NEW YORK — Get immersed in a Wagner opera while waiting in a supermarket line or catch a Carnegie Hall orchestral performance on the train. For most of us, it’s hard to find the time and money for a trip to the ballet. So, the Google Cultural Institute and a group of over 60 performing …

“Op op op op, oppa Gangnam style.” I’ve just triggered an earworm in your head. You may now have the urge to crotch-dance in an elevator, make lasso motions with your arm and sing while sitting on the toilet. This is the fate of anybody who has witnessed Korean pop star Psy’s “Gangnam Style” music video. Psy is now trying …

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has been desperately trying to lure consumers back to the company’s products, like Yahoo Mail and search. But now she may be considering another option: selling Yahoo’s iconic Internet services altogether, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal. The company will weigh the decision to sell its core business during a series of meetings …

Even at its lowest setting, an iPhone’s display can be too bright if you’re reading in bed at night or in an otherwise dark room. If you find you’re still blinded by the light even after moving the brightness slider all the way to the left in Control Center, there is a way to dim the screen past what the …

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Tablet makers will surely take their glimmers of hope wherever they can find them. To be sure, sales of tablets are continuing their long, slow decline, according to the latest figures from market researchers, but new twists on the traditional design could catch the fancy of consumers and businesses alike. For all of 2015, worldwide tablet shipments are projected to …

Tweetbot is a popular iOS Twitter app, full of features and small tweaks that many consider an improvement over Twitter’s own app. One such feature is the ability to automatically change between the default view, which includes a predominantly white interface, and a night theme, complete with a predominantly dark interface. The former is easier to see in normal, everyday …

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California — Nathan Hammond radiates fatigue. The bearded and tousle-haired engineer has clocked an average of 60 hours a week for four months working on the most important mobile app in LinkedIn’s history. Though he moved to San Francisco from North Carolina earlier this year, Hammond hasn’t had time to explore his new digs. Instead, the user interface …

The PowerPoint presentation remains a staple of business life — a boring, easy-to-forget staple. How can you hope to get your point across when your audience’s eyes start glazing over at slide one? Presentation-builder Emaze thinks it has the answer: Automaze, a new feature that imports existing PowerPoint files and turns them into themed, animated “journeys.” If that sounds a …

I’ll start with the bad news. Even though TVs with 4K/Ultra high-definition resolution have been available for a couple of years now, there still aren’t a lot of actual 4K TV shows and movies available. Aside from YouTube, 4K today mostly consists of original TV series streaming from Netflix and Amazon. We won’t get 4K Blu-ray until next year, and …

The Apple Watch may have captivated the wearables market, but not every owner is crazy about the gadget. The research firm Wristly wanted to know why, so it polled 330 Apple Watch owners in North America, Europe and other regions who had expressed dissatisfaction with Apple’s first wearable. Nine of 10 of respondents cited the rather vague reason of “not …

BlackBerry on Tuesday announced it had released the first software update for the BlackBerry Priv. According to BlackBerry, the update includes December’s Android security patch, improvements to the camera’s performance, better overall performance, and increased stability. For those who are familiar with the software upgrade process on Android, you already know what to do. But for those who’ve made the …

Microsoft’s Windows 10 isn’t setting any speed records moving up the desktop operating system food chain. The latest edition of Windows snagged a 9 percent share worldwide of all Web traffic generated by desktop operating systems in November, NetMarketShare said Tuesday. That number was up around a percentage point since October. Overall growth had been declining since the initial share …

Hillary Clinton on Tuesday ventured where no 2016 presidential candidate has dared when she went on Q&A service Quora to promote her bid for the White House. The Democratic candidate for president joined the popular online forum to answer questions on a variety of hot-button topics, including her stance on the Affordable Care Act, defunding Planned Parenthood and how to …

Mark Zuckerberg is a father, and now an even bigger philanthropist. The CEO of the world’s largest social network said Tuesday that his wife gave birth to their first child, a daughter named Max. As part of the announcement, he also revealed plans to establish the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, which will receive 99 percent of Zuckerberg’s Facebook shares, currently worth …