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Pokemon Go has surpassed the next milestone in taking over every aspect of your life, with users spending more time on average playing the augmented reality mobile game than in apps for Snapchat, Twitter and even Facebook. The data, putting Pokemon Go at just over 33 minutes of average daily use on Monday, comes from mobile app intelligence firm Sensor Tower.To compare, Facebook's app racked up an average 22 minutes of use, Snapchat drew 18 minutes and Twitter 17 minutes. While people might be Pokemon going crazy for Niantic's new AR game, it was still beat out by Game of War (almost 2 hours daily usage) and Candy Crush Saga (43 minutes).With Pokemon Go yet to launch in several countries and...

Juan Garzon/CNET Facebook is one of the largest services that has yet to join T-Mobile's Binge On program, however that may soon change. The two companies are said to be in talks about adding Facebook to the carrier's unlimited streaming program, according to a report from Recode.T-Mobile launched Binge On in 2015 as part of its Uncarrier campaign. The program lets customers stream an unlimited amount of video to their phones without dipping into their data allotment. Several heavy hitters have already joined the program, including Netflix, YouTube, Hulu and ESPN. Recode is also reporting that the two compan...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageA bit of a giveaway? Stuart Police Department/ Facebook I've never been on the run, though some days I think I know what it feels like.I feel sure, however, that if I was trying to evade capture by the police, I would check my Facebook page to make sure there wasn't anything incriminating on it.This was allegedly not the case with Mack Yearwood.As the Stuart Police Department in Florida said on its Facebook page: "If you are wanted by the police, it's probably not a good idea to use the 'Wanted of the Week...

A discrete relocatable overlay (currently at the bottom left coer) lets you know how many viewers you currently have. Screenshot by Aloysius Low/CNET Think you're the bee's knees at games like World of Warcraft and StarCraft II? Now you can show all your friends just how good you are. Blizzard's live streaming service is now up and ruing, so you can broadcast your skills (or lack thereof) to your buddies on Facebook Live. It's good timing too, with World of Warcraft's Legion expansion dropping on Tuesday.To sign up, simply hit the video button that should appear on the Battle.net client, or go to Settings >...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageKliff Kingsbury, on the right, appearing on the podcast. The HawkCast/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET College athletes live an interesting life.They're suddenly placed on a higher plane and asked to perform daily.They're fawned upon when they win and vilified when they lose. In some cases, it's said that colleges are so desperate to persuade these young men to join their athletic programs that schools hire attractive young women to increase the attraction of the school.Once athletes are on the ...

Close Pokemon Go: The dream features we want to see in the next update Drag Pokemon Go got really big, really fast.Want proof? Just ask ComScore. The researcher reported this week that Pokemon Go reached 55 million mobile users in the US this July, during the first full month the mobile game was available. Thanks to that huge...

Close WhatsApp to share data with Facebook Drag WhatsApp just aounced that it updated its terms and conditions to permit the company to opt-in all one billion of its users to share information with Facebook. Facebook will take that information to find friends and also target ads better. WhatsApp is also working on ways for b...

Your airline will soon be able to tell you when your flight is delayed via WhatsApp. WhatsApp WhatsApp users, get ready for messages from companies looking for your business.That's the upshot from Thursday's update to WhatsApp's terms and conditions. The company outlined in a blog post the kind of interactions it wants to enable, including being notified by your bank about a potentially fraudulent transaction or being waed about a delayed flight. These are things we might currently be informed about by a text message or phone call. WhatsApp hopes to enable these notifications too, all while keeping spam and th...

Enlarge Image Google Who doesn't enjoy a good pop-up ad? Everyone, that's who. Now Google is trying to be the ultimate bro, aouncing on Tuesday that it'll soon be punishing mobile sites with obstructive advertisements. "Pages that show intrusive interstitials provide a poorer experience to users than other pages where content is immediately accessible," product manager Doantam Phan wrote in a blog post. "This can be problematic on mobile devices where screens are often smaller. "To improve the mobile search experience, after January 10, 2017, pages where content is not easily accessible to a user on the trans...

Enlarge ImageFacebook's censorship policies are a confusing mess. James Martin/CNET After Korryn Gaines entered her Baltimore apartment earlier this month, she pulled out a shotgun and then her phone. She opened the Instagram and Facebook apps so she could post details of her standoff with the police. Facebook cut her off. Gaines wasn't the first black person to post about a run-in with the police. Others include Philando Castile, whose fiancee streamed live video on Facebook as he died after a police officer shot him in July. A few days later, a protester streamed a sniper attack on Dallas police on the so...

