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Google is injecting some pizazz into its Google Glass wearable technology after the company announced a new collection of frames and shades created by fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg. The ‘DVF | Made for Glass collection’ will be available to buy from the Google Glass site or Net-A-Porter from June 23, and it includes five new frames and eight new shades designed by von Furstenberg. The Belgium-born designer has previous ties with Glass, having used the technology in a runway show in New York last year. Google opened the $1,500 Explorer Program to members of the public in the US last month, and appointed long-time…
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Apple has pledged to make significant changes to its mapping services in China, nearly 18 months after launching the product. Apple Maps received negative feedback worldwide following its release in 2012, but the glitches and issues were most prominent in China — and even included a geopolitical blunder. But Apple hopes the problems will soon become a thing of the past. Speaking at the company’s annual WWDC event, Craig Federighi, Apple SVP of software engineering, said the new iOS 8 mobile platform would include “greatly improved maps” for China, including the release of vector maps in the country for the first time. Maps is a hotly…
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Apple has pledged to make significant changes to its mapping services in China, nearly 18 months after launching the product. Apple Maps received negative feedback worldwide following its release in 2012, but the glitches and issues were most prominent in China — and even included a geopolitical blunder. But Apple hopes the problems will soon become a thing of the past. Speaking at the company’s annual WWDC event, Craig Federighi, Apple SVP of software engineering, said the new iOS 8 mobile platform would include “greatly improved maps” for China, including the release of vector maps in the country for the first time. Maps is a hotly…
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Apple dropped a huge surprise at WWDC on Monday, as it announced that it’s built a new programming language for iOS and OS X called Swift. The new language — which is in beta until iOS 8 is released – is Apple’s replacement for Objective-C and the company explained its big decision to developers by claiming it is much faster and easier to use. Apple isn’t taking away support for the old language and applications can actually have codebases that contain both Swift and Objective-C happily. Feedback on Twitter has been mixed, with many praising Apple for dropping the aging Objective-C (it’s over 20 years old)…
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