Stan brings Community season six to Australia

Yahoo “Community,” the fan favourite show staring Joel McHale about life at Greendale Community College, will be coming to Australia via TV streaming service Stan. Stan, a joint venture between Fairfax and Nine Entertainment, began operations on Australia Day, offering an array of local and international content for AU$10 a month. The show’s latest season …

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How to enable Spartan’s Edge Rendering Engine in Windows 10

Sarah Jacobsson Purewal/CNET In January, Microsoft revealed that Windows 10 will ship with a brand-new browser, code-named Project Spartan. Spartan is a modern, lightweight browser that Microsoft hopes to deploy across multiple devices to give you a “single browsing experience,” similar to Google Chrome. Spartan is also faster than Internet Explorer, thanks to a new rendering engine called “Edge.” While …

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​Microsoft joins with Mozilla in bid for fast Web apps

In Windows 10, Microsoft will support Mozilla’s asm.js technology for fast JavaScript apps. In a partnership that would have been unthinkable 10 years ago, Microsoft has strongly endorsed Mozilla’s asm.js technology for bringing graphically intense games and other performance-critical software to the Web. During the last 10 years, much of the work that in the ’90s would’ve been handled by …

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LG G Flex 2 bounces into Sprint March 13, pre

It’ll bend, but not break. This flexible phone bounces back. Josh Miller/CNET Sprint customers won’t be able to get their hands on the curvaceous LG G Flex 2 until March 13, the carrier announced on Thursday, but thirsty fans of the flexible Android phone can pre-order the device as soon as February 20. It’ll sell in “volcano red” and “platinum …

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Microsoft offers trade

Microsoft’s hope: out with the old, in with the new. Screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET Surface tablet owners looking to upgrade to a Surface Pro 3 can take advantage of a temporary trade-in offer through Microsoft. Valid until March 8, the deal offers up to $650 in credit for trading in your existing Surface tablet. You can then apply that credit …

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Smartwatch maker Pebble has something new up its sleeve

Pebble is counting down until… Screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET Pebble will have something new to announce in another few days. We just don’t know what. The smartwatch maker’s home page is presently displaying a timer counting down the days, hours, minutes and seconds until presumably something will happen. You can type your email and click an icon labeled “Curious?” But …

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Hot sub time machine: A photo tour of the HMAS Ovens submarine

When you think of major submarine bases (if you think of major submarine bases), you might think of New London, Kings Bay, Pearl Harbor, maybe Rybachiy. But… Fremantle? During World War II, Fremantle, on the west coast of Australia, was actually one of the largest submarine bases in the world, and largest in the southern hemisphere, home to over 160 …

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So did T

T-Mobile is making the case that it’s already the nation’s third-largest wireless carrier by subscriber base. T-Mobile John Legere makes his case that it is the No. 3 wireless carrier in the nation. Josh Miller/CNET The crux of T-Mobile’s argument lies in a line in Sprint’s financial filings with the Securities Exchange Commission that counts 1.7 million customers through resale …

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Three

Humble Bundle Hi, cheeps! No, I’m not dead or in the hospital, though it was kind of so many of you to ask. As I mentioned on Monday, I’m traveling this week. But I’ll be back to full-strength deal sharing next week. In the meantime, I bring you three of my favorite kind of deal: bundles! 1. Mac time I …

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Where to find your iCloud Drive files in Office for iOS

Jason Cipriani/CNET After reading the release notes of the recent updates to Word, PowerPoint and Excel for iOS, you’re left wondering where the supposed iCloud Drive support can be found. It’s not completely obvious at first, and actually, it’s still not all that obvious. Here’s how it works: Screenshot by Jason Cipriani/CNET When you launch any of the Office apps, …

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Yahoo woos app makers at its first mobile conference

Yahoo announced new tools aimed at mobile developers on Thursday. Screenshot by Richard Nieva/CNET Marissa Mayer’s latest pitch to Silicon Valley: Yahoo wants to help smartphone and tablet developers manage their mobile apps. On Thursday, the company announced new tools aimed at mobile-software developers that would help them measure user engagement and make money off their apps. They do this …

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New anti

Image by Jaskirat Singh Bawa, CC BY-ND 2.0 Internet service providers in Australia would be required to help identify repeat copyright infringers under a proposed “three-strikes” policy draft published Friday. The draft code, which was drafted by rights holders and service providers, came in response to an ultimatum from the Australian Government in December last year for an industry-developed approach …

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Samsung’s LoopPay: What it is, and why you should care

CNET Samsung just made a big move in mobile payments. The world’s largest smartphone manufacturer said on Wednesday that it had acquired LoopPay, a mobile-payments technology startup. The deal potentially supercharges Samsung’s ability to enable its customers to pay for goods and services with their smartphone, a feature that has generated more interest since Apple introduced its Apple Pay system. …

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T

Whatever satellite TV provider Dish Network decides to do with its large stash of spectrum, it will be good news for T-Mobile, said John Legere, CEO of the wireless carrier. “We look at their spectrum portfolio, and video, as a fascinating idea to consider,” Legere said during T-Mobile’s fourth-quarter conference call Thursday, addressing the long-standing rumors that Dish may be …

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