A profile of Apple Music chief Oliver Schusser includes claims that his predecessor, Jimmy Iovine, spent “excessive amounts of money,” and adds that while the service is still growing faster than Spotify, that pace has slowed.

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Apple has signed a deal to acquire the majority of Intel’s cellular modem patents, intellectual property and key personnel in a deal valued at $1 billion, furthering the tech giant’s plans to take ownership of iPhone’s communications stack.

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Sony is crowdfunding a project called the Reon Pocket, a wearable AC/heater unit compatible with both iPhones and Android devices.

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Apple has updated the MacBook Air alongside the MacBook Pro. We’ve spent the past couple weeks with the newly revamped Air to see how it performs as Apple’s new entry-level portable Mac.

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Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo suspects that the 16-inch MacBook Pro will be the first Apple laptop to shift to a scissor mechanism, and away from the butterfly keyboard introduced in the MacBook in 2015.

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Apple has released a new commercial promoting the Beats PowerBeats Pro, one featuring a group of runners chasing the Sun in Iceland to highlight the long battery life the wireless headphones offer athletes and fitness enthusiasts.

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NBCUniversal’s still-unnamed streaming service will launch in April, CEO Steve Burke said during an earnings call on Wednesday.

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Apple is continuing to expand its ‘Privacy. That’s iPhone’ campaign into more territories, with more billboards in the series spotted in Hamburg and Berlin in Germany promoting the iPhone and iOS’ data security credentials.

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In a survey of 700 “retail IT decision makers,” 76% said that Apple tech is better to use in stores than either Windows or Android, according to the Apple-focused device management firm Jamf.

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A future version of the Maps app could provide more intuitive navigational instructions to drivers in the future, by using augmented reality to superimpose the route to take on top of a live view of the road ahead, indicating which lanes a driver should take.

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