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Apple’s move to shake up the newspaper industry offers little upside

Sep08
by on September 8, 2018 at 1:29 am
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Apple is making a play at the publishing business. In March, the company acquired Texture, a subscription-based magazine reader that charges a flat fee to read all the included content you’d like. Texture already features some of The who’s-who in publishing, including National Geographic, People, Wired, and The New Yorker. Now, it’s trying to woo traditional newspapers like The New York Times, according to a report byRecode. Have we learned nothing from Facebook Instant Articles? Instant Articles was a grand experiment in which publishers ceded control to Facebook in exchange for added reach. Allowing the world’s largest social network to…

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Here’s why Nintendo refuses to lower prices on old games

Sep07
by on September 7, 2018 at 11:03 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, gaming


By now, we’re all used to Nintendo marching to the beat of its own drum. Other game studios drop their prices over time, in response to diminishing demand, or oversaturation. Nintendo doesn’t. And given it’s working so well for the company at the moment, we don’t bother to remember when it didn’t — even though that was only one generation ago. You know the drill: You go to buy a game for a Switch- or 3DS-owning family member for their birthday, and you decide to buy them a game you’ve already paid. But when you find the cartridge on your…

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Here’s why Nintendo refuses to lower prices on old games

Sep07
by on September 7, 2018 at 11:03 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, gaming


By now, we’re all used to Nintendo marching to the beat of its own drum. Other game studios drop their prices over time, in response to diminishing demand, or oversaturation. Nintendo doesn’t. And given it’s working so well for the company at the moment, we don’t bother to remember when it didn’t — even though that was only one generation ago. You know the drill: You go to buy a game for a Switch- or 3DS-owning family member for their birthday, and you decide to buy them a game you’ve already paid. But when you find the cartridge on your…

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Prove your audiophile skills with this blind test on lossless music

Sep07
by on September 7, 2018 at 9:53 pm
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Audio enthusiasts often pride themselves on their ability to discern the tiniest nuances of a recording. They’ll research the best gear they can afford and seek the highest quality music formats to play on it. That last bit has led to the classic debate among the hi-fi crowd: Can you hear a difference between lossless music and high-quality compression? Many claim they can with the right equipment. Others think there’s no practical difference between lossless FLAC and, say, a 320 kbps MP3 – perhaps even lower bitrates with the right compression algorithms. But beyond casual comparisons, which open the way to…

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