In 2022, Facebook has 2.91 billion active users, making it the most-used social media platform. But to me, it will always pale in comparison to early MySpace. Founded in 2003, MySpace was the first social media platform for many people. Facebook was founded a year later, and despite its early restrictive membership practices, the number …
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Music is fun, and science says people can even benefit from it across different situations. Studying for an exam? Classical music can help you absorb information better. Driving on a sunny day? Rap can make you a more attentive driver. Feeling angry? Heavy metal can help inspire and calm you down. Spotify has a playlist for all of these situations, and …
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Apple hosted its “Peek Performance” event on Tuesday, and unveiled the Mac Studio and Studio Display. The Mac Studio is a standalone computer that’s more compact than the Mac Pro and packs more power than the Mac Mini, while the Studio Display is the computer’s designated monitor. Together, they cost at the most $10,300. These new products offer upgrades to …
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TikTok on Wednesday launched its own in-house music distribution and marketing platform, called SoundOn. Artists can upload their music directly onto the TikTok app, in addition to massive global platforms like Apple Music, Spotify and Pandora. Distribution is free, and TikTok is waiving transaction fees for the first year. It will take a 10% cut starting in year two. Musicians retain …
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Late in 2020, news broke that foreign hackers had been for months secretly monitoring the email accounts and communications of US government officials in charge of identifying foreign threats to national security. In the now-infamous SolarWinds hack, the attackers executed their intrusion via malicious code in the SolarWinds Orion software system, which helped them breach high-level government officials’ Microsoft Office 365 accounts. As the …
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This story is part of War in Ukraine, CNET’s coverage of events there and of the wider effects on the world. Microsoft has suspended sales of its products and services in Russia in the wake of the country’s “unjustified, unprovoked and unlawful invasion” of Ukraine, the company said in a blog post Friday. It’s also stopping other aspects of its business …
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This story is part of War in Ukraine, CNET’s coverage of events there and of the wider effects on the world. Google Maps over the weekend temporarily disabled tools offering live information about traffic conditions and how busy stores and restaurants are in Ukraine, the search giant confirmed to CNET via email. The move comes after Russian forces invaded the …
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Want to watch some old family movies on VCR? Having a craving for some GoldenEye on N64? Maybe you found some LaserDiscs at a yard sale — they may look like huge CDs, but they’re analog! Then you notice that your shiny new TV doesn’t have the right inputs. Many modern TVs have, at best, one analog input. Often they …
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Samsung on Thursday offered a tease of the press event it’ll hold the day before Mobile World Congress kicks off in Barcelona. The Korean consumer electronics company will reveal the next generation of its Galaxy Book line of laptops at the Feb. 27 event, it said in a blog post. It didn’t offer any hard details ahead of the reveal, …
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The delayed 5G BlackBerry phone is dead, OnwardMobility has confirmed on its website. “It is with great sadness that we announce that OnwardMobility will be shutting down, and we will no longer be proceeding with the development of an ultra-secure smartphone with a physical keyboard,” OnwardMobility said in a message posted Friday, as spotted earlier by CrackBerry. “Please know that …
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