EA DICE's lead designer answers our questions about Battlefield 1 and other top stories.

• EA DICE's lead designer answers our questions about Battlefield 1

  

  The Battlefield 1 revelation video raised a lot of questions about what the new World War I first-person shooter game will be about. But Electronic Arts is holding back on a lot of information about the game until the playable version shows up at the EA Play event on June 12 ahead of the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). The Battlefield games have a lot of staples, such as playing on land, air, or sea, or fulfilling different roles, such as medics. A lot of those are in the new Battlefield ga..

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• Facebook heads to court in photo-tagging privacy lawsuit

  

  Facebook is going to court over claims that it violates its users’ privacy when it stores their facial features — a result of friends tagging, well, friends in photos. Facebook subscribers sued the company, claiming that they never gave permission for their faces to be used as biometric identifiers. On Thursday, U.S. District Judge James Donato in San Francisco dismissed a motion to drop the case. Facebook had claimed that an Illinois state statute in question did not apply to the social net..

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• Researchers have developed a flexible holographic smartphone screen that plays a mean game of 'Angry Birds'

  

  The first thing you do upon developing a flexible holographic smartphone display? Fire up a game of Angry Birds, naturally. All the rest of that smartphone functionality can wait until you’ve finished a few rounds of slingshotting avian missiles. Maybe it’s not the first thing — but it was clearly high on the list of the Human Media Lab researchers who developed the HoloFlex. And indeed, the game makes a pretty sizable cameo in the demo video for the new technology, which utilizes motion paral..

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• CNET: Best Tech Gifts Under $100 For Mom

  

  Don't have a ton of money to spend on Mom? Fear not, there's plenty of good tech gear available for less than $100. Here are four of our best picks.Amazon Echo Dot CNET rating: 4.5 stars out of 5 (Outstanding)The good: The Amazon Echo Dot does everything that the original Echo does for half the price. Unlike the Echo, you can plug the Echo Dot into your own speakers, or connect to them over Bluetooth. Even if you don't, the Echo Dot's tiny built-in speakers do more than enough to give Alexa voi..

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• Huawei Just Copied the iPhone—Down to the Last Screw

  

  This is not a photo of two Apple iPhones. This is a photograph of an iPhone on top of Huawei’s new P9. I’ll excuse your double-take, because Huawei is shamelessly copying Apple here. Yes, it migrated the fingerprint sensor like a flounder’s eye and eliminated the mechanical home button, but the two phones share similar antenna bands, styling, and finish. They even sport the same proprietary star-shaped security screw, in exactly the same spots. After all, if you want your phone to resemble an i..

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• Debate Rages Over Whether Apple Music Automatically Deletes Users' Owned Music Collections

  

  Apple Music is the center of a heated debate this week, with involved parties arguing over whether or not the service is deleting Apple Music users' song collections from hard drives after uploading them to iCloud Music Library. Vellum's James Pinkstone wrote a long complaint on May 4 accusing Apple Music of doing just that. According to Pinkstone, Apple Music deleted 122GB of his original music files after he joined Apple Music and had his music library scanned by Apple to make his personal ..

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