Amazon challenges Apple and Spotify with new music streaming service

Amazon challenges Apple and Spotify with new music streaming service

Amazon challenges Apple and Spotify with new music streaming service

Amazon challenges Apple and Spotify with new music streaming service

 

Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) on Wednesday launched a full-fledged music streaming service with subscriptions as low as $3.99 per month for owners of its Amazon Echo speaker, accelerating the industry trend toward more flexible pricing after years of sticking to $9.99 subscriptions.The new streaming service, called “Amazon Music Unlimited,” lets users access a vast catalog of songs on demand, similar to Spotify and Apple Music. Subscriptions to play music on the Echo cost $3.99 per month; for access beyond that device, subscriptions cost $7.99 a month for members of Amazon’s Prime shipping and video service and $9.99 for non-members. Amazon will continue to offer Prime members a limited streaming service for free.As it plunges deeper into the crowded streaming field, Amazon is counting on the Echo, a smart speaker that responds to voice commands, to set it apart. Released broadly last year, the Echo has become a surprise hit, prompting many to predict that voice will become a key way users interact with technology – and music is central to the device’s appeal.

Källa: Amazon challenges Apple and Spotify with new music streaming service | Reuters

Power, secrecy and cypherpunks: how Jacob Appelbaum ripped Tor apart

Power, secrecy and cypherpunks: how Jacob Appelbaum ripped Tor apart

Power, secrecy and cypherpunks: how Jacob Appelbaum ripped Tor apart

Power, secrecy and cypherpunks: how Jacob Appelbaum ripped Tor apart

 

Edward Snowden’s face seems ever present in Berlin, where stickers on doors and lamp-posts promise there’s always “A bed for Snowden” and posters plug Oliver Stone’s eponymous film.

The whistleblower’s explosive 2013 revelations about international government surveillance generated some good advertising for Berlin, cementing its reputation as hipster technology activist capital of the world. The city’s cheap lifestyle and post-second world war aversion to surveillance, as well as sympathetic Germany residency rules, have created a powerful network of support and infrastructure for its dedicated cyberactivism community. We are “poor, but sexy”, its residents like to say.

Many of Berlin’s technologists work freelance, employed by anti-surveillance projects or secure messaging tools. And some are employed by Tor, a long running web anonymity project with something of a cult following.

That community recently met in Seattle to tackle a new challenge: a long-running saga of allegations of sexual assault, bullying and harassment that has ripped Tor’s community apart.

Källa: Power, secrecy and cypherpunks: how Jacob Appelbaum ripped Tor apart | Technology | The Guardian

Amazon challenges Apple and Spotify with new music streaming service

Samsung sends fireproof packaging and gloves for Note 7 returns

Samsung sends fireproof packaging and gloves for Note 7 returns

Samsung sends fireproof packaging and gloves for Note 7 returns

 

Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) said it was sending fireproof packaging and gloves to customers who bought the Galaxy Note 7 phone on its website, so they could safely return the devices after a recall and reports that some replacement phones went up in flames.”A device containing a lithium ion battery subject to a recall must be shipped in accordance with government regulations, and these special boxes are required by government regulations,” the South Korean phonemaker said in a statement on Wednesday.The company, whoch permanently halted production of its flagship Galaxy Note 7 smartphone on Tuesday, said it was also scheduling appointments with Note 7 users to pick-up the affected device.Samsung halted production of the phone less than two months after its launch, following reports that in some instances their batteries caught fire. Its decision to scrap the device after a recall of 2.5 million units last month was a blow to its brand image and financial outlook.

Källa: Samsung sends fireproof packaging and gloves for Note 7 returns | Reuters

The Unlinked Heritage of Snowboarding

The Unlinked Heritage of Snowboarding

The Unlinked Heritage of Snowboarding

The Unlinked Heritage of Snowboarding

 

I Petra, Turkiet,så har folket åkt snowboard i runt 300 år, långt innan det blev inne och ens betraktades som en sport.

Nu åker de inte “bräda” riktigt som vi kanske är vana vid men det är snowboarding, utan tvekan.

 

The people of Petran, Turkey, have been snowboarding for roughly 300 years. It’s not snowboarding as we know it, but you’ll recognize it. In this film by WRKSHRT, we follow Alex Yoder and Nick Russell into Turkey’s Kaçkar Mountains on a quest to unearth the unlinked heritage of snowboarding and have some fun in the process.
Patagonia Snow
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WRKSHRT
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Håll tungan rätt i munnen när du spelar Impossible Road

Håll tungan rätt i munnen när du spelar Impossible Road

Håll tungan rätt i munnen när du spelar Impossible Road

Håll tungan rätt i munnen när du spelar Impossible Road

Du ska hålla dig på vägen, helt enkelt.

Gratis idag 12/9

IMPOSSIBLE ROAD is a pure, minimal arcade game about risk, reward, and rollercoasters.

“9/10” – Edge Online
Game of the Week – PocketGamer

Guide THE VESSEL down the roller coaster-like track at speed, scoring for each gate you make it through. Navigate hair-pin bends, jumps, banked curves and adverse camber in the quest for the perfect line.

And when you learn how to cheat the game, and you discover that it is rewarded not punished, the leaderboards will belong to you.

– Universal app, for iPad, iPhone, iPod touch.
– 3D Touch support (3D Touch compatible device required)
– Support for iOS controllers and some other arcade control peripherals.
– 4 colour themes
– Original minimal techno soundtrack.
– Game Center leaderboards.
– Challenge your friends to beat your score (iOS 6.0 and Game Center required).

[Controls]
Touch the left side of the screen to turn left, touch the right side of the screen to turn right.

Touch your score to show the Quick Restart button.

Impossible Road