Now playing: Watch this: Awesome movies are hitting HBO Now and iTunes in August 2:37 With Apple’s exclusivity deal running out with HBO Now, more and more people can watch HBO without a cable subscription. The $15 price seems steep compared to Netflix, but August sees some amazing movies being added to HBO’s catalog. “The …
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Now playing: Watch this: The big titles headed to Amazon Prime for August 2015 2:38 Amazon’s Prime service brings 18 more titles to the its streaming service, but there’s hours of entertainment to be had. The full eight-season run of Larry David’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm” hits Amazon Prime Instant Video August 6. Should you chose to subject yourself to that …
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Now playing: Watch this: Cure diseases and find alien life with your computer… 2:09 Volunteer computing is a way for people to get their computers or phones to link up to solve complicated modeling and calculations to aid in research projects. What’s being volunteered is your machine’s spare processing power. When multiple computers are a part of the same project, …
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Now playing: Watch this: Showtime enters the streaming game 2:24 Subscribe to Netpicks and stay up-to-date: iTunes (HD) | iTunes (HQ) | iTunes (SD) RSS (HD) | RSS (HQ) | RSS (SD) Crackle‘s free movie library just landed “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” The Steven Spielberg classic has a 96 percent freshness rating over at Rotten Tomatoes. To balance …
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Now playing: Watch this: What to watch on HBO Now and what’s coming to iTunes,… 1:55 Movie theaters can be awful places, so why venture outside when first-run movies are hitting iTunes? Apple’s got some interesting documentaries coming on the same day they arrive at theaters. There’s “Nowitzki,” which covers basketball star Dirk Nowitzki’s rise to NBA stardom. At the …
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Now playing: Watch this: All the big new titles on Netflix and Amazon for July… 2:40 July 2015 is shaping up to be a very interesting month for Netflix. First, let’s take a look at what’s leaving in July — 1980s people will be furious to see “Magnum P.I.” and “Miami Vice” both departing Netflix in the same month. The …
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Sarah Tew/CNET There are plenty of familiar places online where you can buy digital copies of movies and TV shows — iTunes, Amazon, Google Play and Vudu, just to name a few. But there’s also something in the digital video realm called UltraViolet. It’s a different beast altogether — more of a digital ecosystem than a single storefront — but …
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Now playing: Watch this: All the big new titles on Netflix and Amazon for July… 2:40 Amazon has some great additions for July. In all, 42 titles will join the catalog, including Weird Al Yankovic’s “UHF” — it’s worth a watch if you’ve ever wanted to know if you could manage a television network. Speaking of TV, Amazon’s deal with …
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Now playing: Watch this: 58 new titles on Netflix and the 26 additions to Amazon… 1:48 The big news for June is the return of “Orange Is The New Black” on Netflix with its third season. All 14 episodes hit on the same day, June 12. Binge watchers will also enjoy getting ” Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” which arrives June …
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Now playing: Watch this: Never lose a tab in Google Chrome again 2:07 The introduction of tabbed browsing made it really easy to check lots of things at once, but sometimes even the best of us get tab-happy. This can lead to a lack of productivity because more time is spent hunting for a tab than doing actual work. Google …
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