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Apple Music reportedly leads Spotify, Pandora in unique monthly users http://ift.tt/2nkY1H3 According to fresh market research data, Apple Music's three-month free trial helped push the service ahead of competitors Spotify and Pandora in terms of unique monthly users for the month of February. Gadget News via AppleInsider - Frontpage News http://appleinsider.com March 29, 2017 at 01:02PM
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Latest Tesla patch enables Autosteer at 90 mph for HW2 models http://ift.tt/2mR3Z6g The new Autopilot features have been lurking in Tesla's latest electric vehicles for a few months and now they're ready to go live. For HW2 vehicles we're talking things like the Lane Departure Warning system, Autosteer at much higher speeds (90mph versus the previous 55mph), Auto Lane Change and the Summon feature. Auto Lane Change, as you might expect, will swap lanes after you activate the turn signal while in Autopilot. Summon is pretty self-explanatory as well, activating a self-parking-and-retrieval system that you can control via the Tesla mobile app or your key fob. The newer HW2 vehicles (produced after October 18th, 2016) rolled off the assembly line with better sensors and cameras, but this new patch brings the functionality up to par with the older HW1 models.
Both HW2 and HW1 Model X have few new features as well, like the ability to lower the height of its Falcon doors (for parking in cramped quarters) and more adjustment for the middle-row seat. In terms of creature comforts for both the HW1 and HW2 vehicles the onboard Maps app will display more info about businesses including operating hours, address and phone number. Headrests can be adjusted now as well, and the vehicle will curate a radio station based on what you've listened to and given the old thumbs up to. The 8.1 update is rolling out domestically today, with worldwide availability coming throughout the week. With this patch and the features that preceded it, we're seeing the steps Tesla is making toward delivering truly autonomous driving. And being the nerd that CEO Elon Musk is, he hasn't been able to keep the existence of another Easter egg to himself. As Electrek reports, tapping the T in the center screen three times will open up a sketchpad. Handy! Gadget News via Engadget http://www.engadget.com March 29, 2017 at 12:21PM
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Apple Music Beats Spotify in Monthly Unique Users Thanks to 3-Month Free Trial http://ift.tt/2oiXCFS Apple Music doesn't have the highest number of paid subscribers compared to Spotify, but it does have an edge up on its competitors - a higher number of monthly unique users on mobile devices, thanks to its generous three-month free trial. According to a recent report published by mobile analytics firm Verto (via TechCrunch), Apple Music had 40.7 unique monthly mobile users during February of 2017. Verto only tracks Apple Music usage on mobile devices, so Apple's unique monthly user number could be higher. Comparatively, streaming radio service Pandora had 32.6 million unique monthly users during February, while Spotify had 30.4 million. iHeartRadio saw the fourth highest number of monthly visitors on mobile at 28.5 million, while SoundCloud came in fifth with 25.7 million. For Spotify, Pandora, iHeart Radio, and SoundCloud, mobile and PC visits are counted. According to Verto, which gathers its data from 20,000 users in the UK and US and then pairs it with analytics information, Apple Music has the most monthly unique users due to the three-month free trial the company offers, which doubles the number of people that are using the Apple Music app in the United States. Apple has long offered three months of free music streaming when a user first signs up for Apple Music, two months longer than the trial period offered by Spotify. As of December 2016, Apple Music has more than 20 million paid subscribers, a number that's been growing steadily since the service launched in 2015. Spotify, meanwhile, reached 50 million paying subscribers earlier this month. Despite its lead over Apple Music, Spotify is taking cues from Apple. Earlier today, Spotify announced plans to debut an original show called "Traffic Jams," a copy of the "Carpool Karaoke" show Apple plans to launch on Apple Music. Similar to Carpool Karaoke, in which celebrities and musicians will sing hit songs while in a car, Traffic Jams pairs well-known hip-hop producers and rappers, challenging them to produce a track in the backseat of a car.
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Mercedes steps up its electric car production plans http://ift.tt/2mQZg4w When Mercedes-Benz parent Daimler unveiled plans to have at least six electric cars on the market within a decade, it was clearly being conservative. The automaker has announced that it's accelerating those plans, with over 10 EVs on the road by 2022 -- 3 years ahead of the target it set half a year ago. Daimler will pour €10 billion (about $10.8 billion) into the initiative to make it a reality. The company wants to shape the car industry "from the forefront," according to the firm's Manfred Bischoff, and that means an aggressive strategy. Why such a quick change of heart, though? The car giant isn't specific, but there are a few likely motivations. Competition is certainly the elephant in the room. Mercedes hasn't been shy about gunning after Tesla's upscale EV line, and it doesn't want to risk handing the market to its American rival by being overly cautious. It has to worry about its German counterparts, too. And even if there weren't any market factors at work, Mercedes still has to worry about growing widening diesel emissions scandals and increasing government pressure to reduce pollution. Simply put, the advantages of quickly embracing EVs are easily outweighing the drawbacks. Via: Bloomberg, TechCrunch Source: Daimler Gadget News via Engadget http://www.engadget.com March 29, 2017 at 11:33AM US diplomat 'gave China data for cash and gadgets' - The Times (subscription) http://ift.tt/2niaw5z
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How to Get Through European Customs As Fast As Humanly Possible http://ift.tt/2o9K5mO You’ve probably heard of Global Entry as a faster way to get through customs, but it only works when you’re coming back into the U.S. of course. Luckily, the U.S. isn’t the only country that has a program aimed at making customs go more quickly—some European countries do, too. Given that tourism is a major industry for many European countries, they want to make it as easy as possible for you to visit. Here are the countries Americans commonly go to that have programs similar to Global Entry so that you can get through customs and onto exploring your destination.
