Facebook gave some of the tech industry’s biggest companies greater access to users’ personal data than the social-networking company previously disclosed, The New York Times reported Tuesday. Special arrangements detailed in internal Facebook documents gave Microsoft’s Bing search engine access to the names of all Facebook users’ friends without consent and allowed Netflix and Spotify …
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Facebook on Sunday stopped Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s son Yair from posting for 24 hours. The 27-year-old slammed the social network as “thought police” and shared posts it had deleted. His criticism came after Facebook removed a post in which he called for “avenging the deaths” of Israeli soldiers killed by Palestinian gunmen and suggested that Palestinians be expelled …
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If you’ve spent time on Tumblr, odds are you’ve encountered porn. A study from 2016 showed that nearly half of its users end up seeing porn on the microblogging site. But starting today, that’s going to change. Tumblr’s ban of all adult content takes effect on Monday, Dec. 17. Tumblr, one of the oldest blogging platforms, defines adult content as “photos, videos, …
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Who says Black Friday brings all the best TV deals? Not Best Buy, at least if today’s rather surprising sale is any indication. Disclaimer: CNET may get a share of revenue from the sale of products featured on this page. Today only, and while supplies last, Best Buy has the TCL 55R615 Series 6 55-inch Roku TV for $499.99 shipped …
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The 32GB version of the newest 9.7-inch iPad, regularly priced at $329, was selling for $250 everywhere on Black Friday and Cyber Monday. That deal remains in place at Target. But now Walmart has jumped in with a significant discount that we haven’t seen before, selling the 128GB version for $329, a savings of $100 on that model. So, you can pay $329 for …
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Apple will send out a software update to reverse a court ban on older iPhone models in China. It’ll push the update “early next week,” according to Reuters, after a court ordered that Chinese subsidiaries stop selling the iPhone 6S, iPhone 6S Plus, iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus and iPhone X. The ban stemmed from …
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YouTube Rewind 2018 became the site’s most disliked video ever Thursday, just a week after its release. The video hit 10 million dislikes early Thursday, according to LikesCounter, has been viewed more than 120 million times and has more than 2.1 million likes. Before Thursday, Justin Bieber’s Baby was YouTube’s most disliked video. Uploaded in 2010, it has 9.8 million dislikes, more …
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Facebook Watch, the giant social network’s video hub, is a year and a half old. And Facebook is ready to talk about what people — and how many of them — are actually watching. Chat show Red Table Talk, grieving-widow drama Sorry for your Loss, trivia show Confetti and an episode of reality series Returning the Favor all topped various metrics that …
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In addition to the dozen iOS 12 Shortcuts suggestions from my colleague Jason Cipriani, I have a trio of YouTube-related additions for your Shortcuts Library. One lets you download YouTube videos on your iPhone ($899 at Amazon) — no computer or iTunes required. Another lets you listen to YouTube in the background. And the last lets you look up YouTube …
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My kids are all grown up, which means I’m no longer allowed to dress them in ridiculously cute clothes and accessories. But maybe I can put one of these aside for future grandkids? Because awwwww. Look at them! For a limited time, and while supplies last, ZBetonline has the iClever Kids Reindeer Headphones for just $7.19. That’s after clipping the …
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