Now playing: Watch this: Here’s the first look at the iPad Pro 2:01 Apple has revealed the latest iPad tablets and a new Apple TV. The revamped Apple TV arrives in October, the plus-sized 12.9-inch iPad Pro lands in November, and a new 7.9-inch iPad Mini 4 is on sale now starting from £319. The …
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Tinder’s new Super Like feature. Tinder When you need to show someone you don’t just like them, you like-like them, Tinder has introduced a new “Super Like” feature. By swiping upwards on a potential mate instead of left or right, you can show them that you’re interested before they make a decision about whether to like you back. The new …
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The new 7-inch touchscreen for the Raspberry Pi mini-computer. Raspberry Pi How touching: the cheap-as-chips Raspberry Pi mini-computer now has an official 7-inch touchscreen for building a basic tablet or control panel. The touchscreen comes from element14, the British company behind Raspberry Pi. The Raspberry Pi micro-computer brain is designed to be plugged into other components to custom-build everything from …
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Enlarge ImageUK artist Ella Eyre performs at the BBC Radio 1 Big Weekend this summer. Rune Hellestad/Corbis The future of the BBC could include a new music discovery service and an iPlayer for kids, as the venerable, publicly funded broadcaster races to reshape itself in the face of government cuts. Established in 1922, the British Broadcasting Corporation faces the challenge …
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Enlarge Image The bPay contactless chip in the sleeve of the Lyle and Scott jacket pays for stuff with a tap of the cuff. bPay There’s two big things going on in the UK this week: first, the limit for buying stuff with a contactless card has gone up to £30. And second, it’s absolutely chucking it down. But fear …
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Sennheiser’s mysterious marble headphone amp. Rich Trenholm/CNET LONDON — Sennheiser has unveiled a new…something. To celebrate its 70th anniversary, the German headphone and audio company has given us a look at a new high-end audio product without telling us much more — except that it’s made of marble. What it looks like is a headphone amplifier, and a very posh …
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Enlarge ImageWileyfox is a new mobile phone brand powered by Cyanogen. Luke Westaway/CNET LONDON — Stand by for a new name in the mobile market: Wileyfox is a whole new smartphone brand launching here today, and at the core is an Android rival called Cyanogen. Cyanogen is an operating system based on Google’s Android, adding different features to give you …
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Enlarge ImageFlorence Welch of Florence and the Machine performs at Lollapalooza in Chicago in August 2015. Gary Miller/FilmMagic/Getty Pharrell Williams and One Direction are headlining a series of free gigs organised by Apple Music. The huge-hatted hitmaker and tight-trewed pop moppets are among the first acts announced for the annual event previously known as the iTunes Festival. Since 2007 Apple …
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Enlarge ImageRichard Hammond, Jeremy Clarkson and James May left the BBC’s “Top Gear” in controversial circumstances. Amazon Signing Jeremy Clarkson and the “Top Gear” team was “very, very, very expensive” for Amazon, says Jeff Bezos. But speaking to The Telegraph, the Amazon founder and chief executive boasts Amazon is part of “a golden age of television”. Clarkson was fired by …
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Angelina Jolie is one of the stars with their sights set on streaming their next project. Vera Anderson/WireImage/Getty When Netflix show “House of Cards” won a hat-trick of Emmys and Amazon’s “Transparent” took home a brace of Golden Globes, it served official notice that some of today’s best TV isn’t even on TV. As the streaming services vie to win …
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