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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23 June
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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23 June
What’s the difference between iCloud Backup and iCloud Drive?
Apple For many an iPhone or iPad user accustomed to syncing their devices to their desktops or laptops, the 2011 arrival of Apple’s iCloud service created no small amount of head-scratching. No more syncing? iCloud backs up everything or just some things? What about photos? And do apps like Facebook really need to be backed up to the cloud? Then, …
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23 June
Will Windows Insider testers get to keep Windows 10 for free?
Will Windows Insiders get Windows 10 for free? Microsoft answers that question. screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET Microsoft is trying to clear up the confusion over whether Windows Insiders will be entitled to the final version of Windows 10. The question of who would get Windows 10 for free seemed a simple one at first. In January, Microsoft announced that users …
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23 June
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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23 June
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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22 June
Watch this kitty stowaway somehow not freak out mid
Talk about a dramatic cat video. When a pilot learns that a kitty hitched a ride on the small airplane he’s flying, his reaction is pretty priceless. Related Links Keep watching those cat videos. They may be good for your health Connected cat toy lets you drive Fluffy mad over the Web Rhapsody in Mew: The music scientifically composed for …
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22 June
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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22 June
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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22 June
Adobe’s Morph Cut is like autotune for videos
Now playing: Watch this: Autotune your video transitions with Adobe Premiere’s… 2:57 If you have ever watched or edited an interview, you’ll know that there is usually a lot of content that needs to be cut out. Traditionally, a video editor creates a series of cuts to remove things like false starts, ums and ahs, or content that does not …
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