It may’ve been designed to let people playfully pelt YouTube celebs with water balloons, but it looks like YouTube’s live Super Chat feature is now being used to spread hate speech. A report this week from The Wall Street Journal reveals that in the wake of the mass shooting at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue, …
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Pokemon Go’s latest addition lets you rack up rewards without keeping the app open. The Adventure Sync feature allows you to link the game to Apple HealthKit or Google Fit to accumulate movement bonuses even if the mobile app is off or you’re not using the Plus accessory. So, you’ll be able to earn candy and hatch eggs even on the …
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The worldwide smartphone slump is officially a year old. Global shipments of smartphones tumbled to 360 million units in the third quarter, an 8 percent annual decline, market researcher Strategy Analytics said Thursday. The results mark the fourth-straight quarter that smartphone shipments have declined. The smartphone market “is effectively in a recession,” Linda Sui, director at Strategy Analytics, said in …
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Samsung’s voice assistant is reportedly about to learn new tricks. The mobile giant plans to open its Bixby voice assistant to third-party developers in an effort to compete with Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri and Google Assistant, according to The Wall Street Journal. At an event in San Francisco next week, Samsung will reportedly detail how developers can create “capsules,” which …
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High-school senior Evan Scully has one main issue he’s focused on this political season: bringing back net neutrality protections. The 17-year-old political activist from rural North Carolina has been working on social media campaigns to organize online protests, as well as getting people to contact their congressional representatives to voice concern about the Federal Communications Commission’s repeal of the open …
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Forget Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Some of the best deals of the year can be found right now at Google Express. When you apply promo code WISH20 at checkout, you’ll save 20 percent — which leads to all-time low prices on some high-profile products. See it at Google Express Amazingly, that code works even with items that are already …
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Sonos has announced that Google Assistant won’t be joining Amazon‘s Alexa on its Sonos One and Beam speakers until 2019. Sonos’ smart speakers currently support Alexa and the support for multiple voice assistants, including Google’s, was one of the main selling points of the Sonos One at its 2017 launch. “While we originally planned to have the experience ready to …
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SmugMug, trying to strengthen its Flickr site as a community for photo enthusiasts, will limit free members to 1,000 photos and scrap the old policy of a terabyte of storage in an attempt to move toward subscriptions. The move, accompanied by a 30 percent discount on the $50 annual Flickr pro membership through Nov. 30, is the first big business …
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When Apple announced Tuesday that its iPad Pro had ditched the proprietary Lightning port in favor of USB-C, my eyes lit up. Lightning has had a good run, but I’d be happy to toss my collection of Lightning cables into my junk drawer alongside the ones for Firewire hard drives, VGA video and printers that perversely used those weird squarish …
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It’s the perfect app to get you in the Halloween spirit — that is, if you ain’t afraid of no AR ghosts. Ghostbusters World for iOS and Android has players roaming the neighborhood to capture and battle ghouls, spirits and spooks. There’s Slimer, The LIbrarian, Zuul, various haunted kitchen and bath appliances, and all sorts of characters you may have …
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