Amazon’s original series “Transparent” scores two Golden Globes Amazon Amazon and Netflix may not have won big at the Golden Globes but both showed that they can hold their own against traditional TV networks and cable channels. Amazon won its first-ever Golden Globes at Sunday’s awards ceremony. The online service’s original show ” Transparent” won …

Google’s Translate app could get smarter. google Google’s translation app will be updated so it can recognize any popular spoken language and automatically translate it into text, according to a report in The New York Times. Available in the Google Play store and Apple’s App Store, the Google Translate app offers spoken and written translation among 90 languages. You can …

Beachbot Visit the beach, and you’ll usually see visitors constructing architecture made of sand, either elaborate or simple (my personal favourite was coiling dragons with seashell scales). But some artists — such as Tony Plant and Andres Amador — use the sand as a vast canvas for giant, transient works scraped with a rake, disappearing when the tide washes the …

The Didi Dache app. Didi Dache In a bid to stabilise and fine-tune the country’s thriving taxi app industry, China’s Ministry of Transport has ordered all taxi-hailing apps operating in China to exclude private vehicles from their app platforms. This means that private cars and drivers without taxi licenses are no longer able to use apps such as Didi Dache, …

As wireless operators like AT&T, Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile amend their service offerings, consumers can save big bucks by keeping their cell phones longer. But to cash in, subscribers need to make sure they’re signed up for the right plan. The good news for consumers these days is that wireless providers are changing how they do business. But that doesn’t …

The PonoPlayer. Steve Guttenberg/CNET I feel like I’ve been hearing about the PonoPlayer music player for ages, so expectations ran high. The company never got around to sending one in for review, so I borrowed a friend’s yellow player. It feels light in my hands, and the triangular shape comes in handy when you lay Pono down on a table. …

The sensei demonstrates the Oogyaku shoulder-attack move in my Ninja Training 101 class on Curious.com. Screenshot by Dara Kerr/CNET It’s surprisingly easy to dislocate a man’s shoulder. Using a move known in Japanese as Oogyaku, or “great reversal,” you just have to get him facedown, pull his arm backward and apply pressure to his shoulder with your hand, foot or …

I was initially skeptical about Tidal, but I’m really enjoying this new streaming music service. Spotify, Mog and Pandora never clicked with me; with those music subscription services I’d jump from tune to tune, listen a bit, then move onto something else. It’s not that I ever thought Spotify or Pandora sounded bad, but they couldn’t hold my attention. Tidal …

Matt Elliott/CNET If my six (admittedly basic) tips for organizing your Mac’s menu bar didn’t scratch your itch for menu bar order, then I suggest you give Bartender a try. Available direct from the developer’s Bartender site and not the Mac App Store, the app costs $15 but you can try it for free for four weeks. Basically, Bartender adds …

Matt Elliott/CNET The menu bar at the top of your Mac’s display acts as a convenient tray on which Apple serves you menus of your current app to the left along with more static status icons to the right. In addition, many third-party apps — Dropbox and Skip Tunes to name but two — install icons in the menu bar …

Burstio app icon Jason Cipriani/CNET My favorite kind of apps aren’t entire platforms or services. Instead, they’re much simpler apps that fill a hole in the feature set of an operating system. For example, Apple created a Burst Mode in its Camera app that takes photos in quick succession as long as you hold in the shutter button. Once your …

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Windows 10 will apparently introduce a new Microsoft browser, but still keep Internet Explorer in place. Nick Statt/CNET More rumored details are leaking about Microsoft’s new browser, codenamed Spartan, that will be a key piece of its Windows 10 platform. Spartan, which will use the Trident rendering engine and the Chakra JavaScript engine that are part of Internet Explorer, is …