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iPad Air 2: best iPad ever, but only a modest evolutionary improvement over the Air — Apple iPad Air 2 Review: It's Better, but Is It Better Enough? — I am a tablet lover and, more specifically, an iPad lover. I use my iPad and iPad mini every day for a variety of things …
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
iPad Air 2 review: great hardware, but lacks multiuser, multitasking support, tablet-specific features — Apple iPad Air 2 review — What is an iPad? — When Steve Jobs introduced Apple's tablet in January 2010, he delivered an unequivocal answer. “The iPad, if you were to sum it up …
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Engadget, TechCrunch, New York Times, Guardian, AppleInsider, iMore, MacRumors, Business Insider, Tech.pinions, SlashGear, Mashable, 9to5Mac and iPhone in Canada Blog. Tweets: @reckless
| David Pogue / Yahoo Tech: |
The iPad Air 2: Thin, Gorgeous, Powerful — and That's Enough — Hey, kids! It's time to play Apple Announcement Mad Libs! … Yes, it's gotten to the point that we tech critics can pretty much recycle our iPad reviews from year to year. — This is it: The new iPad Air 2 (Deanne Fitzmaurice/Yahoo Tech)| Molly Wood / New York Times: |
Apple Pay: Seamless in Stores, but Quirky Online — AFTER I used Apple Pay for a day of shopping in stores, a few things became clear: The new payment system is convenient, problem-free and even fun. — The same can't be said for using Apple Pay to shop via apps on my phone or tablet.| Kelly Hodgkins / MacRumors: |
Apple Pay Shown to Work Internationally Using U.S.-Based Credit Cards — Apple Pay launched on Monday with iOS 8.1, allowing iPhone 6 and 6 Plus owners to make contactless payments via NFC with Touch ID for authentication. — Though the initial launch is occurring in the United States … | Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Nexus 6 hands-on: supersized, even by today's standards, with much improved camera — The Nexus 6: hands-on with Google's phablet — After watching Apple unapologetically release the gigantic iPhone 6 Plus and Samsung release the fourth iteration of its massive Galaxy Note …
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| Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land: |
Apple Launches “Maps Connect,” Self-Service Local Listings Portal — This afternoon Apple notified us of a new self-service portal to add or edit local business listings: Apple Maps Connect. It's intended for small business owners or their authorized representatives (though not agencies) …
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| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
iPad Air 2 Up to 55% Faster Than iPhone 6, Up to 68% Faster Than iPad Air — A short time ago, we highlighted a new benchmark appearing to show an iPad Air 2 device carrying an A8X chip with a triple-core 1.5 GHz processor and 2 GB of RAM. — While we mentioned that the enhanced specs …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Yahoo Beats In Q3 With Revenue Of $1.09B, EPS Of $0.52 — With all eyes on what Yahoo will do with its $5 billion+ in Alibaba cash, Yahoo today reported its Q3 earnings after the close of trading, with sales of $1.09 billion excluding traffic acquisition costs and non-GAAP earnings per share of $0.52.
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| Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed: |
Sexist French Uber Promotion Pairs Riders With “Hot Chick” Drivers — “Who said women don't know how to drive?” the Uber blog post asks. The post was deleted after an inquiry from BuzzFeed News. — Yesterday, Uber's Lyon office unveiled a new promotion with an app called “Avions de Chasse.”
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| Jonathan Vanian / Gigaom: |
Google exec: Chromecast V2 is coming; users have cast 650 million times — Google's Mario Queiroz said that 650 million people have now hit the cast button. An API for developers will let them build custom apps for Backdrop. — Three months ago, Google claimed that Chromecast users …
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| Tiernan Ray / Tech Trader Daily: |
GT Advanced To Sell Furnaces for Cash to Pay Back Apple, Says Fortune — Fortune columnist Philip Elmer-DeWitt a short while ago tweeted from the courtroom in Springfield, Massachusetts that one-time Apple (AAPL) supplier GT Advanced Technologies (GTAT) has agreed to pay off its debts to Apple …
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Wall Street Journal, StreetInsider.com, 9to5Mac, Reuters, CNET, Cult of Mac, AppleInsider, MacRumors, Electronista, SlashGear, Seeking Alpha and iDownloadBlog.com. Tweets: @philiped
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Raspberry Pi Founder Shows Off Incoming Touch Panel For Making DIY ‘Pi Pads’ — Eben Upton, the founder of the Raspberry Pi microcomputer, has shown off a new piece of hardware that's likely to expand the ecosystem around its single board computer — namely a touchscreen display.
Tweets: @pmarca
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft Lumia to replace Nokia brand, starting in France, global rollout in the coming weeks — Microsoft Lumia will replace the Nokia brand — Microsoft started dropping hints about its plans to kill off the Nokia and Windows Phone brands last month, and now the company is ready to make it official.| Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code: |
HP to announce Sprout, a computing device combining a large display, touch surface, 3D scanner, and overhead projector — HP Will Unveil New Computing Product Called Sprout Next Week — When Hewlett-Packard announced it would split in two — one company devoted to PCs and printing …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft releases new Windows 10 preview with a Notification Center — Microsoft released its first Windows 10 Technical Preview just three weeks ago and the software maker is now ready to issue a fresh update. If you're already testing Windows 10 then a new preview build (9860) … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Acquires Firebase To Help Developers Build Better Real-Time Apps — Google today announced that it has acquired Firebase, a backend service that helps developers build realtime apps for iOS, Android and the web that can store and sync data instantly.
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Firebase, Google Cloud Platform Blog, Gigaom, The Next Web, 9to5Google, VatorNews and VentureBeat
| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Staples investigating credit card breach at its retail stores after multiple banks report fraud — Banks: Credit Card Breach at Staples Stores — Multiple banks say they have identified a pattern of credit and debit card fraud suggesting that several Staples Inc. office supply locations …
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Ars Technica, Re/code, VentureBeat, Fortune, Reuters, TechnoBuffalo, The Verge, ReadWrite, DailyTech, The Daily Caller, New York Times, BGR, Ubergizmo, Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, internetretailer.com, ABC News, SC Magazine, Network World, ZDNet, The Register, BBC, CNET, Forbes, Inquirer and MacNN. Tweets: @lessien
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Product Hunt Gets Social With Twitter-Like User Profiles, Following Features And Notifications — Product Hunt, the Andreessen Horowitz-backed aggregation site currently focused on surfacing new tech products and startups, is now turning itself into something of a social network this morning …
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