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Friday, December 4, 2015 from AndroidHeadlines.com |
10. Asus ZenFone 2 (ZE551ML) The Asus ZenFone 2 has been available out in the market for quite some time now. We’re actually referring to the variant with 4GB of RAM here, and that phone has been announced back in January this...-
Friday, December 4, 2015 from AndroidHeadlines.com |
Elephone has been pretty busy lately. This company has announced a number of really interesting devices thus far, though not all of them are yet available. The P7000 and P8000 devices we’ve reviewed are quite solid and affordable... -
Friday, December 4, 2015 from Geeky-GadgetsMortal Kombat X players might be interested to know that details of the Season 2 DLC have leaked a little earlier than expected revealing new characters that will be available to play. The four new characters within the Season 2 DLC were...
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Friday, December 4, 2015 from AndroidHeadlines.com |
Meizu is currently one of the fastest growing China-based smartphone manufacturers at the moment. This company has managed to increase their profit 540% in the second quarter of this year, which is simply staggering. They’ve also... -
Friday, December 4, 2015 from Geeky-GadgetsWhen Apple announced their new Swift programming language the company said that they would make it open source. Apple Swift is now available as open source through Swift.org, the software was first introduced at WWDC in 2014. “By making...
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Friday, December 4, 2015 from Geeky-GadgetsRocket League fans will be pleased to know that the game will be launching on Microsoft’s next-generation Xbox One during February 2016. Providing Xbox next-generation gamers with the award-winning game that combines soccer and driving....
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Friday, December 4, 2015 from Android Central
Samsung has agreed to settle with Apple to the tune of $548 million. The companies have been locked in a patent battle, which has resulted in Samsung making arrangements with Apple to settle the case and pay up damages. It was alleged... -
Friday, December 4, 2015 from Geeky-GadgetsThe new Apple TV was launched recently and now according to a recent report, Apple is getting ready to put its successor into production. According to a recent report, Apple is testing a trial production run of their next generation...
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Friday, December 4, 2015 from PhoneArena - NewsThe new A3, A5 and A7 (2016) by Samsung boast prices that are a tad higher than the original A-series at launch, but the phones also sport much upgraded hardware and a new exterior, too. Given the handsets you can currently get in the...
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Friday, December 4, 2015 from Geeky-GadgetsAmazon has finally introduced the budget-friendly Fire Tablet in China where it carries an affordable RMB 499 ($78) price tag. Along with the tablet, Amazon is offering hundreds of thousands of Kindle books as well as the English...
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Friday, December 4, 2015 from AndroidHeadlines.com |
The Chromecast has become something of a success for Google, despite it launching with views that it was something of a niche product and something that people would find confusing. Since its launch some time ago, it’s grown in... -
Friday, December 4, 2015 from pocketnow.com
A slew of pricey Beats audio products come with bundled $60 iTunes gift cards directly from Apple, allowing you to get six-month free access to Apple Music The post Apple throws in $60 iTunes gift cards with US purchases of Beats... -
Friday, December 4, 2015 from AndroidHeadlines.com |
Over at the Android Headlines Deals Store, we have a pretty spectactular giveaway going on. It’s one you definitely won’t want to miss out on. We are giving away a Sony PlayStation 4 along with 3 games. Which are FIFA 16, NBA... -
Friday, December 4, 2015 from AndroidHeadlines.com |
Black Friday and Cyber Monday are long behind us at this point, but if you avoided all of the queues in stores and the mass of deals online, you’ll no doubt have some more shopping to do. Whether it’s for yourself or for... -
Friday, December 4, 2015 from PhoneArena - NewsHaving a smartphone can feel like a bless as you get that instant connection to the big wide world in your pocket, but sometimes that feeling gets overwhelming. When suddenly your Twitter explodes with beeping notifications, or you have...
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Friday, December 4, 2015 from Wearable Tech InsiderIDC’s 3Q15 wearables figures are out, and Fitbit is the big winner while Samsung the big loser. The market research firm says Fitbit sold 4.7 million devices in the third quarter, twice as many as it sold in the same period last...
