This story is part of Gift Guide, our year-round collection of the best gift ideas. Think you know everything there is to know about saving money on Black Friday ? Think again. I’ve got a couple tips you might have missed. (While you’re at it, be sure to learn the secret of scoring Amazon deals all year …
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This story is part of Elections 2020, CNET’s coverage of the voting in November and its aftermath. The labels Facebook has been placing on President Donald Trump’s misleading posts about the election have done little to slow their spread across the social media giant, according to internal data cited by BuzzFeed News. After the polls closed on Nov. 3, President …
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Facebook’s Oculus Quest VR platform has continued adding updates over the past year and a half, but its latest one could turn it into a full-fledged workout ecosystem for the winter. The Oculus Quest 2 is also getting visual upgrades to support 90Hz refresh rates in games and for PC use. It’s all part of a software update announced today. …
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Many of us can admit to spending too much time on our phones, and a study released last week quantified just how often we stare at our screens. According to the report by mobile comparison site WhistleOut, the average American will spend nearly nine years of their lifetime on their phone. Not surprisingly, Millennials spend the most amount of time …
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Facebook-owned photo service Instagram is doubling down on short-form videos and online shopping. On Thursday, the social network said it’s adding two new tabs to Instagram’s home page to make it easier for users to find short-form videos known as Reels and products they might be interested in buying on the platform. The tabs will appear at the bottom of the …
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Facebook and its Instagram platform are taking another tip from Snapchat. On Thursday, Facebook said it’s rolling out a new way to send messages in both apps that automatically disappear once a chat session is closed. Called vanish mode, the feature will be available for some users in Facebook’s messaging service, Messenger, and in Instagram direct message for those who updated the app …
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Nielsen, the television ratings giant, is making a change to its rules that may mean the commercials you watch on TV start to feel like the ones in your Facebook feed: better targeted to you and your interests. But advancements in ad targeting bring questions about the privacy of your data, and TV’s data practices are still developing. “Typically, when …
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Facebook and Twitter took action on misleading posts by President Donald Trump about election results, highlighting both similarities and differences in their treatment of political messages. Major news organizations called the election for Democrat Joe Biden on Saturday morning, even as the president continued tweeting grievances. After polls closed on Tuesday, both companies labeled a post in which the president …
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WhatsApp has rolled out a free payment service in India today, in a move that takes the popular messaging app a step closer to “super app” status in the world’s second largest internet market. “People can safely send money to a family member or share the cost of goods from a distance without having to exchange cash in person or …
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This story is part of Elections 2020, CNET’s coverage of the voting in November and its aftermath. No, you can’t vote by text message. Or by tweet. Or, minus a few rare exceptions, over the internet. If you didn’t know that, now you do. If you did know it, good. Tell your friends. The reason I’m writing it is that …
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