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In a new essay posted to his website, musician Neil Young called out major tech companies such as Google for linking to piracy websites and thus depriving musicians of income, and wondered how the next generation of musicians will survive.In his post, Young begins talking about his 1996 album Broken Arrows, and how the lyrics for the song “Music Arcade” made him reflect on his earlier successes, which he’s not sure can be attained by musicians nowadays. “Today, in the ag

Over a decade before Wonder Woman, before Black Panther was even a twinkle in Kevin Feige's eye, there was Catwoman – to this day, still the only Marvel or DC live-action movie led by a woman of color.
The problem was, it was terrible. So terrible, even its writer can't resist the opportunity to drag it on social media.
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It started when someone asked an inane question about why Catwo

We already knew the vast majority of novelties and innovations set to debut at Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked 2018 event tomorrow. The only thing we were missing was a well-produced video running us through the new Galaxy S9’s features, and Samsung has kindly obliged — courtesy of its launch video, which managed to sneak out in public a little bit early.
“The Phone. Reimagined.” is the tagline for the new device, which is set to be the first smartphone with a dual-apert

While we don't condone violence, plenty of people out there on the internet would love to see someone punch disgraced YouTuber Logan Paul in the face. Well, that opportunity may have just presented itself.
Back in February, British YouTuber Olajide Olatunji, better known on the internet as KSI, fought fellow vlogger Joe Weller in a boxing match, because apparently that's how we're settling petty drama on the internet nowadays. Anyway, KSI won the match, and while accepting his victory belt, he c

Apple is preparing for a big change at the end of the month: Henceforth, iCloud data belonging to users based in China will have to be stored there, in the company's new Chinese data center.
That means text message, emails, and other data stored in the cloud will be physically housed on Chinese soil. Importantly, it also means that the cryptographic keys required to unlock an iCloud account will live in China as well.
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Previously, as Reuters po

My family freaked out when electric toothbrushes came out. They’re passionate about oral health, and, finally, they could own a tool that’s more on par with a dentist’s. So everyone in my family now has an electric toothbrush.The excitement hasn’t continued with the announcement of smart toothbrushes. Do we need a Bluetooth-connected toothbrush? Will that really enhance the mundane brushing experience?
I brought the Colgate E1, the Sonicare DiamondClean Smart, and the Pl

An original job application from late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs is up for auction.
RR Auction Company has listed a job application from 1973 filled out, just a few years before Jobs founded Apple with Steve Wozniak in 1976. While Jobs' accomplishments need no mention, the handwritten job application shows he was truly awful at selling himself back in the early '70s.
SEE ALSO: Apple employees keep walking into the glass walls of the new 'spaceship campus'Image:rr auctionUnder the prompt "Access

For my work job, I was handed a Nebula Capsule to review. The portable projector is the size of a soda can, it runs Android TV, and it has a surprisingly loud built-in speaker. The 100 lumens of brightness isn’t a lot, and neither is the 480 x 854 resolution, but it works acceptably for watching YouTube or Netflix in a dark room on a white wall. It’s not nearly as powerful as its well-received larger sibling, the Nebula Mars, but it is much more portable.
Unfortunately, this project

An Apple repair and refurbishment center called 911 about 1,600 times over the past four months. But not because they're plagued with emergencies.
Rather, the calls are all accidents, as reported by CBS13 in Sacramento (via The Washington Post). 
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The facility in question is the Apple repair center in Elk Grove, Calif., and the calls are usually fielded by the Elk Grove police station. The Sacramento County sheriff's

To mainstream viewers, Ellen Page is probably best known as the eerily composed star of the revenge-horror movie Hard Candy, the roller-derby movie Whip It, or the teen-pregnancy dramedy Juno, which earned her Best Actress nominations at the Oscars and Golden Globes. But for genre fans, she’s earned her fame in different ways, as Kitty Pryde in X-Men: The Last Stand and X-Men: Days of Future Past, and as one of the stars of Christopher Nolan’s Inception. She’s been in big, ter

A squirrel with a death wish was nearly run over during the parallel giant slalom at the 2018 Winter Olympics on Saturday.
Austrian snowboarder Daniela Ulbing was in the middle of her run when a squirrel suddenly ran onto the slope just inches in front of her snowboard.
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— NBC Olympics (@NBCOlympics) February 24, 2018In typical squirrel fashion, the rodent came face-to-face with th

Last spring, Google said it was taking another shot at reworking Android to keep it running fast and smooth on lower-end devices. The initiative was called Android Go, and the very first phone running it — technically, “Android Oreo (Go Edition)” — is being announced today by Alcatel. It’s called the Alcatel 1X, and, well, it’s not all that much to get excited about.
That’s partly because the 1X is a low-end phone, which means it has to impress on value

Alcatel is kicking off this year’s Mobile World Congress with a whole lot of phones. It’s introducing three series of phones today, within which there are a total of five models. All of them are below €230 (about $283 USD); one is the very first Android Go phone; And on top of all that, Alcatel is announcing two tablets running Android Oreo.
Just a quick primer on Alcatel: the company is known for making lower-end phones but has tried in recent years to make them stand out a bi

Despite the insane odds, Team USA is bringing home a gold medal for a beloved sport which confuses many: curling.  
It's the sort of story that prompts a cinematic retelling years later. After losing to Norway less than a week ago, the U.S. men's curling team was put into the tough spot of being one loss away from elimination.
John Shuster, along with teammates Tyler George, Matt Hamilton, John Landsteiner, and alternate Joe Polo then went on to win five consecutive matches while their home

HBO has released the first trailer for Paterno, starring Al Pacino as the disgraced Penn State coach Joe Paterno.
The promo cycles through a lot of the major beats you'll remember from 2011: Paterno being confronted with the fact that his assistant coach, Jerry Sandusky, abused children for years; the public's growing realization that Paterno had known for years but did nothing; the outcry against the coach as well as the demonstrations in defense of him.
It feels like we're revisiting the case

