Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Apple confirms Black Friday deals event and other top stories.

  • Apple confirms Black Friday deals event

    Apple confirms Black Friday deals event
    Apple last year decided against holding a Black Friday shopping event, though many of its retail partners offered plenty of hot deals on Apple gear. We though the same thing would happen in 2016, but we were wrong. Apple only put up a holiday gifts guide page on its website, and an Apple Pay-related promotion while everyone else was getting ready for Black Friday. However, that changed a few hours ago, as Apple placed a special teaser page on its website that says Black Friday deals are coming...
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  • Almost half the world will be online by end of 2016; poorer countries will...

    Almost half the world will be online by end of 2016; poorer countries will...
    By Nqobile Dludla | JOHANNESBURG JOHANNESBURG By the end of 2016, almost half of the world's population will be using the internet as mobile networks grow and prices fall, but their numbers will remain concentrated in the developed world, a United Nations agency said on Tuesday. In the world's developed countries about 80 percent of the population use the internet. But only about 40 percent in developing countries and less than 15 percent in less-developed countries are online, according to ..
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  • No, You Don't Need A PC Powerhouse To Use Microsoft's $300 Windows 10 VR Headsets: Minimum System ...

    No, You Don't Need A PC Powerhouse To Use Microsoft's $300 Windows 10 VR Headsets: Minimum System ...
    Microsoft has revealed the minimum system requirements to run VR experiences on Windows 10 by way of the Windows Holographic First Run application, which came with the recently released Insider Preview build 14971. That said, everyone now has a better idea of what the Redmond company has in store aside from the VR headsets starting at $300 — and that a slew of different brands from Acer to Lenovo will manufacture them — and support for the Windows Holographic VR platform arriving via the Window..
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  • Apple Will Fix Defective iPhone 6s Smartphone Batteries for Free

    Apple Will Fix Defective iPhone 6s Smartphone Batteries for Free
    Apple will fix any iPhone 6s smartphone suffering from what the company says is an uncommon battery problem. The tech giant AAPL will replace the battery on any iPhone 6s that shuts down unexpectedly, the company confirmed in a Support post on its website on Sunday. The replacement will be free, but limited to iPhone 6s units purchased between September and October 2015 that fall within a certain, but unidentified, serial number range. The announcement comes just days after iPhone 6s own..
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  • HTC just unveiled one of the best Android phones of 2016, but you can't have one

    HTC just unveiled one of the best Android phones of 2016, but you can't have one
    First, the good news: HTC just unveiled what is easily one of the best new Android smartphones of 2016. The handset, dubbed the HTC 10 evo, features a large 5.5-inch Super LCD 3 display with quad HD resolution and a pixel density of 534 ppi. It sports a 2.0 GHz Snapdragon 810 processor, 3GB of RAM and 32GB or 64GB of storage plus microSDXC support. It ships with Android 7.0 Nougat out of the box, and it packs HTC’s latest 16-megapixel camera with phase detection auto focus and optical image sta..
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  • Amazon pursues premium sports package for Prime membership

    Amazon pursues premium sports package for Prime membership
    November 22, 2016 - 14:01 AMTPanARMENIAN.Net - Amazon is exploring an ambitious push to infiltrate the last bastion of traditional pay-television: live sports, The Wall Street Journal reports. In recent months, the e-commerce giant has been in talks with heavy hitters like the National Basketball Association, Major League Baseball and the National Football League for the rights to carry live games, according to people familiar with the matter. It also has talked with soccer, lacrosse and surfin..
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  • Facebook's Aquila drone is under investigation for a structural failure

    Facebook's Aquila drone is under investigation for a structural failure
    The drone with which Facebook hopes to provide internet to much of the world had a structural failure during its first test flight and is now under investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board, Bloomberg reported today. Facebook offered few details about the structural failure, which took place as the drone was coming in for a landing. An NTSB report on the incident is expected within “a month or two,” the agency told The Verge. On July 21st, I reported that Facebook had successfu..
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  • If you own the OnePlus 3 and are upset about the OnePlus 3T, get a grip

    If you own the OnePlus 3 and are upset about the OnePlus 3T, get a grip
    OnePlus, the small Chinese upstart that has charmed Android smartphone enthusiasts with its combination of high specs and rock-bottom prices, has earned itself a small backlash of disapproval this week. Its sin? Introducing a newer and better OnePlus 3 — the 3T — too soon after the first one. The 3 came out in the summer, and the 3T is following up now, roughly half a year later. Most aggrieved are the people who bought the OnePlus 3 most recently, feeling somehow cheated by the rapid replaceme..
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  • Samsung Galaxy S7 To Launch In New Glossy Black Color To Compete With Shiny Jet Black iPhone 7

    Samsung Galaxy S7 To Launch In New Glossy Black Color To Compete With Shiny Jet Black iPhone 7
    A new report claims Samsung is preparing to introduce a new color option for the Galaxy S7 in December. The company is supposedly planning to release a Glossy Black version of the Galaxy S7 to counter Apple's Jet Black iPhone 7. Leading up to the release of the Galaxy Note 7 in August, Samsung was having a very good year in the smartphone game. The company's Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge received stellar reviews at launch, and the pair remains the best-selling Android smartphones of 2016. The Ga..
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  • x86 emulation rumored to be coming to Windows for ARM in late 2017

    x86 emulation rumored to be coming to Windows for ARM in late 2017
    reader comments 102 it looks like Windows's hybrid x86-on-ARM64 tech has a new name "CHPE", whatever it means :-) maybe something like Compound Hybrid PE ? pic.twitter.com/aW1RLYU3dM — WalkingCat (@h0x0d) November 21, 2016 Microsoft is working on an emulator enabling systems with ARM processors to run x86 applications, according to sources speaking to Mary Jo Foley, and the capability will ship in the update codenamed "Redstone 3," currently due for fall 2017. This will be the third Minecra..
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