It seems Apple is tired of people saying it can’t do cloud services as well as Google, Microsoft and Amazon. Bloomberg is reporting that Apple is building a giant high-speed network to boost its cloud capabilities and put them on par with Amazon and others. This investment comes as Apple will launch its own Spotify-like music streaming service and as it prepares to announce a Netflix-like video streaming service in the fall.
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It took nine years for SoundHound to build and launch its new Hound assistant app, and all of that time and effort has resulted in a top-notch rival to more established solutions such as Siri and Google Now. In fact, we’ve seen several videos now that suggest Hound obliterates similar offerings from Google and Apple, thanks to the speed with which it serves up answers and the staggering complexity of the questions it can offer near-instant solutions to.
In a new video showdown with Google Now, however, we’re shown some new tests that definitely have some unexpected results.
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WWDC 2015 is kicking off on Monday and Apple is expected to make several major new announcements that will set the stage for its big fall product launches this year. Below we’ll give you the lowdown on the biggest announcements we expect to see at WWDC 2015.
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Later today, Apple will unveil Apple Music, according to many sources familiar with the matter who have spoken to various publications and tech blogs long before WWDC 2015 kicked off. Now, a new report says the company is eying a major sales target for its upcoming streaming service, which would make it the top streaming music service in the world by a huge margin.
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Remember the selfie-taking terrorist that got his headquarters blown up by the Air Force last week in a swift attack? It turns out there are even more outlandish stories out there, with new reports revealing that at least one suicide bomber in Sargodha, Pakistan, may have died after accidentally triggering a suicide vest during an argument with a second individual who was also potentially a suicide bomber.
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Ahead of WWDC, the Apple rumor mill continues to operate at full throttle. The most recent report suggests that Apple Pay will be coming to the United Kingdom in about two months time.
According to a report published in The Telegraph this past weekend, Apple will making the announcement official later today with a planned rollout slated to go live towards the end of the Summer.
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You’d better think twice about taking naked photos and videos of yourself on a mountain in a foreign country, because you might end up being detained for starting a natural disaster by “disrespecting” it in such a manner, depending on what locals believe. This isn’t a joke either, as new from Malaysia reveals that several tourists are being barred from leaving the country, after making the “mountain spirits mad” and causing an earthquake.
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Google’s Ray Kurzweil, who’s so anxious to see technology permit humans to live forever that he’s taking as many as 150 pills per day to make sure his body will be able to survive until that happens, made a bold prediction during a recent speech. According to him, we’ll be living with our brains in the cloud by 2030.
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Anatomy and other medicine books will have to be rewritten in order to take into account a major new discovery that could significantly influence therapies for various neurological diseases, including Alzheimer’s, autism, multiple sclerosis, and others.
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The concept of the “selfie” has seemingly taken on a life of its own in recent months. Today, the word is actually an official entry in both the Merriam-Webster and Oxford dictionaries. What’s more, there’s even a selfie emoji in the works that may land on your iPhone sooner rather than later. Given the ubiquity of smartphones, not to mention the cultural phenomenon that is the selfie, it’s been estimated that there will be 1 trillion photos taken in 2015.
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