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Exploring the new Photos app for OS X

Matt Elliott/CNET Released earlier this year as part of Yosemite , the new Photos app for Mac OS X further blurs the lines between Apple’s desktop and mobile operating systems. Its simplified organizational tools look a lot like those on the iPhone Photos app, but it adds powerful editing features that are geared for the desktop. Since it replaces both …

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Apple fine

An Apple Watch could be in your hand — or, rather, on your wrist — sooner than anticipated. Apple has consistently been telling buyers of its new smartwatch , which officially launches Friday, that they may need to wait to receive their device. But the company has ever-so-slightly changed its tune. According to a statement that Apple sent to CNET …

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YouTube turns 10: The video site that went viral

YouTube now attracts more than 1 billion users a month. James Martin/CNET Ten years ago today, a startup called YouTube uploaded its first video. Co-founder Jawed Karim, in a private test of the fledgling service’s capabilities, posted a short video of himself at the San Diego Zoo. The 18-second clip shows Karim unenthusiastically noting how elephants have “really really really …

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Amazon reveals that its AWS cloud service is a $5 billion business

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos says the company’s cloud services business is still growing fast. CNET Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has been one of the industry’s big spenders as he strives to make the company all things to all people, fashioning Amazon as a grocery store, entertainment producer and device maker. The company on Thursday reported results for the first three …

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‘Apple’s branding is stronger but our product is better,’ says Huawei exec

Richard Yu, CEO of Huawei’s consumer business group, wants to build trust in the Chinese brand. Stephen Shankland/CNET Apple Watch, schmapple watch. Launching the TalkBand B2 , Huawei reckons that if you “ask people which one they prefer, it’s ours.” At the UK launch of the TalkBand B2 smartwatch and P8 smartphone, CNET caught up with Richard Yu, CEO of …

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Comcast to ditch $45.2B takeover of Time Warner Cable, report says

No Time Warner Cable for you, Comcast? Joe Raedle, Getty Images Comcast may be giving up on its $45.2 billion bid to buy fellow cable provider Time Warner Cable after meetings with regulators indicated they may oppose the deal, according to a report from Bloomberg. The news service said that the announcement could come as early as Friday. Regulators have …

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