September, 2016

• 15 September

  ​iPhone owners can recoup their costs with 500px camera app

  

  A top-end iPhone 7 Plus, with its fancy new dual-camera setup, costs nearly $1,000. Now photo-sharing site 500px wants to help you make some of that money back with its new camera app. 500px on Thursday launched its first camera app, called Raw. It lets you take photos, upload them to 500px, and if you …

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• 15 September

  Twitter hopes to score big with the NFL

  

  It’s third and long for Twitter. Struggling to attract more eyeballs, the social network has placed a big bet on the National Football League and the nation’s most popular sport. Its hope: Successful livestreams of NFL matches will keep it in contention with social media heavyweights, like Facebook and Snapchat. On Thursday, Twitter streams the first of its 10-game package, …

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• 15 September

  Get an unlocked OnePlus 2 64GB smartphone for $239.99

  

  CNET’s Cheapskate scours the Web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. And find more great buys on the CNET Deals page. Now playing: Watch this: OnePlus 2 looks better than ever 1:40 Last year’s flagship phone is this year’s bargain. Indeed, step into the …

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• 15 September

  Apple washes out rumours of a Tidal buyout

  

  Apple is denying plans to buy rival music streaming service Tidal. “We’re really running our own race,” Apple Music boss Jimmy Iovine told BuzzFeed in a story published Wednesday. Iovine played down rumours that Apple could end the rivalry between the two relatively new streaming services by buying Tidal, owned by rapper and business mogul Jay Z. “We’re not looking …

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• 15 September

  Amazon plans mammoth wind farm in Texas

  

  Amazon unveiled on Thursday its largest renewable energy project to date: a mammoth wind farm in Texas. When it opens next year, the west Texas farm will generate 1 million megawatt hours of electricity annually, enough to power nearly 90,000 US homes, Amazon said. The farm will include more than 100 turbines, each with a rotor diameter twice as long …

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• 15 September

  Would you trade a headphone jack for more battery? iPhone 7 Plus does

  

  It’s new iPhone day, which means that people are already hard at work tearing the shiny new phones apart and feasting (their eyes) on the gooey innards. Chief among the deconstructionists is repair site iFixit. Apple plays its cards quite close to the chest when it comes to the build on its products, so iFixit’s teardowns are usually the first …

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• 15 September

  Honey Flow bee breakin’ crowdfunding records

  

  Now playing: Watch this: The Honey Flow is crowd-funding gold 1:21 Have you ever bought fresh honey from a farmers market? I haven’t either. It’s too expensive. But those free samples are delicious. They taste so much better than anything you can get in the store that I was actually, for a brief moment, tempted by Honey Flow (ignoring the …

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• 15 September

  PayPal wants to become your daily money habit

  

  PayPal has been annoying some of its customers for years. Instead of making it easy for folks to pay online using their credit cards, the digital payments company directs them to buy stuff with their PayPal balances and checking accounts. The end result has been both profitable for PayPal (because it avoids credit card networks’ higher fees) and a pain …

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• 15 September

  Polk’s affordable Signature Series speakers offer distinctive bass

  

  Polk has outlined its newest line of affordable speakers, called the Signature Series, with prices starting at $199 — and they’re a step up from the entry-level T series. The new collection includes three sets of floorstanders, two center channels and three bookshelf speakers. All of the speakers are between $200 and $900. Polk The Signature Series and T series …

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• 15 September

  Apple’s iPhone 7 battery case: Same funky shape, reportedly 26 percent more power

  

  The iPhone 7 and 7 Plus go on sale tomorrow, and alongside it, this year’s iPhone Smart Battery Case, which will charge the iPhone from its own built-in battery storehouse. This year, the case will deliver 26 percent more charge than last year’s version, according to MacRumors. The phone accessory industry is big business — a $24.35 billion industry according …

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