Now playing: Watch this: How to find out if you’re getting a Ticketmaster voucher 1:18 Did Ticketmaster send you a voucher over the weekend for free event tickets? You better check to make sure you still have it. The vouchers, which are part of the settlement of a 13-year-old class-action lawsuit, began showing up in …

Facebook shareholders aren’t un-friending Peter Thiel this year. A month after the PayPal co-founder and early Facebook backer said he was bankrolling a series of lawsuits against Gawker Media, Facebook’s shareholders decided he should stay on the board. Thiel was re-elected alongside seven other board members, including Marc Andreessen, the prominent venture capitalist; Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix; and Erskine …

If there’s an overarching theme to the set of new capabilities in Photoshop CC 2015.5 and Creative Cloud, it’s efficiency. There’s little here that you couldn’t do before, but Adobe’s concentrated on reducing the number of clicks required to produce results and speeding up aspects of Photoshop. It also includes the continuation of its aggressive push to attract designers to …

You’ve seen that face before. That actor… so familiar, yet it’s driving you nuts because you can’t place the face. Wasn’t he in that thing? With that gal? And that song! The one playing in the background while the two characters meet-cute. It’s so great! But what is it? Sure, you might be able to Shazam it — if not …

A bill passed by the New York Senate last week could see short-term Airbnb stays brought to an end, at least for whole apartments. If New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signs the bill, Airbnb rentals for less than 30 days that lease entire homes in class A multiple-dwelling buildings without the owner present for the stay will be prohibited under …

A new feature inside of the Fitbit app looks to help improve the sleep habits of millions of Fitbit owners. While a majority of the company’s products already offer sleep tracking and let users create custom sleep goals, a new Sleep Schedule will now allow for even more control. The new feature, which will arrive today as part of an …

Zane Alchin, 25, has pleaded guilty to using a carriage service (in this case, the internet) to menace, harass or cause offence, a crime detailed under section 474.17 of the Criminal Code. After a friend of Alchin’s had posted a screenshot of a woman’s Tinder profile on Facebook in August last year, Alchin had written a number of abusive posts …

The US music industry has been beating the drum against YouTube, and now Taylor Swift is falling in step. Swift has joined an open letter to Congress with 185 other artists, the three major labels, the main trade organization for indie labels and other music industry groups. (Check the full list below. You’re sure to find at least one musician …

A lot of people listen to Spotify. The music streaming service said its user base of active listeners has passed 100 million. The majority of those are “free” users who listen to streams with commercial breaks, but the company also claims the largest paid subscriber base in the music industry, with 30 million paid subscribers. Although it might be the …

US regulators are setting the stage for the next era in wireless. The Federal Communications Commission next month will vote on a proposal to help identify and free up wireless spectrum at very high frequencies that could be used to power fifth-generation, or 5G, cellular networks. The agency will do as it did with the development of 4G LTE and …

July may be a great month to go outside, but in case the weather is unfriendly, it looks like you could spend lots of hours streaming stuff from Amazon Prime. Harrison Ford fans will be happy to see that both “Patriot Games” and “Clear and Present Danger” will be online in early July. For those of you thinking of having …

Starting today, music streaming service Spotify is offering a dedicated Pride category called #PressPlayForPride. The category will bring together curated playlists with personal commentary from LGBTQ artists and advocates across a wide range of music genres. There are over 975,000 Pride and LGBTQ themed playlists on Spotify, the company says. The playlists will come from a variety of public figures, …

Now playing: Watch this: Why you should buy an MP3 player 2:21 Ever since I was a kid, I’ve loved listening to music, especially in the anti-social form of wearing headphones. A big fan of tuning out of my surroundings and tuning into my self-curated soundtrack, my fancy for portable music players started when I permanently borrowed my mother’s cassette …

HBO has revealed the teaser trailer for “Westworld”, the show it clearly hopes will be its next big hit. Airing during the most recent episode of “Game of Thrones“, it sets a grim tone for the Michael Crichton-directed show, based on the 1973 film of the same name. Not unlike another famous Crichton work, on the surface “Westworld” is about …

Now playing: Watch this: Why you should buy an MP3 player 2:21 Though MP3 players have limited appeal, they’re not completely pointless. Why have an MP3 player when you can listen to music on your phone, you ask? Streaming music eats data Downloaded music takes up storage space Listening to music drains your phone’s battery life Aside from these reasons, …