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Google now lets you virtually try on makeup using AR, shop from influencer videos

If you’ve ever used a Snapchat or Instagram filter, you know that one of the popular use cases for AR (augmented reality) is to change up your appearance with virtual makeup — like a diffe

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How 'big tech' creates challenges for governments

Reuters Editor's note: Jonathan Arnott is a former member of the European Parliament. The article reflects the author's opinions, and not necessarily the views of CGTN.In the digital age, thin

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Discord will be able to screen share from iOS and Android devices starting today

The super popular chat app Discord is getting a much-requested feature starting today: mobile screen sharing.As the name suggests, mobile screen sharing lets users capture and broadcast everything on

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Livestreaming platform BoxCast raises $20M

BoxCast, a Cleveland-based company aiming to make it easy to livestream any event, has raised $20 million in Series A funding.Co-founder and CEO Gordon Daily said that when the company first launched

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U.S. demands data collection info from online giants

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Monday sent orders to Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other internet giants demanding troves of information about their data collection, ad practi

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Daily Crunch: Apple launches Fitness+

We review Apple Fitness+, Gmail goes down and Pornhub cracks down on unverified content. This is your Daily Crunch for December 14, 2020.The big story: Apple launches Fitness+Brian Heater tried out A

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Google applications including YouTube, Gmail suffer rare outage

Google applications including YouTube, Gmail and Docs suffer rare outage, with users unable to access services.

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YouTube and Gmail among services hit in global Google outage

An authentication error is blamed for a global outage in key services that lasted for just over an hour on Monday morning.

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Gmail, YouTube, Google Docs and other services go down simultaneously in multiple countries

Not much more to update yet but we’re seeing and getting word from others that multiple Google services have gone down. Gmail, YouTube and Google Docs are all experiencing outages, with dozens,

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China's young internet stars and their lives at a glance

Kwon Yul-I, a South Korean girl who is popular in China as a meme girl. From Pikachu to Lion King to Winnie-the-Pooh, from smirk boy Gavin to meme kids, like Kwon Yul-I

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Ma Zhike: This is a good opportunity for Tenzin to grow

03:50 Tenzin,a 20-year-old Tibetan man from Litang, a remote county in southwest China's Sichuan Province, has become a national heartthrob by virtue of his honest eyes

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Still many questions, concerns about COVID-19 vaccines in EU

A patient is given a Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at Cardiff and Vale Therapy Center in Cardiff, Wales, UK, December 8, 2020. /Getty Even as the UK began vaccinating people against COVID-1

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General Catalyst’s Katherine Boyle and Peter Boyce are looking for ‘obsessive’ founders

General Catalyst has made early bets on some of the biggest companies in tech today, including Airbnb, Lemonade and Warby Parker.We sat down with Katherine Boyle and Peter Boyce, who co-lead the firm

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Google to add Covid-19 vaccine information panels to Search

Google announced today it’s introducing a new search feature that will surface a list of authorized vaccines in users’ location, as well as informational panels about each individual vacci

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Survey: Americans think Big Tech isn’t so bad after all

In government, there’s rare bipartisan consensus on taking down Big Tech .Capping a 16-month investigation, a Democratic-controlled House committee recently identified Amazon, Apple, Facebook and G

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Ava expands its AI captioning to desktop and web apps, and raises $4.5M to scale

The worldwide shift to virtual workplaces has been a blessing and a curse to people with hearing impairments. Having office chatter occur in text rather than speech is more accessible, but virtual mee

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Daily Crunch: FTC and 48 state AGs sue Facebook

Facebook faces big antitrust lawsuits, DoorDash and C3.ai go public and YouTube announces new election misinformation policies. This is your Daily Crunch for December 9, 2020.The big story: FTC and 4