Snapchat maker prepares to go public valued as high as $22B and other top stories.

• Snapchat maker prepares to go public valued as high as $22B

  

  The Snapchat Spectacles. Josh Miller/CNET You might still think of Snapchat as that sexting app, or the way teens obsessively communicate with each other. Wall Street now knows it as the next big thing.Snap, the company behind Snapchat's short-lived photos and videos, on Thursday filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission updated paperwork detailing its initial public offering. It's pre..

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• 'Hearthstone' will release three full expansions in 2017

  

  VIDEOA year ago, Blizzard faced the possibility that their upcoming content additions would fail to edge out existing cards that were dominating the meta. So the studio made a fateful decision to split Hearthstone's main play into two modes: Standard, with the original cards plus the last year of Expansions, and Wild, which would include every card ever printed. The first addition of 2016, last April's Whispers Of The Old Gods, added 130-odd new cards to every format while retiring 163 out of S..

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• Review: Android Apps on Chrome OS Arrive, Disappoint

  

  TOP OF THE NEWS   FEBRUARY 17, 2017 WORLD WIDE WEB Facebook Adds Job Search Features Reaching out to enterprise clients.

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• Remember Google's Project Loon? Breakthrough Could Speed Up The Launch Of Alphabet's Internet-Providing Balloons

  

  Project Loon, currently under Google parent Alphabet's experimental division X, has made a major breakthrough that might allow it to launch sooner than planned. Project Loon looks to launch balloons into the stratosphere that will be able to provide internet connectivity to users on Earth. With the major breakthrough, it is said that the technology is much closer to becoming reality. Project Loon Breakthrough Fueled By AI In September 2016, it was reported that artificial intelligence technolog..

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• Google Pixel in bold 'Really Blue' colour finally comes to UK

  

  James Martin/CNET The vibrant 'Really Blue' colour of the Google Pixel phone finally on sale in the UK.Preorders with EE and Carphone Warehouse will begin on 17 February, or you can head into high street stores on the 24th to pick up the phone yourself.Really Blue will be a limited edition colour in the UK, although Google is yet to say exactly how many blue handsets will be available. It's also..

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• Pokemon Go Update Launches With 80+ New Creatures From Gold/Silver

  

  Update: Niantic has now formally announced the update's release and suggested the 80-plus new Pokemon are available. It also provided more extensive notes regarding what the update consists of, as listed below:Over 80 additional Pokemon originally discovered in the Johto region can be caught.Gender-specific variations of select Pokemon can be caught.Added new encounter mechanics.Added Poke Ball and Berry selection carousels to the encounter screen.Added two new Berries.Added new avatar outfit a..

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• Samsung Files For 'Bixby Reminder' Trademark In Europe

  

  Samsung Files For ‘Bixby Reminder’ Trademark In Europe Samsung Electronics filed for a “Bixby Reminder” trademark with the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO). The filing was made on Thursday and seemingly describes one feature of Bixby, the company’s upcoming artificial intelligence (AI) assistant that’s heavily rumored to debut with the Galaxy S8 and the Galaxy S8 Plus this spring. Unlike some of Samsung’s recent trademark filings in Europe, this one doesn’t go into ma..

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• Samsung Boss Jay Y Lee Arrested On Alleged Bribery Charges

  

  Samsung Boss Jay Y Lee Arrested On Alleged Bribery Charges 10:48 am February 17, 2017 By Roland Hutchinson Samsung Group boss Jay Y Lee has been arrested in South Korea on alleged bribery charges, he has been taken into custody today and will apparently be interviewed by prosecutors tomorrow. Jay Y Lee is accused of bribing President Park Geun-hye who is a close friend, the alleged bribery relates to the succession of leadership at Samsung. The prosecutors in South Korea now have up to 10 day..

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• Zuckerberg's goal: Remake a world Facebook helped create

  

  Mark Zuckerberg helped create the modern world by connecting nearly a quarter of its citizens to Facebook and giving them a platform to share, well, everything — baby pictures and Pepe memes, social updates and abusive bullying, helpful how-to videos and live-streamed violence. Now he wants to remake it, too, in a way that counters isolationism, promotes global connections and addresses social ills — while also cementing Facebook's central role as a builder of online "community" for its near..

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• Apple may cut the (charging) cord completely with the iPhone 8

  

  With each iteration of the iPhone, Apple seems determined to reduce the smartphone's size and the number of physical ports it has. The latest speculation -- that the company may introduce wireless charging on its next iPhone -- indicates Apple may be considering cutting wires (and another port) all together. Earlier this month,Ming-Chi Kuo, a financial analyst highly regarded for his accurate Apple predictions, asserted that the next iterations of the iPhone will include wireless chargin..

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