It seems like every week is full of news on the latest and greatest phones as well as what may be coming in the future. This week is no different. Fake news made it onto Google thanks to a bot error. Facebook has a new tool to fight fake news. All that and a lot more are covered in this week’s Tech News. Click on the headlines below to get the full story.

• 5 Reasons To Buy Google’s Pixel 2 XL Over Apple’s iPhone X
• 2017 Finalists: Best Illusion of the Year Contest
• Alphabet Closer To Using Balloons For Telecom In Puerto Rico
• AOL’s AIM sets its away message… permanently
• PSA: Don’t share your old AIM screen name
• Fully driverless cars could be months away
• Pixel 2’s squeezable sides come with a catch
• 10 Things You Didn’t Know Had Names
• iPhone 8 review: An excellent phone forced to the shadows by iPhone X
• Facebook adds a new tool to fight fake news: context
• Dow Jones said that Google was buying Apple, and the bots bought it
• Handy Hot Sauce Chart Lets You Know When ‘Hot’ Is ‘Too Hot’
• Intel moves towards production quantum computing with new 17-qubit chip
• RIP Windows Phone: Microsoft officially pulls plug
• Butt dials, pocket dials: why these accidental ‘hellos’ just won’t stop
• Apple And Google Should Be Worried About Samsung’s Galaxy X
• There Never Were 57 Varieties of Heinz Ketchup
• Digital detoxing is a thing. Really
• How to switch from iPhone to Android, on Samsung, Pixel and more
• 9 Animals That Use Electricity
• These are the new emojis coming to iPhones and iPads
• How to stop ads from following you online
• Kaspersky reportedly modified its AV to help Russia steal NSA secrets
• Amazon Alexa devices can finally distinguish between different voices
• You’re going to be eating crickets, so just get over it
• Amazon introduces a waterproof Kindle Oasis with a seven-inch screen and Audible playback
• DJI’s new interchangeable lens drone camera takes aim at film makers
• How Charlie Chaplin’s Wife Saved His Backyard Fortune

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