Tech News Today 1544

Tonight we chat about the tech news with Scott Johnson from the FrogPants network. Microsoft is sunsetting Xbox Fitness, and keeping the videos you paid for. Meanwhile, Amazon has better digital bookmarks, and kids pretending to be YouTubers seems to not be a big deal. Also, Alex Kantrowitz talks about the "ephemeral follow" and better ways to get breaking news on Twitter. After that, Kashmir Hill tells us about her epic journey to find out what signals Facebook uses to suggest friends and what that means about our privacy. And finally, Google gives us song lyrics. Excuse me, while I kiss the sky.

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Links

• Xbox Fitness Sunset Announcement
• Windows 10 upgrade will soon be easier to reject
• Twitter Dives Into AR and VR, Hires Ex-Apple Designer To Lead New Team
• With Kindle PageFlip, Amazon brings skimming to ebooks
• My kids don't have a YouTube channel — but they pretend they do
• Twitter’s Best Idea For Keeping Up With News Is Buried Too Deep
• Pearl RearVision
• Facebook is using your phone’s location to suggest new friends—which could be a privacy disaster
• Facebook changes story, now says phone location not used to recommend friends
• Facebook says it did ‘a test’ last year using people’s locations to make friend suggestions
• Google just added song lyrics to its search tool