Google plans to clean up the web with Chrome ad blocker next year and other top stories.

• Google plans to clean up the web with Chrome ad blocker next year

  

  Google will introduce an ad blocker to Chrome early next year and is telling publishers to get ready. The warning is meant to let websites assess their ads and strip any particularly disruptive ones from their pages. That's because Chrome's ad blocker ...

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• The Amazon Echo just got two incredibly useful features thanks to a new update

  

  Amazon I’ve owned an Amazon Echo for more than a year now, and it’s completely changed the way I live in my apartment. Lots of people ask what I love so much about the Echo, and I always respond with the same answer: It handles simple tasks exceedingly well. I usually ask the Echo for the weather, or to play music, or to set timers and alarms, and it does those things quickly and effectively — it's a huge time saver, and I never have to reach for my phone. Recent ..

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• Power, portability, price: Why Computex 2017 got us psyched

  

  The tech year might kick off in January with CES, but it's midway through the year at Computex, Asia's biggest tech show, when we start to see the computing power that's really driving next-gen technology.This year, when the tech world descended on Taiwan, it was all about smarter processing, new form factors for better gaming and bringing all these superior experiences to the masses for a better price.Laptops and gamingBefore Computex had even officially started, Asus chairman Jonney Shih was ..

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• Toyota recalls 36000 Tacoma pickups for stalling risk

  

  Toyota is recalling 36,000 Tacoma pickups in North and South America because they can stall without warning. The recall involves Tacomas with V-6 engines from the 2016 and 2017 model years. Most of the trucks — 32,000 — are in the U.S. The rest are in Canada, Mexico, Bolivia and Costa Rica. The company says an engine crankshaft timing rotor may have been produced with excessive anti-corrosion coating, which could cause the crank position sensor to malfunction. If the sensor malfunctions, th..

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• WWDC 2017: One more big thing

  

  When watching this year’s keynote at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, I implore you to do one thing: think big.I don’t mean big as in a new 12.9-inch iPad Pro, or big as in the number of features packed into this year’s annual iOS or macOS software updates. I don’t even mean big news, like the rumored Siri Speaker the company might announce.No, I mean think big picture. After all, while Apple may be a huge company made up of disparate units, products, and platforms, it has alw..

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• OneLogin Password Manager Reports Data Breach, Potential Decryption of Customer Data

  

  It's getting harder to avoid the fact that your personal data on the Internet is just not safe any more. Following the recent rise in data breaches that have already hit companies like Yahoo, Dropbox, and Telegram, it now seems OneLogin is the latest to join the list as the company reported Wednesday an "unauthorised access to OneLogin data in our US data region."OneLogin is a password manager and single sign-on provider, which reported a data breach but has been unclear as to the nature of the..

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• Skype's major redesign prioritizes helpful bots and a smart camera over traditional video chats

  

  Microsoft announced a major redesign of its Skype app on Thursday, helping users foster an improved social network of sorts among their best friends, while an army of helpful bots stands ready to offer recommendations and cat GIFs. Skype hasn’t eliminated the ability to chat with your friends, and it’s actually enhanced it with a live camera feed and the ability to quickly share news and other information around your network. But among the first screens you’ll see is a new “Find” int..

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• Splatoon 2's Voice Chat For Nintendo Switch Looks Complicated

  

  Earlier this year when the Nintendo Switch was unveiled in-depth, it was discovered that the console would not support Bluetooth headsets. Instead users who want to voice chat will have to rely on an upcoming Nintendo Switch app for mobile devices to help facilitate that kind of communications.Now if you’re looking forward to Splatoon 2, the folks at Hori have recently unveiled an officially-licensed headset accessory for the game and from what we can tell from the setup, it looks pretty complic..

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• Samsung Updates Bixby With Voice-Enabled Payments Support

  

  Samsung Updates Bixby With Voice-Enabled Payments Support Samsung Electronics updated Bixby with support for voice-enabled payments, the Seoul-based tech giant said on Friday, adding that the new feature is available as of today. The change only affects the South Korean variant of the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) assistant, the only one that can currently accept voice commands. Samsung didn’t clarify whether the functionality is being introduced as a server-side switch, thou..

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• Microsoft accidentally released internal Windows 10 development builds

  

  Microsoft was forced to apologize late last night after a mistake led to some confidential and internal Windows 10 builds being released to the public. “Builds from some of our internal branches were accidentally released for PC and Mobile,” reveals ...

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