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As Craig Federighi walked us through a seemingly never-ending list of useful features in iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite, an uncomfortable truth started to dawn on me: After obtaining and sustaining supremacy in both hardware design and manufacturing, Apple is now going after Microsoft’s last bastion of defense – software. ET deals: Sharp 65-inch 120Hz HDTV with Roku, $350 eGift Card for $1,200 June 2, 2014 at 4:37 pm Manufacturers love to build in extra features on electronics and charge you for them, but deal shoppers know it’s sometimes much cheaper to rig things together yourself. Today’s deal makes that easy, offering a Sharp 65-inch 120Hz HDTV bundled with a Roku stick to make it a Smart TV, plus a huge Dell gift card, effectively netting you the… OS X Yosemite revealed: Translucent windows, cross-platform Continuity, and HTML 5 DRM come to the Mac June 2, 2014 at 3:19 pm Today at the Worldwide Developer’s Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco, Apple’s own Craig Federighi gave us the first official look at the next version of OS X. Dubbed “OS X Yosemite,” this free update offers a number of refinements and features that Mac users have been impatiently waiting for. Apple WWDC: iOS 8 unveiled, now with keyboard replacement apps like Swype June 2, 2014 at 3:08 pm Later today, Tim Cook and his fellow execs at Apple will take to the stage at the WWDC in San Francisco to unveil iOS 8 and OS X 10.10 (or OS X cubed as I like to call it). The event will begin at 1pm Eastern Time (10am Pacific, 6pm UK). There is a live feed of the WWDC keynote embedded below — and below that, once the event begins, an updated live blog. Windows 8 Start menu resurrection delayed until next version of Windows in 2015 June 2, 2014 at 12:41 pm According to some anonymous sources (with good track records), the Start menu won’t be returning to Windows 8 later this year as part of Update 2. Instead, it may get pushed back until the next major Windows release, dubbed Threshold, in 2015. It isn’t clear why Microsoft is holding back the Start menu, but my guess is that it would make for a nice (if ironic) “killer” feature to get people to upgrade to Threshold/Windows 9. It also isn’t clear if Metro-apps-on-the-Desktop will be a Threshold feature, or if they’ll make it into Update 2. GameWorks isn’t integrated directly into Unreal Engine 4 core, says Nvidia and Epic June 2, 2014 at 10:43 am Nvidia and Epic have both released a report to clarify the degree of GameWorks integration into Unreal Engine 4 and it turns out the links aren’t as tight as we thought. Asus unveils 5-in-1 Android/Windows Transformer Book V tabfonetop June 2, 2014 at 9:42 am If you thought that Microsoft’s tablet-that-turns-into-a-laptop was cool, the Asus Transformer Book V — unveiled at Computex 2014 in Taiwan — will blow your mind. Like previous 2-in-1 Transformer Books, there’s a Windows tablet that clicks into a laptop base — but now there’s also a slot on the back of the tablet for an Android smartphone! All told, this hideous three-in-one device has five modes of operation: a Windows laptop, a Windows tablet, an Android smartphone, an Android tablet, and an Android laptop. There’s no word on pricing or release date. ET deals: Lenovo Flex 2 14-inch Core i7 Haswell convertible touchscreen ultrabook for $669 May 30, 2014 at 3:43 pm Lenovo effectively gives you a laptop and a tablet in one with this 14-inch Flex 2 convertible touchscreen ultrabook. Why do we have a love affair for curved screens and devices? Because your brain finds curves beautiful. May 30, 2014 at 2:25 pm Have you ever stopped to wonder why we seem to have such an infatuation with curvy things? Why do we think that a curved smartphone or TV is better than the planar version? Why did we go gaga for the Nexus S, which had a curve that can probably be measured in fractions of a millimeter? Why has the highlight of CES for two years running been a curved Samsung or LG TV? According to some neuroaestheticists (my new favorite word), it has nothing to do with improved functionality, or even some kind of rational response — it seems our brains are just hard coded to find curvy things more beautiful. 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