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Apple may have just revealed an updated iPhone 5c with Touch ID

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by on May 21, 2015 at 1:01 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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This afternoon I was browsing the Apple Store, considering buying the new iPhone Lightning dock and stumbled across an picture of what appears to be an updated iPhone 5c featuring Touch ID. We’ve heard repeated rumors that Apple plans to update the 5c to match the latest iPhone design, but they’re yet to actually materialize. The image appears in a gallery found on Apple’s Store for the dock announced earlier this week. The original iPhone 5c features a home button with a square in the middle, whereas the image found on Apple’s site today shows an iPhone with the Touch ID fingerprint sensor. Old iPhone 5c (left)…

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YouTube adds 60fps live streaming into the mix to take on Twitch

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by on May 21, 2015 at 12:29 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Google, Insider

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YouTube has supported 60fps playback on videos for a while now, but until today, it didn’t offer a high-rate option for live streams. Now, it does. Available from today in ‘early preview’, any time you start a 60fps stream, YouTube will transcode it into either 720p60 or 1080p60 for “silky smooth playback for gaming and other fast-action videos,” the company said. Streams will also be available at 30fps for viewers watching on a device that doesn’t support the 60fps option. Clearly, the move is a push to recapture some of the eyeballs that now head straight to services like Twitch for live game…

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Why emotion and personal connection are the key to wearables

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by on May 21, 2015 at 12:08 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, wearables

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There is a fair amount of perceived innovation in wearable technology that is actually static reproduction of what’s already out there — with many recycled ideas lacking in originality, foresight and plausibility. So how do you break into that market and do it successfully? You have to look beyond just product technology and put yourself in the mindset of consumers. People have to want to use your product because it adds something new and useful to their lives, or even enhances a previous experience they have with a different technology. Few people want just any piece of plastic because it’s…

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QuizUp 2.0 lands with a new design, focus on social interaction and support for the desktop

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by on May 21, 2015 at 12:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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With more than four billion game matches and over 28 billion questions answered since QuizUp hit the scene at the end of 2013, the developer behind the title – Plain Vanilla Games – has decided a revamp is well overdue. From today, the new version of QuizUp – available for Android and iOS devices – puts more of a focus on ‘social matching’ and interaction beyond gameplay. Essentially, it wants the platform to be a veritable social network of eager quizzers, rather than the preserve of people killing 15 minutes of their day on a train. That’s not to say that the…

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Someone pitched their Apple Watch app to our fake Patrick Bateman

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by on May 21, 2015 at 11:54 am
Posted In: Apple watch, Apps, Around the Web, Insider, Patrick Bateman

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Last month, we published an Apple Watch review by Patrick Bateman. Only, Patrick’s not real. He’s the protagonist of  ‘American Psycho’ by Brett Easton Ellis and I was channeling him for that little slice of satire. Still, that didn’t stop one eager PR person from pitching an Apple Watch app to him: I can’t tell for sure if Bateman would dig Easy Ten, which encourages you to learn 10 foreign words a day, and has just made the leap from the iPhone to the Apple Watch. Still, 10/10 for effort, and to any other PRs hoping to get Patrick’s attention: This is a…

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