It’s not even mid-December yet, but Amazon says it knows what the top-selling books of 2016 are. In a just-announced list, the company puts “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts 1 & 2, Special Rehearsal Edition Script,” by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany, in the top spot. Amazon says this is the …
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AT&T’s plans to merge with media giant Time Warner in an $85 billion deal isn’t going to skate by Capitol Hill. On Wednesday, Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle in a Senate antitrust subcommittee asked the companies tough questions about whether their planned merger would lower prices for consumers or stifle video competitors online. The bipartisan grilling could be …
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Remember when the internet went crazy over Adele rapping to Nicki Minaj’s verse on the Kanye West track “Monster”? Of course you do. Because the video, from the “Carpool Karaoke” segment on “The Late Late Show with James Corden,” was YouTube’s top trending video this year. That’s according to the Google-owned video site itself, which on Tuesday evening released its …
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Augmented reality company Everysight has created a pair of smart sunglasses designed to give cyclists a safe and easy way to view their real-time performance stats. Called Raptor AR, the sunglasses use Everysight’s patented BEAM technology to display real-time information, such as turn-by-turn navigation, elapsed time, distance, speed, heart rate, cadence and power, which is projected out in front of …
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In Google’s version of the future, a drone could deliver your pizza. The search giant’s parent company, Alphabet, is considering the launch of a drone delivery endeavor, called Wing Marketplace, for shuttling food through the air to consumers, according to a report Wednesday by The Wall Street Journal. The company has met with Domino’s Pizza and grocer Whole Foods as …
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Indiegogo campaign owners be warned: The crowdfunding platform can send a collection agency after you. As of Wednesday, a new addition to the site’s terms of use lets Indiegogo take more serious measures to return pledged funds to backers after a campaign has breached its terms of service, or hasn’t fulfilled its promise to those backers after the a campaign …
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A spin-off from “Agents of SHIELD” is shooting onto the Web. “Slingshot” will debut as online mini-episodes featuring several characters from ABC‘s show based on Marvel comics. Natalia Cordova-Buckley takes the lead as Elena “Yo-Yo” Rodriguez, a super-speedy Inhuman who comes into conflict with SHIELD in the spin-off. It’s set shortly before the beginning of series four of “Agents of …
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YouTube, the music industry’s No. 1 enemy earlier this year, said Tuesday it has paid more than $1 billion in advertising revenue to artists, labels and publishers in the last 12 months. The figure, released in a blog post by YouTube business chief Robert Kyncl, is part of the video giant’s effort to mend fences with its critics in the …
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Apple aims to make it easier for you to use the video apps included in your cable or satellite TV subscription. The company on Tuesday launched a new single authentication tool that allows iOS and Apple TV users to enter their account credentials just once to have instant access to the apps from their programming provider. Previously, cable-specific apps such …
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Instagram is keeping up its push to be a friendlier social network. In a post Tuesday, co-founder and CEO Kevin Systrom said the photo-sharing social network will let users turn off comments on any of their posts. The feature, available for only a few accounts right now, will arrive “in the coming weeks,” he said. Users will be able to …
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