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When and where to buy the Apple Watch

James Martin/CNET The Apple Watch is now official. Apple CEO Tim Cook filled in the missing details on the company’s first smartwatch at a press event in San Francisco. So when can you pick one up? Here’s everything you need to know about getting your hands on an Apple Watch. When The Apple Watch will …

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Apple Watch to be sold at Apple retail stores and boutiques

Apple will display its new line of smartwatches in designated cases at its retail stores. Shara Tibken/CNET Apple finally provided more details about the Apple Watch on Monday, revealing specs, prices and information on where to pick up the wearable device. The answer to the “where” question is simple: To buy the watch in person, consumers will have to either …

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ISIS spread its reach through Twitter with 46,000 accounts

Social network relationships among “official” ISIS accounts as of January 3, 2014. The Brookings Institute Designated terrorist groups have reportedly long used social media to communicate. Al Qaeda and the Taliban have been believed to frequent Facebook, and Hamas has been a well-known devotee of Twitter. Now, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, is thought to also …

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High

The Aurender Flow digital converter/headphone amplifier Aurender High-end products are, by definition, expensive. There’s a premium for luxury products that can’t always be directly tied to the cost of producing, marketing, and selling them, but bleeding edge performance and excellence in design are requirements to achieve full-fledged high-end status. Even so few buyers push the limits of the designs, but …

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Time for Apple Watch to show us what it can do

Apple will host an event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on March 9. James Martin/CNET It won’t paint your house, butter your toast or fold your laundry. But besides telling time, the Apple Watch may do enough other interesting things to convince iPhone owners to buy it. At least, that’s what Apple’s hoping. The Cupertino, Calif., electronics …

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Get a 3

Google Remember back in December when Spotify offered that three-month subscription for 99 cents? Mine ran out just a few days ago, so this is some seriously serendipitous timing. For a limited time, you can get a three-month Google Play Music subscription for $3. That works out to just a buck per month (math win!) for unlimited ad-free listening. When …

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