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Investors think Apple isn’t greening quickly enough

Apple is known as one of the most environmentally conscious companies in the world, but some shareholders think the company needs to to a lot more if it hopes to meet the aggressive goals set by the Paris Agreement last year. Boston-based investment firm Jantz Management has filed a resolution for Apple shareholders that would […]

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Betas for new iOS and OS X versions go public

Now you can try out the latest and greatest operating systems for Apple products, thanks to public betas for iOS 9.3 and OS X El Capitan 10.11.4. Both are now available for testing — even if you don’t have a developer account. You can grab both updates from Apple’s beta program website for free. Take […]

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Recycle your old device — save the planet

If there’s one thing we know, it’s that technology is continually evolving. This is what we love about it. The excitement of the next Apple product, the newest TV or car. Innumerable websites keep up with rumors and changes, and companies show off their latest and greatest technology and electronics at countless conventions. But there’s one […]

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Score a sweet discount on Amazon Prime this weekend

Amazon made Prime an even greater deal this week by adding 20% off the latest games, but if that couldn’t persuade you to finally sign up, perhaps a discounted membership will. This weekend only, a year of Prime will cost you just $73 — down from $99. The discount kicks in at 9 p.m. PT this Friday, […]

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The Google interview process is harder (but less horrible) than Apple’s

If you’re dreaming about being a software engineer at either Google or Apple, you should brace yourself for an ordeal. A new report comparing the difficulty, experiences, and lengths of interview processes from a variety of tech companies says that a Google interview is the hardest one you can undertake. Apple did slightly better in […]

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Google’s self-driving cars aren’t quite ready for the open road

As it stands now, self-driving cars may be more accident report than Minority Report. In a disclosure to the California Department of Motor Vehicles, the search-engine giant outlined specifics of its driverless-car testing from November 2014 to December 2015. Demo vehicles reportedly logged about 423,000 miles over that period. During that time, testers recorded over […]

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Apple’s latest failure: advertising

Apple’s six-year dabble into the world of advertising has come to an end. The company is reportedly surrendering its iAd program over entirely to publishers. That means publishers will get full control over the creation of ads, ad management and selling them. Apple apparently just doesn’t want anything to do with the ad business anymore. “It’s just […]

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Nancy Pelosi explains Apple Watch break at State of the Union

It seems that Nancy Pelosi had a bit of distraction during the President’s speech Tuesday. During last night’s State of the Union, President Obama reflected on his time in office and outlined his hopes and visions for the country’s future. It was a conversational, grounded, and relatable address that covered the outgoing leader’s successes and […]

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Clueless Jeb Bush just discovered his ‘Bat Phone’ (Apple Watch) makes calls

Jeb Bush is a huge Apple Watch fan even though he knows how to use it about as much as he knows how to beat Donald Trump. The presidential hopeful is always incorrectly referring to the device as an “iWatch” — and apparently didn’t discover until today that it can make calls. Bush received an […]

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How to use VLC to watch any video on Apple TV

So you’ve got a fourth-generation Apple TV (the one with Siri Remote and all the apps) and you’ve just downloaded VLC, the “play everything” video app that was just ported to tvOS. The last few versions of Apple TV haven’t included any storage for video files, and the same is true of the latest model: […]

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