July, 2015

• 15 July

  Neil Young to pull his music from music streaming services

  

  Neil Young’s PonoMusic download store Screenshot by Ty Pendlebury/CNET Don’t go looking for Neil Young’s music on Spotify or Tidal. The musician on Wednesday told his Facebook followers he plans to pull his catalog from streaming services because they don’t meet his bar for sound quality. Young is the latest musician to complain about streaming …

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• 15 July

  ​Startup lands $100 million to challenge smartphone superpowers Apple and Google

  

  Acadine Technologies CEO Li Gong speaks in March, when he was still Mozilla’s president. Stephen Shankland/CNET A new startup emerged Wednesday with a new mobile operating system to challenge the dominance of Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android — and it’s backed with a whopping $100 million investment. Acadine Technologies and plans for the new H5OS operating system were shrouded in …

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• 15 July

  Huawei Nexus phone leak points to 5.7

  

  Will a successor to the Nexus 6 come from China? CNET More details may be leaking out on an upcoming Google Nexus phone built by Huawei. Reports have been floating about suggesting that Google will release two new, big-screened Nexus phones, or phablets, this year. One of those could be designed by LG Electronics, which was responsible for the Nexus …

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• 15 July

  Meet Logitech’s new Logi

  

  Enlarge ImageThe Logi Blok cases come in multiple color options and range in price from $40 to $130. David Carnoy/CNET When Logitech announced last week that it was shifting to a new logo and adding new brand Logi, CNET readers and a lot of other people didn’t know quite what to make of the news. Nor were they sure how …

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• 15 July

  Amazon scores Spike Lee’s ‘Chi

  

  Director Spike Lee’s next major film will be produced by Amazon Studios. Alberto E. Rodriguez/WireImage After months of rumors, it’s official. Amazon Studios will produce Oscar-nominated filmmaker Spike Lee’s next major film (working title, “Chi-Raq”). And it will be Amazon’s very first original movie. Directed by Lee and co-written with writer and director Kevin Willmott, the film “will shed light …

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• 15 July

  10 new keyboard shortcuts in Windows 10

  

  Sarah Jacobsson Purewal/CNET A couple of Windows 10’s new features, such as Snap Assist (OK, not really new, but improved) and virtual desktops are useful — and even more useful when you use them with keyboard shortcuts. Here are 10 keyboard shortcuts you’ll need to learn if you want to be able to navigate Windows 10 with ease: Snapping windows …

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• 15 July

  Panasonic tackles Lytro

  

  The Panasonic 100-400mm lens will offer the longest focal length for Micro Four Thirds. Panasonic Lytro has been trying to convince the world that we want to be able to play with the focus areas in our photographs post-hoc, albeit using its elegant-to-a-point technology. Panasonic seems to have taken this crusade to heart, and disclosed that it’s working on what …

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• 14 July

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  T-Mobile is at it again with a new plan. CNET T-Mobile is offering more data to customers willing to sign up for a new family plan, but it’s also eliminating one option for unlimited data. The nation’s fourth-largest wireless carrier on Tuesday unveiled a new family plan that gives each member 10 gigabytes of data. A two-person plan costs $100, …

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• 14 July

  Samsung could unveil Galaxy S6 Edge+ in August

  

  Samsung’s bigger-screened variant of the Galaxy S6 Edge could debut in August. CNET August could be a busy month for Samsung based on the latest rumors over new smartphones. The Korean mobile phone maker will announce and launch both its Galaxy S6 Edge+ and its Galaxy Note 5 big-screened smartphones next month, according to blog site SamMobile, citing information from …

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• 14 July

  How to boot into safe mode in Windows 10

  

  Sarah Jacobsson Purewal/CNET If you’re having trouble with your PC (read: blue screen of death), safe mode is a troubleshooting mode that can help you isolate problems. Safe mode disables unnecessary programs and drivers at startup, so you can determine whether it’s a basic setting or driver that’s causing your issues. In the Windows 10 Pro Insider Preview Build 10166, …

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