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Copy your playlist from one streaming service to another

Now playing: Watch this: Transfer songs between streaming services 1:04 Recently I canceled my Rhapsody subscription in favor of Spotify, mostly because the latter now offers a $15/month family plan (though it stubbornly refuses to block explicit lyrics, grumble, grumble). Having been with Rhapsody for a couple years, I’d assembled quite a number of playlists and was dreading the thought …

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Zuckerberg to hold his first Facebook Live Q&A

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has become well-known for his town hall-style question-and-answer sessions. He’s done them from places including Berlin; Delhi, India; and Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California. But next Tuesday, he’ll do his first Q&A via Facebook Live, the live-streaming video service the social network has been intensely pushing lately. It will start at 11:30 a.m. PT. People …

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This is the future: YouTuber uses drone to cut hair

From photography to racing, drones are becoming increasingly useful as people explore the evolving technology. On Tuesday, Simone Giertz, a YouTube blogger known for making humorously dodgy robots, tried to take drones to their next logical frontier of glory: haircuts. She paired up with computer hacker Samy Kamkar to make the above video, which sees the duo attempt to give …

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Google’s AI to make itself at home in the iPhone (The 3:59, Ep. 58)

Google is putting building blocks in place to make your smartphone apps a whole lot brainier. The search giant brought an early version of TensorFlow, its “neural network” software platform, to Apple’s iPhones and iPads. The platform should enable more sophisticated apps from Google and other developers using TensorFlow, which was already available on Google’s Android mobile software. Also on …

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Google expands Project Fi coverage with US Cellular

Google is expanding the reach of its wireless service, called Project Fi, via a partnership with US Cellular. The additional coverage will be “rolling out to all users” in the coming weeks and will provide added consistency and speed, Evan Jacobs, a product manager for Project Fi, wrote in a blog post Wednesday. Project Fi, which Google launched in April …

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