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It's finally time for file-sharing buffs to pour a little liquor on the ground for Napster , the original gangster of major peer-to-peer music sharing sites. On Thursday, Napster will officially merge with Rhapsody, the largest on-demand music service in the United States. Rhapsody signed an agreement last month to purchase Napster for an undisclosed sum from its parent company, Best Buy. Napster originally launched in 1999 and quickly brought a ruckus to the digital and music worlds. Two years later it was shut down by court order while the Recording Industry Association of America filed a series of lawsuits against Napster users who illegally downloaded music for free from dorms and bedrooms nationwide. A series of similar services like Kazaa and LimeWire sprang up behind Napster as downloading individual tracks and burning mix CDs became a permanent trend. Eventually record companies accepted that music fans were no longer willing to buy entire CDs in order to listen to a … [Read more...] about RIP Napster

The nation's largest wireless carriers dominated the Federal Communications Commission's latest 5G spectrum auction, pushing revenue to a record-shattering price tag of more than $81 billion. The FCC released the names and winning bids of the top five bidders for the auction on Wednesday. Verizon, which bid under the name Cellco Partnership, spent the most on the auction bidding a whopping $45 billion for 3,511 spectrum licenses. AT&T came in second bidding $23 billion for 1,621 licenses. T-Mobile had the third highest bid of $9 billion for 142 licenses. Cut through the chatter Subscribe to CNET's Mobile newsletter for the latest phone news and reviews. The so-called C-band spectrum, which includes 500 MHz of spectrum between 3.7 and 4.2 GHz, has been used by satellite providers to deliver video programming to cable providers. The FCC began auctioning off 280 MHz of the block of spectrum in December and ended Jan. 15.  About 200 MHz of the spectrum in this band has … [Read more...] about Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile dominate $81 billion 5G spectrum auction

A new long-neck dinosaur discovered in Argentina might be the oldest titanosaur ever discovered. The dinosaur, dubbed Ninjatitan zapati , lived 140 million years ago, which is 20 million years before the appearance of the next known titanosaur species. The discovery suggests that this group of hefty sauropods first emerged on the supercontinent Gondwana , which was made up of what is now South America, Antarctica , Africa, Australia, New Zealand, the Indian subcontinent and Saudi Arabia. N. zapati was discovered in 2014 by Jonatan Aroca, a technician of El Chocón Museum in Neuquén, Argentina. Aroca was prospecting at a dig site in southwest Neuquén, located in Patagonia. This site was known for sauropod discoveries, and Aroca was searching for new finds outside of previous excavations when he discovered a titanosaur scapula. Related: Photos: 100-million-year-old Tanzania titanosaur had heart-shaped tail bones Further excavations turned up some vertebrae, a … [Read more...] about This ‘Ninja Giant’ is the oldest titanosaur on record

If your social media feed hasn't been blowing up all night with people excited about NBC's live broadcast of Jesus Christ Superstar , then you're clearly not following the right people. The whole show is a blast, but Sara Bareilles owned this standout moment when she sang one of the musical's most well-known numbers, "I Don't Know How To Love Him." No more words. Just hit play and soak it in. John Oliver takes an eye-opening deep dive into America's broken unemployment system Billionaire announces another change of plans for his civilian SpaceX moon trip Jimmy Fallon turned 'Savage' and other TikTok faves into cheesy power ballads Sacha Baron Cohen's interview with Jimmy Kimmel gets derailed in the most ridiculous way … [Read more...] about Sara Bareilles slayed ‘I Don’t Know How To Love Him’ in ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’

By Jeffrey Mervis Mar. 8, 2021 , 2:30 PM A blue-ribbon panel wants Congress to establish a U.S. Digital Service Academy (USDSA) to help the federal government meet its need for tech-savvy workers. The digital academy would be similar to the five existing military academies in providing students with a tuition-free education in exchange for 5 years of government service. But instead of becoming a commissioned military officer, graduates would join the civilian workforce at the Department of Defense and other federal agencies. These digital specialists would help close a widening skills gap in the federal workforce not currently being met by the nation’s colleges and universities, say members of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, which issued its final report last week . “If Stanford [University] were sending a thousand graduates every year into government service, we wouldn’t need this new academy,” says Andrew Moore, head of Google Cloud’s AI … [Read more...] about U.S. panel calls for new digital service academy to bolster federal workforce