iPhone 6s: Carrier Plans & Price Comparison

The iPhone 6s (16GB, 64GB, 128GB) and iPhone 6s Plus (16GB, 64GB, 128GB) are available now from all major carriers. Select a phone model below to compare the latest iPhone plans. Browse iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus prices below iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus are still available Check out the iPhone buying super guide at the bottom of this page to help you get the right mobile plan with your next iPhone. ...

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Why Your Existing IT Assets Hold the Key to Modernization

More often than not, the most prudent path to IT modernization does not lead to new systems, but to the better leveraging of existing IT assets and applications.A thought-provoking recent Insurance & Technology article, The Rocky Road of Modernization, examines top challenges that insurance companies face today in replacing and modernizing existing core systems.The analysis raises salient points around the importance of a customer-focused...

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Review Roundup: iPhone 6s Joy Depends on Where You're Coming From

Notices for the new iPhone have started appearing, and Apple's hardware once again is being bathed in critical acclaim, with just a few cries of discontent here and there.The new capabilities in the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus may appear underwhelming to some observers, but not to Re/code's Walt Mossberg."These are things that improve the quality of the phone while generally making a fluid, powerful product even better -- and faster...

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Gadget Ogling: Fresh Fires, Tablet Touches, and Underwater Drones

Welcome to Gadget Dreams and Nightmares, the column that gazes wistfully across the landscape at a sea of changing leaves and wonders what new gadgets the fall will bring.In our deciduous forest this week are an updated Fire TV, a low-end Amazon Fire tablet, a case that adds touch functions to the rear of iPhones and iPads, and an underwater drone.As ever, please do not consider these reviews, for they are not. The ratings reflect only...

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Design the Jet Engine of the Future, Win $2 Million

The U.S. Air Force is offering $2 million to whoever can design a new and improved engine to power its airplanes.The competition, known as the Air Force Prize, is open to American citizens and permanent U.S. residents age 18 and older, as well as corporations and research institutions in the United States. The goal of the contest is to speed up the development of a lightweight, fuel-efficient turbine engine, or jet engine, to power...

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Ultrathin 'Invisibility Cloak' Can Match Any Background

In the movie "Predator," an alien uses a cloaking device to hide in plain sight, but the effect is far from perfect: The alien's attempt to conceal itself is thwarted by distortions of light bending around it. Now, researchers have built an ultrathin "invisibility cloak" that gets around this problem, by turning objects into perfect, flat mirrors.Invisibility cloaks are designed to bend light around an object, but materials that do this...

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Paralyzed Man Can 'Feel' Again with Brain-Connected Prosthetic Hand

A prosthetic hand that is connected directly to the brain successfully enabled a paralyzed man to "feel" again, according to researchers at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).The 28-year-old male, who suffered a spinal cord injury and has been paralyzed for more than a decade, was able to control a robotic hand with his brain and reported being able to sense physical sensations.DARPA researchers attached electrodes...

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China: Sperm banks entice donors with iPhone cash

Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage captionApple products are hugely popular in China and some sperm banks are playing on the brand's appealChinese sperm banks are trying to attract donors by offering men enough cash to buy a brand new iPhone, it's reported.Renji Hospital in Shanghai is among several facilities using the appeal of Apple's recently announced iPhone 6s in a campaign to encourage more sperm donations,the Changjiang Times reports....

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Blue Origin Rockets Into Cape Canaveral

Blue Origin on Tuesday announced plans to launch rockets from a Cape Canaveral launchpad, which it has leased from NASA."The site saw its last launch in 2005, and the pad has stood silent for more than 10 years -- too long. We can't wait to fix that," said Blue Origin CEO Jeff Bezos, who is also the founder of Amazon.It's the sort of thing the folks at NASA like to hear. People are interested in space again, and a reboot of the space...

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Apple Dresses iOS to the Nines

Apple on Thursday released iOS 9, the latest version of its mobile operating system. Although more evolutionary than revolutionary, it has some useful additions.**The good news is that iOS 9 works on much of Apple's existing hardware. If your device can run iOS 8, it should be able to run iOS 9. However, some of the software's features are available only on the newest iOS devices -- the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus, and the iPad Pro.I installed...

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Ad blockers top Apple charts as iOS 9 debuts

Ad-blocking apps have soared to the top of Apple's App Store charts following Wednesday's debut of iOS 9.A $2.99 app called Peace, which promises to block "most ads and privacy-invading trackers on web pages" is the top paid app in the App Store, according to mobile analytics firm App Annie. A $3.99 app called Purify Blocker is at No. 4 on the paid-apps charts. And a 99 cent app called Blockr is No. 17 on...

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programs and famous and ancient Games

programs and famous and ancient Games With the continuous development in the world of the Internet and the computer and the vast amount of programs and games that areprogrammed daily and which became the shops electronic crowded it would be nice to go back a bit to look at the best 7 programs and popular gamesno longer...

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