Facebook and Instagram Stories open to sharing from other apps Facebook is recruiting help to make its Stories more interesting than Snapchat’s. Starting with Spotify, SoundCloud and GoPro, third-party apps can now let their users share to Facebook Stories and Instagram Stories. Rather than screenshotting, users will be able to […]
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Facebook’s AI-created virtual memories are magically haunting Ever since Facebook bought Oculus, it’s been investing in virtual reality in a big way. Beyond just hardware like the Rift and the Go, it’s also putting a lot of money and research into software. It delved into the realm of social last […]
New Bigscreen update streams your desktop to the Oculus Go Oculus says that its new Go headset already boasts support for more than 1,000 titles out of the gate as of today. One of the most interesting of the small subset of those that I’ve taken a look at today […]
Apple surprises with solid iPhone sales, announces $100 billion buyback Apple Inc on Tuesday reported resilient iPhone sales in the face of waning global demand and promised $100 billion in additional stock buybacks, reassuring investors that its decade-old smartphone invention had life in it yet. Apple’s quarterly results topped Wall […]
Analyst says Apple may forego Lightning-to-3.5mm adapter for new iPhones “We currently model no dongle this year,” wrote Barclays’ Blayne Curtis. The analyst didn’t provide any immediate evidence for the assertion. Apple has included adapters with the iPhone 7, 8, and X, which otherwise lack 3.5mm jacks. The step is […]
Fitbit Strikes Deal With Google That Could Lead to Wearables Collaboration Fitbit has teamed up with Google in an effort to get more deeply involved in the healthcare sector. The fitness tracker maker announced on Monday that it would use Google’s recently announced health data standards for apps, known as […]
2019 Toyota Corolla Hatchback first drive review Toyota brought out the first Corolla way back in 1966. For the last 52 years, there’s never been a time when you couldn’t buy a new Corolla, and Toyota made it the biggest-selling nameplate in automotive history by offering an affordable car with […]
Investors are finding new reasons to love Apple now that the iPhone is fading In the leadup to the iPhone X reveal last year, analysts were visibly salivating at the prospect of an iPhone upgrade “supercycle,” a tidal wave of profitability that would sweep Apple stocks to never-before-seen heights and […]
One of WhatsApp’s founders is leaving Facebook amid the data dispute When Jan Koum, a founder of the messaging app WhatsApp, sold the service to Facebook in 2014, he explained how deeply he cared about the privacy of communication. Growing up in the Soviet Union during the 1980s — when […]
Facebook expands downvote button to some users in Australia, New Zealand Facebook began trialling a downvote button (not a dislike button) in February, giving the feature to a limited number of its many, many users. The trial appears to be a “so far, so good” scenario, as the company has […]
