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Jay Z’s Tidal music service loses its latest CEO

Music-streaming site Tidal has lost yet another CEO. Screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET Jay Z’s music-streaming service can’t seem to hold onto its CEOs. On Tuesday, the company announced that interim CEO Peter Tonstad was let go, according to The Wall Street Journal. Tonstad used slightly different terminology to describe his exit, telling Norwegian newspaper Dagens …

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Perfect your tennis swing with the Qlipp sensor

The Qlipp gets attached to the strings of the racket and is capable of tracking how the racket is swung. Aloysius Low/CNET SINGAPORE — Aimed at enthusiastic tennis players who want to improve their game, the Qlipp sensor from Singapore-based startup 9 Degrees Freedom clips on to your racket like a string separator and tracks and transmits info to your …

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Does Netflix really have one million Aussie subscribers?

Public opinion research company Roy Morgan published the results of a survey yesterday which suggested that US-based streaming video-on-demand service Netflix had, in the two months following its Australian launch, garnered over ten times the audience of its nearest SVOD rival. The Australian video streaming market has exploded in 2015, with several high-profile launches and joint ventures competing for the …

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Lenovo unveils $130 PC on a stick

Lenovo’s new PC on a stick is a full Windows PC that can be plugged into any PC or monitor with an HDMI port. Lenovo Lenovo is hitting a new PC market in a small way. On Tuesday, the popular PC vendor announced its latest creation — a PC on a stick. Starting at $130, the new Ideacentre Stick 300 …

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Create dynamic bookmarks for faster searches in Firefox

Nicole Cozma/CNET If you’re familiar with the custom search engine feature in Chrome, you might have wondered if the same functionality was available in Firefox. As Ghacks points out, the functionality is there, but it works under another name: dynamic bookmarks. Instead of simply linking to the same website (or portion of a website), a dynamic bookmark will allow you …

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Australia’s ‘internet filter’: Government passes site

Getty Images Australian internet users could soon be met with dead ends across the web after lawmakers on Monday approved controversial laws that allow the blockage of sites suspected of contributing to piracy. The Copyright Amendment (Online Infringement) Bill 2015 [PDF] passed with support from both major parties in the Senate, after passing the House of Representatives last week, with …

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