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How to Stop Google From Tracking Your Location

A new report shows that Google still tracks your location even if you thought you opted out.

1 day ago

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How to Stop Google From Tracking Your Location

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Best Smart Speakers (2018): Alexa, Google Assistant, Siri, Cortana

Smart speakers with Google Assistant, Alexa, and Siri are popular, but which one is right for you?

1 day ago

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Best Smart Speakers (2018): Alexa, Google Assistant, Siri, Cortana

Techcrunch

DC Entertainment's new streaming and digital comics service pops up on Google Play

DC Universe’s digital subscription and streaming service has just appeared on Google Play, ahead of its planned fall 2018 release. Announced in late June, the service includes a streaming library of original programming like a live action version of “Teen Titans” and several other shows; ...

4 hours ago

Techcrunch

DC Entertainment's new streaming and digital comics service pops up on Google Play

Techcrunch

Pandora Premium comes to Google Assistant-powered devices

Pandora Premium is coming to Google Home, Mini, and Max devices, and other smart speakers and screens with Google Assistant built-in, the company announced this morning. The integration means listeners who pay for Pandora’s on-demand music service will be able to search and play any song, album, ...

4 hours ago

Techcrunch

Pandora Premium comes to Google Assistant-powered devices

Fast Company

Google tracks unsuspecting users, and now lawmakers are demanding action

Yesterday, the Associated Press published a report about Google products that track users’ location even if they tried to stop it in their privacy settings. Essentially, even with location tracking turned off, the company still checks the data point when users open the Maps app or do searches. Google, ...

8 hours ago

Fast Company

Google tracks unsuspecting users, and now lawmakers are demanding action

Engadget

Google Assistant can play songs from Pandora Premium

Pandora's Plus and ad-supported users have been able to listen using Google Home for almost two years, and the streaming service is now meshing more tightly with Google Assistant. Starting today, Premium listeners can use their voice to play on-deman...

2 hours ago

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Google Assistant can play songs from Pandora Premium

Engadget

Google is working on a fix for the Pixel XL's fast charging issue

On Monday, reports of a problem with Pixel XL devices' fast charging system surfaced after users updated to the latest Android operating system, Pie. As a result of all the reports, Google says it's aware of the issue and is working on a timely fix....

3 hours ago

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Google is working on a fix for the Pixel XL's fast charging issue

Venturebeat

Pandora Premium now plays ball with Google Assistant smart speakers

Pandora has announced that Premium subscribers can now access on-demand music through Google Home and other Google Assistant-powered smart speakers. It’s worth noting here that

4 hours ago

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Pandora Premium now plays ball with Google Assistant smart speakers

Ars Technica

Google Pixel XL users say Android 9 Pie causes quick-charging problems [Updated]

After ignoring bug during beta period, Google now has it marked as "assigned."

5 hours ago

Ars Technica

Google Pixel XL users say Android 9 Pie causes quick-charging problems [Updated]

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GE Smart Countertop Microwave Review: Future Food

GE loaded this microwave with Alexa capabilities and scan-to-cook technology. But those high-tech features make microwaving more complicated than ever.

1 day ago

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GE Smart Countertop Microwave Review: Future Food

Techcrunch

Smart speaker sales on pace to increase 50 percent by 2019

It seems Amazon didn't know what it had on its hands when it released the first Echo in late-2014. The AI-powered speaker formed the foundation of the next been moment in consumer electronics. Those devices have helped mainstreaming consumer AI and open the door to wide scale adoption of connected home ...

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Smart speaker sales on pace to increase 50 percent by 2019

Engadget

How to better secure your smart home

With the advent of gadgets like doorbell cameras, smart kitchen appliances and data-logging sensors that track your sleep, the smart home now extends to even the most intimate areas of the household. It's great for general convenience, like knowing w...

5 hours ago

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How to better secure your smart home

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Best Nintendo Switch Deals and Console Bundles (Autumn 2018)

The best Nintendo Switch console deals, and all the essentials you'll need when you own one.

7 hours ago

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Best Nintendo Switch Deals and Console Bundles (Autumn 2018)

Fast Company

Considering a career switch? Here’s how to write your résumé

Making the decision to change careers is a huge undertaking. Not only do you have to be willing to acquire new skills and step outside your comfort zone, but you also have to be able to sell your past experience to recruiters and hiring managers. While the majority of this “selling” happens ...

