Facebook is in hot water with US lawmakers. The web giant’s reluctance to stamp out Russia’s propaganda farms on its social network did not go down well with Congressional investigators. It finally acted last month, taking down thousands of ads linke…
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Instagram has been showing ads in its Stories since March of this year, but it’s been pretty obvious they’re ads — they’re often pre-produced clips that were obviously shot and edited with professional equipment. But starting today, however, those a…
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Though Instagram’s Stories is already more popular than Snapchat, the photo-sharing service won’t stop introducing more ways to share them. In May, it introduced location and hashtag Stories so they popped up more in Explore. Now, Instagram is taking…
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The original game, for all its excellent moment to moment experiences, felt like it was largely a series of menus. ‘Destiny 2’ feels like a place.
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I still remember how excited I was when my parents brought home a shiny Kodak instant camera, and how that turned to disappointment when it was recalled in a patent dispute with Polaroid (yes, I’m that old). I’m not nearly as excited with Kodak’s lat…
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The Note brand is still going strong despite Samsung recalling and discontinuing Note 7 devices last year for battery explosions. The company announced that more customers in the US have preordered the Note 8 than any other Notes it has ever sold in previous years during the same time period.
At a conference in Korea where Samsung announced the Note 8’s release in its home country, Samsung’s mobile chief DJ Koh said it received 650,000 preorders within five days across the 40 countries it first launched in — 2.5 times faster than the Note 7. Samsung has not publicly announced the number for US-only presales.
Note 8 preorders went live in the US on August 24th and the device is one of Samsung’s most expensive smartphones to date, starting…
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Films coming to theaters soon, 2017’s biggest awards contenders, offbeat indies seeking distribution, and more.
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Some cars are timeless. The first generation Honda CVCC is one of those vehicles. With it’s tiny frame it bucked against the large American cars of the 1970s and become an instant classic. So it’s no surprise that the automaker looked back at its her…
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Facebook has removed its Instant Articles platform off Messenger just a little over a year after first introducing the feature, reports TechCrunch. Instant Articles is a mobile feature Facebook introduced in 2015 as a way for news publishers to distribute their content to the mass of users on the social networking site. The articles load up to 10 times faster, but weak performance means Instant Articles struggled to grow.
“As we continue to refine and improve Instant Articles — and in order to have the greatest impact on people and publishers — we’re focusing our investment in Instant Articles in the Facebook core app and are no longer offering Instant Articles in Messenger,” a Facebook spokesperson told TechCrunch. The spokesperson…
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Samsung’s much-rumored foldable smartphone has been in the pipeline since the company first debuted its flexible display prototype, Youm, in 2013. Now the Korean tech giant says the almost-mythical device could launch next year under its Galaxy Note…
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