After years of development, Siri co-creators and former Apple employees Dag Kittlaus and Adam Cheyer are ready to demonstrate “Viv,” an advanced virtual assistant that could reinvent the way consumers interact with their devices.
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Apple and a cadre of Silicon Valley heavyweights have plans to issue a nonpartisan letter urging the next U.S. president to back the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement, a policy that would make hiring foreign workers a low friction process.
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Apple in an announcement Wednesday reminded developers of an upcoming change to App Store policy that requires all iOS apps include support for IPv6-only networking.
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A new survey of prospective smartphone owners signals customers are more excited to see what Apple has in store for this year’s “iPhone 7” than they were last year’s iPhone 6s unveiling, though early interest for the 2016 upgrade is still behind hype for the iPhone 6 two years ago.
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Though best known for user-uploaded videos, Google’s YouTube is nevertheless planning to launch a live TV subscription service dubbed “Unplugged,” a report said on Wednesday.
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Twitter released an important update to its official Mac client on Wednesday, finally bringing the software’s features closer to par with iOS and the Web.
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Apple is said to be working on a vast overhaul of its up-and-coming music streaming service, one that will reportedly include a new monochromatic user interface and a streamlined experience for users who prefer to read lyrics.
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Just two days after the first rumors surfaced, Hulu on Wednesday confirmed that it will be launching a live TV streaming service sometime in 2017, creating a tougher competitive landscape for anything Apple might have planned.
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Department store chain Kohl’s on Wednesday announced that Apple Pay users can now pay with a Kohl’s Charge card and earn Yes2You Rewards points at the same, making it the first Apple Pay retailer to combine store card payments and rewards in a single-tap transaction.
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Despite devices like the Apple Watch nominally being able to do more, dedicated fitness bands are vastly outselling other wearables in the U.S., according to a research report published on Wednesday.
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