Two airlines said this morning that they are ending travel partnerships with the National Rifle Association amidst a greater public backlash against the organization.United and Delta had set up discounts with the NRA ahead of the organization’s annual convention in May, which would offer members anywhere from 2 to 10 percent off their fights to Dallas.In a Tweet, Delta says that it’s reached out to the NRA to end the discounted rates through its group travel program, and that it&rsq

Last week, Microsoft announced that it would take $200 off of Intel i5 versions of the Surface Pro for the laptop’s five-year anniversary. The deal was only supposed to last through Presidents’ Day, but we’re well past the holiday and you can still get one of the popular touchscreen laptops starting at just $799. We don’t know how long this deal will be around, and we’re pretty lucky we still have it right now, so act fast.
Laptops aren’t the only hardware ca

Have you ever accidentally sent a damning email to someone that you intended to save for the rest of time as a draft? Or made a friend audibly gasp at the sight of thousands of unread email notifications on your phone? Perhaps you've run out of storage space on your drive entirely and are paying actual money for more. If so, you're not alone, but you do need some major Gmail guidance.
The first step to mastering Gmail is admitting you're not that great at it. You're here reading this so you've d

What you smoke in Vegas, unfortunately, has to stay in Vegas.
Visiting a pot-friendly state such as Nevada now offers tourists a whole new legal experience, thanks to the recreational sale of cannabis. But what do you do with any leftover weed you may have before heading back home where marijuana laws may not be so lax?
While you should absolutely give your excess weed to a dear friend or responsible stranger in need, some tourists often forget they're carrying, only to find out the hard way in

Before Samsung's Galaxy S9 takes its big bow on Feb. 25, there's one, (presumably) last leaky look at the hinted-at-but-technically-unannounced smartphone and its larger S9+ sibling.
Photos posted to what looks like a recently created Instagram account offer views of each phone's startup, home, main menu, and lock screens, as well as the devices themselves. It's certainly possible these are doctored images — your "grain of salt" alert — but it's much more likely you're seeing the rea

Film audiences who aren’t already claustrophobic might feel that way after watching The Chamber, a new thriller set almost entirely off the coast of North Korea in the cabin of an overturned submarine stuck at the bottom of the Yellow Sea. The plot — a looming conflict between the US and North Korea — is either poorly timed or extremely well-timed, given recent global events, but the real story is the classic moral quandary of how humans behave when trying to survive.
Mats, a

In 2017, H&M, Dove, and Zara were just a few of the global companies that faced backlash because of racist accusations, marketing, and cultural appropriation.
In the midst of all the controversy, people are tired of supporting these brands and more and more folks are turning to small black-owned businesses for better service and products. But black-owned businesses only account for 2.1 percent of small businesses across the country, according to U.S. Census Bureau’s Annual Survey of En

Move over, "Let It Go." There's a new Frozen earworm in town.
This one, titled "Monster," is the first original song released from the Frozen Broadway musical. You can hear it sung here by Caissie Levy, who'll play Elsa on stage.
SEE ALSO: Idina Menzel loved this little boy's rendition of 'Let it Go' so much, she asked him to sing it twice
Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, who wrote the songs for the Frozen movie, are back working their magic for the show. The Broadway production features

In a quest to learn how two-legged dinosaurs moved, scientists watched their descendants — birds — run around on a race track. After all, chickens were once carnivorous dinosaurs that stalked the Earth on giant drumsticks.For all the movies that show dinosaurs chasing after humans, we don’t actually know much about what a walking or running dinosaur looked like. Footprints and fossils, for example, can’t tell us whether a dino strode or strutted. “They’re sta

On Oct. 1, 2017, an unusual event caused a collective gasp in the world of cryptocurrencies. A little known cryptocurrency called Cardano — or ADA, as its corresponding coin is called — showed up on crypto-tracking sites with a market cap of about $600 million.
At the time, it was unusual to see a new coin appear out of thin air with such a high market cap. But Cardano is different. It's an incredibly ambitious product with a strong team and tons of buzz. By year's end, the market ca

One of the best iPhone games finally has the sequel we've been waiting for.
Alto's Odyssey, the long-awaited sequel to Alto's Adventure, hit the App Store this week, three years after the original became one of our favorite games of 2015.
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With a three-year wait, expectations for Alto's Odyssey were extremely high, but we can now say the $4.99 iOS game was worth the wait.
The games strikes the perfect balance of maintaining eve

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We love the convenience of streaming songs as much as the next person, but we have a soft spot for vinyl records. Maybe it's the sheer satisfaction of dropping the needle onto a smooth 45, or perhaps it's the vintage allure of listening to the classics the way they were intended to be played, but more and m

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They say a picture's worth a thousand words, but sometimes a mere snap from your smartphone will hardly do a place or experience justice. 
"You had to be there," you assure your friends as you swipe through dozens of dim, unfocused photos.
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Microsoft today released a new Windows 10 preview for PCs with a small but important change to Windows Update. This build is from the RS4 branch, which represents the next Windows 10 update the company has yet to announce (but is likely to ship soon). There is no new build from the RS5 branch.
Windows 10 is a service, meaning it was built in a very different way from its predecessors so it can be regularly updated with not just fixes, but new features, too. Microsoft has released four major upda

(Reuters) — Self-driving cars that back up their computerized system with a remote human operator instead of a fallback driver at the wheel could be tested on California roads as early as April, the state department of motor vehicles said.
Relying on a remote human operator – who could control multiple autonomous vehicles from miles away – is a step that would allow a path to profitability in the nascent field of self-driving technology by eliminating California’s require