Wednesday morning, social media rallied around the early vote-casting with a trending hashtag. While those voters have made up their mind, others can still be swayed by trending topics such as WikiLeaks and Miss Teen USA, controversies that …
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Question: How many high-definition videoconference calls can take place between LA and Hong Kong at the same time? Answer: 80 million — once a new project from Google and Facebook is completed. That’s the word from Google’s Cloud Platform unit, which said Wednesday that Google is teaming with Facebook and communications companies Pacific Light Data Communication and TE Subcom to …
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Facebook, Twitter and Instagram provided feeds of user data to a social-media monitoring program used by police to track racially charged protests in Oakland, Calif., and Baltimore, according to an ACLU report released Tuesday. The monitoring program, created by Chicago-based Geofeedia, often included users’ locations and other personal information that was passed on to 500 law enforcement and safety agencies, …
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The Galaxy Note 7 has finally burned out. Samsung’s problematic phone trended for the second day in a row on social media as the South Korean electronics giant put out the word that it has permanently ended production on the Note 7. Users on Facebook and Twitter both mocked and mourned the Note 7’s demise. Social Cues is your go-to …
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The biggest patent case to hit the modern tech world is back again. Apple and Samsung will appear before the US Supreme Court on Tuesday to argue why their opponent was wrong when it came to a patent case from 2012. This is the first time a design patent case has been examined by the Supreme Court since the 1800s. …
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