iPhone SE Reviews: Blazingly Fast With Impressive Battery Life and other top stories.

• iPhone SE Reviews: Blazingly Fast With Impressive Battery Life

  Apple let press go hands-on with the iPhone SE at its launch event and provided several publications with iPhone SE review units ahead of the device's debut, and we've gathered excerpts from each site to highlight the general release reaction to Apple's new 4-inch iPhone. Reviews and first impressions have been largely positive, with reviewers praising the device's powerful internals. The general consensus is that the iPhone SE is the perfect phone for people who want the power of Apple's fla..

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• New YouTube Connect live streaming app may take aim at Periscope, Facebook Live

  

  YouTube's reportedly getting into the mobile live streaming game to fend off Facebook Live, which recently opened up to Android users, and Twitter’s Periscope. The new app, called YouTube Connect, comes with all the features you’d expect in mobile live-streaming apps such as chat and tagging, according to VentureBeat. YouTube Connect will reportedly roll out on Android and iOS with the ability to record and stream video, as well as view videos created by others. You will also be able to see ..

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• Mapstr adds directions to its app to keep track of your favorite places

  

  French startup Mapstr is a nifty bookmarking apps, but for your favorite places. It lets you keep track of restaurants, bars, shops or your friends’ homes. With today’s update, you can now get walking, driving and public transport directions with integrations with Google Maps, Uber and Citymapper. And this could make the app a bit more useful. Until today, Mapstr was a great way to get data into the app and browse this data. But when it came to acting on this data, it was a cumbersome process...

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• Microsoft says it's making 'adjustments' to Tay chatbot after Internet 'abuse'

  

  It sounds like Microsoft’s Tay chatbot is getting a time-out, as Microsoft instructs her on how to talk with strangers on the Internet. Because, as the company quickly learned, the citizens of the Internet can’t be trusted with that task. In a statement released Thursday, Microsoft said that a “coordinated effort” by Internet users had turned the Tay chatbot into a tool of “abuse.” It was a clear reference to a series of racist and otherwise abusive tweets that the Tay chatbot issu..

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• Google parent Alphabet ushers in 'fiscal discipline era'

  

  Alphabet Chief Financial Officer Ruth Porat (Weinberg-Clark Photography) SAN FRANCISCO — The days of free spending appear to be waning as Alphabet gets serious about subsidiary companies becoming more disciplined and accountable. “The fiscal discipline era has now descended upon everything,” Tony Fadell, the CEO of smart device subsidiary Nest, told The Information in an interview. Google bought Fadell’s company for $3.2 billion in 2014. Alphabet’s message to Google’s “other bets:” “Hey, show us..

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• Razer BlackWidow X Chroma, Quick Look

  

  Razer announced a new lineup of BlackWidow X keyboards, which in one fell swoop tripled the number of mechanical switch keyboards it sells. The highest-end model of the new crop is the BlackWidow X Chroma, an RGB-lit keyboard with a full numpad that has the same DNA as the BlackWidow Chroma but a different look. A Whole New Look Although ostensibly the X series is a way for Razer to offer more keyboards with a greater diversity of options at (slightly) lower prices, the larger story is that th..

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