From PC Mag: When it comes to bullies, should you engage or ignore? Twitter is choosing door No. 2. It announced today that it will stop troll tweets from popping up at the top of your conversations and searches using "new behavioral signals" to pinpoint the offensive messages.
According to a...
From CNET: Microsoft is reportedly planning to release a line of cheaper Surface tablets that will allow it to compete more effectively with Apple's iPads.
The company's smaller, lower-cost Surface tablets could arrive as soon as the second half of 2018, said Bloomberg, quoting people familiar with...
From PC Mag: A new Google service will offer you more bang for your buck when it comes to cloud storage.
On Monday, the company said its moving paid customers of Google Drive over to an upcoming platform called Google One.
As part of that change, the tech giant will offer a $9.99 per month plan...
From CNET: A new stream of six-second ads are appearing on Snapchat and they can't be skipped.
The ads, for movies like Deadpool, Apple and Samsung, are only appearing during its professionally-produced Shows, AdAge reports. They act much like commercial breaks on TV -- remember those?
That...
From The Verge: Amazon Go is heading to Chicago and San Francisco, according to a report from The Seattle Times, marking the first expansion of the online retailer’s cashier-less grocery store from its initial Seattle location.
Per The Seattle Times, Amazon has posted job listings for store...
From The Verge: Lenovo Vice President Chang Cheng is teasing a new phone on China’s Weibo social network that’s nothing but screen framed by an ultra-thin bezel (via CNET). While Apple might claim that the iPhone X is “all screen,” its infamous notch — and the rash of Android imitators that followed...
From PC Mag: President Trump on Sunday said he's working with China to help ZTE "get back into business, fast" and prevent further job loss in China.
"President Xi of China, and I, are working together to give massive Chinese phone company, ZTE, a way to get back into business, fast. Too many jobs...
From CNET: Facebook has suspended around 200 apps as part of its investigation into whether companies misused personal user data gathered from the social network.
The company has evaluated thousands of apps to see if they had access to large amounts of data, and will now thoroughly investigate...
A few months ago, I was walking in downtown Banff with a moderately large group of friends. For some unknown reason, one of them started to sing The Star-Spangled Banner, and slowly but surely, many others began to join in spontaneously. I was a little bit aware that we were still in Canada, so I cautiously reminded them to avoid singing the American national anthem in public. My friends did not heed my advice; instead, they suggested that maybe...
From PC Mag: In November last year, Microsoft decided to join the 21st century by introducing Xbox One gifting options to the Microsoft Store. Rather than only being able to give gift cards, select Xbox One digital games and DLC, Xbox Live Gold, and Xbox Game Pass subscriptions could also be gifted...
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