An Apple patent application published on Thursday describes a portable device with a flexible OLED screen capable of retracting into two hollow casings, suggesting the company is looking into alternative hardware formats for flagship products like iPhone and iPad.
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In an update to its webpage on Wednesday, Apple refreshed the design of a mini-site dedicated to iOS 10’s Home app and debuted a video showing off some of the smarthome software’s best features.
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Apple and 52 other major U.S. corporations have signed a legal brief in support of Gavin Grimm, a transgender student whose case involving public bathroom usage rights is being heard by the Supreme Court.
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In an interview on Wednesday, Oculus co-founder and head of Rift operations Nate Mitchell said that while support for macOS is not currently on the company’s roadmap, it might revisit the topic of Apple integration in the future.
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For the second year in a row, Apple shareholders on Tuesday voted against a proposal that would force the company to actively recruit “people of color” to high-ranking management positions and its board of directors.
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Spotify is testing out the pricing for a new service providing lossless audio streams, with reports claiming a prompt for “Spotify Hi-Fi” offers the higher quality audio tracks and other benefits to subscribers, in exchange for a higher monthly fee.
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In a meeting with journalists at Mobile World Congress, Google’s senior Vice President of hardware Rick Osterloh reportedly described the “end of the line” for the company’s premium notebook bearing the Pixel brand, after shipping just two editions of the product since 2013.
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A U.S. federal appeals court on Wednesday tossed a $533 million verdict in favor of patent holder Smartflash, which in an earlier court battle had argued that Apple violated its data storage concepts by way of iTunes.
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Apple’s stock price on Wednesday afternoon broke $140 per share and is only a few dollars short of both a pre-split $1000 valuation and breaking the company’s previous market capitalization record of $774.69 billion set in 2015.
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Microsoft on Wednesday launched preliminary support for Google Calendar and Contacts data in Office 2016 for the Mac, filling in a significant gap in the email and scheduling app. Along the same lines, Gmail accounts can now make better use of Outlook features.
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