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How Apple Built 3D Touch — Apple has made many things over the years, but its process has remained essentially the same: Find something ugly and complicated and make it prettier and easier. Prettiness, in brushed aluminum, is more or less a permanent state.| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
Thoughts about Apple's event: iPad Pro should compare favorably to recent MacBooks, Apple TV might be the most disruptive Apple product since iPhone, more — Brief Thoughts and Observations Regarding Today's ‘Hey Siri’ Apple Event — All for One, One for All
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| Husain Sumra / MacRumors: |
Apple promo video confirms iPhone 6s has a 1715mAh battery, smaller than 1810mAh battery in iPhone 6 — Apple's 3D Touch Video Confirms 1715 mAh iPhone 6s Battery — Last month, rumors and photos of a battery that looked very similar to an iPhone battery suggested that the iPhone 6s' battery capacity …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Hands-on with 3D Touch and new cameras on the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus — iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus: hands-on with 3D Touch and the new cameras — Every other year, Apple releases an iPhone that many people write off as a spec bump. Sure, it has a better camera, faster processor … | Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
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Microsoft plans to update Office for iPad Pro with support for Apple Pencil, Slide Over and Split View multitasking, more — Office updates for the iPad Pro, iOS 9 and WatchOS 2 — Today Apple announced the iPad Pro, iOS 9 and WatchOS 2. We've developed a number of new features for Word …
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Here's why Apple made the stylus that Steve Jobs hated — When Apple marketing chief Phil Schiller announced that the company's stylus for new iPad Pro would be called Pencil, the crowd audibly laughed in unison. On the surface, it was because it played into the stereotype that Apple lays claim to everyday inspirations.
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Hands-on with the new Apple TV — As expected, Apple announced an updated version of the Apple TV today, and I just spent a little time playing with it. Physically, the unit itself isn't much different than the older model — it's just a little bit taller — but the remote and interface are entirely new.| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
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Spanish location data visualisation startup CartoDB scores $23m in growth funding from Accel, Salesforce and others — CartoDB, the Madrid/New York-based startup that specialises in location data analysis and visualisation software, has secured $23 million in Series B funding to support its international growth.
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft confirms Office 2016 for Windows is officially launching on September 22 — We knew it was coming, but Microsoft has now officially confirmed that Office 2016 for Windows will be “broadly available” from September 22. — The full public launch comes after many months of iteration …
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| Glenn Peoples / Billboard: |
Spotify's Found Them First lets you see which artists you listened to before they became popular, defined as having over 20M streams and 2,000% growth — Spotify's ‘Found Them First’ Puts a New Spin on Discovery Bragging Rights — Do you listen to bands before they're famous? Are you a tastemaker?
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| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Secondhand Clothing Site ThredUp Raises $81 Million at Valuation Around $500 Million — The shakeout in the online used-clothing industry is here, and ThredUp is looking to separate from the pack. — The San Francisco-based shopping site, which sells secondhand clothing for women and children …
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Former Uber driver was an employee, rules California department — Uber has lost another legal round in the dispute over whether its drivers are independent contractors or employees, an issue that threatens the core of the ride-hailing company's business model.| Michael Mimoso / Threatpost: |
Android Stagefright Exploit Code Released to Public — Joshua Drake, the researcher who found the so-called Stagefright vulnerability in Android, today released exploit code to the public, which he hopes will be used to test systems' exposure to the flaw. — The move comes more than a month …
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| Mark Walton / Ars Technica UK: |
Samsung begins mass production of 12Gb LPDDR4 DRAM modules, opens possibility of 6GB RAM inside a mobile device — Samsung's new 12Gb DRAM modules allow for smartphones with 6GB of RAM — Samsung has begun mass production of the industry's first 12Gb LPDDR4 DRAM dies for mobile devices, fabricated on its 20nm manufacturing process.| Slack: |
Slack diversity report finds 41% of employees have a woman as their manager — Inclusion and Diversity at Slack — Today we are reporting our diversity data. We are not the first technology company to report this and by now, you probably know what that blog post looks like.
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