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Miley Cyrus smashed into YouTube with her video for “Wrecking Ball” which has been watched a whopping 773 million times. Miley Cyrus Vevo Good evening YouTube — are you ready to rock? Probably the world’s biggest platform for fans finding and playing music, new and old, the Google-owned video website is a perfect place to reach fans across the world. …
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Set to debut July 29, Windows 10 will be free for one year for anyone running Windows 7 or Windows 8.1. And it will be a direct upgrade, meaning you can run the Windows 10 installation in Windows 7 or 8.1, and you should end up with Windows 10 in the end. Windows 10 marks Microsoft’s big push to get …
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Get Office 365 Personal free when you buy this Office 365 Personal-priced tablet. TigerDirect What’s the only thing better than one deal? Duh: five deals! Imagine for example, someone offered you one donut. Then imagine they offered you five donuts. Who’s gonna turn that down? (Incidentally, today is National Donut Day, meaning if you’re willing to drive around a bit, …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple execs — including, from left, Beats co-founder Jimmy Iovine, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Beats’ Dr. Dre and iTunes chief Eddy Cue — have been preparing for the launch of a new subscription music service. Apple Twelve years ago, with the launch of …
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The European Space Agency and NASA astronaut Terry Virts have broken new ground in Earth-to-space communications, proving that the International Space Station is just a robotic handshake away. Related Links NASA’s Pluto probe could carry your photo to aliens Watch the drunken wobble of Pluto’s smaller moons Tempting blue pools in vivid Mars photo aren’t what they seem In a …
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Former Mozilla CTO Andreas Gal Mozilla Mozilla, best known for its Firefox browser and operating system, has lost the man responsible for the core technologies of both products. Chief Technology Officer Andreas Gal has left Mozilla after nearly seven years to launch a startup that hopes to provide the computing brains for the Internet of Things — a broad idea …
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When using social apps, know thy location settings. The Twitter-owned Periscope added a global map to show the location of live video broadcasts. That could be a problem for privacy if you’re not careful. In this CNET Update report, learn how more apps are incorporating maps, including Facebook Messenger: Now playing: Watch this: Periscope shares your exact location in global …
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Easy drag-and-drop coding lets kids decide how Dash & Dot will play. Wonder Workshop Congratulations to Charles H. of High Point, N.C., for winning a Ventex Powercell 6000+ portable battery pack in our last giveaway. School is already out for many kids, and almost out for lots more, and that means plenty of free time to play…with robots! This week, …
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Ross Ulbricht, the convicted founder of online illegal-drugs marketplace Silk Road, is challenging his conviction a week after receiving a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole. Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht was sentenced to life in prison for operating the illegal-drugs site. Ross Ulbricht/LinkedIn As anticipated, attorneys for the 31-year-old San Francisco man filed a notice …
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Unofficial Cardboard’s 2.0 Plus VR viewer includes something unique: adjustable lenses. Unofficial Cardboard Last year, Unofficial Cardboard was one of the first vendors to offer a Google Cardboard kit for folks who didn’t want to scrounge for parts, print diagrams, cut and fold cardboard and so on. Now, hot on the heels of Google’s Cardboard 2.0 announcement, UC is back …
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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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iHeartRadio is the digital side to the country’s biggest terrestrial radio company. iHeartMedia iHeartRadio, the online arm of the traditional radio giant formerly known as Clear Channel, said Friday it hit 70 million people who have registered to listen to digital stations. The growth reflects both the growing popularity of streaming music generally as well as iHeartRadio’s promotional advantage of …
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Get ready for the biggest party of Swift programming language enthusiasts all year… Apple It’s an exciting time of year once again for Apple faithful as the company prepares for its Worldwide Developers Conference, starting Monday at Moscone Center in San Francisco. As its name suggests, WWDC is largely about upgrades to software, the lifeblood of Apple’s remarkably successful hardware, …
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Airbnb’s Price Tips tool gives hosts a color-coded calendar with pricing recommendations. Airbnb SAN FRANCISCO — Airbnb wants to help its users become better businesspeople. The peer-to-peer home rental marketplace announced Thursday that it’s launching a tool designed to help hosts best decide what price to list their homes on the site. Related stories Business is booming, says Airbnb CEO …
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