Apple Watch pricing, availability, surprises & more, here's what to expect at Apple's event
Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac :
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.
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 …
Sources on Apple Watch: battery charges in just two hours, skin contact and 10%+ battery need to get notifications, essentially a time-saving device
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The rise of the Steam Machines: Inside Valve's deep, varied living room PC lineup
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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...
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 …
CIA plans major reorganization and a focus on digital espionage
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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...
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 va...
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 d...
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...
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 ...
Google is reportedly working on a virtual-reality version of Android
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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 …
Pinterest's first full-year transparency report reveals 41 government data requests on 58 accounts
Last year, we began publishing … Napier Lopez / The Next Web : Pinterest publishes its first full-year transparency report, US government requests the most cookie recipes
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. Tweets: @st...
Apple to overhaul iPad for Education program, remove Apple ID requirement for apps and books for large deployments beginning this fall
Joe Rossignol / MacRumors :
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
Microsoft sues Kyocera in new Android patent infringement dispute
Todd Bishop / GeekWire :
Facebook Anonymous Login Still in Beta After a Year
Kurt Wagner / Re/code :
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