Apple’s focus on fitness is as strong as ever with Apple Watch Series 2 and the company is pushing fitness every chance it gets. Apple’s director of fitness for health technologies Jay Blahnik announced this evening that he will hold a talk at the Apple Store in SoHo with runner Joan Benoit Samuelson and trainer Jeanette Jenkins.

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While many have complained about the prices of Apple’s new MacBook Pro lineup, the company has quietly reduced upgrade prices for its older models following last week’s keynote. The price cuts affect the build-to-order upgrade options for last year’s MacBook Pro, the MacBook Air, Mac Pro, iMac, and Mac mini.

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The iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus first started arriving in the hands of customers just over a month ago, following months of rumors and speculation. The biggest change that comes with the iPhone 7 is of course the removal of the headphone jack.

The move, which took quite a bit of “courage,” was met with mixed reactions at first, but now that we’ve had 6 weeks to digest the change, it feels appropriate to step back and look at how life without the headphone jack has been so far….

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iOS 10.2 beta 1 brings some significant new changes to iOS 10. Headlined by over 70 new Unicode 9 emoji, the update is now available to iOS developers. A public beta version was just released as well. Have a look at 14 of the new features and changes in this brief hands-on video walkthrough. more…

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Apple Pay is now available from 23 more banks and credit unions around the United States. Apple’s mobile payment service launched two years ago with hundreds of additional regional banks and credit unions added every few weeks. You can find the latest banks added below:

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I discovered the Erato Apollo 7 a few months ago during its Kickstarter campaign and nearly immediately knew it would be a pair of earbuds that could fit into my life nicely. It really looked like the first pair of true wireless earbuds that included all the functionality I wanted, without sacrificing any distinct feature. With the AirPods being delayed potentially as far out as January, is there a possibility that the Erato Apollo 7 ($299) is ready to fill the void that Apple left with the iPhone 7?
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After previously announcing plans to launch a new TV streaming subscription offering next year, Hulu today announced new deals with 21st Century Fox and Disney to bring a ton of live and on-demand content to the new service.

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Our sister site 9to5Toys obsessively shares the latest deals on Apple gear as well as general technology products, home goods, fashion and everything in between.

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I’m still putting the (new) Late 2016 MacBook Pro (without the Touch Bar) through a variety of tests, but I just had to point out this SSD benchmark test that I ran using my favorite disk benchmarking utility, QuickBench. The results show, as Apple has claimed, that the SSD inside this machine is crazy fast. more…

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Apple has released the first public beta version of iOS 10.2 for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Previously only available to registered developers for testing, iOS 10.2 includes several upcoming features like Unicode 9.0 emoji, iPhone 7 wallpapers, and new camera features.

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