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Subscribe to the Apple Byte PodcastiTunes MP3 | RSS MP3 | FeedBuer MP3SoundCloud | Google Play | TuneIniTunes video | RSS video | FeedBuer videoYouTube | Livestream| Stitcher Extra Crunchy Podcast, Ep. 53 Your browser does not support the audio element. [embedded content]EXTRA CRUNCHY SHOW NOTES:See you on the 7th. Apple's InviteSamsung recalls Galaxy Note 7 over battery flawSpec Sheet Shows iPhone 7 Plus With 256GB Storage and Lightning EarPodsApple Headphones News:Apple Granted Product Certifications for 'AirPods', New iPhones and Apple Watch ModelsBragi teases 'big' aouncement happening next week in Cupertino, possible Apple d...

Subscribe to the Apple Byte PodcastiTunes MP3 | RSS MP3 | FeedBuer MP3SoundCloud | Google Play | TuneIniTunes video | RSS video | FeedBuer videoYouTube | Livestream| Stitcher Extra Crunchy Podcast, Ep. 52 Your browser does not support the audio element. Why you should update your iPhone right nowiPhione 7 NEWS:Apple Plans iPhone for Japan With Tap-to-Pay for SubwaysApple to Eliminate Home Button in 2017 iPhoneA Design Defect Is Breaking a Ton of iPhone 6 PlusesiPhone 6s Bests Samsung's New Galaxy Note 7 in App Speed TestSIRI NEWS:Siri's voice to benefit from machine leaing improvements in Apple's iOS 10Barbra Streisand...

Fitbit did not misappropriate Jawbone's trade secrets, a US trade court judge finds. Dave Cheng/CNET Wearable-device maker Fitbit did not steal trade secrets from rival Jawbone, a judge for the US Inteational Trade Commission ruled on Tuesday.Judge Dee Lord, who issued the ruling, concluded that no violation of the Tariff Act occurred because "no party has been shown to have misappropriated any trade secret," according to Reuters. Had a violation of the act been identified, Fitbit could have been prohibited from importing its products and components into the US.The two wearable-tech companies have in the past ...

Subscribe to the Apple Byte PodcastiTunes MP3 | RSS MP3 | FeedBuer MP3SoundCloud | Google Play | TuneIniTunes video | RSS video | FeedBuer videoYouTube | Livestream | Stitcher Extra Crunchy Podcast, Ep. 50 Your browser does not support the audio element. [embedded content]APPLE BYTE EXTRA CRUNCHY SHOW NOTES:MACBOOK PRO NEWS:Apple Said to Plan First Pro Laptop Overhaul in Four YearsApple's Notebook Shipments Rise 30% on Strength of New 12-Inch Retina MacBookAPPLE WATCH NEWS:Faster Apple Watch 2 With GPS, Barometer, Larger Battery, and Same Thickness to Launch Later This YearUpgraded Apple Watch 1 Models Said to Launch Alongside Ap...

Subscribe to the Apple Byte PodcastiTunes MP3 | RSS MP3 | FeedBuer MP3SoundCloud | Google Play | TuneIniTunes video | RSS video | FeedBuer videoYouTube | Livestream| Stitcher Extra Crunchy Podcast, Ep. 49 Your browser does not support the audio element. [embedded content]EXTRA CRUNCHY SHOW NOTES:Apple's new TV plan is a TV guideApple Releases Redesigned 'Apple TV Remote' App for iPhoneGwyneth Paltrow and Gary Vaynerchuk sign on to Apple's 'Planet of the Apps' reality TV showiOS 10 will include over 100 new emoji, new diversity options, water gun, female athletes, more [Gallery]Apple Is Developing Wireless Earbuds With Custom Low-...

Enlarge ImageThat's one fewer comet in the universe. ESA/NASA/SOHO/Joy Ng So-called sungrazer comets are the daredevils of the cosmos attempting, like Icarus or Queen Margaery Tyrell, to fly high and tight by the sun without getting bued. This week, ESA and NASA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) caught a sungrazer that flew a little too close.The above animated GIF comes from SOHO's Large Angle Spectrometric Coronagraph, which takes images of the solar corona by blocking direct light from the sun. Where the actual disc of the sun would be in the video is represented by a white circle. Between August...