8 hours ago

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Considering a career switch? Here’s how to write your résumé

Engadget

'Dark Souls: Remastered' arrives on Nintendo Switch October 19th

Dark Souls fans have eagerly been awaiting the release of the game on Nintendo Switch, and now we finally have a date for you. The remastered port and its matching amiibo will land on October 19th.

6 hours ago

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'Dark Souls: Remastered' arrives on Nintendo Switch October 19th

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Dark Souls: Remastered is coming to Switch on October 19

Bandai Namco announced today that Dark Souls: Remastered will release for Nintendo Switch on October 19. Dark Souls: Remastered released for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC on May 25, but

5 hours ago

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Dark Souls: Remastered is coming to Switch on October 19

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Your Chicken's Salmonella Problem Is Worse Than You Think

And cooking it to kingdom come won't necessarily protect you.

1 day ago

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Your Chicken's Salmonella Problem Is Worse Than You Think

Fast Company

Why Spotify could be bigger than Pandora in the U.S. in less than 5 years

It might be a good time to buy some Spotify stock. eMarketer thinks the streaming music giant will have more U.S. users than that other streaming music giant, Pandora, by 2022. According to new research from the firm, Pandora’s user base of some 75.9 million U.S. music fans will decline slightly ...

7 hours ago

Fast Company

Why Spotify could be bigger than Pandora in the U.S. in less than 5 years

Ars Technica

Bitcoin and ether are both down more than two-thirds from their peaks

The value of ether has fallen 9 percent over the last 24 hours.

24 hours ago

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Bitcoin and ether are both down more than two-thirds from their peaks

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Gaming star Ninja sparks outrage by refusing to stream with women

At a Samsung event last week, Tyler “Ninja” Blevins explained why he doesn’t stream with female gamers. ?If I have one conversation with one female streamer where we're playing with one another, and even if there's a hint of flirting, that is going to be taken and going to be put on ...

4 hours ago

Techcrunch

Gaming star Ninja sparks outrage by refusing to stream with women

Readwrite

How Women Are Breaking Into the Tech World

It's no secret that tech has become a male-dominated industry. The press has discussed at length the gender discrimination prevalent throughout the tech sector, resulting in everything from pay inequities to sexual harassment. Study upon study has shown that women with the same educational backgrounds ...

2 hours ago

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How Women Are Breaking Into the Tech World

Fast Company

The state of black women getting funding in 2018

Last year, Fast Company did a deep dive into the world of black women founders; the money (or lack thereof) that they raise, the challenges they circumvent, and what could be done to alleviate some of their problems. Then, Elizabeth Holmes, who raised $750 million, was found to have no viable product. ...

9 hours ago

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The state of black women getting funding in 2018

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SurveyMonkey’s board is now 50% women

SurveyMonkey just appointed another woman to its board of directors, bringing gender parity to the online survey platform’s 10-person board. With the addition of Erika Hayes James, the dean of Emory University’s business school,

10 hours ago

Fast Company

SurveyMonkey’s board is now 50% women

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Twitter is purging accounts that were trying to evade prior suspensions

Twitter announced this afternoon it will begin booting accounts off its service from those who have tried to evade their account suspension. The company says that the accounts in question are users who have been previously suspended on Twitter for their abusive behavior, or for trying to evade a prior ...

2 hours ago

Techcrunch

Twitter is purging accounts that were trying to evade prior suspensions

Engadget

Hundreds of Instagram users report similarly hacked accounts

A number of people have reported having their Instagram accounts hacked this month, Mashable reports, and many of these hacks appear to have taken the same approach. Users suddenly find themselves logged out of their accounts and when they try to log...

4 hours ago

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Hundreds of Instagram users report similarly hacked accounts

Engadget

MoviePass has been resurrecting recently cancelled accounts

We've been following the seeming death spiral of MoviePass for awhile now, as the company has run out of cash, limited services, raised prices and more. Now, there's a new issue for subscribers to contend with: People who cancelled their MoviePass su...

4 hours ago

Engadget

MoviePass has been resurrecting recently cancelled accounts