Yahoo might be building an online video platform, but you won’t be able to use it

Yahoo’s reportedly planning to launch a web video platform in the next few months, and it intends to fill it with familiar faces and professionally made clips. How? By poaching some of YouTube’s biggest stars, at least according to Recode. The website’s sources say Mayer and her crew are trying to win over popular YouTubers with the scent of money. Yahoo’s apparently offering them (presumably) large guaranteed...

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Microsoft scraps ‘Windows-first’ practice, puts Office on iPad before Surface

The Computerworld story, “Microsoft scraps ‘Windows-first’ practice, puts Office on iPad before Surface,” posted to the newswire Thursday, did not fully identify the person quoted at paragraph 20. See the original post: Microsoft scraps ‘Windows-first’ practice, puts Office on iPad before Surfaceweight loss tips

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Apple Rolls Out CarPlay for Safer iPhone Use on the Road

GENEVA―March 3, 2014―Apple® today announced that leading auto manufacturers are rolling out CarPlay, the smarter, safer and more fun way to use iPhone® in the car. CarPlay gives iPhone users an incredibly intuitive way to make calls, use Maps, listen to music and access messages with just a word or a touch. Users can easily control CarPlay from the car’s native interface or just push-and-hold the voice control button on the steering...

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Feedback Loop: The future of VR, remote controls and breakfast phones

Welcome to Feedback Loop, a weekly roundup of the most interesting discussions happening within the Engadget community. There’s so much technology to talk about and so little time to enjoy it, but you have a lot of great ideas and opinions that need to be shared! Join us every Saturday as we highlight some of the most interesting discussions that happened during the past week. This week, we discussed the future of virtual...

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Singapore School Finds New Ways to Educate With iPad

Interactive books and apps on iPad help students excel at this historic girls’ school. The Inspiration At the beginning of the 20th century, Singapore was changing rapidly. Though independence was still decades away, the city had become a sophisticated and prosperous crossroads of the world — a place where new ideas could quickly take root and grow. Nanyang Girls’ High School, one of Singapore’s top public schools, dates back to this...

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