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“We’ll be back”, says Apple. The Apple Store is down, shuttered in readiness for the announcement of tonight’s long-awaited new iPhone 5S and 5C smart phones. Exciting stuff! That’s what we’re expecting, anyway, at Apple’s announcement at 6pm. It’s hotly-anticipated in anyone’s language. CNET is front and centre at Apple’s big event in San Francisco for our up-to-the-minute live blog, on-the-spot …

Apple’s going to be all fingers and thumbs tonight. The iPhone 5S, due to be launched this evening at a glitzy event in California, will be the first Apple mobile to feature fingerprint technology dubbed Touch ID, according to reports. The much-rumoured identity-checking tech — further fuelled yesterday in leaked photos and videos of an altered home button — has …