Wednesday, June 10, 2015

IT News Head Lines (Tech Report) 6/10/2015





iOS 9 brings some multitasking love to the iPad
A major selling point of the iPad over smartphones is its more expansive screen, but iOS has only allowed one app to run at a time on the bigger display—at least, until now. With iOS 9, iPad owners will be able to run multiple apps at once using several new multitasking views unveiled by Apple today at WWDC.
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Apple gets proactive with iOS 9
iOS 9 is coming, and major changes are coming with it. In an apparent answer to Google Now, iOS 9 will include some contextual awareness features in Siri and a new Search view on the home screen.
Broadly, iOS 9 will be able to use information about how, where, and when you use your device in order to respond in the right way at the right time. For example, if you're a regular runner and ...
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OS X El Capitan puts the pedal to the Metal
At its WWDC keynote today, Apple introduced the next version of OS X, bringing another slice of California to Mac users everywhere. It's called El Capitan, and though it doesn't bring any earth-shattering changes to the user interface, there is one major new feature that Mac gamers and professional users may appreciate: the Metal low-overhead graphics API from iOS is now available on Macs.
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Samsung's ruggedized Galaxy S6 Active is coming to AT&T
AT&T has announced that the ruggedized Active version of Samsung's Galaxy S6 flagship will be available exclusively on its network. The specs suggest this new Active variant isn't a big departure from the base model, which isn't at all a bad thing.

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Lego Worlds looks like Minecraft with virtual bricks
During last week's deluge of Computex news, I somehow missed that Lego is developing a PC game that looks very similar to Minecraft. Lego Worlds is billed as a "fully open-world, creativity-driven game." It offers procedurally generated worlds filled with virtual bricks, beasts, and building options galore. Check out the trailer:
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Amazon is making an ''ambitious'' PC game
Amazon sells an awful lot of PC games, and now it's making one of its own. The e-tail giant's Amazon Game Studios division is recruiting for an "ambitious new PC game project using the latest technology." There's no information on the game itself, but the job postings list openings for engineers, designers, and artists. They also include specific positions for combat and economy design. Hmmm.
The Seattle-based team tasked with the PC project is already populated with folks who have worked on Half-Life 2 , Left for Dead , Halo , Thief , Gears of War ...
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Arkham Knight gets GameWorks eye candy
Batman: Arkham Knight is the latest game to hop aboard Nvidia's GameWorks bandwagon. Whatever your feelings about the program, it's hard not to be impressed by some of the goodies in this new teaser trailer, which debuted on the GeForce blog today:
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XFX may have leaked pictures of the Radeon R9 390X
Information about AMD's upcoming 300-series Radeons has dribbled out over the past few weeks, including some official details. Now, we know a little more about an apparent R9 390X, thanks to what looks like an errant image on one of XFX's R9 290X product pages:
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