Apple to send out update this week to help prevent iTunes bug from deleting more music from users' libraries and other top stories.

• Apple to send out update this week to help prevent iTunes bug from deleting more music from users' libraries

  

  If you are noticing that music is disappearing from your iTunes library, you're not alone. Others are complaining about missing music. With Apple baffled as to the reason behind this, the tech titan tried to replicate the situation, hoping it might stumble onto the explanation for this mystery. But apparently Apple could not recreate the issue.Apple says that it will be sending out an update to iTunes early this coming week which takes "additional safeguards." The company believes that an iTunes..

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• Privacy online: OKCupid study raises new questions about 'public' data

  

  When you sign up for a dating website, you are making your information available for other users to see. But does that mean your information is “public”?Experts are now mulling this question after a group of researchers released a data set of nearly 70,000 users from the online dating site OkCupid.The researchers, Emil Kirkegaard, Oliver Nordbjerg, and Julius Daugbjerg Bjerrekær – who are affiliated with Aarhus University in Denmark – used a "scraper," or a browser extension designed to collect..

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• 'Battlefield 1' breakdown reveals a close attention to history

  

  There are some obvious concessions to gameplay (a medic probably wouldn't be carrying crutches around), but even some of these make sense. That British soldier carrying a German anti-armor rifle? There are many examples of one side using the other's weapons in a pinch. In fact, the trailer is more realistic than The Great War suggests. That seemingly implausible metal body armor you see at one point is the "Sappenpanzer Gesichtsmaske," an uncommon form of protection given to machine gunners..

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• Xbox One Backwards Compatibility Just Added An Awesome New Feature

  

  One of the biggest setbacks for the Xbox One's backwards compatibility feature was the lack of multi-disc support. This meant that games requiring more than one disc on the Xbox 360 were not playable on the Xbox One. But now they are. Game Informer is reporting that Larry Hryb, better known in the Xbox gaming community as Major Nelson, revealed that the engineers working on the Xbox One have managed to achieve multi-disc backwards compatibility. In response to a post on Reddit, Hryb stated, ..

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• Verizon Ups Data Caps On Prepaid Plans But You'll Need To Setup Auto-Pay To Tap In

  

  Verizon plans on raising its data limit for prepaid smartphone plans. Starting May 15th, the data limit on Verizon's $45 a month plan jumps from 1GB to 3GB, while the $60 plan has been doubled to 6GB. This includes unlimited talk and text in the United States. The $45 plan comes with free texting to Mexico and Canada while the $60 plan comes with free texting and calling to both countries. There is, however, a catch -- you will need to set up Auto Pay in order to reap the benefits. Verizon’s ..

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• Mark Zuckerberg Wants to Meet With Glenn Beck Following Reports That Facebook Blacklists Conservative News

  

  Following disputed reports that Facebook has blacklisted certain news organizations, founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has reached out to Glenn Beck, founder of TheBlaze, which was reportedly one of the avoided outlets, to set up a meeting next week. In a post to Facebook, Beck wrote that he was contacted Saturday morning by Zuckerberg’s office about going to visit him in Menlo Park, California, this coming Wednesday. AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley “Mark wanted to meet with eight or 10 of us to expl..

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• Lenovo might release two sizes of the next Moto G

  

  The Moto G was Motorola's most popular phone back in the final era when "Motorola" still existed. So it would make sense that Lenovo wants to capitalize on that success. Some leaked images and FCC filings point to the next Moto G being offered in two sizes, with a larger "Plus" model meant to compete with the army of existing phablet-sized Android phones. According to frequent leakster @evleaks, the below photo is of the regular-sized Moto G; you can tell it apart from the "Plus" version by its..

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