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Apple Watch may not be able to detect users’ wrists through certain tattoos

Your snazzy new Apple Watch may not be able to detect your wrist if there’s a tattoo in the way. A Reddit user posted on Monday that his Apple Watch didn’t receive notifications and would lock when placed on his tattooed wrist. Before trying to contact Apple, though, he tested the Watch against his unmarked […]

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Rumor: Power Reserve reportedly offers significant battery savings for Apple Watch

This could prove helpful. The Apple Watch’s battery life should be significantly better in the shipping product than some early accounts suggested, one report says, while the device itself could fundamentally change the way users interact with their iPhones. Citing sources who have spent “extended time” with the product, TechCrunch reports that Apple has been […]

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First-gen Apple Watch may have had assorted health-related features cut, trimmed down to make April ship date

Sometimes you have to slim down your feature list to make a shipping date. An interesting piece by the Wall Street Journal revealed that Apple may have cut multiple planned health features to allow the first generation of the Apple Watch to ship on time. The report states that the features would have contained an […]

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Apple CEO Tim Cook drops hints, thinks wrist-based computing is “interesting” for users

If you were looking for hints as to upcoming Apple products, this might be one of them. Per 9to5Mac, during his recent interview at the AllThingsD D11 Conference, Apple CEO Tim Cook has for the first time talked at length about his view on wearable technologies as competitors like Google and others push ahead with […]

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Rumor: Apple developing wearable, Siri-controlled computing devices

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: It’s the rumors that make technology interesting. Per the New York Times, Apple has reportedly begun work on new, tiny, wearable devices that could be controlled with Siri, or used to input information to devices like the iPhone. One of the prototype products developed by Apple, […]