What do Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page and Satya Nadella have in common with Apple’s Tim Cook? They’re all fascinated with virtual reality. The Oculus Rift is a high-end virtual reality system. Could Apple follow with its own version? Josh Miller/CNET That’s what we learned Tuesday when Cook responded to a question about VR during a …
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It used to be a big pain to switch from one mobile platform to another, but it’s now easier than ever to transfer all of your old data from an Android device to your new iPhone or iPad. Apple’s Move to iOS app in the Google Play Store makes the process quick and easy. While it can’t transfer your apps, …
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Now playing: Watch this: Free up space in iCloud 2:10 Apple’s iCloud storage service can be used to stash away photos, videos, device backups, and more in the cloud. The company offers users 5GB of space for free, however because it’s 5GB of space per Apple ID and not per device, you may find yourself running out of space faster …
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Apple spent 2015 catapulting new toys and services at consumers. The year ahead will be all about refining its aim. The Cupertino, California, company wants to touch every aspect of your life, whether on the go with an iPhone 6S or Apple Watch, at your office with an iPad Pro or MacBook, or in your living room with an Apple …
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Samsung’s taking its suit against Apple all the way to the Supreme Court — if the justices will consider the case, that is. The South Korean electronics giant on Monday filed a request with the highest court in the US, asking it to re-examine the decisions made in the patent infringement lawsuits pitting Samsung against Apple. The trial, which ended …
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Meet an old friend Meet MediaTek, arguably the most successful, influential, and important technology company you’ve never heard of. Simply speaking, MediaTek is a supplier of the chips that power the devices we use day to day; smartphones, tablets, wearable technology, smart TVs and newly emerging technologies around Internet of Things to name a few. You can be forgiven for …
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This Lockheed UCLASS concept drone hints at the future for unmanned aircraft. Lockheed Martin Apple removed two mobile apps from its App Store that report deaths caused by US drone strikes. Its reasoning? The apps contained “excessively rude or objectionable content.” Metadata+ was designed by Intercept editor Josh Begley as a project to push out openly available data published by …
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Lucy Kelly via her telepresence robot at the Apple Store in Sydney, Australia. Seamus Byrne/CNET It’s not unheard of for people to pay stand-ins to hold their place in Apple Store launch queues, but why shell out cash when you can get a robot to do it for free? One enterprising Australian woman has outsourced her wait for the new …
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Peace is one app that can block web-based ads in iOS 9. But is there a downside? Ad-blocking apps have soared to the top of Apple’s App Store charts following Wednesday’s debut of iOS 9. A $2.99 app called Peace (£2.29, AU$3.79), which promises to block “most ads and privacy-invading trackers on web pages” is the top paid app in …
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Since its inception, iOS devices have used a single home button navigating between apps. Click once to get back to the home screen, double-click to multitask. Case in point: Say you were in the Messages app and a Facebook notification required your attention. Tapping on the notification would result in the Facebook app launching, and nothing more. If you wanted …
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