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Facebook is stepping up its war on terrorist activities. The social networking giant said Sunday it plans to be hostile to terrorists and pledged to “aggressively remove terrorist content” after an attack in London left at least seven dead this weekend. “We want Facebook to be a hostile environment for terrorists,” Simon Milner, the company’s …

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. The iPhone improves every year in two ways: through a big hardware launch every September that also comes with a software refresh. Everyone knows that a new iPhone debuts every fall. But three months earlier, Apple‘s annual WWDC developers conference gives an early …

For a while there, everyone was going mad for modular. A phone with swappable hardware parts was going to be the industry’s next radical evolution. Google demoed Project Ara with its clever endoskeleton frame, LG launched its G5 flagship with a detachable chin that connected with other accessories, and Lenovo’s trio of Motorola Moto Z phones had magnetic modules for …

Android Pay is now available in Taiwan, Google announced Thursday. The contactless payment system was introduced in September 2015 in the US and since then has expanded to a handful of other countries.  Android Pay lets you make purchases by tapping your phone on a credit card terminal. It came out a year after Apple Pay, which lets you do the …

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple‘s back in a tricky position heading into this year’s developer conference: playing catchup. It’s a familiar situation. Apple’s usually not the first to leap into new markets — think smartphones or tablets. But when the company finally commits, it adds a level …

During a full-day briefing of Motorola’s product vision a week ago, I listened to a lot of talk about Mods. Motorola’s clever snap-on accessory system is a dream of a superconnected phone future. And yet, what I mostly saw were battery packs. Practicality aside, that’s not going to get anyone to upgrade to a modular world. Motorola might want to …

If you’re a spreadsheet guru, you probably are perfectly happy writing a command like =AVERAGE(Sheet1!C2:C933). For the rest of us, an infusion of artificial intelligence in Google Sheets means you’ll just be able to ask “What are the average sales for Sunday?” An AI update Google announced Thursday means the spreadsheet app takes its best shot at understanding commands in …

Clearly, Facebook doesn’t have enough ways to share your audiovisual story with the world. So — in addition to Facebook Stories, Instagram Stories, the My Day section of Facebook Messenger and your plain ol’ Facebook wall — you’ll soon be able to add additional items to your Facebook Albums as well. With a new update rolling out today on Android …

Google wants to make art experts out of everyone. The search giant has launched a new feature for art-related searches that will allow you to understand more about the artist and his works, as well as where they can be found, it announced in a Wednesday blog post. Over 500 million Google searches per month are art-related, the company said. The …

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. A drone hovers about 3 feet above the long wooden table. A man holding a shiny iPad Pro types something on the screen, and the drone suddenly flips over backward then comes to rest on the table’s surface. Next, a small gray robot …