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Jay Z’s #TIDALforAll stunt has big names on board and could spell big trouble for Spotify

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by on March 30, 2015 at 8:57 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, jay-z, Product Launches, spotify, streaming, Tidal

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It’s hardly surprising that Kanye West – known for jumping onstage at awards shows to big up Jay Z’s wife Beyoncé – was among the first to promote the hashtag campaign trailing Jigga’s plans for his newly-acquired streaming site Tidal. Together, we can turn the tide and make music history. Start by turning your profile picture blue. #TIDALforALL — KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) March 30, 2015 He’s due to announce his plans for the streaming service later today. In anticipation, artists including West, Rihanna, Beyoncé, Coldplay, Daft Punk and Madonna have been turning their Twitter profile pictures and header images blue (though really it’s more of…

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This MacBook case lets you dress up your laptop with LEGO bricks

Mar30
by on March 30, 2015 at 7:55 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Laptop Case, Lego, macbook, Product Launches

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Many people use their laptop lids as canvasses to express themselves with stickers and decorative skins. The Brik case for MacBooks takes things a step further and lets you customize it however you like with plastic LEGO-style bricks. Currently raising funds on Kickstarter, the case comes with a bag of 100 1×1 bricks for $30 and ships internationally. It fits MacBook Air and Retina MacBook Pro models manufactured in 2012 or later, and is compatible with LEGO, Mega Bloks, PixelBlocks, KRE-O, and K’NEX bricks. The team behind the Brik Case says that it’s easy to clip the brick plate on easily,…

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GitHub may have been targeted by Chinese hackers in DDoS attack

Mar30
by on March 30, 2015 at 6:32 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Asia, Cyberattack, cybersecurity, ddos, Insider

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Code management platform GitHub has been fending off a days-long distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack since last Thursday. Security experts say the attack may have originated in China, reports The Wall Street Journal. Over the past few days, San Francisco-based GitHub has been hit with huge amounts of traffic from overseas users of Baidu, a Chinese search engine. The attack caused the service to appear unavailable to many users since March 26. GitHub, which hosts developers’ coding projects online, found an onslaught of traffic directed at two specific pages on its platform that linked to copies of two sites…

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Here’s how to add a ‘Follow me on Meerkat’ button to your site

Mar30
by on March 30, 2015 at 5:04 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Meerkat

Livestreaming app Meerkat has just added a helpful tool to generate a ‘Follow me on Meerkat’ button that you can easily add to your site or blog. Just visit this page, enter your username, choose a button style and copy the code snippet from there. You can then paste it into your site’s CSS template or add it to the footer of your blog, and voilà! Here’s what it looks like on my personal site: Your fans can now follow your livestreams on Meerkat just by clicking the button, provided they’re logged into Twitter on their browser. ➤ Follow button…

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