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Apple iPhone 7, 7 Plus get a red special

Now playing: Watch this: All of Apple’s new hardware announcements 1:22 No, the new iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus aren’t blushing. They’re now available in red. Apple on Tuesday unveiled a variant of its flagship phone as part of the Product Red program, which funds programs that combat HIV and AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa. …

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Apple beefs up AR team with top engineers

Now playing: Watch this: Apple’s AR world could be getting closer 1:30 Apple is assembling a top-notch team of engineers to bring augmented reality, or AR, to the masses. More details about the people the company’s been hiring emerged Monday in a Bloomberg report. The team, which includes some notable Apple insiders, is also being bolstered by expertise from a …

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Pokemon Go players walk extra 2,000 steps daily, study says

If you’re addicted to Pokemon Go, that’s great — for your health, according to a study presented to the American Heart Association on Wednesday. The study — which tracked 167 players — found that people walked an average of almost 2,000 additional steps every day after embarking on Niantic’s location-based monster-hunting game. This translates to an eight percent lower risk …

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How to upgrade your MacBook Pro with an SSD

If you have an old MacBook Pro with one foot in the grave, the single best thing you can do to breathe new life into it is replace its traditional spinning hard drive with a solid-state drive. There’s a reason that all modern MacBooks and the vast majority of all laptops sold today use SSDs. They are more energy efficient, …

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At last: Microsoft will stop Windows 10 forced automatic updates

Guess what, folks? We won. In an unmistakeable about-face — and a victory for common sense — Windows 10 will no longer automatically take control of your computer, and flip the reset switch, at the worst moments imaginable. Mind you, Microsoft will still push updates, and it won’t necessarily be easy to completely turn them off. But this spring, you …

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Save $175 on an entry

Best Buy frequently offers discounts on Apple products, but its “Deal of the Day” for March 6 caught my attention because it’s the first time I’ve seen the latest MacBook Pros on sale. The caveat here is that the $175 discount is for Apple’s entry-level $1,500 13-inch MacBook Pro, which is missing the step-up models’ Touch Bar. It also has …

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Don’t expect to play Oculus Rift on your Mac anytime soon

Are you a Mac user hoping to experience virtual reality via the Oculus Rift headset? The wait may be longer than you expected. Oculus co-founder Nate Mitchell revealed in an interview with TechCrunch the company has no plans to support Apple computers in the coming months. Mitchell, who uses a MacBook Pro as his daily computer, said Mac support is …

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Sorry USB

Those hoping that Apple would trade a Lightning connection for a standard USB-C connection on the iPhone 8 will most likely be disappointed: Apple has always had a proprietary connection on its iOS devices and it’s not going to change that, in my opinion. The rumor that Apple might ditch Lightning in favor of USB-C, which is increasingly found on …

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Over 450 million Indians will be online by June

India’s tech growth has been advancing quickly, and it doesn’t look like it’s going to stop. The number of internet users in the country is expected to cross 450 million by midyear, according to The Economic Times, citing a report by the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI). That’s an increase of about 30 million people in six months, …

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New Japanese app is like Airbnb for parking spaces

You’re driving around the family’s favorite restaurant looking for a parking spot. The kids are whining in the back seat and everyone is starving, but there’s not a parking spot in sight. Sound familiar? Japanese company Rakuten feels your pain and wants to solve that nightmare for you. Last week, the e-commerce company launched Rakupa, a parking-space sharing service that …

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