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Friday, December 4, 2015 from Android Central
Sony has announced that it acquired Toshiba's image sensor business for $155 million. Talks of a merger emerged earlier this year, and the manufacturer has now confirmed that Toshiba's manufacturing facilities and employees will be... -
Friday, December 4, 2015 from iPhone Hacks | #1 iPhone, iPad, iOS BlogApple has launched a new promotion where it is bundling a $60 gift card with the purchase of a Beats headphones or speakers. The promotion runs from December 3 through December 28 Continue reading →
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Friday, December 4, 2015 from Geeky-GadgetsThere have been rumors for some time that there would be a convertible version of the McLaren 675LT and now the company has officially taken the wraps off the McLaren 675LT Spider. The McLaren 675LT Spider features a revised version of...
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Friday, December 4, 2015 from AndroidHeadlines.com |
Samsung has, for the first time ever, announced four flagship devices in one year. The company has unveiled their Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge flagships back in March, and the Galaxy Note 5 and Galaxy S6 Edge Plus phablets in August. All... -
Friday, December 4, 2015 from Wearable TechnologiesHolidays are among us! Not only is there cheer but many safe travels to families located across the world. On my last flight to America, I noticed a few flight attendance were wearing activity trackers. Airlines have started to embrace...
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Friday, December 4, 2015 from pocketnow.com
Worldwide smartphone sales are tipped to exceed 1.43 billion units in 2015, with Android and iOS chiefly responsible for a growth hindered by Windows. The post IDC forecasts single-digit smartphone growth for 2015, Windows struggles... -
Friday, December 4, 2015 from pocketnow.com
The International Data Corporation estimates Fitbit sold 4.7 million wearables in Q3 2015, with Apple and Xiaomi narrowly behind, at 3.9 and 3.7M. The post IDC: Fitbit towers over Apple in Q3 wearable ranks, Xiaomi keeps growing appeared... -
Friday, December 4, 2015 from AndroidHeadlines.com |
Sundar Pichai has enjoyed a rise to power quite like no other these past couple of years. After becoming the lead of Google Chrome, he was then appointed head of Android as well after Andy Rubin left the position. If that weren’t... -
Friday, December 4, 2015 from Geeky-GadgetsSamsung Galaxy Note 5 is available in several markets across the globe, but as far as Europe is concerned, only the Galaxy S6 edge+ was available in the region. However, it seems things may change in the coming weeks as a new report...
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Friday, December 4, 2015 from AndroidHeadlines.com |
Sony is one of the biggest tech companies in the world, and they’re very well-known for their digital cameras, but also smartphone camera sensors. A while back, we’ve started seeing reports that Sony might be interested in... -
Friday, December 4, 2015 from AndroidHeadlines.com |
Xiaomi has recently announced two new devices, the Redmi Note 3 smartphone and Mi Pad 2 tablet. Both of these are quite compelling devices, but most of you are probably wondering when will the company announce their new flagship... -
Friday, December 4, 2015 from ExtremeTechFord figures a way to retrofit Siri Eyes-Free to five million Sync 2 Fords and Lincolns. It's not CarPlay, but it's something.
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Friday, December 4, 2015 from Top Tech NewsTech giant Apple is adding a missing element to its streaming music service by making it possible for home listeners to send tunes from Apple Music to WiFi-enabled speakers made by Sonos.
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Friday, December 4, 2015 from Techradar - All the latest technology newsSince April 2011 Apple and Samsung have not just been fighting each other on the high street, but the two have been at loggerheads in the courtroom too. Both companies have been in dispute over patents Last year, things got dramatic as a...
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Friday, December 4, 2015 from BetaNews
Hot on the heels of last Friday's news of the potential of the Wi-Fi enabled Hello Barbie doll to be hacked, new research has uncovered security issues with the mobile app associated with the doll and with its connections to cloud... -
Friday, December 4, 2015 from Tech.eu
While in Helsinki recently for the Slush conference, I ended up at the launch party of a Finnish fintech startup called MONI, which is working on a 'smart payment service'. What was remarkable about the event, apart from the fact that it... -
Friday, December 4, 2015 from Digital TrendsTempted to buy a smartwatch? If so, then the growing number of great models available means you've got plenty of choice, but which one should you choose? Here are our five picks, plus a few that are coming soon. The post Here are the 5...
