Jason Cipriani/CNET Facebook on Wednesday announcedwebsite owners can now embed videos posted to Facebook. The need for embedding videos allows readers and viewers to stay on a website, without having to direct someone to Facebook in order to watch the video. It goes without saying there’s value in embedding videos from Facebook and keeping users …
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CNET A new rumor swirling around the Apple trolliverse suggests that three new iPhone models may be released in the second half of this year, including an iPhone 6S, an iPhone 6S Plus and a 4-inch device that Digitimes refers to as the “iPhone 6C.” Now, while none of this is crazy talk, it should be made clear that Digitimes …
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Matt Elliott/CNET The spacebar is a keyboard shortcut in modern browsers including Chrome and Firefox that can be used to jump incrementally down a page. Unless you hate your trackpad or mouse, it’s unlikely you use this maneuver very often. With the Chrome extension YouTube Pause, you can turn your spacebar into a play/pause button for YouTube. Simply install the …
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The HTC One E9 could feature a fingerprint scanner on the home button. Screenshots by Scott Webster/CNET Rumors bubbling over the last few weeks suggest HTC could soon introduce a successor to its One E8 smartphone. Thanks to a new leak, we may now have an understanding as to how it looks. As it turns out, the so-called One E9 …
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George Mason University Imagine if all you needed to put out fire was a subwoofer. It’s an idea that has been toyed with, theoretically, over the years — DARPA demonstrated an acoustic extinguisher in 2012, following prior experiments from other researchers. Now, for the first time, a handheld extinguisher exists that uses not foam, powder or water, but the waves …
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Dynex Two things every HDTV owner must do: disable whatever settings lead to the dreadful soap-opera effect, and add at least one external speaker. Because, let’s face it, regardless of how big or small your TV is or how cheap or expensive it was, its built-in speakers sound terrible. Luckily, just about any sound bar will make a huge difference …
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Attorney-General George Brandis. CeBIT Australian Internet Service Providers and telecommunications carriers will now be required to retain customer metadata for a minimum period of two years under new laws passed by the Australian Senate. Under the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Amendment (Data Retention) Bill 2015, service providers will be required by law to store data such as account holder names …
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A look at the US ad business, according to eMarketer. eMarketer The US display ad business is set for a sizable shift this year as the once potent Yahoo slips even further, according to new data from research firm eMarketer. Facebook is on pace to nearly double the display advertising revenue generated by Google in the US this year, earning …
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Prime Now is expected to keep expanding in 2015. Amazon Amazon is keeping up the expansion of its one-hour delivery service, saying Thursday it has arrived in parts of Dallas. The e-commerce giant started its Prime Now rapid delivery service in December in parts of Manhattan, letting its Prime members order thousands of products — including batteries, paper towels and …
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TCL Our favorite Smart TV platform, Roku TV , isn’t found on TVs made by Samsung, LG, Sony Vizio or any of the other major-brand TVs sold in the US. It’s on TVs by TCL, the number one domestic TV brand in China and one that’s fast making inroads in other countries. Today TCL announced pricing and availability on its …
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James Martin/CNET Preorders for the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge will begin on Friday, March 27, at AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile. Verizon will open preorders on April 1. Samsung’s latest smartphones can be picked up online and in-store on April 10. Both the Galaxy S6 and its curvy sibling will be available on all four major U.S. carriers and …
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A Foxconn worker assembling an Apple product in China. Apple Apple is turning to one of its top manufacturers to help boost sales in China, a new report says. As early as March 31, Apple and Foxconn will introduce a program that would allow current iPhone owners to trade in their devices at an Apple Store, Bloomberg is reporting, citing …
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Chrome lapel pin Stephen Shankland/CNET A decade ago, Microsoft was the laughingstock of the Web: its Internet Explorer browser was old, insecure and slow, and the company didn’t even bother with a browser group trying to advance what the Web could do. My, how things have changed. Microsoft on Wednesday scored a victory in the Web world: Google reversed its …
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Myoungsup Han, head of Samsung Electronics’ imaging team, unveils the NX1 camera in 2014. The camera can shoot 4K video compressed with the HEVC/H.265 technology. Stephen Shankland/CNET Maybe you won’t be watching that 4K streaming movie, shooting that 4K video or buying that 4K TV as soon as you thought or at the price you expected. That’s because of a …
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Student-com “Fresh Meat” is one of the shows appearing on All 4, the replacement for 4OD. Channel 4 O2 customers will soon get to see new Channel 4 TV shows like “Peep Show” and “Made in Chelsea” two days before anyone else. The channel’s online catch-up and on-demand service 4OD is relaunching as All 4, and in the process a …
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