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Apple refreshes News Publisher with new dashboard, fonts, and more
Apple has today updated its News Publisher with a fresh design across the iCloud based media manager.
What do you think of Apple’s ‘Carpool Karaoke’ series so far? [Poll]
A few months after debuting its first original content series in the form of Planet of the Apps, Apple this month has started releasing episodes of its Carpool Karaoke series exclusively on Apple Music.
With five episodes of the series now out in the wild, what are your thoughts?
Hulu launches beta version of live TV for Mac and PC browsers
Hulu is making its streaming live TV and on demand content available to users via its website today. Although the update brings the functionality to users now, the company notes the new feature will be an optional beta…
Analysts: Only 18% of iPhone buyers likely to spend $1,000, Samsung poised to gain market share
An analyst note today from Barclays’ Mark Moskowitz and company predicts that Samsung is in position to take more of the premium smartphone market share with the launch of its Galaxy Note 8. They are also concerned that less than 1 in 5 potential iPhone buyers will spend $1,000 or more on the newest iPhones.
Facebook rolling out ability to take 360-degree photos in iOS app
Facebook today is bringing the option to take 360-degree photos with its iOS app without needing any extra hardware beyond your iPhone.
Apple engineers share behind-the-scenes evolution of Siri & more on Apple Machine Learning Journal
After first launching its new Machine Learning Journal for Apple engineers to share with the community, today the Siri team has shared three new blog posts based on research being presented at Interspeech 2017 in Stockholm this week.
Snapchat VP says more scripted content should arrive on the platform this year
The effort and innovation of social media services over the last year has been steadily ramping up. Snapchat in particular has been copied by Instagram and Facebook in several different instances as the competition heats up. Now, it looks like Snapchat is going to be launching more original scripted content by the end of the year.
Apple plans to build next U.S. data center in Iowa
Apple’s next plans to expand its data centers in the U.S. are for a facility to be built in Waukee, Iowa.
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Samsung announces Galaxy Note 8, claims better OIS & Portrait Mode than iPhone 7 Plus
Hands-on with Astropad’s new MacBook dongle that turns your iPad into a powerful second screen
Astropad, the company behind many popular and incredibly powerful iOS apps, has unveiled an all-new hardware product. Called Luna Display, Astropad explains that this accessory is the “first and only hardware solution that turns any iPad into a true, wireless second screen display.” Read on for our hands-on review…
As Apple Watch 3 expected to gain LTE, a quarter of owners already using ‘daily’ for phone calls, says survey
A survey of how U.S. consumers use their smartwatches produced mostly unsurprising results. Notifications and texts are of course the most frequent use, with activity-tracking number two …
NordVPN confirms that using a VPN will bypass Verizon’s throttling of all video streams
NordVPN has confirmed that Verizon’s plan to throttle all video streams on its unlimited data plans can be bypassed by using a VPN connection …
This Thunderbolt 3 hard drive/SSD enclosure looks like a mini cheese-grater Mac Pro
I always loved the design of the old ‘cheese-grater‘ Mac Pro, and computer storage company Akitio has used it as the inspiration for its new Thunderbolt 3 drive enclosure.
The company says that the Akitio Thunder3 Quad X was designed for use with the MacBook Pro. The previous version – which had a more generic design – did not support Macs …
Ahead of iPhone 8, Virgin Mobile extends ‘all you can eat for one year for $1’ deal to switchers
Virgin Mobile really loves iPhone users … After going iPhone-only back in June, and offering a really sweet deal to those buying a new phone, it has now extended the offer to existing iPhone owners switching to the carrier.
The carrier says that any iPhone owner who ports their number to Virgin will be able to get the same ‘all you can eat’ $1 deal for a full 12 months …
Hulu dropping Live TV iOS app, incorporating functionality into main app
Report: Carrier sources indicate Apple iPhone 8 event date set for September 12
Mac4Ever is reporting that they know when the September Apple event will take place, where Apple will announce three new iPhones: the OLED iPhone 8 and the iterative ‘7s’ phones. The report says that the event will happen on September 12 citing carrier sources.
New dummy models show what the iPhone 7s might look like in rumored new copper color
We’ve seen an endless stream of mockups, renders and dummy models of the iPhone 8. More recently, we’ve seen these in a rumored new color: copper.
Less attention has been paid to the iPhone 7s, but we have seen some dummy models of this too. And today we get a look at how the iPhone 7s might look if it too is made available in the new copper color …