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Instagram’s new Stories sticker lets you ask your followers to join a new group chat

Instagram is introducing a new feature that will let users start private group messages around specific Stories. The new feature, called the chat sticker, joins a bunch of other stickers Instagram has introduced to Stories, including polls, question boxes, mentions, locations, hashtags, and countdowns, among others. The chat sticker is relatively straightforward, and Instagram is […]

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Nvidia reveals new line of ‘Super’ GeForce RTX graphics cards

Nvidia’s unveiled not one, but three “Super” variants of its existing GeForce RTX 20-series graphics cards, along with a new FrameView tool intended to give enthusiasts and reviewers deeper insight into the performance and power consumption of GPUs. And the new cards don’t really cost more than their slower, older counterparts. As detailed in numerous […]

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Cloudflare outage affects services across the web

A second Cloudflare outage in two weeks has taken multiple sites and services down, including Zendesk, OKCupid, Peloton and even our own site. Affected apps and websites were either unable to properly load or showed a “502 Gateway Error.” Ironically, even the site DownDetector, which is commonly used to check web service disruptions, was affected. […]

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Microsoft goes back in time with the ‘all-new’ Windows 1.0

Microsoft this week took to social media to share a teaser for the “all-new Windows 1.0” complete with MS-DOS executive and clock. Introducing the all-new Windows 1.0, with MS-Dos Executive, Clock, and more!! ? ? pic.twitter.com/guU4QxwsGG — Windows (@Windows) July 1, 2019 Accompanying the teaser is short 13-second video that spans through the Windows logos […]

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Windows 10’s next big update

Microsoft committed to a biannual major release schedule for Windows 10 back in 2017, and now it confirmed that the “19H2” update set to roll out later this year “will be a scoped set of features for select performance improvements, enterprise features and quality enhancements.” Microsoft says it will use servicing technology to deliver the […]

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Samsung will unveil the Galaxy Note 10 on August 7th

Samsung has announced its latest Unpacked event for August 7th at 4PM Eastern at the Barclay’s Center in Brooklyn, NY, where the company will be announcing the Galaxy Note 10, the latest in its line of super-sized stylus-equipped smartphones. This could be one of the biggest Galaxy Note introductions yet. There’s not a lot to […]

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Facebook buildings evacuated after deadly nerve agent was detected in mailroom

Facebook evacuated four buildings at its Menlo Park, Calif., campus Monday after equipment at the company’s mail-processing facility detected a package that might have contained sarin, a potentially lethal nerve agent, according to reports. Two individuals may have been exposed to sarin but are not currently showing signs or symptoms of exposure, Reuters reported, citing […]

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Sony raises PlayStation Vue prices by $5 a month across all tiers

Every PlayStation Vue subscriber will see a $5-per-month price increase, Sony announced today. The change will be effective starting today for new subscribers. Existing subscribers can expect the price increase in their billing statements on or after July 31st. Other streaming providers like YouTube TV, Netflix and AT&T’s DirecTVNow raised their rates earlier this year. […]

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OnePlus admits it sent bizarre notifications to OnePlus 7 Pro owners

Owners of OnePlus 7 Pro phones have randomly received several weird notifications, causing consternation and concerns about security. OnePlus tweeted about the mix-up after OnePlus phone owners started posting pictures of the strange notifications, concerned there was a security issue. During an internal test, our OxygenOS team accidentally sent out a global push notification to […]