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iPhone 7 and 7 Plus review: great camera, display, and improved battery life but lack of new design is a let down and transition to wireless audio will be rough — In-depth with the new phones, the AirPods, A10 Fusion, the cameras, and more. — Up until now, every one of Apple's iPhone hardware updates has been additive.
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| Nicole Nguyen / BuzzFeed: |
The iPhone 7 and 7 Plus are more rugged than previous versions, thanks to waterproofing, making them a must-have for loyal iOS users ready for an upgrade — Okay, everyone, calm down. — BuzzFeed News / Apple — Last week, the internet exploded in enraged disbelief when Apple unveiled …
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| Brian X. Chen / New York Times: |
Sources: next year's iPhone will replace the home button with a virtual one as the screen will take up the whole front face of the phone — Apple's iPhone, just short of 10 years old, has hit puberty. — Like adolescents coping with awkward changes to their bodies, the iPhone 7 … | Steve Kovach / Business Insider: |
Apple AirPods review: intelligent pairing, impressive sensors, but mediocre sound, audio controls are convoluted, and they look awkward when in use — Nothing pairs better with a controversial move like killing the headphone jack from the most popular consumer product in history than releasing …
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| Raymond Wong / Mashable: |
iOS 10 review: a solid update to iOS 9, with many improvements including to the messages app, richer notifications, better maps, and more — Mashable Choice highlights the best of everything we cover, have experienced first-hand and would recommend to others.
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| Rich McCormick / The Verge: |
Sony releases software update for PS4 in preparation for new models, adds folders, HDR support for all PS4 consoles, streaming in 1080p, and more — The 4.00 update adds folders, HDR, and a new UI — Sony's biggest PlayStation 4 software update yet is now available, refreshing the console's interface … | Jeff Benjamin / 9to5Mac: |
Apple launches iMessage App Store with various iMessage apps, games, and sticker packs — Let the deluge begin... Not long after the Super Mario Run iMessage sticker pack was made available to iOS 10 users, Apple has unleashed the entire iMessage App Store.
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| Jack Marshall / Wall Street Journal: |
Eyeo, the company behind Adblock Plus, launches an ad exchange to help marketers display “acceptable ads” to users; Google and AppNexus are partners — Eyeo, the company behind the popular online ad blocking software Adblock Plus, said Tuesday it's launching an online advertising service …
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Filings from Chinese regulator TENAA show iPhone 7 has 1,960mAh, iPhone 7+ has 2,900 mAh battery; iPhone 6s had 1,715 mAh, iPhone 6s+ had 2,750 mAh battery — If you're familiar with Apple's iPhone events, and practically everyone is, then you know Apple will never mention certain things on stage like how much RAM an iPhone has.
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| Lauren Smiley / Backchannel: |
An inside look at Rothenberg Ventures, a seed-stage firm with stakes in companies like SpaceX, as it loses staff, changes name, and faces an SEC investigation — the last Monday in August, Mike Rothenberg—millennial venture capitalist, virtual reality check-writer, unhappy title-holder of … | Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Source: Twitter won't count media attachments such as polls, gifs, photos, quoted tweets, and videos toward the 140 character tweet limit beginning September 19 — Images, videos, and other attachments will no longer count — Twitter is about to make a big change to the way that tweets work, The Verge can report.
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See also Mediagazer| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
GitHub competitor GitLab raises $20M Series B led by August Capital with participation from YC, Khosla Ventures, now has 100+ remote employees — GitLab, the code collaboration platform for developers based on the open source Git tool, announced a $20 million Series B round today led by August Capital.
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