[ad_1] Microsoft is up to something. Yesterday the Windows team dropped a sizzler video on Twitter, announcing the “all-new” Windows 1.0. It posted the same video over on its Instagram account, but only after it had wiped every single other post from its page. The video winds backwards through the catalog of Windows logos, before […]
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Spotify ends direct music uploads for indie artists
[ad_1] Spotify will stop accepting new songs through the upload program at the end of July, and those who’ve already released material will need to find new providers beyond that point. It’s not shocking that Spotify would close the initiative. It was theoretically more convenient, but there wasn’t much point unless a musician was content […]
Five ‘Star Trek’ movies come to Amazon Prime on July 31st
[ad_1] There’s more Star Trek available for streaming — although it might not be on the service you were expecting to use. Amazon is adding five pre-Abrams Star Trek movies to Prime Video in the US on July 31st. Two of them come from the cast of the original series (Star Trek IV: The Voyage […]
Apple won’t offer a Netflix-like quantity of TV shows
[ad_1] Instead, you could expect a steady feed of new material. Apple is planning to release new movies and shows every month, with the first likely to be the Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon collaboration The Morning Show. Other shows will include Ron Moore’s For All Mankind, Steven Spielberg’s Amazing Stories and the Little America […]
Apple reportedly vows improvements to News+ after lackluster start
[ad_1] It’s not clear just how Apple would address publisher issues. However, they’ve expressed desires to both encourage longer reading sessons (since the publishers are paid based on time spent) and simplifying the conversion of magazines to Apple’s format. We’ve asked Apple for comment. The service has faced challenges from the get-go, if you believe […]
GrubHub is buying web domains for the restaurants it lists
[ad_1] Moreover, GrubHub appears to run “shadow” pages on some of these domains without the permission of the restaurants themselves. While both the real and shadow pages ultimately result in orders, GrubHub’s unsurprisingly points foodies solely to its own services. That could deprive restaurants of revenue by steering would-be customers away from the actual sites, […]
How a trivial cell phone hack is ruining lives
[ad_1] “This is still very raw (I haven’t even told my family yet),” Coonce wrote in an anguished Medium post. “I can’t stop thinking about the small, easy things I could have done to protect myself along the way.” On a Monday night in June, Matthew Miller’s daughter woke him up to say that his […]
EA Access game subscriptions come to PS4 July 24th
[ad_1] Be careful — subscriptions are specific to a given platform, so you’ll have to pay for two memberships if you want EA Access on both a PS4 and an Xbox One. The release date marks an end to a five year wait for EA Access on the console since Sony rejected it in 2014. […]
Lyft wants to be your ride to and from concerts
[ad_1] Lyft will offer scooter and bike rideshare options to help festival attendees get to their show on time. There will also be dedicated “Lyft Zones” where concertgoers can be dropped off and picked up before and after a show. According to Lyft and AEG, the services will be available at the following venues and […]
Oppo’s under-screen camera kills phone notches
[ad_1] There’s room for improvement, though.Oppo’s under-screen camera is real and taking photos in Shanghai Probably the best way to remove the notch or pinhole from our smartphones is to make the camera invisible. And that’s what under-screen cameras promise. Several Chinese phone makers are hustling to make this a reality, and Oppo was the […]