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Twitter now lets you switch between algorithmic ‘best tweets’ and a real-time feed

Sep18
by on September 18, 2018 at 12:46 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider


Twitter today announced a new feature that allows anyone to turn off the love-it-or-hate-it algorithmic curation feature. Toggle the switch to on, and you’ll see the tweets you’re most likely to be interested in from while you’re away. The best tweets, or those Twitter says you’re most likely to care about, appear at the top of the feed, while real-time tweets reside underneath. Pull to refresh and you’ll see a new batch of real-time tweets, just like you normally would. Turn the feature off, and you’ll get the reverse chronological timeline you say you want (even though you probably don’t…

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Deebot Ozmo 930 is the robot vacuum you’ve been waiting for

Sep17
by on September 17, 2018 at 10:53 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


As smart vacuums go, there’s a lot of space between the very best, and the very worst. Residing in the middle are all sorts of robotic cleaning devices, some of which barely qualify as a vacuum. The Ozmo 930 sits comfortably near the top of available options, while falling just short of the peak. To be clear, it’s good. Real good, in fact. Its struggles are similar to those of any other oversized hockey puck-shaped robo-vacuums I’ve tried to date. It’s going to get stuck sometimes, shoe laces are your worst enemy, and it’s never quite going to get those…

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Government wants imprison some poor schmuck for pirating Deadpool on Facebook

Sep17
by on September 17, 2018 at 10:42 pm
Posted In: Around the Web


In case you thought your day was going poorly, the US government has asked that a young man who uploaded a bootleg movie to Facebook be smacked with a prison sentence. The person in question, then-20 year-old Trevon Franklin, downloaded a copy of Deadpool — which was in theaters at the time — from a site called Putlocker. He then put it on Facebook, where it was viewed over six million times. Unsurprisingly, the post drew the attention of 20th Century Fox and the FBI. Franklin was arrested in 2017, and pleaded guilty to a Class A misdemeanor. According to Deadline, he…

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Review: Amazon’s Fire TV Cube made me like smart speakers again

Sep17
by on September 17, 2018 at 9:07 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, artificial intelligence, Plugged


Amazon’s latest Alexa-powered gadget is a Fire TV and Echo smart speaker hybrid called the Fire TV Cube. Allow me to cut to the chase: This is the best Alexa experience you can get. I wasn’t prepared for the Fire TV Cube. As a hardware reviewer, I try not to pre-judge equipment. I think it’s important to keep an open mind. But, I have to admit, I wasn’t looking forward to yawning over another “smart” speaker, or diving into yet another “all new” way for me to watch the same old shows. Luckily for me, five minutes after I plugged…

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