January, 2016

• 10 January

  ​Wearable tech at CES 2016 was all about one thing: fitness

  

  This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. Hundreds of companies flock to Las Vegas each January to make their mark on the tech industry in a given year, but one company remains absent. Apple doesn’t …

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• 10 January

  Hong Kong’s largest telco launches streaming service for Asia

  

  Hot on the heels of Netflix launching in Asia (as well as the rest of the world), Hong Kong’s largest telecommunications company, PCCW, is making a streaming service available in the region. The new service, called Viu (pronounced “view”), will be streaming the latest Korean dramas and variety programs a mere eight hours after they air on TV. Viewers will …

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• 10 January

  Oh, poop. Baby tech rattles a dad

  

  This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. A few months ago, my wife and I went into a Buy Buy Baby store, ready to spend some money and score the necessary gear for our upcoming adventure in parenthood. Two hours …

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• 10 January

  Apple Music said to have 10M subscribers

  

  Apple Music has topped 10 million paying subscribers in its first six months, according to the Financial Times, a milestone that rival music-streaming service Spotify took nearly six years to reach. The milestone comes less than two months after the service was extended to Google’s Android operating system, the software that powers the majority of the world’s mobile devices. Apple …

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• 10 January

  ​Everyone wanted a piece of virtual reality at this year’s CES

  

  This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. You couldn’t walk more than a hundred feet without running into a VR headset somewhere, anywhere, at CES. Foldable cardboard. Plastic headsets. Phone cases. Giant PC rigs with controllers and sensors. This is …

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• 10 January

  How to only see your emails with attachments in iOS’ Mail app

  

  Before seeing this OS X Daily post, my method for finding an attachment in an email using the iOS Mail app was to scroll and scroll through my inbox, stopping briefly each time I saw the little paperclip icon to see if that was the message with the attachment for which I was searching. Little did I know that there …

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• 10 January

  How to share a phone number from an iPhone to a basic phone

  

  The easiest way to share contact information from your iPhone to another iPhone is simply to use the Share Contact feature when viewing a contact to text or email a vCard. A vCard contains all of the contact information you have on file for a contact, and its VCF file format can be read by most modern devices, including Android …

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• 10 January

  Drones hit new heights at CES 2016

  

  This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. Now playing: Watch this: Intel shows intelligent drone with Real Sense tech 2:11 With so many drone expos popping up throughout the year, I don’t know that CES will ever become the place …

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• 9 January

  The best way to talk to an audio salesperson

  

  If you’re lucky enough to live near a brick-and-mortar store where you can hear speakers and electronics before you buy them, I definitely recommend in-person auditions. If it’s a small shop, call in advance to discuss your needs, and bring along some of your favorite music — it always helps to listen to music you know well when picking out …

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• 9 January

  Even at $4,000, this tube amplifier is a remarkable value

  

  This is special — VPI may be best known as New Jersey’s leading turntable manufacturer, but it now has an integrated tube amplifier, the 299D. Inspired by the legendary H. H. Scott 299 amplifier that was made from 1958 to 1966, the VPI 299D is a rethink of the original design. The story really began when VPI associate Stephen Leung …

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