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iOS 9: Proactive Assistant, Pay in UK, News app, multitasking on iPad, more; public beta in July, final release this fall — Apple Previews iOS 9 — Apple® today unveiled iOS 9, giving a preview of new iPhone®, iPad® and iPod touch® software that will be available this fall.| 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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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.| Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab: |
Apple announces Flipboard-like app News, new rich media format for news items; publishers keep revenues from ads they sell, 70% from iAd ads; kills Newsstand — For news organizations, this was the most important set of Apple announcements in years — There wasn't a lot of buildup beforehand …
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| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
iPad QuickType keyboard updated with trackpad-style feature, external keyboard shortcuts, cut, copy, paste — Apple Just Turned The iPad Into A Real Computer With QuickType — It's just a keyboard, and so it should be limited to keys. — But with the new version of iOS 9 for iPad … | Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
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Apple Music launching June 30 on iOS, Mac, and PC with 3 months free, then $9.99 per month, coming to Apple TV and Android phones this fall — Introducing Apple Music — All The Ways You Love Music. All in One Place. — Apple® today unveiled Apple Music™, a single …
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| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
Apple announces Apple Music: music streaming, human-curated playlists, Beats 1 24/7 radio, Connect to allow artists to interact with fans — Apple announces its streaming music service, Apple Music — Apple has finally jumped into the music streaming race, unveiling Apple Music at WWDC this afternoon.
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Apple announces version 2 of its Swift programming language, plans to open-source it — Apple will open-source its Swift programming language — Apple is taking a big step to make its Swift programming language more and more pervasive. The language's compiler and libraries for iOS …
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Apple Previews New Apple Watch Software — watchOS 2 Introduces Native Third-Party Apps, New Watch Faces & Enhanced Communications Features — Apple® today previewed watchOS™ 2, the first major software update for Apple Watch™, giving developers the tools to build faster …
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Apple Announces OS X El Capitan with Refined Experience & Improved Performance — Apple® today announced OS X® El Capitan, a new version of OS X that refines the Mac® experience and improves system performance. Building on last year's landmark release of OS X Yosemite …
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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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| 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 … | Molly McHugh / Wired: |
Apple Finally Adds Reproductive Health to HealthKit — Today, onstage at WWDC, Apple's senior vice president of Software Engineering Craig Federighi announced a handful of updates for HealthKit: The platform will now track how much water you drink, how often you're sitting, and your UV exposure.
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| 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 … | 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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