YouTube has a new band leader. Google’s giant video site hired Lyor Cohen, a decades-long recording industry power player, as its head of music, the company said Wednesday. Cohen ran Warner Music Group, one of the world’s three major labels, for eight years. He helped usher to success a who’s who of hip-hop royalty — …

Yes, for years Facebook failed to notice it was overestimating a video metric, but don’t worry about it: None of its now 4 million advertisers paid any attention to the measurement to begin with, Facebook executives said Tuesday. “Universally, I’ve heard that nobody has actually unitized that metric,” Carolyn Everson, the company’s vice president of global marketing solutions, said at …

Spotify has always wanted to put all the music in the world at your fingertips. Now it’s trying to figure out the best ways to hunt out tracks you actually like. On Tuesday, Spotify launched Daily Mix. It’s a new personalized playlist full of songs Spotify already believes you prefer and peppered with a few unfamiliar but similar tunes. It’s …

iHeartMedia is the latest to enter the heated race for digital music subscribers. The company, the biggest radio company in the US, said Friday that its free iHeartRadio app will add two paid tiers in January. iHeartRadio currently offers live streams of the company’s traditional radio stations, “artist-based” stations similar to Pandora, and other audio entertainment like podcasts. But iHeartMedia …

Elsewhere, a startup you’ve never heard of, wants to crack 3D video for phones where giants have failed. A wife-and-husband team, Wendellen Li and Aza Raskin, on Thursday launched Elsewhere’s namesake product for sale. The $50 black plastic glasses attach to your iPhone and, working with Elsewhere’s free app, make any video appear three-dimensional, whether it’s Netflix, YouTube or something …

Beware if you tend to veer into dystopian paranoia: Cinemark CEO Mark Zoradi offered a glimpse of moviegoing’s future Wednesday, and it includes windowless rooms where our children have replaced Little League baseball with Minecraft tourneys. The executive said Wednesday that Cinemark anticipates virtual reality and gaming as opportunities for “significant alternative content” to the traditional feature-length films in its …

The US music industry no longer needs life support. US sales from streaming music were up 8.1 percent to $3.4 billion in the first six months of 2016 compared with the same period last year, a music industry trade group said Tuesday. In the first half of 2015, revenue was down 0.5 percent. This shift marks the best growth since …

A teardown of an Apple iPhone 7 has found an Intel mobile cellular platform inside. Earlier this year, reports speculated that some versions of Apple’s flagship phone would include an Intel wireless chip rather than one from Qualcomm. Apple makes its own processors for the brains of its devices, but companies like Qualcomm and Intel build components that connect the …

This is part of our Road Trip 2016 summer series “Life, Disrupted,” about how technology is helping with the global refugee crisis — if at all. It feels fitting to publish our report on refugees in Serbia when the tech world is fixated on iPhone minutiae. At CNET, Apple’s latest, greatest doodad is a major event. Our entire team stops …

For the first time, more early buyers are gravitating to the iPhone Plus than to Apple’s leaner flagship phone, according to research firm Slice Intelligence. In the first 48 hours of preordering that started September 9, 55 percent of buyers ordered the iPhone 7 Plus, according to a Slice blog post published Thursday. By comparison, the majority of iPhone 6 …