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.” …
Read More »Tivoli Audio founder creates new audio company to sell guess what?
When Tom DeVesto sold Tivoli Audio in May of 2015 he signed a one-year non-compete agreement. Well, now that year has passed, and DeVesto has decided to start making wireless tabletop radios again. This time he’ll do it under his new Como Audio brand, which just launched a Kickstarter campaign for two new music systems, the Solo and Duetto, which …
Read More »With Tango, Google is now equipped to map the entire world
Open up Google Maps on your phone and, depending on where you are, you’ll see some streets, some buildings and a blue dot. That blue dot is you, in “YOU ARE HERE” form. When you move, it moves. The dot is helpful when you’re walking around outside, but if you’re indoors — in an airport, a mall, or even a …
Read More »How I increased my MacBook’s battery life by 39 percent
If you are like me, then you are more concerned with the battery life of your laptop than the battery life of your cell phone. My aging MacBook Pro barely makes it to lunch on a single charge, while my iPhone lasts all day. I have tweaked a few settings to extend the life of my laptop’s battery, but I …
Read More »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. …
Read More »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 …
Read More »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 …
Read More »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 …
Read More »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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