When Ruth Meeker heard that a gunman had opened fire inside a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, on Friday, she turned to social media site Twitter to learn more about the attack. What she saw next horrified her. After clicking on a hashtag about the shooting, a gruesome video of the massacre that the alleged …
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WhatsApp’s newest feature — the ability to lock the app with Face ID or Touch ID — appears to have a major security flaw. A Reddit user discovered the issue on iOS when using the share sheet (the menu that pops up when you tap the share icon in an app) of to open WhatsApp. Unless you’ve set your app to …
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Reddit just reached a milestone in video views. In August last year, the popular online message-board site started hosting videos, rather than relying on third-party hosting platforms. It now has over 1 billion native video views every month, it said in a blog post Tuesday. Reddit is now serving 400,000 hours of natively hosted video every day, and nearly 70 …
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Starting at 9 a.m. PT today, CNET News Editor-in-Chief Connie Guglielmo and CNET senior editor Vanessa Hand Orellana are leading a Reddit AMA on r/IAMA about everything Apple revealed Wednesday at its fall event. They’ll discuss what they thought after their first look at the new hardware, what the announcements mean for the future of Apple and the tech industry, and anything …
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It’s quite the day for leaked flagship phones — first, the internet gets its first alleged look at the iPhone XS, and now an anonymous Redditor (via 9to5Google) is bringing us what could be the first images of Google’s regular-sized Pixel 3 phone. If you’ll remember, Russian bloggers had already revealed practically everything about a larger Pixel 3 XL — at …
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If the selfie in Huawei’s latest Nova 3i ad looks too good to be true, that’s because it is. In the commercial, we see several shots presumably taken by the phone’s front-facing camera, including one where a woman is putting on makeup and a man holds out the phone to take a selfie. But a behind-the-scenes photo posted by Sarah …
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Finally, all your pithy tweets and insightful Reddit posts could pay off. Brave, the ad-blocking browser startup trying to rewrite the rules of online advertising, sends payments today to website publishers, YouTube stars and Twitch videogame streamers. Now it plans to extend that system to people who post on Twitter and Reddit. Brave plans to add Reddit and Twitter support for …
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After $2.3 billion in funding and nearly four years of secrets, Magic Leap is on the verge of shipping its first headset — this summer, in fact — but we still have very little idea what you’ll see inside. Until today, perhaps — because it sure looks like images of Magic Leap’s proposed user interface have just leaked onto the …
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Community-based Reddit chat rooms are being released to more subreddits each day, a year after beta tests began. Each subreddit can opt to add a chat room as a casual conversation alternative — one that doesn’t require refreshing to update — and it’ll be added to a directory. Reddit product designer ityoclys outlined his experience of beta testing the new …
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Reddit is rolling out a redesign, the first change to the front page of the internet in a decade. The redesigned Reddit features three views — card, classic and compact — and a night mode option just like you’ll find on YouTube and Twitter. Learn how to opt in to Reddit’s new design, and then where you can find the …
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