By Joan E. Solsman The rapper mogul’s celebrity-packed unveiling touted Tidal as the first artist-owned streaming music service of its kind, but it was scant on details about what that means.
The only thing that sucks worse than doing taxes is a hacker stealing your identity, doing your taxes for you, and then depositing your return in a random bank account, where it can later be transferred to Nigeria. Sound impossible? It’s not, according to …
By Joan E. Solsman From the ashes of the Sony Music Unlimited streaming service comes the first way to listen to the free version of Spotify on TVs.
By Jeff Bakalar Jill Schlesinger is back answering 404 listeners’ financial questions and giving out great advice. Plus, we’ll talk about the chances of a dystopian robotic future and new 3D NAND storage technology that might make 10TB solid state drives a reality.
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By Kate Knibbs
Github is getting hammered by a huge distributed-denial-of-service attack. Looks like it pissed off the wrong pro-censorship group: The attack is aimed at two popular projects, …
By Darren Orf
The evolution of any smartphone is a long, drawn-out process. But when you cram it all down into a four-second GIF, the results are pretty mesmerizing.
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By Chris Mills
In a post-iPhone world, saying that apps are useless will probably get you beheaded in the startup community. But the (brave) designers behind Olio, a gorgeous new smartwatch with a minimalist feature set are saying exactly that.
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Hotel internet is so far from secure—it’s downright scary. …
By Luke Westaway The microblogging social network wants you to broadcast live video from your mobile, and encourage other ‘streamers with floating hearts.
Promising public access legislation …