“Mozart in the Jungle” is the first content widely available in HDR. Sarah Tew/CNET Netflix may have a lot more content available to stream in 4K than Amazon, but Amazon’s Instant Video streaming service now offers infinitely more HDR content than anybody else. Amazon has announced that its original series “Mozart in the Jungle” Season …
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CNET Apple released a minor update to iTunes today to address issues people were having with iTunes Match and cloud services. iTunes 12.2.1 introduces bug fixes for problems where iTunes would mislabel matched songs from its iTunes Match service and prevented iTunes Match subscribers from signing up for a subscription to Apple Music. The update also has minor fixes that …
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If you’re one of the brave who’ve installed the public preview of iOS 9, you’ve likely encountered an issue or random bug. It’s part of the experience when using a beta, or in this case, a preview operating system. The next time one of Apple’s apps displays an odd interface, refuses to launch or something plain weird happens when using …
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Walmart is trying to be more aggressive online, hoping its website can shore up slow-growing in-store sales. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Walmart is crashing Amazon’s birthday party. After Amazon unveiled a 20th anniversary sale called slated for Wednesday, Walmart said Monday that it too will be holding a sale the same day and temporarily cut its free shipping minimum on orders …
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Don’t want a full cable TV package from Comcast? You’ll be able to opt for Stream for $15 a month. Comcast Comcast will roll out a new $15-per-month streaming TV service aimed at its Internet subscribers who want just a sliver of cable. Known as Stream, the service is geared toward viewers who don’t want to pay big bucks for …
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The Banded Classic gives the Apple Watch a more industrious look. The bumper is made of aerospace aluminum and comes in six different colors-chrome, gun metal, black, silver, gold, and rose gold. It also comes with three leather bands in black, light brown, and dark brown. Designed by Many From the moment in September 2014 when Apple first showed off …
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You may have to wait a bit to get a new PC preinstalled with Windows 10. screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET Consumers who expect to buy a new PC running Windows 10 on the launch date may be disappointed. Windows 10 is set to officially roll out July 29, but that doesn’t mean it will be available for everyone right away, …
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Apple accounts for the biggest share of profits in the smartphone industry. CNET Android device makers collectively may reign supreme in smartphone market share, but Apple is the one that takes home almost all of the profits. In the first quarter of 2015, Apple scored a whopping 92 percent of the total operating income earned by the world’s top eight …
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IBM already has a supercomputing contract with the US Department of Energy. Los Alamos National Laboratory IBM will team up with Nvidia and the US Department of Energy to launch two new supercomputer centers of excellence. These efforts primarily revolve around making sure applications can take advantage of supercomputing horsepower and gathering feedback from developers, engineers and scientists. The centers, …
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Wireless customers are tired of paying for unlimited data service that isn’t really unlimited. But what can they do to make their wireless provider give them the service they pay for? That’s the question I answer in this edition of Ask Maggie. The Federal Communications Commission and the Federal Trade Commission have each said they will take action against AT&T …
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Late last week, Android Police discovered Google had enabled the ability to send directions from Google Maps on a computer to an Android device. The feature was recently made available to iOS users. Unlike the iOS equivalent, Android users don’t need to enable anything within the app itself as long as you’re running the latest version of Google Maps. You …
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Apple Pay launched in the US in October 2014 and is poised to hit UK shops this week. James Martin/CNET Apple Pay is set to start paying off in the UK on Tuesday. UK bank HSBC appears to have inadvertently confirmed the date that you can start using your iPhone to pay for stuff in British shops. The UK is …
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With Ballloon for Chrome, you can easily save Web stuff to your cloud service of choice. Screenshot by Rick Broida/CNET These days nearly everyone uses at least one cloud-storage service. But are you still jumping through the same old download-upload hoops? In other words, if you want to archive, say, a file or image, do you first download it to …
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Who will Twitter choose as its next CEO? CNET What does it take to move Twitter out of Facebook’s shadow? That’s one of the existential questions facing a growing list of possible candidates for the top job at Twitter. The list, debated among industry insiders and analysts alike, includes those who work inside the struggling social network and outsiders who …
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Here’s one way to get better sound from your speakers that won’t cost you a penny, get closer to them. The logic is easy to grasp, the closer you are to the speakers the more direct sound you’ll hear. Close up listening minimizes the destructive effects of room reflections and reverberation that interfere with the sound. That’s why sitting closer …
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