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Happy birthday, iPhone. You’re 10 years old! What do you want to be when you grow up? When Steve Jobs unveiled the first iPhone 10 years ago today, he touted Apple’s ability to combine three products — “a revolutionary mobile phone, a widescreen iPod with touch controls, and a breakthrough internet communications device with desktop-class …

Now playing: Watch this: iOS 10: What’s new in Messages 2:22 In iOS 10, Messages looks a lot more like Facebook Messenger. Apple added features including Stickers, “Tapbacks” and even apps that you install within Messages. Is it overkill? Maybe. Or maybe it’ll do exactly what Apple wants — make you choose Messages over the increasing number of competing apps …

Now playing: Watch this: Track how drunk you are constantly with this Apple Watch… 1:07 Wearables have been counting our steps and tracking our heart rates, but finally, here comes a wrist strap to constantly track your blood alcohol level. From BACtrack, makers of a range of smartphone integrated portable breathalysers, the BACtrack Skyn has the company’s high-quality pedigree for …

The Apple Watch is a device that can do more than tell the time or put iPhone notifications on your wrist. It can be used to pay for items in the real world, save you in an emergency, act as a fashion accessory and help you track down a misplaced iPhone — to name a few. Here are 11 tips …

At CES 2017 in Las Vegas, you’ll see two types of wearable technology, shown in two very distinct areas of the show floor. The first type is the fitness-tracking device, designed to measure your steps, your strides, your strokes and your stamina. These wearables boast the latest sensor technology to measure everything from the impact your feet make on the …

Apple‘s AirPods ($165 at eBay) are available just in time for the holidays. The wireless earbuds use Apple’s new W1 chip, first announced back in September, to pair and communicate with your Apple devices. That chip is the secret to a simple setup and pairing process — simpler than pairing any other Bluetooth device. Connecting your AirPods to many devices …

If you thought Apple’s last couple of years were big, just wait for 2017. The launch of the large-screen iPhone 6 and 6 Plus in late 2014 sent Apple’s fortunes soaring. Apple became the most profitable company in the world, and the following year, with the 6S and 6S Plus, was even bigger. But enthusiasm waned in 2016 — iPhone …

Now playing: Watch this: Apple pulls watchOS update after reports of bricked watches 1:28 Enlarge Image César Salza /CNET Apple has rolled back its latest software update for the Apple Watch following rumours that the update was bricking devices, rendering them unusable. The 3.1.1 version of watchOS was causing the issue in the Series 2 Apple Watches, according to a …

Apple’s iPhone design hasn’t changed in two years. Will 2017 be different? Looking at what the new year could bring from the tech giant, we consider what the next iPhone and Apple Watch could look like. We also chat about new iris-scanning tech from Qualcomm that could help kill off passwords and about Google’s parent company reportedly axing plans to …

Android Pay, Google’s mobile payments service for phones running the OS, is up and running in Japan, two months after Apple’s rival service went live on the island nation. The launch will allow Android handset owners to use their devices to complete transactions at more than 470,000 locations that already accept Rakuten Edy, a prepaid e-money service, Google said in …