Friday, February 3, 2017

iPhone battery drain? Apple owners point finger at iOS 10.1.1 update and other top stories.

  • iPhone battery drain? Apple owners point finger at iOS 10.1.1 update

    iPhone battery drain? Apple owners point finger at iOS 10.1.1 update
    Complaints about various iPhone models' batteries dying prematurely link the issues to the release of iOS 10.1.1. Image: Apple iPhone owners are complaining that Apple's latest updates to iOS 10 are causing batteries to conk out at 30 percent.While the company last week agreed to swap out faulty batteries for select iPhone 6s devices for free, complaints about other iPhone models' batteries dying prematurely hav..
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  • Theranos and its founder just got hit with another lawsuit

    Theranos and its founder just got hit with another lawsuit
    Elizabeth Holmes, the founder and CEO of Theranos, at the Wall Street Journal Digital Live conference at the Montage hotel in Laguna Beach, California, in 2015. REUTERS/Mike Blake Theranos and its CEO, Elizabeth Holmes, are being sued by investors who claim Holmes lied about the company's technology. The lawsuit, filed in California, names two shareholders who are seeking class-action status. They claim that Holmes knew the company's technology — advertised as being..
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  • Samsung Tries to Appease Investors But Delays Big Changes

    Samsung Tries to Appease Investors But Delays Big Changes
    SEOUL—Third-generation Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong is betting that more dividend increases and a new independent director will buy some time amid growing calls for a restructuring of South Korea’s biggest conglomerate. As part of an overhaul unveiled Tuesday, the group’s crown jewel, smartphone maker Samsung Electronics Co., said it would boost its dividend by 30% from last year, appoint a globally minded board director and seek to...
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  • Samsung Pay won't reach the UK until sometime next year

    Samsung Pay won't reach the UK until sometime next year
    Samsung first touted a 2016 launch for its payment service at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January. It then reiterated that desire at the unveiling of the ill-fated Galaxy Note 7 in August. The company already allows customers in the USA, Canada, Korea, Spain, China, Australia, Singapore, Puerto Rico and Brazil to use Samsung Pay.While Samsung Pay, like Apple and Google's mobile services, supports NFC for contactless payments, it does have one advantage over its rivals. It supports Ma..
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  • Merkel says no details on origin of cyber attack on Deutsche Telekom

    Merkel says no details on origin of cyber attack on Deutsche Telekom
    BERLIN German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Tuesday she had no information on where a cyber attack on Deutsche Telekom, which hit its network on Sunday and Monday, came from."I have no information on the origin of the attacks on the network, the ... appropriate body will do all it can to find out where the attacks came from," Merkel told reporters at a news conference with the Maltese prime minister."Such attacks are a part of every day life and people have to get used to them," she said. T..
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  • CMO Today: AT&T's DirecTV Now Enters the Fray, With Caveats

    CMO Today: AT&T's DirecTV Now Enters the Fray, With Caveats
    Updated Nov. 29, 2016 7:42 a.m. ET DIRECTV NOW HERE: AT&T’s long-awaited entry in the online TV wars is finally here. The telecom giant on Monday unveiled plans for its video streaming service DirecTV Now and announced content partners, package offers and pricing tiers. The company is offering a limited-time promotion for a $35-a-month bundle that offers 100 channels, reports The Wall Street Journal. The normal price of that package will be $60. The tiers go up to $70 for more ..
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  • Arch rivals are joining forces to build Europe's Supercharger network

    Arch rivals are joining forces to build Europe's Supercharger network
    Four of the world’s largest automakers have set aside their rivalries and joined forces to build a network of seriously fast, high-power charging stations in Europe. BMW, Mercedes-Benz parent company Daimler, Ford, and Volkswagen’s Audi and Porsche brands all have a stake in the new joint venture. Starting essentially from scratch, their initial goal is to build 400 charging stations in Europe in order to speed up the widespread adoption of electric vehicles. The alarming lack of infrastructure..
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  • Final Fantasy 15's first 10 hours: A car ride that asks, “Are we there yet?”

    Final Fantasy 15's first 10 hours: A car ride that asks, “Are we there yet?”
    reader comments 32 Ars Technica's full Final Fantasy XV review is coming, but because the game is so large—and only showed up at our doorsteps on Sunday—we've splintered into two factions. Everyone in the first faction wants to take their time sitting with the Japanese series' large, open-world return. They want to sink in however many hours it takes to beat the primary campaign mode and linger in places like side quests and fishing holes. The second faction (meaning yours truly) was told t..
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  • Rumor: Apple Is Asking Suppliers To Ramp Up OLED Output For Curved Screens

    Rumor: Apple Is Asking Suppliers To Ramp Up OLED Output For Curved Screens
    Display of the iPhone 7 / Photo credit: Apple Several supplier leaks have emerged that detail some of the changes Apple might be making to its 2017 line of iPhones. Apple is reportedly going to skip the “S” moniker and call its flagship smartphone “iPhone 8” next year. And suppliers out of Asia are claiming that iPhone prototypes with curved screens are currently being tested.  As a result, The Wall Street Journal recently reported that Apple’s suppliers in Asia are being asked to increase th..
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