A small battle is brewing in the scooter world. It involves an app called Scooter Map, which its developer said was created to help people find scooters from all companies grouped together in one app. Problem is, one of the world’s largest rental scooter companies doesn’t like it. Lime sent Victor Pontis, Scooter Map’s developer, …
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This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. A robot that brings you more toilet paper when you run out. Samsung’s softball-shaped robot named Ballie. Of all the digital pals shown off at CES last week, none were quite as uncanny as Neon, the humanlike “life form” funded by a Samsung lab …
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Mozilla laid off about 70 employees Wednesday as part of an effort to preserve funding for its top new priorities like protecting privacy and fighting surveillance online. The nonprofit is best known for creating the Firefox web browser, but it also is expanding into new areas including password management, file sharing and private network connections while doubling down on its longstanding …
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Google’s Chrome team, advancing its web privacy effort, later this year will begin testing the “privacy sandbox” proposals it unveiled in 2019. The Chrome tests, which Google announced Tuesday, are part of an effort to make it harder for publishers, advertisers and data brokers to harvest your personal data without your permission and to track you online. Other browsers, including …
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This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. HP only announced its ultralight Elite Dragonfly business two-in-one back in September, but it’s already moving on to its second-gen version, the Elite Dragonfly G2. Announced at CES 2020, the G2 will have three key new options when it’s expected to …
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Facebook‘s begun giving some users access to its redesigned desktop experience, first announced in April, that’s less cluttered and uses brighter icons. The company said it plans to offer the new look more broadly sometime before the spring. In the meantime, when the “small percentage” of people who can access this new feature sign in to Facebook for the first …
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This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. Google is everywhere at CES 2020. With the world’s largest consumer electronics showcase under way here in Las Vegas, the search giant has dispatched an army of people clad in white uniforms to spread the gospel about the Google Assistant, the …
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This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. CES, the annual tech show that kicks off in Las Vegas on Jan. 7, isn’t just about showing off the coolest laptops, TVs and gadgets. It’s also a time for Facebook and Twitter to make some noise of their own. Social …
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This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. I just reviewed the seventh-gen ThinkPad X1 Carbon and fourth-gen ThinkPad X1 Yoga a few months back and here we are with their replacements, the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 8 and ThinkPad X1 Yoga Gen 5, already being announced ahead …
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So you just got a new smart TV, or maybe a Roku or Fire TV streamer as a holiday gift (maybe from yourself, but who’s counting?). Congrats! Whether it was a discounted doorbuster or a fancy new OLED, now is a great time to enjoy your big screen. One thing you might want to consider about any new TV, just like a …
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