Enlarge ImageDaniel Chao, CEO of Halo Neuroscience, holds the Halo Sport headphones. Josh Miller/CNET Olympic sprinter Mike Rodgers is hoping a pair of high-end headphones will help him win gold.He and a handful of other US track stars have been training with Halo Sport headphones, which shoot electrical impulses into their brains to sharpen focus. That focus, he says, might be enough to give him the slightest of edges -- a millisecond or so -- at the Summer Games, which open in Rio de Janeiro on Friday. "I like what it's doing to my body right now," Rodgers said of the shiny black headset. Rodgers, a member...

Enlarge Image Strava Strava, a popular app for ruers and cyclists, has aounced a new safety feature for premium members. The feature, called Beacon, lets users broadcast their real-time location to friends and family members. Here's how it works. You tu Beacon on before you start an activity and then select up to three contacts you would like to share your location with -- they don't have to be Strava users. The app will automatically send a text message to the selected contacts that contains a link to your activity. Your loved ones will then be able to see exactly where you are on a map and follow along duri...

Ramsay Bolton thought of some terrible tortures in "Game of Thrones," but had he just made Theon walk over a bunch of Legos, he might have broken the poor dude even earlier. As any parent or child caretaker will attest, stepping on a Lego delivers a specially horrific type of foot pain. Especially if it happens in the middle of the night, unexpectedly, when you're just trying to get to the damn bathroom in peace.The guys behind YouTube chael Where's My Challenge know this, and yet they still decided to spill boxes full of Legos on a treadmill and challenge themselves to run barefoot on it. "This is goa suck," one of them aounces at the begiing of the video. And oh, is he right.If ...

The revamped new model of the Xbox One, the Xbox One S, is now available. It's smaller, sleeker, and supports 4K and HDR, but one thing you won't see advertised on the box or in Microsoft's marketing materials is a boost to game performance. Despite this, the Xbox One S does provide improved performance, albeit not in all games.Microsoft's senior director of product marketing and plaing, Albert Penello, spoke with Digital Foundry about the changes made to the system's hardware, including its additional speed--the GPU sees the biggest bump, with a clock speed increase to 914 MHz from 853 MHz. (ESRAM bandwidth enjoys the same increase, going from 204 GB/s to 219 GB/s. CPU clock speed is unchan...

Subscribe to the Apple Byte PodcastiTunes MP3 | RSS MP3 | FeedBuer MP3SoundCloud | Google Play | TuneIniTunes video | RSS video | FeedBuer videoYouTube | Livestream| Stitcher Extra Crunchy Podcast, Ep. 48 Your browser does not support the audio element. [embedded content]The Apple Byte Extra Crunchy Show Notes:iPHONE 7 NEWS:iPhone 7 and 7 Plus Pre-Orders Could Start September 9Possible iPhone 7 Lightning to 3.5 mm Adapter Surfaces in New PhotosBluetooth Headphone Revenue Overtakes Non-Bluetooth Ahead of iPhone 7 LaunchAPPLE EARNINGS NEWS:Apple Has Sold 1 Billion iPhonesApple sales down, but iPhone 7 offers glimmer of hopeApple Re...

Subscribe to the Apple Byte PodcastiTunes MP3 | RSS MP3 | FeedBuer MP3SoundCloud | Google Play | TuneIniTunes video | RSS video | FeedBuer videoYouTube | Livestream| Stitcher Extra Crunchy Podcast, Ep. 48 Your browser does not support the audio element. [embedded content]The Apple Byte Extra Crunchy Show Notes:iPHONE 7 NEWS:iPhone 7 and 7 Plus Pre-Orders Could Start September 9Possible iPhone 7 Lightning to 3.5 mm Adapter Surfaces in New PhotosBluetooth Headphone Revenue Overtakes Non-Bluetooth Ahead of iPhone 7 LaunchAPPLE EARNINGS NEWS:Apple Has Sold 1 Billion iPhonesApple sales down, but iPhone 7 offers glimmer of hopeApple Re...

