Microsoft today released its first standalone keyboard application for iOS users. No, it’s not the rumored version of its Windows Phone keyboard that’s being ported to the iPhone – it’s an iOS version of the Microsoft Hub keyboard, which hit Android this February. Like the prior release, the iOS Hub keyboard lets you quickly share Office documents and those stored in… Read More
Electronics trade shows and exhibitions play host to all manner of announcements. Some pertain to products that we’ve been trailing for months prior to the unveiling, while on other occasions, companies surprise onlookers with something new and audacious. Alcatel’s showcasing of the OneTouch Xess tablet back at last year’s IFA caught everyone unawares, thanks largely — if you’ll excuse the pun — to the 17-inch display. With a slew of quirks that one might not find elsewhere, it’s an interesting concept, and one that will hit shelves in two weeks’ time.
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If you’re like me, you bought an Apple Watch before Apple announced the Hermès special edition in September, but you’ve fallen in love with the Apple Watch Hermès since then — yes, the Hermès Watch looks awesome. And yet, it’s hard to justify buying a new Apple Watch if you already have one. Apple will now let you buy Hermès bands separately. The company is also… Read More
When Steve Jobs held up the Apple iPhone in his hands on January 9th, 2007, could he have imagined that nine years later the product he was showing off to the press would be closing in its one billionth unit sold? That is the position that Apple finds itself in. At the end of 2015, 896 million iPhones had been sold. If Apple sells 50 million units in the first calendar quarter, and another 44 million in the current quarter as analysts expect, the company will enter the summer just 10 million iPhones short of the magic number.
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If you’ve been shredding for Stereosonic, now is the time to stop.
The Australian festival — which is home to beefed-up, neck-tattooed, shirtless men with a David Hasselhoff perma-tan who don’t mind the odd brawl — has officially called it quits for one year.
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It has been speculated the shut down is linked to two deaths at the nationwide festival in 2015 due to drug overdoses.
Pharmacist Sylvia Choi, 25, died at the Sydney event after taking an ecstasy pill with the SnapChat logo printed on it. While Stefan Woodward, 19, …
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Fintech is in the midst of a golden age of investment and innovation. According to KPMG and CB Insights, investments in fintech startups doubled between 2014 and 2015, to $14 billion. However, comparatively little of this money has been focused on the $138 billion market opportunity to disrupt alternative financial services in the United States. This lack of focus is damaging… Read More
Donald Trump went after Sen. Ted Cruz hard on Wednesday at a massive rally on Long Island, firing up an enormous crowd of New Yorkers by attacking Cruz’s past comments deriding “New York values.”
“Do you remember during the debate when he started lecturing me on New York values like we’re no good, like we’re no good,” Trump said to boos from the thousands of people packed into Grumman Studios in Bethpage, New York. “And I started talking to him about the World Trade Center, the bravery, the incredible bravery of everybody, our police, our firemen, our everybody.”
“Folks, I think you can forget about him,” Trump added. …
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A young American boy is the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit challenging his and others’ placement on a government terrorist watchlist.
According to the civil complaint filed in federal court in Virginia on Tuesday, the boy had been given an “SSSS designation indicating that he had been designated as a ‘known or suspected terrorist'” while going through airport security.
Since he was a seven-month-old, Baby Doe, as he is referred to, was subject to “extensive searches,” including rifling through all of his diapers.
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Robotics researchers in the US develop a new technique to build working robots using a 3D printer. – Source
