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This attaché ready to serve your iPad Pro

Companies have designed shoulder bags exclusively for iPads, but let’s face it — most of us just toss them in whatever bag we have. Sure, we’ll spend on a hard cover or even a protective sleeve, but the iPad’s size and sleekness don’t demand that we dedicate a separate bag. But the iPad Pro changes […]

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Apple hides beautiful Retina wallpapers on ‘Something New’ website

If you’re looking for some amazing new Retina-display-quality images to wallpaper your Mac, iPhone or iPad, you might want to head over to Apple’s “Start Something New” campaign web page. The sub-site — part of an ongoing advertising campaign highlighting how creative you can get with Apple products — has a bunch of amazing images […]

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Amazon Prime gives gamers a deep discount on new titles

If you’re not already subscribed to Amazon Prime, you’re missing out on what might be the best deal on the planet. And today it gets even greater, because Amazon is now giving all Prime subscribers 20 percent off pre-order and newly-released video games. The discount is available on the latest games while they’re available for pre-order, and […]

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Spotify’s new ‘Behind the Lyrics’ playlists decipher your favorite songs

Understanding what your favorite rapper is saying is finally going to get a lot easer, if you’re a Spotify user. Spotify revealed a new feature going out to users, starting today, that allows you to look a song’s lyrics, as well as the meaning behind them. Songs will be compiled into a weekly ‘Behind the […]

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Now we know exactly which cars have CarPlay

Apple’s finally getting specific about how well adoption of its CarPlay protocol is going. A list appeared on the company’s website today confirming that over half of the manufacturers it has partnered with have announced specific models of vehicles that will receive the functionality. If you’re wondering which cars have CarPlay, you have over a […]

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Free Apple TV app lets you mainline weird video

A new Apple TV app promises to give you all the insane, free content you can handle, and it delivers. Rewinder is a free download in the Apple TV App Store, and it’s crammed full of the educational films, classic-TV anthologies, and questionable B-movies you didn’t know you had to see. If you’re a fan […]

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Chromebook schools Apple in key market segment

The Google Chromebook has moved past Apple to the head of the class for sales of tech products in the K-12 market. Chromebook sales surpassed 51 percent, up from 40 percent, for the first time, according to third quarter figures for 2015. Sales for Apple, which has put iPads, laptops and desktop Macs in classrooms, […]

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Apple shoots down rumor of ‘Switch to Android’ app

Apple is planning to make it easier to switch from iOS to Android anytime soon. Despite a report from the Telegraph this morning claiming Apple software engineers are working on an Android app that’s similar to Move To iOS only for Android, an Apple spokesperson has flatly denied the company has any such project in […]

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The great features tvOS 9.2 will bring to Apple TV

We know it isn’t a contest, but if we had to put the features revealed in Apple’s massive beta dump today up against each other, tvOS 9.2 would be the definite winner. Don’t get us wrong; it’s cool to see the future of our favorite iStuff all laid out in front of us like a […]

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David Bowie predicted the Apple Music future in 2003

David Bowie’s uncanny vision of the future didn’t stop with songs about holographic TVs or astronauts adrift in space. More than a decade ago, the dynamic entertainer — who died Sunday at age 69 after an 18-month battle with cancer — predicted the music biz would look a lot like it does in the time […]

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