From serious news to running jokes, Twitter has made people express themselves in just 140 characters in the most creative ways possible to get their point across. But another cool thing that happens on Twitter is when people start a hashtag game that revolves around a person, TV show or movie. Hashtag games can generate …
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Apple Pay is Apple’s NFC payment system that lets you make purchases using an iOS device. The service is currently available only in the US and the UK, it won’t run on every iPhone, and you’ll run into restrictions on the latest iPads. To sort out the intricacies of Apple’s payment system, we’ve put together an FAQ. Everything from which …
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CNET Apple released a minor update to iTunes today to address issues people were having with iTunes Match and cloud services. iTunes 12.2.1 introduces bug fixes for problems where iTunes would mislabel matched songs from its iTunes Match service and prevented iTunes Match subscribers from signing up for a subscription to Apple Music. The update also has minor fixes that …
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iOS 8 launched in the fall of last year after a necessary beta testing phase. CNET Announced at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference in June, the beta releases for iOS 9 and Mac OS X El Capitan have been available for some time for developers who have an account at Apple. But starting today, anyone with an Apple ID can participate …
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Photo by Josh Miller/CNET Apple Music is here, and the new Connect feature has the potential to be great for finding out more about your favorite artists. New in the latest version of iTunes, Connect gives musicians a personal space where they have the opportunity to post short audio or video clips their audiences wouldn’t otherwise see, and it lets …
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Now playing: Watch this: New features in the iOS 9 beta 1:58 Photo by Josh Miller/CNET Apple released iOS 8.4 this morning, bringing enhancements and fixes to the mobile OS and the launch of Apple’s new music-streaming service, Apple Music. You can update now by going to Software Update and starting the download on your iOS devices. We already know …
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Eric Franklin/CNET Coming hot on the heels of the launch of Apple Music this morning, Apple also unveiled an updated version of GarageBand for both Mac (Mac App Store link) and iOS (iTunes App Store link). With the launches today, Apple seems to be doubling down on its commitment to the whole musical process. Now musicians can start a song …
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CNET Apple’s World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) kicks off this Monday with a keynote from CEO Tim Cook. I’ll be there with CNET’s Shara Tibken and Scott Stein to cover the event so make sure to tune in. Tune into CNET’s WWDC live blog at 9:00 a.m. PT Monday, June 8 Historically, WWDC is where Apple announces new software releases, …
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Photo by James Martin/CNET For a big part of the Google I/O 2015 keynote, Google showed off Android M, the next iteration of its mobile operating system. Some of the highlights include a new USB Type-C charger, better app permissions, a new Doze mode for better power management, and the advent of Android Pay. Yawn. None of the Android announcements …
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Photo by James Martin CNET At the Google I/O keynote today, Aparna Chennapragada, Director of Google Now announced that there are some significant changes on the way for Google Now, the notification system which draws data from several sources to bring you contextual messages useful in your current location. To do this, Chennapragada said, the app needs to understand your …
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