On Tuesday night, Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook formally accepted his “Ripple of Hope” award from the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights organization, speaking for almost 12 minutes on a variety of hot-button issues.

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Apple retail partner Best Buy kicked off major discounts on the Apple Watch on Wednesday, offering $100 off its inventory of Apple Watch Sport and stainless steel Apple Watch models for a limited time, marking the lowest price points yet for the wearable. Some shoppers may also find equivalent or better deals at Apple authorized reseller B&H as well.

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Apple’s vision for the future of television is a basic streaming bundle with just a handful of channels for a low price — something content owners couldn’t agree to, according to a new report.

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Apple on Wednesday published its annual Best of 2015 feature for the App Store, highlighting the company’s own picks as well as overall bestsellers.

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Deezer has announced that an updated iOS app — coming later on Wednesday — will allow iPhone owners to control the music service via CarPlay.

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Dropbox this week announced that it will discontinue its popular iOS email client Mailbox in early 2016. Thankfully there are a number of quality alternatives available for free on the App Store that offer similar functionality, including instant push notifications for free Gmail accounts.

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Pricing for one of B&H’s extended holiday sales, dubbed Laptopapalooza, wraps up just before midnight tonight with discounts of up to $250 on 2015 MacBook Pros, 13″ MacBook Airs from $899 (or $1299 fully-loaded), MacBook Pros with CD/DVD for $979, and band new iMac HDs from $999.

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Microsoft’s voice assistant, Cortana, will be available on “select” iPhone and Android devices starting on Wednesday, with Cyanogen OS suport coming later this month, according to an official blog post.

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A new, free OS X app dubbed SiriMote allows owners of the new fourth-gen Apple TV to pair the device’s Siri Remote with a Mac computer, offering a new method of control.

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Apple is at work on a new iOS remote app that will fully replicate the functions of the Siri Remote bundled with the fourth-generation Apple TV, according to the company’s senior VP of Internet Software and Services, Eddy Cue.

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