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Apple buys Gliimpse, apparently looking into health data

Apple has apparently acquired Gliimpse, a health startup whose stated aim is to allow any American to pull together a comprehensive picture of their health, which they would be free to share with medical professionals as desired. The acquisition reportedly happened “earlier this year” and has yet to be noted by Apple or published on […]

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Parallels Desktop 12 announced, will be released August 23rd

The perpetually useful Parallels Desktop has just hit version 12. The new version arrives with support for macOS Sierra alongside a new standalone app called Parallels Toolbox, which allows users to perform some simple tasks that aren’t necessarily tied to virtualization. New features include a Windows 10 “always on” function wherein Windows 10 continues to […]

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Apple purchases VocalIQ, may use APIs to boost Siri, rumored car project

Add this to the other cool things Apple has bought over the years and may or may not do something with. Apple has apparently purchased VocalIQ, a startup located in the UK that has “developed a self-learning dialogue API built on 10 years of natural language research, belief tracking, decision making, and message generation.” Albeit […]

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Rumor: AppleCare now offering support for Beats Music products, accepting Apple Pay for business clients

As of Thursday, AppleCare has begun providing support for Beats Music customers as well as accepting Apple Pay for payment. Prior to this, support for Beats’ customers went through an alternate service. According to sources, AppleCare staff are now taking Apple Pay as a form of compensation. Support for the Beats music products has been […]

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Apple confirms that Aperture will be discontinued after launch of Photos for OS X

It’s time to move on from Aperture. Shortly after last week’s deployment of OS X 10.10.3 to developers, Apple updated its official Aperture page on its website, adding a notice stating that Aperture will be removed from the Mac App Store when the Photos for OS X app launches. The same notice can also be […]