While these programs are available, most of them cost quite a bit so they’re really only worth it if you plan to visit the country again in the near future or frequently go through that country to get elsewhere in Europe. If you don’t participate in one of these programs or the European country you’re headed to doesn’t have an expedited customs entry program, the best way for you to speed up customs is to arm yourself with all the info you’ll need to fill out the paperwork when you arrive
Ask your flight attendant on the plane for the customs form so that you can fill it out early and get in line right away when you arrive at customs. Gadget News via Lifehacker http://lifehacker.com March 29, 2017 at 11:05AM
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FCC stops federal approval of low-income broadband subsidies http://ift.tt/2nNhvqM When FCC Chairman Ajit Pai froze the plan to include nine broadband companies in the commission's Lifeline program in February, the future of low-cost, government subsidized internet access suddenly seemed uncertain. Now, nearly two months later, Chairman Pai has released a new statement saying that the commission supports including broadband in the Lifeline program, but will put a stop to the federal approvals process for new providers. Instead, it will let individual states decide which service providers should be included. In his statement, Pai argues that former Chairman Tom Wheeler's action to approve those nine broadband providers was "unlawful" and outside of the FCC's purview. "Congress gave state governments, not the FCC, the primary responsibility for approving which companies can participate in the Lifeline program," Pai wrote. Twelve states are also challenging Wheeler's order in a DC appeals court, which, in Pai's view, "would be a waste of judicial and administrative resources to defend." Pai's approach may seem confusing, given that the new chairman has made bridging the "digital divide" a key issue of his administration. Allowing the FCC power to approve Lifeline providers nationally would have simplified the process of bringing low-cost ISPs on board and given even more households an affordable option for internet access, but the Republican chairman is strictly following party lines and reducing the available choices by leaving the states in charge of policing and regulating it. Pai also argues that another 36 pending ISP applications should be rejected, because "it would be irresponsible" to allow those companies to sign up new customers when they will soon get kicked out of the program. As The Hill reports, Democrats in the FCC and Congress were quick to condemn Pai's decision. "While today's announcement is not surprising, it is nonetheless deeply disappointing," Mignon Clyburn, the FCC's only current Democratic commissioner, wrote in response. "Chairman Pai's statement confirms that under this Administration low-income Americans will have less choice for Lifeline broadband, and potential providers who want to serve low-income Americans will face greater barriers to entry and regulatory uncertainty." Source: FCC Gadget News via Engadget http://www.engadget.com March 29, 2017 at 10:51AM
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You can’t buy Congress’s web history — stop trying http://ift.tt/2o9lT4f On the heels of Congress’s recent rollback of the FCC’s privacy rules, some web-goers had a clever idea: why not buy Congress’s web history? The privacy rules were set to protect against service providers like Comcast and Verizon using customer web-browsing data for marketing purposes. Now that the rules are gone, there’s nothing stopping those providers from using your browsing data for targeted advertising. The move has enraged web privacy advocates, and a new crop of GoFundMe campaigns (including one campaign launched by Supernatural star Misha Collins) has seized on an unexpected method of revenge: buying politicians’ web histories one by one and publishing them for all to see. One campaign describes it this way:
To be clear, you can’t do this. Just because carriers are allowed to market against data doesn’t mean they’re allowed to sell individual web histories. The campaigns seem well-intentioned, but that’s just not how it works. In fact, what the campaigns describe would be illegal no matter what the FCC does. The Telecommunications Act explicitly prohibits the sharing of “individually identifiable” customer information except under very specific circumstances. It’s much more permissive when it comes to “aggregate” customer information, which is where things get squishier and the FCC rules become more important. We could argue all day about whether a targeted ad is individually identifiable or not, but if you’re paying Verizon to find out which sites Paul Ryan visited last month, that’s pretty clearly individual information, and pretty clearly illegal to sell. If you want to get really clever, the Wiretap Act also makes it illegal to divulge the contents of electronic communications without the parties’ consent, which arguably includes browsing history. But we don’t even need to get that far, because even if it weren’t illegal, carriers would never offer a service that unmasked all the gross and horrible things their customers do online. Targeted ads can be creepy, but they’re not that creepy, and they every major network has robust safeguards in place to prevent you from working back to a single person’s web history. None of this means that the recent privacy rollback isn’t a problem. It really will encourage more data collection and more aggressive ad targeting by service providers, and leave customers with few ways to escape. Aggregate data can still be invasive, as modern web advertising demonstrates over and over. It’s worth fighting for! But that’s a far cry from buying individual web histories. In the meantime, the two biggest campaigns have collectively raised nearly $140,000 for the purchase of web histories that will never go up for sale. It’s anyone’s guess where the money will end up. Gadget News via The Verge http://ift.tt/oZfQdV March 29, 2017 at 10:45AM |
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