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Friday, December 4, 2015 from EngadgetWith the gargantuan success of the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, it's easy to forget about the popularity of PC gaming. Players young and old are building new rigs to compete in League of Legends, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and...
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Friday, December 4, 2015 from GizmodoFollowing a series of negotiations , Sony has announced that it’s buying Toshiba’s image sensor business for 19 billion yen—which is about $155 million. Read more...
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Friday, December 4, 2015 from Top Tech NewsHewlett Packard Enterprise is wasting no time exploiting its new partnership with Microsoft. The technology company is partnering with Microsoft to help biz build private clouds using Microsoft Azure.
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Friday, December 4, 2015 from TechCrunchXiaomi is the world’s number three wearables vendor, behind Fitbit and Apple, according to a new report from IDC that looked at shipment volume in the third quarter of 2015. Read More
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Friday, December 4, 2015 from TechWeekEurope UKGoogle says its on track to make 2025 renewable energy targets with 842 MW mega-purchase
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Friday, December 4, 2015 from EngadgetToday on In Case You Missed It: Moley the robot-chef will man your kitchen and creep out your friends by sometime in 2017, cooking up stored recipes just like you first taught it to. Aka the end is neigh. A new iPad app on Indiegogo is...
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Friday, December 4, 2015 from Top Tech NewsTech giant HP is exiting the low-price tablet market. In fact, the company has already put the kibosh on low-end Android tablets. You can no longer find many of them on HP’s Web site.
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Friday, December 4, 2015 from TechWeekEurope UKHowever IDC report finds that Fitbit remains the world’s number one wearable tech firm
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Friday, December 4, 2015 from Wired Top StoriesClimate scientists used to think their work was key to stopping climate change. But increasingly, they’ve realized that climate science barely matters at all in the fight. The post Climate Scientists Used to Just Get Angry. Now...
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Friday, December 4, 2015 from TechCrunchA short while ago, TechCrunch piled into a car, and drove at moderate pace to San Jose, just so that we could drive much more quickly. Recently opened on the other end of the Bay is the Driver Simulation and Vehicle Systems Lab, or...
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Friday, December 4, 2015 from Techradar - All the latest technology newsTelltale Games has become an expert at publishing games as a running series of storybook-style chapters, and the company has previously created titles from such heavyweight franchises as Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead. Now the US...
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Friday, December 4, 2015 from Techradar - All the latest technology newsThis year's Game Awards may have been about all about the trophies, but all the little reveals and surprises were what really stood out. We've already rounded up a collection of the trailers hyping us for 2016 , but there were so many...
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Friday, December 4, 2015 from Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine
We've seen many examples of cardboard breaking out of its box, including a rolling Lexus , play furniture for kids, and a bike and helmet . But the crazy folks over at Signal Snowboards and Ernest Packaging have teamed up with the Fender... -
Friday, December 4, 2015 from Digital TrendsKnown just as much for their budget offerings as for their flagships, Samsung and LG look to continue with the former by way of the Galaxy J3 and the K7, respectively, which will reportedly be released in the U.S. in the near future. The...
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Friday, December 4, 2015 from EngadgetTo prove the toughness of its latest FMX truck, Volvo turned it into an RC racer and handed the "keys" to the luckiest 4-year-old ever. The results were what you'd expect: Pure chaos. To be fair, young Sophie probably...
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Friday, December 4, 2015 from Techradar - All the latest technology newsShow me one person who doesn't love Rocket League and I'll show you a liar. Even I, having not the faintest interest in footy sport - aside from knowing that three goals equals a try, and three tries equals a jenga (that much is obvious)...
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Friday, December 4, 2015 from Digital TrendsGoogle's "Trekker" cameras sure do get around. Street View's latest adventure takes armchair travelers on a hike around Peru's Machu Picchu, once a key part of the Inca Empire and now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The post Visit Machu...
