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Here’s how Apple Music could win against Spotify

Jun09
by on June 9, 2015 at 3:30 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Opinion

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Apple’s new Music service will debut for everyone on June 30 and while it’s still early days, it means that Spotify, Rdio and other streaming services could be in for a big shock. The service has a huge advantage that many more labels than existing services will be onboard at launch, but there’s two big things that Apple has up its sleeve: it can get its service in front of people and won’t offer an eternal free plan. Spotify, which launched in 2006, has 60 million active users, with only 15 percent of them on a paid plan. That’s far too low for the…

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DO IT: Shia LaBeouf can now motivate you in Chrome with this extension

Jun09
by on June 9, 2015 at 3:20 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Shareables

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If you haven’t seen the ridiculous Shia LaBeouf motivational video yet, you’ve probably been hiding under a rock for the last week. The actor stood in front of a green screen, loudly shouting motivational nonsense — “DO IT!! JUST DO IT!!” — to help students at a London arts college with their project. Naturally, when you’re famous and you hand out raw footage of yourself in front of a green screen, the internet remixes it in all sorts of bizarre ways. Now there’s a Chrome extension to help put that motivation right in your browser. Just install, click and you’ll DO IT in…

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Watch: Stuxnet and the dawn of the era of digital warfare

Jun09
by on June 9, 2015 at 3:18 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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XPRIZE‘s competitions touch the furthest reaches of human achievement in fields like healthcare, oceanography, space exploration and now adult literacy. The organization is currently designing a competition in the field of cybersecurity. In this three-part series produced by XPRIZE, you’ll hear from some of the giants in the Internet and cyber-security fields as they relate stories of cybercrime becoming a worldwide business, privacy becoming an antiquated idea, the discovery of Stuxnet and real possibility of cyber-warfare. In this final part we see the very real threats of cyber warfare in the future. Don’t miss part one and part two. ➤ XPRIZE

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The next battle between Apple and Google is all about context

Jun09
by on June 9, 2015 at 3:13 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, contextual computing, Google, Insider

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First shots were fired in 2013. That’s when Robert Scoble published his book on the rise of contextual computing: The Age of Context, citing Google Glass as the premier device of the new era. But it’s only now that Apple and Google – juggernauts defining the landscape of consumer technology – have started to move the frontlines. The battle for getting context right is on and its results will decide the future of mobile. Glass indeed promised a lot. But it flopped. Smart eyewear, designed to display information where and when needed, wasn’t smart enough to succeed. It was killed…

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Aumeo launches Indiegogo campaign to make everything you listen to sound better

Jun09
by on June 9, 2015 at 2:02 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Gadgets

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The merit of high bit rate music services like Tidal or devices like Pono are up for debate when the average person’s hearing may or may not be good enough to actually tell the difference between high or low-quality audio. Aumeo wants to change that with its gadget that tailors everything you listen to – music, TV, movies, gaming – to your own personal sound profile.   The company is launching the project on Indiegogo today looking to raise $40,000 in pursuit of better audio. At the time of writing, it had already raised more than $15,000 within 30 minutes…

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