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Cheap & cheerful: FiiO X1 second

I reviewed the original FiiO X1 music player in late 2014, but so much as changed in the intervening couple of years, the new X1 2nd Gen now boasts Bluetooth 4.0 wireless tech and a more responsive touch wheel user-interface into a handsome design. Build quality feels more robust, all in all not bad for …

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How to set up, use Apple Pay on a MacBook Pro

Now playing: Watch this: MacBook gets Touch ID fingerprint scanner 1:00 One of the biggest benefits of having Touch ID on any Apple device isn’t quickly unlocking your phone or computer. It’s Apple Pay. With Apple Pay set up on a MacBook Pro, you can quickly complete a transaction on one of the many websites that have added support for …

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Here are products you can buy only at the Apple Store

If you’re looking for holiday shopping ideas, there are some products you can get only one place — the Apple Store. No, we’re not talking about the iPhone. We’re talking about some other third-party products like the $40 Play-Doh Touch Shape to Life Studio, the $179 Roli Blocks for music creation, and the $130 Lifeprint photo printer that lets you …

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Apple will fix iPhones with ‘touch disease’…for $149

Apple has a cure for iPhone 6 Plus devices with so-called touch disease, but it’ll cost you. On Thursday the tech giant launched a new repair program for the iPhone 6 Plus. Some iPhone 6 Plus devices may “exhibit display flickering or Multi-Touch issues after being dropped multiple times on a hard surface,” reads a support page. Apple will repair …

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Samsung still No. 1 smartphone maker despite Note 7 woes

Samsung is still No. 1 in smartphones, but Chinese manufacturers are gaining ground. The Korean electronics giant saw phone sales in the third quarter decline by 14 percent year over year, its worst performance ever, according to researched published Thursday by Gartner. The slump is due in part to battery problems that caused some of Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 phones …

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The next iPhone camera could recognize faces and objects using AR

Apple’s big 10-year anniversary iPhone could have augmented reality built right into the native iOS Camera app, according to a report by Business Insider. If true, Apple would be taking on Google in the AR department; that company released its first phone with a depth-sensing camera, the Lenovo Phab 2 Pro, this past June. Apple could follow in Google’s Tango …

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The AirPlay loophole is chipping away at iTunes’ monopoly on Apple TV

The Apple TV box has only gotten better since its debut in 2015, with thousands of new apps and plenty of usability improvements via software updates. Even more improvements — single sign-on for some cable and satellite providers and the new TV app — are due by the end of the year. But if the product has one frustration point, …

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Qualcomm’s next chip means a slimmer, longer

When it comes to the processor that powers your phone, size matters. And Qualcomm and Samsung are going smaller than ever. The two companies on Thursday showed off the Snapdragon 835 chip, the first mobile processor to lean on a 10-nanometer manufacturing technique from Samsung, which packs millions more transistors — the engines for processing power — into a tinier …

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Amazon offers peek at month of Black Friday deals

Now playing: Watch this: Black Friday and other turkey traditions are evolving 2:09 The annual Black Friday shopping frenzy is just around the corner, and Amazon is offering a glimpse of some of the deals shoppers can expect. Amazon is reserving some of its hottest deals for the so-called Turkey 5, the five days popular for online purchases starting Thanksgiving …

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Apple’s Jony Ive says the iPhone almost didn’t happen

What would the world be like without an iPhone? We apparently came very close to an existence without Apple’s hit device. In an interview published Tuesday by Dazed, Apple’s chief design officer Jony Ive said the product could have fallen through. “There were multiple stages while we were working on the phone when solving problems wasn’t inevitable and we really …

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