Hulu’s $7.99-a-month subscription service has dropped the “Plus,” but it still gives members earlier access to some full episodes and lets them watch on mobile devices. Joan E. Solsman/CNET Hulu Plus is dead, but the service lives on, same as it ever was. The streaming-TV service simplified its name Tuesday to purely Hulu for both …
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17 June
Go back in time to a disused railway station in Singapore with this app
The 15 Stations app replaces a blank wall with a historical video. Aloysius Low/CNET If you happen to be in Singapore sometime this week, you may want to check out 15 Stations, an exhibition piece that combines art, history and augmented reality technology and is located at a disused railway station in the vicinity of the central business district. For …
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17 June
Get a Nextbook Flexx 10.1
Don’t worry, it’s supposed to do that. Nextbook This is an update of a post from last year. Better specs, cheaper by a buck. Woot! The term “hybrid PC” has pretty much vanished from the tech vernacular, but it still applies to a certain product category: a laptop with a removable screen. Or maybe a tablet with a keyboard dock. …
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17 June
FCC could get first Net neutrality complaint soon
The Federal Communications Commission’s new Net neutrality rules have been in effect for less than a week, and the agency is about to receive its first formal complaint from a company alleging harm. Commercial Network Services, a San Diego-based company that operates webcams and streams live video feeds, said it will soon file a formal complaint against cable giant Time …
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17 June
5.7
$300 off-contract gets you a 13-megapixel camera. Sarah Tew/CNET We’ve known for a few months now that AT&T would be the only US carrier to get the 5.7-inch Microsoft Lumia 640 XL …and we finally have details. The carrier will start selling the midrange phablet on June 26 (both online and in retail stores) for $300 off-contract. You can also …
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17 June
iOS app Kite brings a new way to get and share the news
Matt Elliott/CNET Just as you need wind to fly a kite, you need users to make a social network fly. For social news app Kite to take off, it needs users because it relies on humans, not computers, to deliver the news. “There are two types of curation that work: social is one and the other is journalistic curation,” developer …
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17 June
How to send a file request using Dropbox
A preview of the request screen as seen after uploading files. Dropbox A new Dropbox feature, announced on Wednesday, allows a Dropbox user to request files from someone. Instead of creating a series of shared folders where you and coworkers can upload files (making the files viewable by everyone who has access to the folder), file requests add a level …
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17 June
Get ready to drop $40,000 on a custom 3D
V-Moda Bespoke headphones accessories like XL cushions and laser engraved side panels (also called “shields”) have been popular sellers on V-Moda’s website for years, but the company is ready to move into the next stage of production with custom 3D-printed shields sourced from raw metals, stainless steel, and even precious metals like 14k white gold and platinum. Steve Guttenberg/CNET V-Moda …
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17 June
Mobile users in US ate up 4.1 trillion megabytes of data in 2014
Americans love their mobile devices enough that 44 percent of households are now “wireless only.” Sarah Tew/CNET Mobile users in the US consumed 26 percent more mobile data last year than they did in 2013, according to a new report. Scoping out the mobile data landscape for 2014, the mobile industry trade group CTIA found that smartphones and tablet owners …
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17 June
High
Steve Guttenberg/CNET Some say the first true consumer high-res digital audio format was the Super Audio CD (SACD) that was introduced by Sony/Philips in 1999. The DVD-Audio (aka DVD-A) disc arrived soon after, and their prolonged format war produced no decisive winner. Both formats sounded better than CD, there’s no doubt about that, but not better enough to woo huge …
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