Apple is researching ways to implement its Force Touch technology into Mac keyboards, according to a patent on Tuesday, a move that would not only slim down keyboard height by removing physical switches, but expand their utility.
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Tech giants Apple, Amazon, Google, PayPal and Intuit on Tuesday announced the formation of Financial Innovation Now, a financial services lobby that seeks to steer Washington policy as new technologies emerge.
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Gaming giant Activision Blizzard late Monday announced an agreement to purchase all outstanding shares of Candy Crush Saga developer King Digital Entertainment in a deal worth $5.9 billion.
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Three days after launching an all new tvOS App Store alongside the fourth-generation Apple TV, Apple on Monday added a Top Charts section to aggregate the online shop’s most popular and highest grossing titles, revealing games to be high on users’ download lists.
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The new Apple TV has been revamped both inside and out, sporting an entirely new operating system dubbed tvOS that brings it even closer to iOS, along with an overhauled Siri Remote featuring voice input and a fantastic clickable trackpad. But it’s what’s yet to come –?namely, the growth of the Apple TV App Store –?that will make or break the next-generation set-top box.
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Anandtech has awarded Apple’s new iPhone 6s and 6s Plus the site’s “Editors’ Choice Gold” ranking, the first iPhone to ever rank that highly and only the second phones to receive it since the site began in 1997.
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Adding to the quickly growing list of new Apple TV apps, media server solution Plex issued its hotly anticipated tvOS app on Monday with support for local content playback, Internet channels and more.
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Apple could be nearing release of an expected Mac Pro refresh, as code buried in the latest version of Apple’s OS X 10.11 El Capitan references an unknown Mac model with boosted specs and hardware not found in shipping machines.
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Apple might be on the verge of expanding Personal Pickup to a number of countries outside the U.S., finally allowing people in those regions to shop online but claim their purchases at a local Apple Store.
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Apple is hiring a person to help create “original content and live projects” for several of its online services, including Apple Music, iTunes, iBooks, and the App Store, according to a job listing discovered by AppleInsider.
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