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Friday, December 4, 2015 from EngadgetThe BBC has for some years been enamored with the idea of "perceptive media," which loosely put, means content that adapts to its audience. The British broadcaster first experimented with an animated audio play that used your...
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Friday, December 4, 2015 from EngadgetJellyfish are notoriously hard to care for, and even a slight change in temperature can kill them quickly. A startup called Jellyfish Art swears its cylinder tanks can help you keep teensy moon jellies alive for as long as possible,...
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Friday, December 4, 2015 from EngadgetMark Zuckerberg is well aware that a lot of people think he's giving away $45 billion worth of Facebook shares to dodge taxes. That's why he's taken to Facebook yet again to clarify that the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative is a...
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Friday, December 4, 2015 from Digital TrendsFitBit remains top of the wearables market with 22 percent market share, but Apple is quickly catching up with 18 percent, despite the price discrepancy. Surprisingly, no Android Wear manufacturer has been able to crack the top five in...
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Friday, December 4, 2015 from Top Tech NewsThe 2016 version of Microsoft Dynamics CRM aims to help sales, marketing and customer service pros better understand and predict what customers need and to deliver that info in a more personalized way.
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Friday, December 4, 2015 from Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine
Hyundai's Tuscon Fuel Cell has set the first land speed record for production fuel cell SUVs. The Tucson achieved a top speed of 94.6 mph (152.2 km/h) during runs at the Soggy Dry Lake Bed in Southern California, US. .. Continue Reading... -
Friday, December 4, 2015 from Geek.comIt appears game designer Hideo Kojima and publisher Konami are still on rocky ground after the Metal Gear Solid creator was told he could not attend The Game Awards 2015 in Los Angeles, CA […]
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Friday, December 4, 2015 from Wired Top StoriesTodd Howard knocked on Bethesda Softworks' door while he was still in college. Today, he's the creative catalyst behind gaming's most expansive worlds. The post How Fallout 4 Mastermind Todd Howard Builds His Epic Dream Worlds appeared...
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Friday, December 4, 2015 from TechmemeIngrid Lunden / TechCrunch : Nokia Closes Its $2.8B Sale Of Here To The Audi, BMW And Daimler Car Consortium — One of the bigger makers of maps and location services used in mobile phones and connected cars has now...
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Friday, December 4, 2015 from Digital TrendsSix months after its initial announcement, Samsung might finally be planning to launch the Galaxy Note 5 in Europe by early 2016, according to a variety of different sources. Here's everything you need to know. The post Will it be too...
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Friday, December 4, 2015 from EngadgetAnother week, another hack. JD Wetherspoon, the owner of countless cheap British pubs, has revealed that an older version of its website was hacked between June 15th and 17th, putting over 600,000 customers at risk. The company says it...
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Friday, December 4, 2015 from Top Tech NewsThere’s no new insight from VTech into the data breach that was thought to have affected 5 million user accounts. But the electronic toy maker is working with Hong Kong regulators to determine the root of the hack.
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Friday, December 4, 2015 from TechCrunchAccording to IDC, sales growth of smartphones running Microsoft’s operating system will remain sluggish for the foreseeable future. New figures from the group, released yesterday, are stark. The group predicts that Microsoft...
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Friday, December 4, 2015 from Techradar - All the latest technology newsIf you thought finishing a marathon was impressive, Tim Peake is going to breeze past you… from space. While long distance running from space isn't anything new – astronauts needs to stay in shape to make sure they can still walk around...
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Friday, December 4, 2015 from BetaNews
Personal details of hundreds of thousands of JD Wetherspoon customers have been accessed and leaked following a hack of its database. The cyber attack affects more than 650,000 customers, the UK pub chain has announced. The leaked data... -
Friday, December 4, 2015 from Digital TrendsFleye is a safety-focused drone that houses all its moving parts inside a plastic casing. Its Belgium-based creators have just launched a Kickstarter campaign for the unusual-looking flying machine, which can be operated both manually...
- Goodbye fear and anxiety: Use an Internet Purchase Exchange Location to grab your Craigslist bargainFriday, December 4, 2015 from Digital TrendsScared you'll be horribly killed and/or robbed when you go to collect that bargain you secured on Craigslist? Worry no longer, because the Internet Purchase Exchange Locations are here. Sort of. The post Goodbye fear and anxiety: Use an...
