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Live stream of Apple's WWDC 2015 keynote address, viewable in Safari and on Apple TV — Our live broadcast begins at 10 a.m. PDT. Follow along and share your favorite moments from todayÂ's #AppleLive event. Live streaming video requires Safari 6.0.5 or later on OS X v10.8.5 or later; Safari on iOS 6.0 or later.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
iOS 9 for iPad: split screen, picture-in-picture video, ability to use keyboard as trackpad — Apple iPad Gets Split-Screen Multitasking In iOS 9 — Apple is looking to make iPads more functional devices for business productivity with a new split-screen app mode which allows iPad users to run two different apps side-by-side.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Apple Announces Proactive Assistant, Its Google Now Competitor — Apple today announced ‘Proactive,’ its rumored Google Now competitor and update to Siri, which will launch with iOS 9. The proactive assistant is a mix of Google Now and similar tools that aim to make the user's life easier … | Kyle Russell / TechCrunch: |
Apple announces Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan coming for free this fall with revamped Spotlight search, better window management, improved performance, Metal API — Apple Announces Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan — At its Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, Apple just announced …
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Apple officially delivers transit directions to Maps with iOS 9 — Announced on stage at WWDC today, Apple is ready at last to deliver a major upgrade for users of its Apple Maps service. Coming in iOS 9, Apple's Maps application will include integrated transit directions for commuters …
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
iOS 9: Proactive Assistant, Pay in UK, News app, multitasking on iPad, more; public beta in July, final release this fall — Apple announces iOS 9 — Apple has just announced the next version of iOS, unsurprisingly called iOS 9. With the latest version of its mobile platform …
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| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
Apple announces its streaming music service, Apple Music — Apple has finally jumped into the music streaming race, unveiling Apple Music at WWDC this afternoon. The company revolutionized digital music with the iPod and iTunes, but is now playing catch up, trying to align itself with the current era of subscription offerings.| Kyle Russell / TechCrunch: |
Apple announces watchOS 2 coming this fall and native app SDK for Watch — Apple Unveils The Apple Watch Native App SDK — The Apple Watch just became a much more interesting development platform with the announcement of watchOS 2 and a true native app SDK at WWDC this morning.
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| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Apple announces version 2 of its Swift programming language, plans to open-source it — Apple will open-source its Swift programming language — Breaking news from WWDC: — Read our complete coverage of Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference. — Apple is taking a big step …
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Macworld, Ars Technica, Techvibes Global News, AppleInsider, MacRumors, CNET, iMore, The Next Web, ZDNet and Engadget
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Apple News looks like Flipboard and replaces Newsstand on your iPhone or iPad — Rumors suggested Apple was planning to kill off Newsstand, and now the company is making it official: News will replace Newsstand. News brings content from publishers across the world, and content owners can customize the way articles are displayed.| The Verge: |
Live blog of Apple's WWDC 2015 keynote address — Live from Apple WWDC 2015 — Apple has a lot of software to update: from the Mac to the iPad to the Watch to Apple TV, it's going to be a huge show. Hey! You're a little bit early. The keynote starts at 10PT / 1ET.
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Sources: Apple is building its own content delivery network, considers designing own servers and networking equipment for its data centers — Apple Said to Build High-Speed Network for Fast Content Delivery — Apple Inc. is assembling a high-speed network and upgrading how it builds data centers … | Yasmin Khan / Skype Blogs: |
Skype Translator Preview coming to Skype for Windows desktop app by end of summer — Skype Translator Preview Is Coming to the Skype for Windows Desktop App — To bring Skype Translator into more people's lives, today we are happy to announce that the Skype Translator preview technology …
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PCWorld, ZDNet, InfoWorld, Inquirer, VentureBeat, Engadget, The Next Web, TechFrag, WinBeta, SlashGear, Neowin and FierceEnterpriseCommunications …
| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
Google's Neal Mohan Expected to Move to Dropbox to Head Product — Google vet Neal Mohan is expected to leave the search giant to join Dropbox as its head of product. — Re/code had pinged Dropbox and Mohan about rumors of such a move weeks ago. Sources close to the situation said it was now happening …
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| Tom Maxwell / 9to5Google: |
AT&T announces ruggedized Samsung Galaxy S6 Active with 3,500mAh battery, 5.1" QHD display, 16MP rear, 5MP front cameras, Exynos 7420; available from June 12 — Samsung Galaxy S6 Active officially announced by AT&T, sports massive 3,500mAh battery (Update: available June 12)
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