Over the weekend, Apple revealed new details about its music plans for the immediate future, including release information for Apple Music and a new iTunes Match feature for iOS 9.
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SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Explodes Minutes After Takeoff
SpaceX early on Sunday launched a Falcon 9 rocket into space from Cape Canaveral with the intention of delivering supplies and food to astronauts aboard the International Space Station. Alas, just two minutes after launch, the Falcon 9 rocket began to break up mid-air, ultimately exploding after being consumed by fire.
At the time of this writing, SpaceX is still investigating the root cause of the malfunction. Per usual, engineers will examine HD video of the launch to determine what went wrong, where, and why.
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Confirmed: Apple Music Is Coming to Sonos
If there has been one downside about Apple Music’s forthcoming launch, it has been that the service was not going to be available on Sonos devices. That’s actually going to change, however.
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Steve Jobs Quotes Serve as Valuable Life Lessons
In the world of tech, Steve Jobs was one of the rare people who quite literally had seen and done it all. For starters, Jobs played an instrumental role in the development of three game-changing tech products, the Mac, the iPod and of course the iPhone. These products not only turned Apple into a brand synonymous with innovation, but they fundamentally changed the way that we, as a society, interact with both technology and each other.
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Why Did the Porcupine Kill the Giant Python?
Because the python ate it. No, this isn’t a joke – it wouldn’t be a good one, either. It turns out that pythons are capable of eating almost anything they can catch, including a 30-pound porcupine that has plenty of spikes on the back. But digesting these beasts is an entirely different story.
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Reports Saying Beats Headphones Are Cheap May Have Been Grossly Exaggerated
A prototype engineer made waves on Medium last week after dissecting a pair of Beats by Dre Solo headphones. He suggested that the luxury item is a lot cheaper than you’d expect because it packs superfluous metal parts with the sole function of adding weight to the product. He may have been absolutely correct when it comes to the pair of headphones he disassembled… but it turns out he may have ripped apart a knockoff.
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Video: Watch a 2,000HP Lamborghini Huracan Destroy Everything in its Path
We have covered a few cars before here on BGR that were heavily customized by KC Howeth and the team at Charlotte, North Carolina-based Underground Racing, but this is easily one of the meanest yet. Behold: a 2,000HP twin-turbo Lamborghini Huracan that can probably tear through a quarter-mile before you finish reading this sentence.
In a new video published on Underground Racing’s YouTube channel, we can see this beastly new build in action on the track.
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Amazing Movie Mashup: ‘Wizard of Oz’ Characters Star in ‘The Avengers’
What happens when you put together a movie mashup crossing Avengers: Age of Ultron with characters from The Wizard of Oz? A film called Avengers of Oz: Age of Tinman. And trust us, it’s nothing short of amazing and creatively brilliant.
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Future of the Internet is Safe: Engineers Break the Capacity Limit for Fiber Optic Transmissions
As the sheer volume of data transmitted over the web continues to grow by leaps and bounds, there has been a lot of speculation regarding whether or not the fiber optic cables which form the underlying foundation of the internet will eventually max out.
Well not to fear. Researchers at the University of California, San Diego recently published a report in the journal Science detailing how they were able to increase the maximum power under which fiber optic signals can be transmitted and accurately decoded. In turn, optic signals can now travel for longer distances without seeing a degradation in quality.
“This advance,” the UC San Diego News Center writes, “has the potential to increase the data transmission rates for the fiber optic cables that serve as the backbone of the internet, cable, wireless and landline networks.”
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Facebook is More of a Threat to YouTube Than Ever Before
There’s no disputing that YouTube remains the king of online video, but the Google-owned property is starting to see some heavy competition from an unusual place: Facebook.
Whereas most videos shared on Facebook used to come in the form of embedded YouTube videos, most videos on the site today are now uploaded to the social network via Facebook’s video uploader. More to the point, 70% of all new videos posted to Facebook are being uploaded directly. Back in February of 2014, this figure was just 25%.
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