China's Huawei 'Growing Up' To Become The World's Number One Smartphone Brand and other top stories.

• China's Huawei 'Growing Up' To Become The World's Number One Smartphone Brand

  

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• Google assistant's biggest question: 'What's my personality?'

  

  The Google Home would love to have a chat. Lynn La/CNET One of the first things Genevieve Bell did after bringing home an Amazon Echo was ask the smart speaker to set a timer. After the Echo replied in its soft, reassuring female voice, Bell told the device "thank you." "When was the last time you said 'thank you' to Google search?" asked Bell, Intel's longtime cultural anthropologist and corporate strategist...

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• Twilio ramps up mobile play with programmable SIMs for IoT and handsets with T-Mobile

  

  Twilio stormed into the telecoms market several years ago with a set of services that turned core communications features once controlled by carriers, like text messages and phones numbers, into API-based services that any developer could easily customize and use in whatever app or site she or he chose. Today, the company is unveiling its next step in its bid to take on more telecoms infrastructure: Twilio is launching a new product called Programmable Wireless — a SIM-based service that it h..

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• Toyota, Volkswagen partner ride-hailing companies

  

  Toyota and  Volkswagen are the latest automakers to forge alliances with ride-hailing companies, deals that could see the car makers not only sell cars to drivers of the app companies but also develop jointly on-demand mobility technologies. On Wednesday, Toyota said it was making a strategic investment in Uber Technologies as part of a bigger partnership that would include leasing of its cars to Uber drivers. Car purchasers can lease their vehicles from Toyota Financial Services and cover thei..

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• 15 Things You Should Know Before Playing Overwatch

  

  Getting started in Overwatch can be pretty daunting: there are so many heroes to learn, maps to memorize, and loot crates to open, that it’s hard to keep track of it all. But we have a few quick pointers that should help. Here are the things I wish I knew before jumping into Overwatch. Start with an easy character Some characters are easier to pick up than others. For players already familiar with shooters, I’d go with Soldier 76, Pharah, D.VA or Bastion at first. These are characters who ar..

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• Rocket League is the first game to support cross-network play between Xbox One and PC

  

  If you play soccer-meets-cars game Rocket League on Xbox One, your pool of opponents is about to get a lot bigger. Today developer Psyonix is releasing an update for the Xbox version of the game that will allow for cross-platform play between Microsoft's console and PC players on Steam. "Cross-network play has been something that Xbox One gamers have been asking us for since the day we launched," says Psyonix's Jeremy Dunham, "and thanks to Microsoft's new cross-network policies, we're proud to..

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• Pebble unveils two new smartwatches and a wearable not meant for your wrist video - CNET

  

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• 24 more characters, for better and worse

  

  Today Twitter redefined its laws of physics. But while it’s posed as a simplification of the 140-character rule, the change will reshape information density, conversation style and self-promotion in the app. If you want to know what’s happening and why, read TechCrunch’s detailed breakdown of the changes scooped by Bloomberg’s Sarah Frier. Here, we’re going to examine the how, as in how this will impact the Twitter that 300 million people have ingrained into their life, and billions more never ..

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• Google AdWords to break up tablet & desktop bidding

  

  Google has announced a significant change that will give advertisers more control over device-level bidding in AdWords. The news came during Google Performance Summit in San Francisco, at which Google also said it now handles trillions of searches globally — up from the hundreds of billions most recently stated — with more than half of those searches starting on mobile devices. Over the past year or two, it has felt increasingly awkward to have bids tied to desktop when mobile usage has been as..

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