Pebble update will keep watches ticking indefinitely and other top stories.

• Pebble update will keep watches ticking indefinitely

  

  Your Pebble smartwatch won't get washed away with Fitbit's takeover. Sarah Tew/CNET If you have a Pebble smartwatch, you've probably been worrying about how long your timepiece will keep working after Fitbit's acquisition.To address those concerns, Pebble has issued an update for the iOS and Android versions of the app that ends smartwatches' dependency on Pebble's cloud services. That means when..

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• Listen up, Alexa: Google Home could soon act as a Wi-Fi extender

  

  According to reports, the next version of the Google Home smart speaker might double as a range extender for mesh Wi-Fi networks. Tyler Lizenby/CNET Google's been busy battling to catch up with Amazon's Alexa in the race to control the voice-activated smart home. Its first-gen Google Home smart speaker has already made some progress to that effect, and now, the company is reportedly plotting..

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• 'Mass Effect: Andromeda' And Why You Should Now Wait To Play Everything

  

  BioWare Yesterday, BioWare came out with a list of fixes for Mass Effect: Andromeda that they’re going to be rolling out as soon as tomorrow and as late as two months from now in order to alter many aspects of the game that fans and critics alike have had issues with. The list includes many bug fixes, as is pretty standard for games like this, but the changes go quite a bit deeper than that. They’re changes that make me regret I already spent 80 hours with the game in my first playthrough, ..

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• The good news and bad news of Apple's Mac Pro announcement

  

  Tuesday’s announcement by Apple that the current Mac Pro will be replaced by a new model–but not this year–was one of the most curious ones it’s made in recent memory. It was a defense of the Mac, a promise of things to come, an attempt to reassure professional Mac users, and an admission of failure, all at once.Here’s what it was:A restatement of Apple’s support for the Mac. Three years ago, Phil Schiller sat across a table from me at Apple’s Infinite Loop campus and responded to..

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• Australian competition watchdog takes Apple to court over 'error 53' claims

  

  Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has commenced proceedings in the Federal Court against Apple Australia and its U.S.-based parent company, Apple, for allegedly making “false, misleading, or deceptive representations” about consumers’ rights under the Australian Consumer Law.It is seeking pecuniary penalties, injunctions, declarations, compliance program orders, corrective notices, and costs against Apple.The Australian competition regulator and national consumer law c..

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• Photographing Supermassive Black Holes: Earth-Size Event Horizon Telescope Starts Operation

  

  There are a lot of things in the universe we don’t know much about, and among the most puzzling of those enigmatic objects are black holes. We know they have a very strong gravitational pull that doesn’t let even light escape, that they exist in varying sizes and sometimes in pairs, and we know that supermassive black holes are at the centers of many galaxies, but since direct observation of a black hole has never been possible, there is a whole lot more about them we are completely clueless abo..

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• LG G6 review: LG's “personal best” still can't compare to Samsung

  

  reader comments 118 The LG G6. The back is glass with a brushed metal look underneath. Ron Amadeo The back is LG's usual dual-camera and rear fingerprint reader design. Check out that slim bezel and that rounded screen. ..

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• The Windows 10 Creators Update is now available for manual upgrading

  

  Enlarge / This option is the best way of transitioning out of the Insider Program.Microsoft reader comments 91 The "official" release of the Windows 10 Creators Update, version 1703, won't come until Patch Tuesday on April 11, but if you want to upgrade now—and don't want to enroll your system in the potentially unstable Windows Insider Program—you can now do so. The Windows 10 Update Assistant will upgrade any Windows 10 Home or Pro system to the Creators Update; you'll need to grab the ..

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• 10 important things to know before signing up for YouTube TV

  

  YouTube TV, Google's internet TV subscription service, launches today. Ben Popper's got a big look at the app for you, covering how it works and what channels you get. It sounds promising, and unlimited DVR powers (plus having those recordings saved ...

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• Twitter launches a 'lite' mobile web app that's optimized for emerging markets

  

  Twitter has taken the wraps off a new data-optimized version of its service that it hopes will be a hit among emerging. It’s called Twitter Lite and, unlike similar ‘Lite’ apps from Facebook and others, it is browser-based — living at mobile.twitter.com. It is essentially a data-optimized version of the regular Twitter service that, the company said, loads fast and will work well on limited internet connections. It added that, already, “hundreds of millions” visit the mobile app e..

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