Yoky Matsuoka, a leading expert in the fields of robotics and artificial intelligence, is returning to Alphabet’s Nest Labs after serving less than nine months on the job at Apple, where she was in charge of various health-related projects including aspects of Apple Watch.

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AT&T’s DirecTV has successfully managed to acquire more than 200,000 paying subscribers within one month of its launch on November 30, but despite the growth, customers of the Internet TV provider are continuing to endure issues with the service.

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Now heading up Autopilot development at Tesla, former Apple director Chris Lattner says that he’s hoping to “accelerate the path to cars being appliances that solve people’s problems,” rather than machines that require constant maintenance.

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A new listing on the U.S. Federal Communications Commission’s regulatory database reveals Apple is still working on an unannounced product equipped with near-field technology that first surfaced in September of 2016.

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If you received a new Mac for the holidays or bought a 2016 12″ MacBook on release day, now is the time to purchase an AppleCare extended protection plan before the one-year warranty expires. Adorama is slashing prices on standalone AppleCare purchases by as much as $90 — and all plans comes with free shipping and no tax outside NY and NJ.

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Apple has reached a settlement with a San Antonio, Tex.-based firm called e-Watch, which claimed that the company was violating two U.S. patents related to cellphone cameras.

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Google has relaunched Google Voice, refreshing the VoIP service with an updated web experience and modernized iOS and Android apps, among other new features, in the cross-platform calling service’s first significant update in over five years.

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Adding to the bevy of updates, Apple on Monday released watchOS 3.1.3 and tvOS 10.1.1, the former being Apple’s first Watch update since the botched 3.1.1 code from December.

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In conjunction with iOS, tvOS, and watchOS updates, Apple has also released the 10.12.3 update to macOS Sierra, bringing GPU driver updates to the 2016 MacBook Pro, and a fix for PDF corruption.

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Wrapping up weeks of beta testing, Apple on Monday released the completed version of iOS 10.2.1, a minor update for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

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