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Clean up iTunes by hiding Apple Music

Not every iTunes user is an Apple Music subscriber. If you purchase music through iTunes instead of subscribing to a streaming music service or subscribe to Spotify or a streaming service other than Apple Music, you can streamline the iTunes interface and hide the four Apple Music-related buttons — For You, New, Radio and Connect …

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Trump scorns Google after viral video claims search feature is biased

There’s a viral video going around that asserts Google has manipulated its autocomplete function in favor of Hillary Clinton. On Friday, Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, reportedly called out the search giant. “If this is true, it is a disgrace that Google would do that,” Trump said, according to a report Friday by Business Insider. “Very, very dishonest.” …

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Apple at WWDC 2016: What’s rumored, what we expect, what we’d like to see

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Now playing: Watch this: What to expect at Apple’s WWDC 2016 2:47 “Hey Siri: What’s up with Apple?” Apple’s annual weeklong Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) kicks off June 13 in San Francisco with the standard big press conference. We’ll be there covering live. …

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Why Siri needs to smarten up, and fast

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. To hold its own against digital assistants from Google, Microsoft and Amazon, Siri needs an IQ boost. Last month, Google took the stage in Mountain View, California, to show off improvements to its digital voice assistant. Its signature ability is to have a …

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Find out what lurks inside a mannequin

When you go clothes shopping, do you ever find yourself staring into a mannequin’s eyes and wondering what’s inside? The father and son who host YouTube series “What’s Inside?” did, so they bought a male mannequin to cut open. Related stories Sphero BB-8 teardown reveals its robot tech inside the rolling ‘Star Wars’ droid Cracking Open: Apple Pencil is powered …

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How Alienware’s gaming PCs kept their cool

Now playing: Watch this: 20 years of Alienware: Origin Story 6:00 Imagine it’s 1996, and you just finished watching FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder break out of a Russian gulag in his search for the truth about aliens, government conspiracies and the paranormal. Nelson Gonzalez couldn’t get enough of TV shows like “The X-Files,” “Star Trek,” “The Outer Limits” and …

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​Bluetooth 5 to double speed, quadruple range of wireless links

Bluetooth, the wireless standard that’s widely used to link fitness trackers to mobile phones and wireless keyboards to computers, will become more powerful in its next incarnation, the industry group developing the technology plans to announce Wednesday. “Bluetooth 5 has a lot to offer,” said Mark Powell, executive director of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group, in a June newsletter. Specifically, …

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