Following Taylor Swift’s letter to Apple regarding her shock and disappointment with the fact that music owners would be receiving no royalty payments during Apple Music’s three-month trial period, Apple has abruptly reversed course.
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With recent acquisitions that include Variety and Women’s Wear Daily owner Fairchild Fashion Media, BGR parent company Penske Media Corporation continues to bolster its position as a new media leader. On Monday, the company announced that it has entered into a new agreement with Shutterstock to create a unique strategic alliance that will leverage Penske Media’s brands and events to give Shutterstock customers access to PMC’s photo and video archives.
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Taylor Swift over the weekend penned a brutal critique of Apple Music, calling the upcoming streaming service’s free three-month trial period both shocking and disappointing.
In an open letter posted to Tumblr, Swift took umbrage with the fact that Apple, during the aforementioned trial period, will not be making any royalty payments to music owners. This has of course rubbed many artists the wrong way as they’ll effectively be giving their music away for free for three months.
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For as much as Apple cares about aesthetics, function will typically trump any and all design considerations. And so while the iPhone 6 design is unquestionably sleek, one can’t help but notice that there are two strips of plastic adorning the back of the device.
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Like many things around us, suitcases are getting smarter, as luggage makers are looking to offer buyers more interesting features to help out during travels. The Space Case 1, currently raising money on Kickstarter, claims to be the world’s most advanced smart suitcase yet.
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The fearsome tiger shark is not the shore-hugging beast scientists long believed, according to a new study by Nova Southeastern University’s Guy Harvey Research Institute in Florida. The study tracked several of the fish over a two-year period and recorded them crisscrossing oceans and, in one case, logging more than 27,000 miles – this might be the longest track ever recorded for any shark – in both coastal and open waters.
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Microsoft over the weekend relayed some good news for folks running older versions of Windows. It turns out that there will be a way for people still running Windows XP or Windows Vista to upgrade to Windows 10 for free. Previously, it was believed that only Windows 7 and Windows 8 users would be eligible for the free upgrade.
Here’s how it all works.
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Smugglers have long been notorious for coming up with ingenious ways to conceal drugs and transport them across the globe. From submarines to catapults, drug dealers are never in want of creativity when it comes to fleshing out their global distribution network.
Some plans, however, are better crafted than others. Case in point: a battery-powered and hollowed out surfboard loaded with $100,000 worth of crystal meth recently washed up on shore on a Tijuana beach.
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Who knew that washing your car was so complicated? Car enthusiast blog Jalopnik put together a handy list of myths about washing your precious car that you should really be aware of, as they could totally change how you go about cleaning your car.
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The next big battle for tech giants is in the realm of the “Internet of things,” which is an industry buzzword used to describe the way all our home gadgets and appliances will soon be connected to the web and will be able to communicate with one another. That said, you shouldn’t need to rely on Apple, Google or other companies to hook up your home — instead, you may be able to use an “Internet of things” development platform that’s being crafted by a Finnish startup called Thingsee that aims to make programming web-connected appliances and devices easy and intuitive.
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