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Friday, December 4, 2015 from Top Tech NewsAs mobile phone users become more and more frustrated with bloated content on their devices, Google thinks it has the solution -- tech to reduce data consumption on mobile devices by up to 70 percent.
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Friday, December 4, 2015 from Top Tech NewsTo speed hybrid cloud adoption, IBM is boosting its Direct Link service that lets users set up dedicated network connections from their IT infrastructures to the SoftLayer private network and cloud services.
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Friday, December 4, 2015 from Top Tech NewsThe rumor mill is churning harder than ever about Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer. Although she’s managed to become the firm's longest tenured CEO in recent history, the clamor is growing for her to be replaced.
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Friday, December 4, 2015 from Techradar - All the latest technology newsWhile you might not be able to spot it with your backyard telescope, there's an increasing amount of space junk floating just outside the Earth's orbit - it already poses a serious threat to existing spacecraft (did you see Gravity ?)...
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Friday, December 4, 2015 from Digital TrendsColdplay's seventh record, reportedly the band's last, will not be available on Spotify due to disagreement with the service's free, ad-supported tier. It is expected to be available on Tidal, Apple Music, and Rhapsody, none of which...
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Friday, December 4, 2015 from TechCrunchGoPro now sells four different cameras for $299 or less. This comes as the firm drops the price on the new Hero4 Session to $199 — the price it should have sold for originally. The drop puts the Hero4 Session more in line...
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Friday, December 4, 2015 from TechWeekEurope UKLive Video on Facebook will allow users to share real-time video, and also create collages of photos and video
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Friday, December 4, 2015 from PCWorldWorth the price of admission There was a time when “free-to-play” was a dirty term in the games industry. There are still terrible, exploitative free-to-play games on the market—more every day, in fact. But occasionally— occasionally...
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Friday, December 4, 2015 from AppleInsider - Frontpage NewsApple on Thursday kicked off a Beats hardware promotion to entice users to sign up for Apple Music subscriptions, giving away $60 iTunes gift cards with the purchase of most headphone and speaker models.
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Friday, December 4, 2015 from Cult of MacIn a brand-new iPhone 6s ad, director Jon Favreau (Iron Man) looks to Siri for help in his directorial duties. The spot, called “iPhone 6s – On the Set,” has the director trying to explain to some actors (presumably on...
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Friday, December 4, 2015 from The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)Comcast isn't done improving its X1 cable box. Over the past few months, the company has added a variety of new features to the device, including the ability to record extra-long events and more. Today, Comcast is keeping that trend...
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Friday, December 4, 2015 from 9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence
Apple may have outsourced Black Friday discounts on its products to other retailers this year, but it’s not staying completely out of the promotion game during the Christmas shopping season. Starting today Apple is bundling $60... -
Friday, December 4, 2015 from The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)Running the London Marathon is hard enough. Running it in space? That's another challenge entirely. British astronaut Tim Peake is headed to the International Space Station (ISS) on December 15th and, next April, will set off at the...
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Friday, December 4, 2015 from Latest NewsApple already has a smartwatch. But now it's filed a patent for a type of smart band that could function as a tether to a smartphone or simply as a band for the Apple Watch itself.
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Friday, December 4, 2015 from 9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence
Apple today has shared yet another new iPhone 6s ad focusing on the device’s always-lisnteing “Hey Siri” feature. Earlier this week, Apple debuted two new advertisements for the iPhone 6s, one focused on the... -
Friday, December 4, 2015 from 9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence
The new Apple TV launched in October after a three year chasm of silence stagnating with outdated hardware. According to Digitimes, Apple is upping the pace of its Apple TV hardware iterations. The Chinese report indicates that Apple is... -
Friday, December 4, 2015 from CNET NewsUber's said to be raising an eye-popping $2 billion, pushing its value to more than $62.5 billion. That's bigger than the economic output of most of the countries tracked by the World Bank.
