Wednesday, December 7, 2016

What to expect at Apple's Mac event: All-new MacBook Pros, refreshed Airs & iMacs, more and other top stories.

  • What to expect at Apple's Mac event: All-new MacBook Pros, refreshed Airs & iMacs, more

    What to expect at Apple's Mac event: All-new MacBook Pros, refreshed Airs & iMacs, more
    Apple is said to be introducing an entirely refreshed lineup of Macs later this month. The event is said to be on October 27th, which we first speculated earlier this month. The new Macs are expected to be available to consumers this month, as well. As is often the case with Apple events, we already know a good portion of what the company has up its sleeve. Read on for a roundup of what to expect… MacBook Air The MacBook Air certainly isn’t expected to be the star of the show this year, but ..
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  • At crisis-hit Samsung, nerves jangle as annual review looms

    At crisis-hit Samsung, nerves jangle as annual review looms
    The logo of Samsung Electronic is seen at its headquarters in Seoul Thomson Reuters By Se Young Lee SEOUL (Reuters) - The next few weeks are traditionally a tense time at Samsung Electronics Co as executives wait to see if their work over the year is rewarded with promotion at the South Korean firm's annual performance review. This year, that tension has been ramped up several notches as the year-end ritual comes on the heels of the debacle over Samsung's flagship..
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  • Instagram brings stories to the explore tab

    Instagram brings stories to the explore tab
    Two months after introducing Snapchat-style stories to the app, Instagram today announced that stories are coming to the explore tab as well. The company says 100 million people visit the tab each day to find photos and videos from accounts they don’t yet follow. Now they’ll see stories there as well: a rolling series of posts that disappear 24 hours after they are posted, just like on Snapchat. For Instagram, adding stories had two key objectives. The first was to get users to share more photo..
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  • Yahoo Looks to Bright Side After Breach

    Yahoo Looks to Bright Side After Breach
    Yahoo Inc. on Tuesday posted an increase in third-quarter profit and said usage of its email product has increased slightly since disclosing a massive data breach that was announced last month, rare bits of good news as it clings to a deal to sell itself to Verizon Communications Inc. The number of mail messages sent and read, as well as the number of page views, rose slightly since Yahoo’s announcement on Sept. 22 that user data...
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  • 7 settings you should change on the Google Pixel

    7 settings you should change on the Google Pixel
    Google's Pixel phones are pretty amazing. From Google Assistant, to an outstanding camera, Google has done a lot of things right with its newest flagship phone.In order to get the most from your Pixel or Pixel XL, here are seven settings you should set up or change right away. Use Wi-Fi Assistant Screenshot by Jason Cipriani/CNET To help ease the amount of wireless data you consume, enable Google's Wi-Fi Assis..
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  • Microsoft reaches 'human parity' with new speech recognition system

    Microsoft reaches 'human parity' with new speech recognition system
    Researchers at Microsoft have published details of new speech recognition technology that they say transcribes conversational speech as well as a human does. "We've reached human parity," says Microsoft's chief speech scientist Xuedong Huang in a statement. "This is an historic achievement." The system's word error rate is reported to be 5.9 percent, which Microsoft says is "about equal" to professional transcriptionists asked to work on speech taken from the same Switchboard corpus of conversa..
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  • Google To Debut Click-To-Message Ads In Coming Weeks

    Google To Debut Click-To-Message Ads In Coming Weeks
    It has been a while now since Google started experimenting with click-to-message ads, and it seems like the Internet giant is gearing up for a wider rollout of this new feature. In the coming weeks, Google is set to introduce click-to-message ads which ...
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  • The Gateses, Tim Cook on List for Clinton's Veep

    The Gateses, Tim Cook on List for Clinton's Veep
    WASHINGTON — Philanthropists Bill and Melinda Gates made the list. So did Apple chief executive Tim Cook. They were among nearly 40 elected officials, military leaders and corporate CEOs that Hillary Clinton's campaign considered for vice president last spring. The list was included among hacked emails from Clinton's campaign chairman disclosed Tuesday by WikiLeaks.The list emailed from Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta to Hillary Clinton last March included several Democratic senators, i..
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  • How to endorse a political candidate on Facebook and lose friends forever

    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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