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Apple announced a new Apple TV 4K that is powered by an A12 Bionic chip and has a redesigned remote. The new streaming device will also support HDR with a high frame rate. It will allow you to play Dolby Vision videos recorded on your iPhone at 60 frames per second. The company claims that the new chip and HDR supportwill improve movie and sports watching. If you hated the old Apple TV remote, your feelings might be still mixed at best....

Bing has released a new advertising video to promote its iOS application, an app that it wants to perform well to give the search engine a stronger hold in the world of mobile search. If you have never used it, and most people haven’t, Bing for iOS is actually a rather capable application. Still, it is always something of a shock to see Microsoft so heavily promoting an iPhone when its own mobile platform is so young....

Bluum is a free Chrome web application that launched today. It’s a timely fit for our ongoing productivity week here at The Next Web. The hot pink extension is perfect for the intellectually curious. It’s an easy way to find out everything on the Internet related to a word of text. Simply highlight the word and click the pink and purple heart button and the Blum window slides in from the right to display related wiki, pictures, video, real time news, tweets and more....

The new Chinese digital consumers your business needs to target In a fast-changing world, these are China’s new digital consumers. 1. Young adults in lower-tier cities shine This group of consumers is less affected by an overall slowdown because consumption in lower-tier citiesis acceleratingdespite what’s happening in top tier cities. Their income is increasing but their cost of living isn’t. While they tend to pursue lower priced items, they’re also making luxury purchases....

When the Nobel Prize-winning US physicistRobert Hofstadterand his team fired highly energetic electrons at a small vial of hydrogen at theStanford Linear Accelerator Centerin 1956, they opened the door to a new era of physics. Until then, it was thought that protons and neutrons, which make up an atom’s nucleus, were the most fundamental particles in nature. They were considered to be “dots” in space, lacking physical dimensions. Now it suddenly became clear that these particles were not fundamental at all, and had a size and complex internal structure as well....