Twitter is shutting down Vine, the micro-video app famous for 6-second clips that the microblogging platform acquired (and launched) in 2012. The company will be discontinuing the mobile app in the coming months — which likely means that it will no longer be available on the App Store or Google Play — but the app, …
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If your old laptop is starting to show its age, there can be any number of issues affecting its performance. Here are five likely culprits for why your laptop is running so frustratingly slow and five solutions to return it to its former glory. 1. Spinning hard drive I speak from experience when I say moving from a traditional spinning …
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Twenty years ago, websites were mostly text documents with a sprinkling of images and hyperlinks to other websites. Now they’re interactive experiences with instant messaging pop-ups, autoplaying video, auto-updating articles and animated graphics that swoop around the page as you scroll. And Mozilla has decided it’s time to update its Firefox browser to better cope with this complex reality. On …
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Twitter is stuck in a rut. The service, which has amplified the voices of everyone from Katy Perry to Donald Trump, remains a niche player in the social media industry. The company’s user growth has flat-lined, and efforts to transform the service into a live-streaming hub have yielded mixed results. Even Twitter’s allure as a platform for voices is starting …
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There’s a new cop on the internet privacy beat. In a 3-2 vote Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission passed new rules that for the first time give the agency the authority to police internet service providers, such as AT&T, Comcast and Verizon, that share customers’ sensitive personal information with third parties, like advertisers. The FCC’s new rules will require internet …
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Exclusive, exschmoosive. T-Mobile really wants you to know that Verizon’s “exclusive” to sell the red-hot Google Pixel phone isn’t an exclusive at all. “Don’t let the ‘exclusive’ advertisements fool you, the Pixel phone is tested and proven to be fantastic on our lightning fast network, and we want to help you get the best of both worlds!” said T-Mobile CEO …
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You’d be forgiven if you thought Google was moving beyond its search engine, which allowed it to become one of the most powerful companies on the planet. After all, Google’s biggest recent announcements have been around devices: a new phone called Pixel, the first real Google phone; a smart home hub; a new streaming video device; and a Wi-Fi router. …
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Now playing: Watch this: USB-C and Thunderbolt 3: One port to rule them all 2:58 Read up on USB-C 5 things to know about the MacBook Pro’s USB-C ports Cheap USB-C to USB-A dongles Our favorite USB-C accessories Look around your house and chances are you have at least a few devices that use Universal Serial Bus. On average, some …
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Google is gearing up for the release of the Google Home smart speaker on November 2 with the release of the companion app. Originally called Google Cast, the new Google Home app, released this week, lets you cast content to compatible devices over your network as well as set up multiroom audio groups. While the app looks similar to Google …
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