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First footage of ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ revealed at Disney meeting and starts with a question

The last time we saw Rey at the end of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” she was reaching out to hand… Read More

You can fill out a March Madness bracket on Twitter thanks to the NCAA’s ‘official hamburger’

If you’re looking to fill out a March Madness bracket online, ESPN and Yahoo are two platforms that likely come… Read More

Twitter will livestream 1,500 hours of eSports programming through ESL and DreamHack partnership

Twitter is teaming up with some of the world’s top eSports companies as it continues to ink more and more live-streaming… Read More

Twitter will now let users mute “egg” profiles as it continues to fight abuse on site

In the never-ending fight against abusive content on social media, Twitter is going on the offensive. The site announced several new… Read More

Twitter to focus more on live video after losing more than $400M in 2016

Expect to see more live video in your Twitter feed. In its annual 10-K report released Monday, the company said… Read More

Twitter tests feature allowing businesses to create custom profiles in direct messages

As Facebook pushes to include more bots in its messaging feature, Twitter has shifted in the opposite direction. The social… Read More

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Week in Geek: NBA goes big into eSports, and free shipping is costing Amazon big time

If you’re an eSports skeptic, hold onto your hats: the NBA announced this week that it is adding eSports teams… Read More

Twitter plans to partner with NFL ‘in a bigger way’ after initial season of live streaming games

Twitter is looking to grow its partnership with the NFL after what it described as a win-win deal this past season. As… Read More

Despite President Trump’s tweets, Twitter shares fall 10% amid stagnant user growth

You may have seen Twitter in the news more often given how much President Donald Trump uses the platform to make public… Read More

Twitter rant on aisle 7! Jeff Bezos slams NY Post report on automated Amazon grocery stores

As owner of The Washington Post, Jeff Bezos is clearly a fan of newspapers. But the Amazon CEO let it… Read More

Twitter will block abusive accounts and hide tweets, expanding fight against harassment

Twitter is taking a harder stance on trolls, announcing Tuesday a series of updates aimed at reducing abuse on the… Read More

Bad call? President Trump reportedly still using an unsecured Android phone in White House

Despite having settled into the Oval Office, President Donald Trump is still using his unsecured Android phone, The New York Times… Read More

Bad-ass Badlands: National park’s climate tweets pop up, then go poof

Badlands National Park tweeted the inconvenient truth about climate change today, despite the Trump administration’s crackdown on environmental outreach. And… Read More

Electro-pop star Halsey donating $100,000 to Planned Parenthood — $1 for every retweet

Ashley Frangipane, who sings moody electro-pop under the stage name Halsey, plans to donate $100,000 to Planned Parenthood thanks to… Read More

Oh, what a treat: Ice cream maker Dippin’ Dots responds to Trump spokesman’s odd Twitter rants

The viral Twitter feud involving a member of President Trump’s White House and an ice cream company resurfaced Monday when… Read More

As Trump becomes president, @POTUS Twitter feed fueled by Obama goes blank — for now

The peaceful transition of power taking place at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Friday was also taking place online,… Read More

What is Donald Trump doodling in that inauguration prep photo? The internet knows, of course

Man, this guy continues to underestimate the cyber. In his latest attempt to use Twitter to control his message, or… Read More

Still slimming down, Twitter sells its Fabric development environment to Google

Google has bought Fabric, Twitter’s application-development environment, for an undisclosed sum, as the latter company streamlines its business. “We’ve signed an… Read More

Amazon removes Indian flag doormat from site after official threatens to rescind employee visas

A doormat resembling India’s tricolor flag was removed from Amazon’s Canadian website after an Indian government official directed threats at… Read More

Twitter inks live streaming deal with PGA Tour to air free coverage of 31 PGA tournaments in 2017

Twitter continues to amp up its live streaming ambitions in the sports world. The social media company today announced that… Read More

Seattle author Lindy West leaves Twitter, calls it unusable for ‘anyone but trolls, robots and dictators’

Seattle author and feminist Lindy West, one of the more compelling and entertaining reasons to stick around on Twitter, has ditched… Read More

Twitter says live streaming of NFL games went ‘incredibly well’; no word on deal for next season

Twitter is happy with how the company’s NFL live streaming product performed this season, but it remains to be seen if the… Read More

Chewbacca actor shares love for Carrie Fisher, tells Star Wars fans, ‘It’s OK to grieve’

Peter Mayhew, the actor best known as Chewbacca in the Star Wars film franchise, showed he has a heart big… Read More

Trump will keep using Twitter to have ‘direct’ conversations, says incoming White House press secretary

Don’t expect Donald Trump to stop using Twitter in 2017. The president-elect will continue tweeting on the social media platform,… Read More

Amazon biospheres make for a pretty picture as storm left giant snowballs in downtown Seattle

Too bad someone at Amazon didn’t think to get a lighted Christmas tree into the biospheres during last week’s snowstorm… Read More

Twitter feed and hashtag keep tabs on Hillary Clinton — hiking, shopping, smiling with fans

Twitter is increasingly becoming the best place to keep up with the two candidates who ran for president this year.… Read More

Teens are startlingly bad at deciphering fake news, Stanford study finds

In the crucial final months of the election, Facebook engagement with bogus news stories outpaced legitimate news, according to BuzzFeed’s… Read More

LGBTQ community rallies around #TransLawHelp to get trans people legal services before Trump takes office

Transgender Americans aren’t confident that president-elect Donald Trump will protect their rights, which makes Jan. 20 a deadline of sorts.… Read More

Jeff Bezos tweets his love for touching Amazon ad showing friendship between priest and imam

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos doesn’t tweet a lot, but on Thursday he was moved to share a new television commercial for… Read More

Twitter strengthens controls to curb abuse, bans several prominent alt-right accounts

Twitter is stepping up its efforts to deal with abuse within the social network. Twitter announced a new set of tools that… Read More