After admitting that Facebook deletes messages from CEO Mark Zuckerberg without telling users, the social network now says that it will add the feature for all users, TechCrunch reported. In the future, you’ll be able to delete your messages from other peoples’ inboxes. Josh Miller/CNET Messages sent from Zuckerberg were discovered to disappear after a …
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Dear VR: It’s not me, it’s you. We’ve had some good times, we’ve had some motion sickness, we’ve bumped into a few walls. But after giving you the benefit of the doubt for the past two years, it’s time to throw in the towel. Virtual reality may yet become a massive mainstream hit, but it’s not going to happen with …
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High dynamic range is the latest tech trend in the TV world, with its brighter highlights and lavish colors. It produces a more dramatic improvement in image quality than 4K resolution, especially on a high-end TV. But if you consider TVs too small and prefer the huge images produced by projectors, I have some bad news. A bunch of new …
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If you’ve read any TV reviews lately, or anything about modern TV technology, you’ve likely come across the term “nit.” The short version is that it’s a colloquial term for a unit of brightness. That description might be enough for you. Lots of nits = lots of brightness, which helps the image look better in a bright room or with …
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To the casual observer it would appear that streaming media is the killing blow for the humble MP3 player. Why tote something else around when you can listen to whatever you want with your phone, including music services? To the budget-minded music fan, however, a product like the HiBy R3 is kind of a holy grail. The device, which has already amassed more …
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The Xiaomi Mi 8 has been officially revealed. It has a 6.21-inch AMOLED screen and dual 12-megapixel rear cameras. Xiaomi’s new Mi Mix 2S is an update to last year’s Mi Mix 2, and it comes with updated hardware to compete with a whole new generation of all-screen flagship phones. Oh, and it doesn’t have an iPhone-style notch. Announced in Shanghai Tuesday, …
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Sony fans holding out for a cheaper OLED TV, prepare for a bit of disappointment. The new A8F series, first shown off at CES 2018 in January, will cost $2,800 at the 55-inch size and $3,800 at the 65-inch size. Those prices are $300 more than the cost of LG’s 2018 C8 series in the same sizes. Meanwhile the Sony …
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For the first time in nearly five years, Tiger Woods is in contention to win a PGA Tour event. After his very public divorce in 2010, numerous back surgeries and an arrest, the 42-year-old Woods looks like he might finally be back to something approximating his old self. After three rounds at the Valspar Championship in Palm Harbor, Florida, he’s …
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No doubt about it, the Apple iPod is easily the coolest audio product of the twenty-first century. Introduced in late 2001 it wasn’t the first portable digital music player, there were portable CD players like the Sony Discman in 1984, and they were definitely cool. Then Steve Jobs put his special spin on the iPod, “To have your whole CD …
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