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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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| 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 …
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| 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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| 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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VentureBeat, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, MacRumors, Re/code, CNET, Macworld, MacRumors, 9to5Mac and Engadget
| 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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| 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.
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| 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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| Mitchel Broussard / MacRumors: |
Apple Pay Coming to the United Kingdom Next Month, Discover Card Support Arriving This Fall — Today Apple briefly reiterated on Apple Pay's success in the United States, briefly mentioning upcoming support for Discover credit cards and new expansive partners coming soon.
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MacRumors, AppleInsider, The Verge, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, The Next Web, Engadget and CNET
| 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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AppleInsider, MacRumors, CNET, The Next Web, 9to5Mac, Engadget and PCWorld
| 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.| Kyle Russell / TechCrunch: |
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Mercury News and The Next Web. Tweets: @tiffanyarment, @markgurman, @techledes, @panzer and @joshuatopolsky
| James Vincent / The Verge: |
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| Peter Burrows / Bloomberg Business: |
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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| 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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AT&T, ZDNet, PCWorld, Inquirer, Gizmodo, The Verge, Gotta Be Mobile, Electronista, TechSpot, Droid Life and PhoneRadar. Tweets: @davezatz
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