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 Bumble, the dating app founded by ex-Tinder employees, announced that its female users have started more than one million conversations on the platform. Bumble is a dating app that prescribes to the Sadie Hawkins style of dating. Men and women swipe left or right on each other, just like on Tinder, but once a match is established, only females can initiate conversations. This takes the… Read More

 Oculus wants to go beyond the Xbox One controller shipping with the Rift, so today it showed off the prototype of Oculus Touch, a set of handheld motion controllers that let you see your hands in virtual reality. Known as the “Half Moon” prototype, they’ll let you pick up objects, fire a gun, or point at things. They include integrated inertial and 360-degree movement… Read More

 You might not have heard of Gin Lane, but chances are you’ve come into contact with their work. The design and development studio helps some of the biggest consumer brands in the world build products, and today Gin Lane is taking more of a stake in those products. The company announced that it will open up a joint venture segment in its own shop, taking as much as 20 to 50 percent of… Read More

 Oculus today announced its Rift headset will ship with an Xbox One controller. To make sure you’ll have something to play with it, Oculus worked with EVE Online developer CCP Games to make EVE Valkyrie, a spaceship shooter, Gunfire Games to make atmospheric RPG Chronos, and Insomniac Games to make snow world exploration title Edge Of Nowhere. Oculus says it’s working with a wide… Read More

The Parrot Bebop has looks and fun accessories, but it’s too easily outdone by the competition.

The post Review: Parrot Bebop appeared first on WIRED.

The boldly designed camera excels at portrait photography, but is that enough to justify its other quirks?

The post Review: Sigma DP3 Quattro appeared first on WIRED.

 Apple has a new streaming Music app, and it’s pushing users of its old one Beats Music to switch. Following Apple Music’s unveiling at WWDC today, Beats Music’s FAQ has updated to focus on how people can transition their accounts. They’ll be able to keep their playlists, library, and account name when they switch to Apple Music, which costs the same $9.99 per month.… Read More

 Spotify killer? Or Ping 2.0? Apple today finally announced its move into on-demand music streaming with the unveiling of Apple Music. Now the question is whether Apple Music will be a hit with the public, bringing legions of new users to streaming and stealing from competitors. Or whether it will be another Apple app we stuff in a folder and forget about. Here’s a comparison between… Read More

 Apple announced a ton of stuff today at WWDC. Don’t have time to catch up on all of it? Here’s everything they announced in rapid fire, bite-sized bits. Read More

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 Apple has consolidated its developer program, bundling together access to developer tools and pre-release software builds for iOS, OS X and watchOS all under one umbrella. The unification of the dev programs is very much in favor of developers; previously, the Mac and iOS programs each cost $99 per year for access, but now it’s just $99 annually for both, plus the new watchOS native… Read More

 If you’ve been following my coverage of E-Nable, a volunteer organization dedicated to 3D-printing prosthetic hands for kids, you’ll be familiar with Aaron Brown’s work. He makes “superhero” hands in multiple colors and recently completed this fun Wolverine model for a young man born without fingers. The hand includes removable “blades” and is blue… Read More

 Apple’s Jimmy Iovine announced Beats1, the first ever live worldwide 24-hour radio station would be coming to Apple Music at WWDC15 today.
“Trent Reznor called me up. He says ‘I got it. Let’s create the world’s first 24/7 radio station.” Iovine said onstage of the origins for the new global radio station. He continued explaining what it was in that raspy… Read More

 Apple wants to be the way you socially connect to musicians, not Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, or Spotify. As a tab in its new Apple Music on-demand streaming service, Apple is launching Connect, a feed showing music, videos, photos, and notes posted to a social media feed. Apple hopes that if it can own that relationship, fans won’t risk severing it by quitting Apple’s streaming… Read More