There’s a new Popcorn Time-like free music streaming site, and RIAA sues

The Aurous pirate site slogan: "Enjoy music how you want to for free."

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Nucleus wants to take the friction out of video calling

Video calling is a great example of a technology that once felt highly futuristic but is now available on nearly every computer and smartphone out there. FaceTime, Hangouts, Skype -- there are plenty of options, and they all work pretty well, and w...

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From the Wirecutter: The best home online backup service

After extensive comparison, CrashPlan comes out ahead—but there are other options.

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CBS to Stream Select NFL Games and Super Bowl 50 Free to Roku and Other OTT Devices

CBS Sports announced this week that it will will stream two regular season NFL games, four NFL playoff games and Super Bowl 50 to laptops, desktops, and tablets at CBSSports.com, and on televisions through select over-the-top (OTT) devices, including Roku and Roku TV, Xbox One, Apple TV, Chromecast. All of these NFL ON CBS games will be available for free to all users - no subscriptions and cable/satellite TV service authentication will be required.

The first live streaming broadcast will be the New York Jets vs. Miami in London (Oct. 4, 9:30 AM, ET). The Carolina-Dallas Thanksgiving Day game (Nov. 26, 4:30 PM, ET), will also be streamed live.

All AFC playoff coverage including the Wild Card, Divisional, and Championship games will be streamed live. The NFL ON CBS live streaming coverage will culminate on Sunday, Feb. 7, with a live broadcast of Super Bowl 50 from Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California.

"We’re very excited to offer more NFL ON CBS streaming coverage across more digital platforms than ever before," said Jeffrey Gerttula, Senior Vice President and General Manager of CBS Sports Digital. “All NFL fans will have access through their computers, tablets and now Connected TVs to two regular season games for the first time in addition to all of the AFC playoff action, culminating with a truly historic Super Bowl." Additional details of the streaming coverage for each game will be announced at a later date.

For more programming from CBS Sports, visit Roku's CBSSports.com channel.

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Intel's 3D memory is 1,000 times faster than modern storage

Intel and Micron unveiled a novel new kind of non-volatile data storage device during a press conference on Tuesday. The chips, dubbed "3D XPoint" (pronounced "cross-point"), are being touted as the first new class of "mainstream memory" to hit the m...

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Israeli researchers compromise isolated network with dumbphones

Without a doubt, storing highly sensitive data on an internet-disconnected, "air-gapped" computer network is one of the best security measures an organization can take -- but nothing is foolproof. Researchers at Ben-Gurion University in Isreal have f...

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Dell's latest tablet is designed for war zones

If your typical day involves saving someone's life or trekking around a glacier, a regular tablet may be a bit... dainty. That's why Dell has just buttressed its Rugged series with a brand new model, the Latitude 12 Rugged Tablet. The company is pitc...

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Samsung brings 2TB solid-state drives to your home PC

You no longer have to bend over backwards to get more than a terabyte of fast, flash-based storage in your home computer. Samsung is shipping 2TB versions of its 850 Evo and 850 Pro solid-state drives, giving you as much capacity as a decent-sized sp...

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Samsung adds huge 2TB SSDs to its 850 Evo and 850 Pro families

Expensive drives double the capacity of current consumer SSDs.

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Meet the GoPro Hero4 Session: a tiny camera with big shoes to fill

That camera you see above is the GoPro Hero4 Session, the fifth and newest member to the company's current line-up. You can't have avoided noticing that the Hero4 Session is a small black square, and not the traditional silver matchbox, or gray lump ...

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Watch people from miles away with Nikon’s astonishing 83× 2000mm superzoom camera

Now anyone can be a paparazzo.

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“EPIC” fail—how OPM hackers tapped the mother lode of espionage data

Two separate "penetrations" exposed 14 million people's personal info.

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At last, the Raspberry Pi mini PC has an official case

There's no question that the Raspberry Pi is successful among the homebrew computing crowd. However, it's not what you'd call consumer-friendly -- the bare circuit board you normally get is clearly intended for tinkerers who plan to put the mini PC i...

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CloudPlayer streams your music from Dropbox and Google Drive

DoubleTwist has released a media player separate from its main product, and this one can stream music straight from various cloud services. Aptly named CloudPlayer, the app links to your Dropbox, OneDrive and Google Drive accounts all at once to acce...

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Microsoft stealthily backs away from free Windows 10 promise

We thought this would happen.

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Here’s how to get Windows 10 for free even if you don’t have Windows 7 or 8

And you'll need to take action if you want to keep getting Windows betas.

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Watch the first full-color HD videos of Earth from space

It's no longer a challenge to get astonishingly sharp photos of the Earth from space, but video? That's another matter. UrtheCast is about to open the floodgates, however. It just released the first batch of full-color, high-definition video of Earth...

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Encryption “would not have helped” at OPM, says DHS official

Attackers had valid user credentials and run of network, bypassing security.

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LDS App: Book of Mormon Promises

Jacob Burdis has released the LDS Book of Mormon Promises mobile app that shows the promises made to us in the Book of Mormon. The promises are searchable by what we promise to do and by what God promises us. This free app is a great tool for personal study, talk and lesson preparation, or finding […]

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Planes take to the runway in a glorious 8K 360-degree video

We haven't even had a chance to fill our homes with 4K TVs and already YouTube is moving on to 8K. To get an early jump on the coming wave of mega-high resolution videos, Dubai360 says that it has posted the world's first 8K 360-degree video. World's...

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