Google pulled 'millions' of junk Play Store ratings in one week
"Google is just as frustrated with bogus app reviews as you are, and it's apparently bending over backwards to improve the trustworthiness of the feedback you see. The company instituted a system this year that uses a mix of AI and human oversight to cull junk…"
https://www.engadget.com/2018/12/18/google-pulled-millions-of-junk-play-store-ratings/Netflix renews 'Chilling Adventures of Sabrina' for season 3 and 4
" Netflix fiercely guards viewer numbers with the utmost secrecy, but there are often indicators of how popular a show is among subscribers. Take Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, for example. The reboot of the teen witch franchise only launched in October, but a…"
https://www.engadget.com/2018/12/18/netflix-chilling-adventures-of-sabrina-renewed-season-3-season-4/Facebook releases an update on its civil rights audit
" In May, Facebook agreed to conduct a civil rights audit, and now the company has released an update of its progress. Headed by civil liberties leader Laura Murphy, the audit has so far engaged with dozens of civil rights organizations in order to ide..."
https://www.engadget.com/2018/12/18/facebook-update-civil-rights-audit/Google turned cloud storage traffic into mesmerizing works of art
" Let's face it, data storage isn't the most exciting topic to talk about. While necessary and important for much of the hardware and software you use every day, it's just not terribly engaging, and that's a challenge that Google's Cloud Storage team i..."
https://www.engadget.com/2018/12/18/google-cloud-storage-traffic-works-of-art/Instagram can turn question stickers into live Q&As
" Instagram's question stickers have at least one main problem: you have to be patient while awaiting the answer. Now, however, you might just get some instant gratification. The social network is introducing an option to respond to a question in a Sto..."
https://www.engadget.com/2018/12/18/instagram-live-question-stickers/Twitter's chronological timeline button is here to stay
"Nearly two months ago, Twitter began testing a feature that made it easier for users to see the latest tweets on their feed first, rather than the ones pushed by the company's algorithm. It's a toggle dressed as a sparkle icon that lives above the ho..."
https://www.engadget.com/2018/12/18/twitter-chronological-timeline-feature-latest-tweets/2018: The year Amazon became even harder to avoid
" It's been ages since Amazon was just a place to buy books. But even now, it's still easy to think of the company as a big online store. Resist that urge. Amazon's size and scale mean it's almost preternaturally good at selling and delivering things, but the c…"
https://www.engadget.com/2018/12/18/amazon-year-in-review-winner/Facebook’s terrible 2018
" 2017 wasn't great for Facebook. The company spent most of the year explaining how it exposed 126 million Americans to thousands of Russian-linked pages, which were part of the Kremlin's efforts to meddle in the 2016 US presidential election. As a result, Face…"
https://www.engadget.com/2018/12/18/facebook-2018-year-in-review-loser/Engadget giveaway: Win a security package courtesy of Bitdefender!
" Deliveries left out on your doorstep, nocturnal pet activities and network-connected devices open wide to the world for possible hacking or botnet conscription are just some of the reasons Bitdefender has provided this week's giveaway package. The company's B…"
https://www.engadget.com/2018/12/18/engadget-giveaway-bitdefender-box-2-security-package/AT&T flips the switch on mobile 5G in 12 cities this week
" After nearly a year of talking about it, AT&T is finally ready to launch the US' first mobile 5G network -- and with just days to go before its self-imposed end-of-2018 deadline. Service officially starts on December 21st, when a handful of cust..."
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