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Apple’s WWDC will kick off June 3 in San Jose

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple’s returning to San Jose’s McEnery Convention Center on June 3 for its next developer conference. The company on Thursday said it will host its annual Worldwide Developers Conference in the California city. The confab is in its …

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The Good Fight star Nyambi Nyambi uses Headspace app to ‘let it go’

How we operate on social media can tell people a lot about us — and can be great fodder for drama. Nyambi Nyambi, who plays investigator Jay DiPersia in the legal and political drama The Good Fight, said that technology plays a huge part in his character’s work. “People put so much information about themselves and the community around them online …

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Spotify: Apple’s App Store abuses its power to ‘stifle’ rivals

Apple wields its powerful App Store as a cudgel to stifle innovation, weaken competition and unfairly tax its rivals, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek said Wednesday, after the world’s biggest music streaming service filed a complaint with European regulators.  “In Apple’s case, they continue to give themselves an unfair advantage at every turn,” Ek said in a post.  The conflict pits Apple, a …

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NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament 2019 schedule: How to watch the games live

College-aged men don’t have a monopoly on March Madness. The NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament gets underway this month and promises as much buzzer-beating insanity as the men’s tournament.  It’s not a foregone conclusion that the University of Connecticut Huskies will dominate the field and win another title this year. In fact, after their remarkable run of winning six titles in …

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Qualcomm can’t get back the billions it paid Apple, judge rules

Apple can keep the billions of dollars that Qualcomm paid it as part of their 2013 contract, a judge has ruled. And Qualcomm’s still on the hook for payments it stopped making.  In a summary judgment published Thursday, US District Court Judge Gonzalo P. Curiel of the Southern District of California granted four of Apple’s requests ahead of a trial …

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The 2017 MacBook Pro is on sale today for $999 at Best Buy

Best Buy is offering an aggressive discount on the 2017-era MacBook Pro on Thursday only. The entry-level configuration, with an Intel Core i5 processor and 8GB, is on sale for $999 — that’s $300 off of the standard retail price. (Note that this is the non-Touch Bar edition that has the controversial butterfly keyboard.)  The retailer has also discounted two other configurations, …

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Valve debuts Steam Link Anywhere, opens its multiplayer platform to devs

Steam’s continuing beta of its Steam Link app, which lets you play games on any supported device by streaming them off a computer, added a major new capability today: streaming to devices on any network rather than only on the same network as the host computer. It’s all still in beta, but it fills an important hole that Steam needs …

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Get an iPhone 6S for $100

Let’s go back not very far in history, shall we? Just three years ago, the iPhone 6S was still Apple’s flagship. Price at launch: $649 — and that was for the 16GB model. Today, and for a limited time, Cricket Wireless is offering the iPhone 6S (32GB) for $99.99 when you transfer a non-AT&T number and buy at least one …

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Google Drive’s Android and iOS apps get clean look in new update

Google Drive, the tech giant’s file storage and synchronization service, might look a bit different on iOS and Android today. In a blog post published Tuesday, Google said a redesign of the look and feel of Drive’s mobile version will make it “easier to communicate and collaborate across files in Drive” on phones that run Google’s or Apple’s mobile operating …

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iPad 2019 rumors: Price, specs, features and everything else we know

Editor’s note, March 18: Apple has announced two new iPads. Starting at $499 (£479, AU$779) for the 64GB model, the new iPad Air features a 10.5-inch Retina display, an A12 Bionic processor and support for the Apple Pencil. It replaces the 10.5-inch iPad Pro from 2017, which is no longer sold. The new iPad Mini, starting at $399 (£399, AU$599) …

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