Videos taken down from Vimeo for using the word ‘Pixels’

Promo poster for the 2015 Columbia Pictures film. Columbia Pictures Update April 11, 9.35 a.m. AEST: Vimeo has now restored the videos. Vimeo representative Kevin Turner said in an email, “Late last week, Vimeo removed certain videos pursuant to a DMCA takedown notice filed by Entura International claiming that the videos contained copyrighted content from …

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The five biggest changes to media playback in Windows 10

Windows 10 is finally here, and with the most robust and fully featured version of Microsoft’s PC operating system to date, it appears the company has finally atoned for its former Windows 8 sins. While some of the changes are obvious — hello Start menu, my old friend — some take a little digging. One of the biggest changes for …

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Yahoo is trying to become one of the smartphone cool kids

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is trying to make the company’s apps relevant to young people. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images When Marissa Mayer became CEO of Yahoo three years ago, the former Google executive staked her reputation on one thing: bringing Yahoo, an ailing pioneer of the early Internet, into the smartphone age. To that end, Mayer made one of her biggest …

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This wand tethers to your smartphone for real

Enlarge ImageThe Maguss Wand, sensor and app. Maguss Wingardium leviosa! While shouting that and zipping the Maguss Wand around in your friend’s face won’t quite make him levitate like it would in the Harry Potter universe, it could cause him to skip a turn and let you make your getaway. The Maguss Wand is a new gizmo whose makers recently …

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Trinity Hyperion: Raising the stakes for how good a $39 in

Enlarge ImageTrinity Hyperion in-ear headphones, shown without ear tips attached. Trinity Looking at the packaging and the Trinity Hyperion in-ear headphones’ build quality, its price is almost too good to be true. At $39 or £30 in the UK, the headphones feature 8mm drivers, solid aluminum ear pieces, braided cables, 16 Ohm impedance and you get a nice selection of …

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Space, swords, bones: 3D printing (literally) makes our world

Now playing: Watch this: How 3D printing will literally make the future 1:40 Right now, 3D printers are mostly peripheral items owned by other people to make cool and quirky things: nerdy figurines, bit parts, the occasional crazy snack that grows its own mushroom filling. Click here for more Exciting Tech stories. In only five years, though, 3D printing has …

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Ex Twitter CEO Dick Costolo plans to leave company’s board, say reports

Dick Costolo is reportedly set to exit Twitter’s board. Scott Olson/Getty Images Twitter’s former CEO, Dick Costolo, plans to step down from the social network’s board of directors, according to reports. He’ll exit by the end of the year or once the company appoints a new chief, The New York Times reported, with Recode saying he’ll leave when a new …

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You already have great speakers. Do you really need a subwoofer?

While subwoofers are all but required for home theater, the role subs play in music systems is almost as crucial. So even if you have a pair of bookshelf or tower speakers with 5-inch or smaller woofers and are perfectly satisfied with the bass, you literally don’t know what you’re missing. Adding a sub to larger speakers also makes sense …

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Get a text every morning with the best route to work

Do you live in a place where you have more than one terrible way to drive to work? Stop nodding and keep reading, commuters in Atlanta, Houston, Los Angeles and other metropolises with bumper-to-bumper rush hour traffic. If a check of traffic conditions on Google Maps or Waze precedes your morning and evening commutes, then you can streamline operations with …

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Apple Watch now up for sale at Best Buy

Apple now has another retailer that can push its smartwatch. Josh Miller/CNET Consumers eyeing the Apple Watch can now pick one up through Best Buy. The electronics chain is now offering Apple’s wearable device at both its retail stores and its website, as announced late last month. Best Buy is selling the Apple Watch Sport, which starts at $349, and …

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How to get the Gmail to Evernote feature back

If you were using the email feature on your Evernote account and suddenly noticed that it isn’t working anymore, you’re not alone. The company sent out an email back in July that detailed how you would no longer be able to send more than five email messages to your account — unless you upgrade to a premium subscription. Thankfully, the …

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Crave giveaway: iBattz Refuel Invictus battery case for iPhone 6

Enlarge Image iBattz Having just returned from several weeks of travel during which I sometimes found myself in faraway places with my phone’s battery at perilously low levels, I’m appreciating anew the value of having extra power on the go. The winner of this week’s giveaway gets that, in the form of an iBattz Refuel Invictus battery case for the …

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‘Resistance is futile’: Streaming TV is the future

Enlarge Image CBS Photo Archive, CBS via Getty Images Television can teach us a lot — it taught me how to tell time. No, seriously! As a little kid, when “Sesame Street” was on the morning, I knew it was time to say goodnight to my dad after his graveyard shift; when it was on again in the afternoon, it …

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Verizon kills off service contracts, smartphone subsidies

Verizon is shaking up how you pay for your wireless service. Verizon Wireless on Friday introduced a set of new data plans that require customers to pay for their smartphone in monthly installments or buy it outright. The new plans go into effect August 13. It’s a radical change in how Verizon operates and signals a broader shift away from …

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