Best Buy customers can now pay for good and services with Apple Pay. BEST BUY Best Buy shoppers can now use Apple Pay to complete purchases made through the electronics retailer’s app, a coup of sorts for Apple in the intense mobile-payments business. For now, Apple Pay transactions are limited to Best Buy’s app, but …
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Jason Cipriani/CNET In addition to sending a series of taps or you heartbeat, Digital Touch on the Apple Watch makes it possible to send disappearing images to fellow Watch owners using a series of colors. But the standard colors are kind of, well, boring. Thankfully, Apple has included a way to access a color picker when your selecting a color, …
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Some apps just won’t cut it for the Apple Watch. Those still waiting for an Apple Watch shouldn’t hold their breath for a fart app. But in the fall, you will be able to use Apple Pay with a Discover card. Now playing: Watch this: Apple tightens up, restricts fart apps on Apple Watch 2:55 Also, will Apple be one …
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Christian Holz You may one day be able to unlock your smartphone by holding it against your ear instead of your finger. That is the goal of Bodyprint, an authentication system created by Yahoo Labs that turns a smartphone’s capacitive touchscreen into a biometric scanner. But because the scanning device is much larger than a fingerprint scanner, the system allows …
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Sarah Tew/CNET Without a nearby iPhone, the Watch can’t answer calls or receive notifications, but you can use Bluetooth headphones to listen to music stored on the device. Here’s how to set it up. Step 1: Put music on your Watch Of the 8GB of storage on the Watch, up to 2GB can be used for music storage, which roughly …
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Everyone’s curious about Apple Watch, but the company’s financial results are still all about the iPhone. James Martin/CNET The Apple Watch, which was delivered to customers around the world starting last week, may be what everyone’s talking about right now. But when it comes to Apple’s financials, it’s still all about the iPhone. The Cupertino, Calif., company on Monday will …
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Sarah Tew/CNET With many more ways to control an Apple Watch than just winding it up, using Apple’s newest gadget to its fullest extent will take some time to master. The small and pressure-sensitive touchscreen isn’t quite like what you use on your iPhone and accessing so many (and sometimes hidden) features isn’t always straightforward. Fear not, though, as CNET …
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Nokia calls reports it will resume smartphone manufacturing false. SARI GUSTAFSSON/AFP/Getty Images Nokia Technologies said Sunday it has no plans to resume smartphone manufacturing, denying recent reports it would return to a business it famously abandoned not so long ago. “Nokia notes recent news reports claiming the company communicated an intention to manufacture consumer handsets out of a R&D facility …
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Concerns over the power of Internet service providers to control access to online content didn’t mesh well with handing provider Comcast even more power via a merger with Time Warner Cable. Getty Images Call it bad timing for Comcast. But the heated public debate over Net neutrality likely played a major role in sinking the cable giant’s hopes to buy …
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The owner of Dodo, M2 Group, is hovering over iiNet in the hopes of acquiring the ISP. Dodo Just one month after TPG revealed its plans to buy out iiNet and take over ownership of the locally-run internet service provider, a rival ISP has announced its intentions to one-up the offer. M2 Group, the parent company of service providers Dodo …
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Jason Cipriani/CNET Forget typing emoticons on your smartphone, they’re so 2013. Emojis are where it’s at these days and the vast array available — from simple smileys to smiling poo — means that there’s an emoji for everyone. Here’s how to find the most obvious and the most obscure. How to access the new diverse emoji in iOS 8.3 Put …
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Now playing: Watch this: Cracking Open: Apple MacBook (12-inch, 2015) 5:05 The 2015 MacBook isn’t just a thinner, lighter version of the MacBook Air. Apple has completely redesigned the laptop from the ground up and unfortunately, those changes also make DIY repairs a real nightmare. The 2015, 12-inch MacBook comes in two base hardware configurations (1.1GHz CPU with 256GB storage …
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Used to be that cheap Bluetooth headphones didn’t sound so good. And by cheap, I mean anything under $100 or so. But that has started to change, as we’re seeing more inexpensive wireless headphones that we can recommend from a design and performance perspective. Since we’ve tested only a fraction of the Bluetooth headphones out there, this isn’t a definitive …
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Thorens TD 203 Thorens It’s becoming an everyday event. I keep hearing from friends about new vinyl converts — young people getting into the groove for the first time. And also about 40-somethings who just bought a new or used turntable to play their old LPs, and are now rediscovering the music of their youth. The ongoing vinyl surge may …
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Klipsch Reference On-Ear headphones Klipsch No doubt about it: the Klipsch Reference On-Ear makes bass and lots of it, but it’s not boomy, thick, or muddy. I find with the best headphones it’s all about overall balance, and when the bass obscures midrange or treble detail, it’s game over. For example, the Sol Republic Master Tracks ‘phones dished out loads …
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