April, 2016

• 18 April

  2017 iPhone will replace aluminum body with glass, says analyst

  

  Next year’s iPhone may sport an all-glass body. The 2017 iPhone will dump its traditional aluminum casing, KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said Sunday in an investors note picked up by Apple blogs 9to5Mac and AppleInsider. Instead, the phone will have a glass chassis. The reason for the material switch, according to Kuo, is both …

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• 18 April

  Forget the new video

  

  Now playing: Watch this: You’ll pay more for Amazon Prime if you pay monthly 2:19 In the history of no-brainers, spending the extra $2 per month to get full Amazon Prime ranks up there with quitting smoking to get healthier. No question you should do it. If you want to subscribe to Amazon video on a monthly basis as opposed …

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• 18 April

  Google Play Music adds podcasts to the mix

  

  You like Google’s Play Music but wish it could do podcasts, too? Well, it does now. Starting Monday on Android devices in the US and Canada, the Play Music service will connect users to podcasts the way it does music, according to Google’s Android blog. This mean users will be presented with podcasts based on what they are doing or …

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• 18 April

  VR delay is a scalper’s paradise: $1,600 for Oculus, $2,000 for Vive

  

  Call it virtual scarcity. Thanks to shipping delays, the $600 (£499, around AU$1,150) Oculus Rift and $800 (£689, AU$1,340) HTC Vive virtual reality headsets are currently fetching up to $2,000 (roughly £1,400, AU$2,575) on eBay. That isn’t just the asking price — headsets are actually selling for those sums. Which means if you’re one of the lucky few buyers who’ve …

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• 18 April

  5 tips to get the most out of the LG G5’s camera

  

  Enlarge Image A multiview photo captured on the LG G5. Jason Cipriani/CNET LG’s new G5 is a smartphone unlike anything we’ve seen before. Its slide-out battery and available modules add extra features. One such feature is the Cam Plus module, which adds physical controls to the Camera app of the G5. While it’s fair to say most users won’t spring …

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• 18 April

  Facebook deletes page for celebrity gossip site The Shade Room

  

  Celebrity gossip outlet The Shade Room is on the outs with Facebook. The popular site, which boasted more than 4 million likes, has vanished from the social network, apparently for allegedly violating its terms of service. Angie Nwandu, The Shade Room’s founder, told Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard that Facebook took down the page Monday but she didn’t know the …

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• 18 April

  7 super

  

  I’m a total speed-demon. I love speedy computers, speedy sports cars, and speedy Windows 10 tips — that is, Windows 10 tips that take less than a minute to implement. Since Windows 10 launched last July, we’ve covered lots of tips and tweaks you can use to improve your experience in just a couple of minutes. Check ’em out (you …

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• 18 April

  Coming soon: New Thunderbolt drive that delivers staggering speed

  

  With the rapid adoption of the USB-C connector, you might think Thunderbolt is yesterday’s peripheral connection. Not so! When it comes to speed, currently nothing beats it. Case in point: the new Thunderbolt 3 PCIe solid-state drive that Akitio announced today. The Brea, California-based company’s new external storage device is slated to deliver a top speed of up to 2,500 …

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• 18 April

  Dozens of new emojis are headed your way soon

  

  Now playing: Watch this: MacBook gets pretty in pink, Android emojis get in shape 2:45 We’re getting a sneak peek at new emojis coming later this year thanks to Google. The latest developer preview of the mobile OS (code named Android N) includes completely redesigned emojis, plus brand-new designs for both Android and iOS that should arrive in the next …

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• 17 April

  Special ‘Game of Thrones’ pricing returns to Foxtel Play

  

  If you’re a “Game of Thrones” fan, then you’ll already have April 25 locked into your diary, because that’s when episode one of season six airs. In Australia that’s happening at 11 a.m., which gives you time to get to Dawn Service and back. If you’re not a regular subscriber to Foxtel then you might be pleased to hear that …

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