Sony has aounced Driveclub VR will be available for the launch of its PlayStation VR headset in Japan. Although further details aren't available in English as of yet, a post on the Japanese PlayStation Blog states there will be a cockpit view and realistic 3D audio.Paul Rustchynsky, Driveclub's former director, confirmed on Twitter that there "is a collection of brand new tracks," for the PlayStation VR version. He did not provide any further details.Earlier this year, Driveclub developer Evolution Studios was closed by its parent company Sony. This was part of a wider restructure to Sony's European studios. Codemasters, the developer of the Dirt, Grid, and F1 series of racing games, later h...

Subscribe to the Apple Byte PodcastiTunes MP3 | RSS MP3 | FeedBuer MP3SoundCloud | Google Play | TuneIniTunes video | RSS video | FeedBuer videoYouTube | Livestream| Stitcher Extra Crunchy Podcast, Ep. 47 Your browser does not support the audio element. [embedded content]The Apple Byte Extra Crunchy Show Notes:IPHONE 7 NEWS:iPhone 7 and 7 Plus Launch Predicted to Be Week of September 12th [Updated]iPhone 7 release date reportedly set for Friday, September 16th as rumor suggests 'iPhone 6SE' namingRumor: Apple's 2016 iPhone will be dubbed the 'iPhone 6SE'iPhone Rumored to Include Iris Scaing Capabilities Starting in 2018Apple Stoc...

Stephen Beacham/CNET Subscribe to the Apple Byte PodcastiTunes MP3 | RSS MP3 | FeedBuer MP3SoundCloud | Google Play | TuneIniTunes video | RSS video | FeedBuer videoYouTube | Livestream| Stitcher Listen to the Extra Crunchy Podcast, Ep. 46 Your browser does not support the audio element. [embedded content] Extra Crunchy show notesApple TV show news:Apple posts developer casting call for 'Planet of the Apps' TV showPlanet of the Apps siteEddy Cue on Apple's TV plans and why Netflix isn't a competitorEd...

Enlarge Image Sarah Tew/CNET What would happen if you took a Garmin bike computer, combined it with a GoPro, and added a splash of Strava? You may get something like the Bycle, a new iPhone accessory that is designed for cyclist and commuters.At first glance, you may think the Bycle is simply an iPhone case that can be attached to the handlebars of your bike. While that's true, it's only half the story. The device, which is designed to fit the iPhone 6/S and iPhone 6/S Plus, features a unique prism design that allows you to use your phone's camera to capture forward-facing videos and photos of your ride. The ...

Enlarge Image Garmin Garmin on Wednesday aounced two new GPS devices, the Garmin Edge 820 and Edge Explore 820, which look to replace the company's existing Edge 810 model. The bike computers feature a 2.3-inch high-resolution touchscreen that is said to work with gloves and wet fingers. Both devices are equipped with GPS, GLONASS and an altimeter to track distance, speed, location, and ascent and descent in real time as you ride. When paired with an iPhone or Android phone, they can also display notifications for calls and text messages.One of the more interesting features is a new GroupTrack mode. This lets...

When Greg Greeley and his team flipped the switch on the first-ever Prime Day last year, starting in Japan, they quickly realized their idea to host a major sales event in July would pay off."We knew immediately when we tued on Japan and saw the response from Japanese Prime members that we had hit upon something special," Greeley, the vice president of Amazon Prime worldwide, said in an interview Friday.Heading into the second aual Prime Day this Tuesday, the stakes are higher, as Amazon hopes to make this year's sale even bigger. Greeley spoke with CNET about what consumers can expect from the upcoming event, which is exclusive to its Prime members, and how Amazon made changes in response t...

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Enlarge ImageThe Zenta bracelet by Vinaya. Jacqui J. Sze/Vinaya A few years ago Kate Unsworth, a technology consultant in the corporate world, was hurtling towards buout. "I was completely dialled in, completely swept up in the chaos," she realised. "I was completely addicted to my phone and my brain was always firing 100 times a second." So she decided to pack it in and head for the Himalayas to meditate for a month."And then I thought that's ridiculous," she remembers. "Why do I have to run away to the Himalayas? Why can't I live in a city like London or New York and also find stillness and peace? Because I...