Netflix has revamped its website so it’s more like a mobile app. Netflix Netflix has given its website a new look and feel that brings it closer in usability to its mobile apps. Rolling out as of Monday, the new site changes the way you view the gallery of titles on your Netflix home page …
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Bing will encrypt your searches by default starting this summer. screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET Microsoft is changing the security encryption on its Bing search engine from an option to a requirement. In a blog posted Monday, the software giant announced that starting this summer, all web traffic coming from Bing will be encrypted by default. Such encryption has been available …
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Travel back into the musical past with Spotify Taste Rewind. screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET Spotify is trying to expand your tastes in music by suggesting older songs it thinks you might like. With a new feature dubbed Spotify Taste Rewind, the company is acknowledging that many users get stuck listening to music from a certain decade, especially the one in …
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Huawei’s new Honor 7 phone will offer a fingerprint sensor, according to the company’s new teaser poster. Huawei China’s Huawei will unveil its new Honor 7 phone on June 30, according to a teaser poster displayed on the Weibo website. The poster reveals the name Honor with the shape of the number seven, indicating the model number. The date of …
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Cortana can now keep track of your entire flight plan. Microsoft The Cortana voice assistant is going a few steps further to ensure your next round of air travel goes as smoothly as possible. In a blog post Monday, Microsoft described several new ways that Cortana can help with almost every phase of your trip, from checking your flight-related emails …
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Roku and PlayStation Vue owners will soon have access to Showtime’s new streaming app. Showtime Roku and PlayStation Vue owners will soon be able to watch all the Showtime content they want via the cable channel’s new online-only streaming service. On Monday, Showtime announced that its new standalone streaming service will roll out in July to users of Roku TV …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. With iOS 9, Siri will remind you of things based on the time of day or your location. CNET Apple’s voice assistant, Siri, has a new look as well as a host of enhancements. At its Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday, Apple unveiled …
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Apple Pay may wind up in the UK this summer. James Martin/CNET Apple Pay could reach beyond the shores of the US as early as this summer. At its Worldwide Developers Conference, which starts Monday, Apple may announce the upcoming debut of Apple Pay in the United Kingdom, the UK-based Telegraph has reported. Citing unnamed industry sources, the news site …
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Its own high-speed network would make Apple less reliant on third-party network providers. California Institute of Technology Apple may cook up its own high-speed data network so it can control and more quickly push out music, videos and other content to its users via the cloud. The company wants to own and control network pipes, or cables, to link its …
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You can now search for GIFs directly in Tumblr to animate your posts. screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET Tumblr users now don’t have to look far to find the perfect GIF file to animate their posts. On Thursday, the blogging site unveiled a new GIF search tool that lets you track down animated images to add some action to your posts …
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