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Apple Watch event predictions: 42mm models priced more than 38mm, Edition models over $10K, no upgradability, Photos demoed, 12" MacBook Air revealed — Apple Watch Prelude — I realize there's little point to further Apple Watch speculation at this point — in two days, we'll know most of the answers.
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And now it's all this, MacDailyNews, Forbes, Daring Fireball, TechSpective, WatchAware, Macworld and The Loop
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| Shara Tibken / CNET: |
Eddy Cue explains how Apple Watch uses your iPhone to authenticate Apple Pay payments — Eddy Cue: Here's how Apple Pay works on an Apple Watch — The exec in charge of Apple Pay tells CNET at a Golden State Warriors game that the mobile payments service will work on the company's … | Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
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Inside the life of Minecraft creator Markus Persson after the $2.5B sale to Microsoft — Inside The Post-Minecraft Billionaire Life Of Gamer God Markus Persson — It's 7 p.m. on a Monday in Stockholm, and Markus Persson sits on the terrace of his ninth-story office, sipping the speedball of alcoholic beverages, a vodka Red Bull.
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Hands-on with the final version of Valve's Steam controller that will ship in November — Valve's virtual reality headset is great, but its controllers are the real story — Valve has a lot of trust to regain when it comes to hardware. The Steam Machine concept — a fusion of consoles and gaming PCs … | Gordon Mah Ung / PC World: |
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Behind Yahoo's critical Alibaba investment and Marissa Mayer's plan to spin it into a separate company — Yahoo and Alibaba: Joined at the Balance Sheet — You head an Internet company. It has a billion users. Your social product alone has over 400 million users and is actually kind of hip.
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| Janko Roettgers / Gigaom: |
Pandora to release day pass for ad-free listening — Credit: Shutterstock / Evgeny Korshenkov — Pandora is looking to add a paid day pass to its service later this year, company executives revealed during Pandora's investor day Thursday. The day pass will give users …
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Mexican drug gangs are believed to be abducting IT specialists to build communication networks — The Drug Cartels' IT Guy — The most recent photo of Felipe García, an architect, taken just weeks before he disappeared in Northeastern Mexico in March 2013. He was wearing this shirt the day he vanished.| Dave Tach / Polygon: |
Behind freemium mobile game Crossy Road, which earned $10M and hit 50M downloads in 3 months — They wanted to make a phenomenon. They made $10 million. The story of Crossy Road. — A few years ago, Matt Hall, the 39-year-old co-creator of the enormously successful Crossy Road … | Robert Kolker / Bloomberg Business: |
Behind Machine Zone's Game of War, the mobile game earning over $1M per day from in-app purchases — One Nerd to Rule Them All (With Lots of Kate Upton) — One app to find them, and a million dollars of in-app purchases every day to bring them all and in the darkness bind them| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Hands-on with Canonical's Ubuntu mobile OS on new phones by BQ and Meizu — A Closer Look At Canonical's Ubuntu Phones — Canonical has finally got skin in the mobile game, putting its first Ubuntu phone on sale in Europe last month. — It's been showing off that mid-tier device …
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WhatsApp bans users of third-party clients until they uninstall offending apps — WhatsApp Says It's Not “Permanently” Banning Users From Its Service, Just Blocking Third-Party Clients — Quite a few reports circling the web this week appear to indicate a tightening of WhatsApp's policy toward …
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Transport for London is testing a Bluetooth beacon system that helps blind navigate the Tube — Technology helps visually impaired navigate the Tube — The desire of a group of visually impaired young people to travel independently on the London Underground, rather than rely on friends …
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