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Friday, December 4, 2015 from The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)Want a handset with Apple's fancy new A9 processor, a colorful metal case and a slightly smaller display? GHI Securities' Ming-Chi Kuo says you're going to get one. According to the analyst's latest research, Apple is...
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Friday, December 4, 2015 from MacworldI’ve been using the iPad Pro for the last three weeks, and all in all, I like it. Possibly enough to buy to replace my iPad Air 2 , even. But just because I’ve enjoyed the past three weeks doesn’t mean I haven’t thought of any number of...
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Friday, December 4, 2015 from The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)Today on In Case You Missed It: Moley the robot-chef will man your kitchen and creep out your friends by sometime in 2017, cooking up stored recipes just like you first taught it to. Aka the end is neigh. A new iPad app on Indiegogo is...
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Friday, December 4, 2015 from The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)Data analysts Nomura Research Institute (NRI), led by researcher Yumi Wakao, figure that within the next 20 years, nearly half of all jobs in Japan could be accomplished by robots. Working with Professor Michael Osborne from Oxford...
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Friday, December 4, 2015 from The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)The Game Awards kick off at 9PM ET (6PM PT) and we're hosting the entire show live on Twitch, complete with ridiculous commentary from your trusted Playdate team, Timothy Seppala, Sean Buckley and myself, Jessica Conditt. This is...
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Friday, December 4, 2015 from 9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence
Almost five years after Samsung was found guilty of infringing Apple patents, and some four trials later, the two companies have agreed to settle out of court for $548M. Samsung says that if Apple submits an invoice for this amount by... -
Friday, December 4, 2015 from Latest NewsIf you wanted a OnePlus 2 but didn't have an invite, you're in luck. The company is lifting that buying barrier for good.
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Friday, December 4, 2015 from The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)Another week, another hack. JD Wetherspoon, the owner of countless cheap British pubs, has revealed that an older version of its website was hacked between June 15th and 17th, putting over 600,000 customers at risk. The company says it...
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Friday, December 4, 2015 from PCWorldScheduling meetings with multiple people can be a pain. Finding time between a maze of competing schedules is frustrating at best, and Microsoft is trying to make that a little bit easier with a new tool the company released Thursday. ...
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Friday, December 4, 2015 from Cult of MacA painting by artist Jorge Pardo is taking work away from bull-slinging gallery explainers. The piece, which is currently showing at Art Basel in Miami, depicts an impressionist version of the artist on a slide at a water park. It comes...
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Friday, December 4, 2015 from CNET NewsAs India's fourth most populous city fights floods that have killed nearly 270, Skype is stepping up to offer aid.
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Friday, December 4, 2015 from The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)Psychonauts 2 is happening. It's a sequel to Double Fine's first-ever game, a quirky, beloved, 2005 platformer about a team of psychic spies-in-training. Most of the pieces are in order -- the concept art is in, the characters...
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Friday, December 4, 2015 from The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)The BBC has for some years been enamored with the idea of "perceptive media," which loosely put, means content that adapts to its audience. The British broadcaster first experimented with an animated audio play that used your...
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Friday, December 4, 2015 from MacRumors: Mac News and Rumors - All StoriesApple today shared another short iPhone 6s video, this time starring actor and director Jon Favreau. In the "On the Set" video, Favreau is directing a gymnastic sequence and uses the hands-free always-on "Hey Siri" feature to ask Siri to...
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Friday, December 4, 2015 from 9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence
Earlier today Apple made good on its promise and released source code for its Swift programming language to the public. To go along with making Swift open source, Apple’s senior vice president of software Craig Federighi has sat... -
Friday, December 4, 2015 from Cult of MacFollowing quite literally years of appeals and retrials, Samsung is finally paying Apple the $548,176,477 it owes for infringing on patents owned by the Cupertino company. Four months before the fifth anniversary of the original...
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Friday, December 4, 2015 from 9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence
The latest IDC data on the wearables market suggests that Apple Watch sales are enjoying modest growth, up from an estimated 3.6M units in Q2 to 3.9M in Q3. This growth is mainly due to Apple taking the Watch into new markets, it says,...
