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What does Twitter need to succeed? Big

Longtime Twitter investor Chris Sacca is urging the social media giant to “boldly push the envelope.” Noah Berger/Bloomberg via Getty Images Twitter investor Chris Sacca has gone into great detail — literally — to tell the microblogging site what it should do. In an 8,500-word unapologetic blog post on Wednesday titled, “What Twitter Can Be,” …

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Synaptics SmartBar puts gesture controls under the thumb

Synaptics’ SmartBar technology brings gesture controls to the traditional spacebar. Synaptics The humble spacebar is about to get an upgrade, potentially doing away with the need for a mouse and bringing a whole new meaning to the phrase “touch typing.” Synaptics, the company behind some of the leading touch technologies we see in our devices today, including the ubiquitous TouchPad, …

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Samsung eyes China, Europe as mobile payments war heats up

Samsung Pay will be launching at some point around September. Josh Miller/CNET Samsung’s mobile payments service, Samsung Pay, is on its way to a global rollout as it prepares for battle with alternatives from Apple and Google. Samsung Pay will launch in the US and South Korea in the “September time frame,” Rhee Injong, a Samsung executive vice president, said …

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NYC’s Met Museum seeks crowdsourced sounds

The Met Breuer museum. Ed Lederman/Metropolitan Museum of Art Composer John Luther Adams works are frequently inspired by nature and landscape sounds, and for his new piece, “Soundwalk 9:09,” he’s taking a decidedly more urban turn. His new composition will incorporate crowdsourced sound recordings made on the streets between the Met Museum and Met Breuer museum in New York City. …

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Get 30 percent off WeMontage custom photo wallpaper

WeMontage Nothing spruces up a wall like a photo montage, but who wants to deal with the hassle of framing a bunch of individual photos, then getting them spaced and hung exactly right? Better option: Get a custom-printed photo wallpaper, one you can just stick up on the wall for instant awesomeness. Like this: For a limited time, WeMontage is …

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Showtime offers online

Showtime’s cord-cutter app will allow subscribers to watch its full library of original shows, including a revival of “Twin Peaks” set to premiere next year. Showtime Showtime may sometimes weary of comparisons to HBO, but the rollout of its online app is cribbing from its rival’s script. The premium cable network said Tuesday that it would launch a standalone streaming …

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