Time magazine on Thursday put out its list of the 25 most influential people on the internet, full of celebrities, musicians and other people we all obsess about online. Some got on the list for the positive influence, such as Charlotte and Dave Willner, who raised over $18 million on Facebook to help reunite separated …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. A committed Samsung fan. Daniel Zuchnik/Getty Images Apple is renowned by some people for its ability to sell what they see as well-designed but technically inferior products. It’s what many used to call, in the Steve Jobs days, Apple’s reality distortion field. There are those, …
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Those emojis beside friends’ names come and go and change as you use Snapchat — sometimes daily. From double pink hearts to flames, every emoji has a special meaning. If you don’t like the default emojis, you can change each to fit your own personality, too. In addition to ones outlined below, there are others reserved for verified accounts, with …
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The music-streaming service Tidal is saying goodbye to yet another CEO. Jefffrey Toig, who became CEO in December 2015, is leaving the company. This would make him the third CEO to leave Tidal in two years, following the departure of Andy Chen and Peter Tonstad, according to Billboard. In a statement to CNET, Tidal said that it will announce a …
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Streaming services surged last year, overtaking digital sales of music for the first time in the US, Nielsen Music said Thursday. It’s the latest evidence that consumers have quickly shifted away from the digital downloads typified by Apple’s iTunes to streaming music alternatives. The change has made subscriptions the music industry’s dominant sales model (the US recording industry’s main trade …
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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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Greetings pop pickers, and welcome to Apple’s smash hit chart of the year! Apple has released its countdown of the top-selling songs, movies, apps, books and podcasts downloaded or streamed through the iTunes Store or Apple Music. Apple bods have also picked their favourites, including breakthrough band Christine and the Queens, the movie “Kubo and the Two Strings“, and Michael …
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The hacker who used a phishing scam to steal nude photos from celebrities including Jennifer Lawrence and Rihanna has been sentenced to 18 months in prison. Ryan Collins, a 36-year-old from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, was sentenced Wednesday after pleading guilty in May to one count of “unauthorized access to a protected computer to obtain information.” Collins posed as an employee of …
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