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Rene Ritchie has been covering the personal technology industry for almost a decade. Editorial Director at Mobile Nations, analyst at iMore, video and podcast host, you can follow him @reneritchie on [Snapchat](https://www.snapchat.com/add/reneritchie), [Instagram](https://instagram.com/reneritchie), or [Twitter](https://twitter.com/reneritchie).

Latest articles by Rene Ritchie

ZENandTECH 29: Tips and tech for travelers

By Rene Ritchie last updated 1 November 18

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ZEN and TECH 34: Sex and dating tips for Valentine's day

By Rene Ritchie last updated 1 November 18

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Subscribe now to Talk Mobile via Google+, RSS, YouTube, and iTunes!

By Rene Ritchie last updated 23 October 18

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Review 17: Godzilla, Pacific Rim, and Kaiju!

By Rene Ritchie last updated 23 October 18

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AT&T to carry HTC One at launch

By Rene Ritchie last updated 23 October 18

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Vector 48: 64-bit, ART, Android Extension Pack, and the state of the chipsets

By Rene Ritchie last updated 22 October 18

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Vector 47: Google I/O Q&A

By Rene Ritchie last updated 22 October 18

Streaming & TV

Twitter finally details new API, screws third-party apps — again

By Rene Ritchie published 16 May 18

Twitter has finally announced details for it’s new Account Activity API, which replaces the Streaming API third-party clients have relied on up until now — and the news isn’t good.

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Favstar Destroyer: Twitter API hostility claims another service

By Rene Ritchie published 14 May 18

Favstar, a popular service for seeing which of your tweets were the most loved and discovering other popular tweets, will be shutting down on June 19, 2018. Because, Twitter.

Twitter

Uber covered up a hack that compromised 57 million accounts

By Rene Ritchie published 21 November 17

Uber was hacked. 50 million rider accounts were accessed. 7 million driver accounts as well. And Uber paid $100,000 to cover it all up.

Apps & Software

Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp are down. Are you affected?

By Rene Ritchie published 26 August 17

Facebook and its related networks, Instagram and Whatsapp, experienced an outage that prevented some users from accessing either the entire service or some functionality within the service.