Enlarge ImageApps like this remind me that I'm old. Facebook In your face, Snapchat!Kids still say that sort of thing, right? How about: The '00s called and they want their app back! Well, it's late on a Friday, and Facebook has quietly released a new app, called Lifestage. And while its name might suggest the target market is caterpillars, this is actually for teens -- aka not me. Like other apps not built for me, it's somewhat confusing. But the gist of it is that you (the younger version of you, who was able to eat french fries dipped in milkshakes any time you damn well pleased) create a profile using you...

Enlarge ImageMinecraft team member Tommaso Checchi plays the virtual-world video game while wearing Facebook's Oculus VR headset. Screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET It's a match made in nerd heaven. Minecraft, Microsoft's tremendously popular video game, now works on Facebook's Oculus Rift headset, a highly regarded entrant into the new world of virtual reality. "We'd like to welcome you to the game all over again, because it's a fantastic new experience in VR, even if you're a Minecraft veteran," Mike McGrath, a Minecraft developer who helped build the software, said Monday in a blog post. The vers...

Close Facebook's newest ad-blocking tactic defeats Adblock Plus' workaround Drag That was quick. Just two days after Facebook found a way to sneak ads past ad-blocking software, the ad blockers have struck back. Adblock Plus, one of the best-known tools for blocking ads on the inteet, claims to have a ...

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Users can also jazz up their photos with filters. Sound familiar? Facebook Facebook is basically Snapchat's little sister right now and wants to copy everything she does. The social-networking giant unveiled on Friday a tweak to its mobile app, a new main screen it's trying out in Canada and Brazil that looks a lot like Snapchat's home screen, according to BuzzFeed.The potential feature demonstrates just how much inspiration Facebook gets from Snapchat. On Tuesday, Facebook-owned Instagram added an element called Stories, which looks nearly identical to Snapchat Stories.The new home screen in the Facebook app...

T-Mobile has its sights set on Verizon Wireless. The nation's third-largest carrier believes it will be able to match Verizon's industry-leading wireless coverage within the next 12 months, and maybe sooner, according to T-Mobile Chief Technology Officer Neville Ray. "We plan to materially close the gap by the end of the year," Ray said in an exclusive interview Thursday. Ray and T-Mobile have reason to be bullish. Testing firms OpenSignal and Ookla both crowned T-Mobile the fastest wireless network, and OpenSignal said T-Mobile has surpassed AT&T on network availability, just behind Verizon. T-Mobile CEO John Legere on Thursday published a blog post highlighting the scores, essentially ...

Uchimura roamed too far in his search for Pokemon. Koki Nagahama/Getty Images Japanese Olympic gymnast Kohei Uchimura loves catching zubats and pidgeys, but perhaps a little too much.The five-time Olympic medalist racked up a $5,000 phone bill for data roaming charges while playing Pokemon Go in the run-up to the upcoming games in Brazil. Teammate Kenzo Shirai said Uchimura "looked dead at the team meal that day" after receiving the bill.But, things ended up working out for Uchimura: His phone company let him pay a daily flat rate of $30 a day instead of the 500,000 yen bill, according to Japan's Kyodo news a...

Windows 10 Mobile's Aiversary Update will start to reach phones like the Lumia 1502 early next week. CNET Windows 10 Mobile's Aiversary Update is coming, but not until next Tuesday.On August 2, Microsoft's Lumia India Twitter account confirmed the launch date in response to a query from a curious user. "Thanks for reaching out! For mobile, it will be available on August 9, 2016. If you have any queries, we'll be here for you!"That tweet has since been removed, which means either the Lumia India Twitter account got the timing wrong or it jumped the gun by revealing the date. An August 1 reply to another user a...

Facebook has been ordered to issue refunds for accidental purchases made by minors. CNET Facebook users that have racked up hefty charges for in-app purchases made without their consent are now entitled to a refund.A Califoia court has ruled in favor of the plaintiffs in a 2012 class action lawsuit brought against the social media giant. The case applied to two children that accidentally charged thousands of dollars to their parents' credit cards buying Facebook Credits, a virtual currency that was retired in favor of Facebook Payments.While Facebook argued that the individual claims were too different, the w...