Monday, October 31, 2016

How to endorse a political candidate on Facebook and lose friends forever and other top stories.

  • How to endorse a political candidate on Facebook and lose friends forever

    Facebook is a place for making friends, sharing photos, and stoking bitter political arguments that last a lifetime. And while the social network pays a lot of attention to the first two activities, it's rather neglected the third. Not any more: as of this week, you can publicly endorse political candidates on Facebook. There's a whole guide to this process in Facebook's Help Center, but it's pretty straightforward. Just go to the Facebook page of a candidate you like, select the "Endorsement" ..
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  • The Google phone is almost as good as the iPhone

    The Google phone is almost as good as the iPhone
    If you want to know what I do for a living, the answer is I fret. I spend my summers swapping Android phones every week, never finding one that does everything I need quite as well as I want it to. Then the iPhone comes along in the fall, acting all polished, refined, and ultra competent, and I find a brief moment of tranquility. For the past month, I’ve been at peace with my smartphone, focusing my fretting instead on other things like headphones and backpacks. But technology never stands stil..
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  • Apple is reportedly putting a dynamic E Ink keyboard in 2018 MacBooks

    Apple is reportedly putting a dynamic E Ink keyboard in 2018 MacBooks
    Apple reportedly plans to put dynamic E Ink keyboards into MacBook laptops by 2018. According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, the iPhone-maker is working with Australian startup Sonder, which is launching its own Bluetooth E-Ink keyboard later this year. The keyboards can be used to display not only the standard QWERTY layout, but also different alphabets and context-sensitive buttons for software like Photoshop. However, the credibility of these rumors is not clear. The WSJ cites ano..
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  • Microsoft's new breakthrough: AI that's as good as humans at listening... on the phone

    Microsoft's new breakthrough: AI that's as good as humans at listening... on the phone
    Microsoft's speech-recognition AI could eventually be used to enhance Cortana's accessibility features, say, for deaf people. Image: Microsoft Microsoft researchers have developed a system that recognizes speech as accurately as a professional human transcriptionist.Researchers and engineers from Microsoft's Artificial Intelligence and Research group have set a new record in speech recognition, achieving a word ..
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  • Samsung faces lawsuit from Note7 owners who couldn't use their phones

    Samsung faces lawsuit from Note7 owners who couldn't use their phones
    Samsung’s problems with lawsuits from alleged victims of overheating batteries in the Galaxy Note7 smartphone could get compounded by consumers suing for compensation of carrier charges. The three plaintiffs in a proposed class action lawsuit in a New Jersey federal court are not suing for compensation for personal or property damage from the at times overheating and even exploding Note7 smartphones. Instead, they are asking the South Korean phone maker to compensate users for the time it..
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  • Facebook's 100-gigabit switch design is out in the open

    Facebook's 100-gigabit switch design is out in the open
    Facebook’s 100-gigabit switch design has been accepted by the Open Compute Project, a step that should help to foster an open ecosystem of hardware and software on high-speed networking gear. The 32-port Wedge 100 is the follow-on to Facebook’s Wedge 40, introduced about two years ago and now in use in practically all of the company’s data centers, said Omar Baldonado, director of software engineering on Facebook’s networking team. Mostly, it’s a faster version of that switch, upping the ..
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  • Yahoo's Mayer addresses email breach, but not customer churn

    Yahoo's Mayer addresses email breach, but not customer churn
    Yahoo's Mayer addresses email breach, but not customer churn Mike Snider , USA TODAY , KHOU 7:23 AM. EST October 19, 2016 Yahoo president and CEO Marissa Mayer speaks during the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Jan. 7, 2014 (Photo: Julie Jacobson, AP) Yahoo delivered pretty much as expected in what could be its last earnings report as an independent company.The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company, which is in the midst of being acquired by..
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  • Instagram Stories Now Show Up In The Explore Tab, Making It Easier To Discover Interesting Users To Follow

    Instagram Stories Now Show Up In The Explore Tab, Making It Easier To Discover Interesting Users To Follow
    Instagram Stories, a feature rolled out by the picture-sharing service back in August that very closely resembles the similarly named Snapchat Stories feature of the messaging app, can now be found under Instagram's Explore tab. Through Instagram Stories, users can post images and videos to their profile that would automatically be removed after 24 hours. This allows for the uploading of more casual posts that will not be permanently be attached to the user's Instagram account. Through a blog p..
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  • Netgear launches 'world's fastest router' Nighthawk X10 for streamers and VR fans

    Netgear launches 'world's fastest router' Nighthawk X10 for streamers and VR fans
    Gamers and big downloaders can rejoice. Netgear is launching what it calls the “world’s fastest router,” the Nighthawk X10, for media streaming, instant backup, and fast gameplay. The Nighthawk X10 AD7200 Smart Wi-Fi Router is a follow-up to the Nighthawk brand that the company launched in 2013. San Jose, Calif.-based Netgear is pitching the router to enthusiasts who like 4K video streams and virtual reality gaming. The router combines a 1.7-gigahertz quad-core processor — the fastest processor..
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  • The best programs to run Android apps on your Windows PC

    The best programs to run Android apps on your Windows PC
    From time to time you’ll hear about yet another effort to bring Android to the desktop. Yes, there’s an official effort to do this straight from Google by bringing the Play Store to a select number of Chromebooks.But what if you want this now, or don’t want to buy a new computer to experience what it’d be like to use Android apps on your PC? With a little bit of digital elbow grease, it’s possible. You can run some of your favorite apps and engage in Android gaming by trying out one of the ..
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