Facebook’s and Instagram’s newest features? Tools to help you spend less time on Facebook and Instagram. Social networking giant Facebook, which owns Instagram, unveiled new additions Wednesday aimed at letting people better manage their time on the apps. One new feature will let you see a dashboard that tells you how much time you’ve spent …
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MoviePass has been in the news lately — a lot. Back in March, the company’s already-impressive $9.95-per-month subscription plan dropped to $6.95 (but then went back up). About a month later, the terms of service were altered so that you could see any given movie only once. Then, back in May, the unlimited plan seemed to vanish, only to return …
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Sprint continues to chug along with modest customer growth. Not that it really matters. For the quarter just ended, the Overland Park, Kansas, wireless carrier posted total customer growth of 57,000 net new customers and, most importantly, 87,000 net new phone customers in the lucrative postpaid category. But ultimately, the results, announced Wednesday, are less relevant than its pending merger …
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With about three months to go until Google is expected to launch its next pair of flagship phones in October, alleged leaked photos of the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL are common to see. The latest pictures of supposedly leaked images of the Pixel 3 come from XDA Developers, and show a white model with 4GB of RAM and 128GB …
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Ah, the spinning wheel of death. The rapidly multiplying error dialogue boxes. You’ve likely experienced these while using Apple’s macOS and Microsoft’s Windows. Google knows that and is tapping into these anxiety-provoking moments in its new Chromebook ad, which was posted to YouTube on Monday. In the ad, Google shows a serious of nightmarish clips highlighting the glitches you’ve likely …
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It’s the “Office Space” fantasy come true. Well, kind of. HP isn’t asking people to smash its printers to pieces, but the company is willing to pay people to break its software apart. On Tuesday, HP announced its first bug bounty program that specifically targets its printers, offering as much as $10,000 to hackers who can find vulnerabilities on its …
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Apple’s definitely working on something when it come to TV — but it’s still not ready to tell us about it. CEO Tim Cook on Tuesday hinted at Apple’s ambitions, but, in typical Cook fashion, didn’t reveal any specifics. “We hired two highly respected television executives last year, and they have been here now for several months and have been …
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For years now, Microsoft has been experimenting with ways to let you seamlessly pick up on your Windows PC from where you left off on a phone. Recently, that’s generally just meant sending links to your PC’s web browser. But as announced at Microsoft’s Build developer conference, the company’s planning to let you share much much more between a phone …
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Google’s Daydream VR platform has YouTube, Google Streetview, and now it has Chrome. A VR-ready version of Google’s Android Chrome app is now available to download to work with Daydream VR-ready phones, or on the standalone Lenovo Mirage Solo headset, Google announced today. It’s an overdue move, since Facebook’s standalone Oculus Go VR headset already has a built-in web browser, …
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YouTube for Android finally rolled out a dark mode over the weekend, months after it came to iOS. The dimmer display option — which offers an easier viewing experience in low-light conditions — is being automatically applied as it arrives on Android devices, according to 9to5google. It can be turned on and off manually through a toggle in the Settings …
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