Prince pulls music from streaming sites Spotify and Rdio

Prince has had this love-hate relationship with the Internet and its services. He seems to empathize and agree with Taylor Swift’s criticism of freemium streaming services. So, what does he do? He pulls his music catalogue from the likes of Spotify and Rdio. If you want to hear his music online, right now you can see it on Tidal, SoundCloud, Deezer, and Google Play. There’s no word yet if Google plans to pull out his catalogue. We’re not sure if he’s coming to Apple Music. But for now, you’ll have a limited number of services to gain access to his funk-heavy tunes.

Source: MacWorld

Update on Saturday, July 4, 2015 at 7:04PM by Nicole Batac

Prince still has his catalogue on Deezer. Original article has been edited to reflect changes.

The official trailer for Aaron Sorkin's 'Steve Jobs' movie is out

Noah Wylie, Ashton Kutcher and now Michael Fassbender have tried to become onscreen versions of Steve Jobs. The upcoming  Danny Boyle directed 'Steve Jobs,' which comes to theatres on October 9, was penned by Aaron Sorkin (West Wing, The Newsroom) and is based off the Walter Isaacson's Jobs biography (which was commissioned by Steve Jobs but derided by some of his closest colleagues including Tim Cook and Jony Ive.

The latest, and I suspect not the last, Jobs biopic is supposedly made up of three acts leading up to three impactful product launches in Steve Jobs (and Apple's) history. It also explores Jobs' relationship with his daughter Lisa. Oh, and Seth Rogen plays Woz.

Facebook tracks your video watching preferences

You don’t just have to like certain videos for Facebook to bring similar clips to your attention. The social network is now tracking your preferences or behavior when it comes to videos. It now also takes into account if you’ve switched the video to full-screen, increased volume, and even switched to HD (when it’s available).

According to a Facebook release, "We are now taking into account more interactions with videos that we have learned indicate whether someone found that video interesting, such as choosing to turn on sound, making the video full screen, and enabling high definition. So if you turn the volume up or make the video full screen, we have updated News Feed to infer you liked the video and will show you similar videos higher up in your News Feed. We have found that this helps us show people more videos that they are interested in.”

Source: Facebook | Via: Lifehacker Australia

Zen Pinball shrinks Marvel’s Ant-Man down to size

Big things do come in small packages. Zen Studio’s Zen Pinball game will be debuting a new table this July 14^th for the upcoming movie adaptation of Marvel’s Ant-Man. According to Zen Studios, we should expect some pretty exciting stuff with this new table.

“We’re doing things with Marvel’s Ant-Man table that will be completely new to both our game and the pinball genre as a whole, including shrinking pinballs and crazy new mini-games that will undoubtedly excite our biggest (and smallest) fans,” Zen Studio says.

Source: Zen Studios | Via: Android Central