This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple is adding loyalty cards from top retailers to its Apple Pay mobile-payments system and has renamed Passbook to “Wallet.” Apple now includes retail credit cards in Apple Pay. CNET/James Martin In addition to linking debit and credit …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple With a little help from comedian Bill Hader, Apple kicked off its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco Monday morning by lampooning the extravagant hype machine of the tech world. Related stories WWDC coverage iWatch satire skewers Apple before WWDC Kids …
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Crossy Road was awarded a coveted Apple Design Award. Hipster Whale Day one of Apple’s WWDC developer’s conference has drawn to a close with the company announcing its coveted Design Awards — the best apps running on Apple operating systems. Every year since 1998, Apple has honoured what it perceives the top 12 apps released in the previous year across …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple is trying to replace your wallet with its smartwatches and phones. CNET Apple will reportedly start allowing retail-store credit cards on its Apple Pay mobile payments system Monday. The Wall Street Journal reported the expected change, citing people familiar with the situation, …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple is remixing more than just music this year. Watch CNET Update below to get a three-minute roundup of the biggest news from Apple’s WWDC developers conference: Now playing: Watch this: More than Music: The big changes coming to Apple products 2:57 Now …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Now playing: Watch this: iOS 9 brings real multitasking to the iPad 1:36 The details are in on Apple’s next version of its iOS mobile operating. Apple unveiled iOS 9 at its Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco on Monday. They say imitation …
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Wireless customers with “grandfathered” unlimited-data plans will do almost anything to hold on to them. It’s been five years for AT&T and four years for Verizon since either wireless carrier sold an unlimited data plan. But these operators have allowed customers who previously signed up for those plans to keep them. But neither carrier really wants customers to stick with …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Enlarge ImageBad thumbdrive removal. Sarah Tew/CNET Over the years, Apple has turned its Mac OS into a sleek, powerful, user-friendly operating system that mostly gets better with each new iteration. Is it perfect? Not quite, but there isn’t too much to complain about. …
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At first glance the Harbeth Super HL5Plus brought me way back to the time when I first fell in love with British monitor speakers in the 1970s. Some said they were too “polite” or reserved, but to my ears they were much more than that. They sounded honest and true, American speakers were more “exciting” and dynamic, and tended to …
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Netflix will add three more countries to its stable, as it looks to offer its service worldwide. Claire Reilly/CNET Netflix announced Saturday that its service will arrive in Portugal, Italy and Spain in October, allowing Internet users from those countries to subscribe and stream a broad selection of TV shows and movies. At launch, the company says, it will offer …
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