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Tim Cook talks Apple future in sweeping Fast Company interview

Apple's chief executive Tim Cook sat down with Fast Company's Rick Tetzeli and Brent Schlender to discuss a wide range of topics in a sweeping interview published this morning.

He discussed topics like the future of the company Steve Jobs co-founded, upcoming Apple Campus 2 (iSpaceship), Steve Jobs' legacy and more.

The Apple CEO also addressed Apple Watch skepticism, explained how Apple lives “outside the box” and said everything about Apple can change except values.

Modern Combat 5 goes free, gains MFi controller support, new multiplayer, Support soldiers, more

In addition to going free for the first time (regularly a $4 value), a barrage of new features have been added to Modern Combat 5 in a brand new Spring update to Gameloft's excellent war shooter (an App Store Best of 2014).

Now available in the App Store, Modern Combat 5: Blackout version 1.2 finally supports 'Made for iPhone' game controllers, both form-fitting and extended variants.

There's a brand new multiplayer mode available called Zone Control in which you must capture and defend areas to boost your score. Other improvements include new weapons and character classes and additional character customization.

iOS 8 adoption rate now at 77%

Our regular tracking of adoption rate figures is back with up-to-date, fresh stats straight from Apple indicating that iOS 8 is slowly but surely finding its way to users iPhone, iPod touch and iPad devices.

As of today, Apple's latest mobile operating system is now powering 77 percent devices in the wild, a modest improvement over the 75 percent adoption rate as measured by the App Store two weeks ago.

Interesting excerpts from ‘Becoming Steve Jobs,’ upcoming Apple-endorsed biography

Penned by the The Wall Street Journal and Fortune reporter Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli, Executive Editor with Fast Company, ‘Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader’ is slated for release on March 24 and already whole sections have been posted online. Endorsed by Apple execs, it's fairest portrayal of the famous inventor who co-founded and led Apple to become the world's top corporation.

Unlike Walter Isaacson's much maligned biography, Becoming Steve Jobs offers an insight into the side of Steve Jobs you didn't know: kind, patient and human.

Leaked excerpts offer Tim Cook's reflections on working for such a demanding boss, the secret projects they discussed doing and not doing, tidbits on Jobs' thought process and the events leading up to Jobs's passing on October 5, 2011, including the story of Cook offering to give Jobs his liver.

Opera brings video boost feature to Coast browser

Norwegian browser developer Opera Software has refreshed its free Coast browser for the iPhone and iPad with several new features, among them Opera Turbo compression technology which can boost streaming video performance by reducing the size of video data, resulting in fewer buffering breaks while saving your mobile data bills.

Apple reportedly offering to share TV data to entice content partners

Apple is offering to share data with programming partners to get them on board with its rumored streaming TV package, reports the New York Post. The outlet claims that the company is willing to share details such as who its viewers are, what they watch and when they watch them.

This type of information could help programmers better target shows to viewers and advertisers, who are increasingly chasing niche audiences. It also sounds like an about-face from Apple's current policy, which Tim Cook has frequently touted as a positive, to not share its user data.

Rdio brings sharing improvements to iOS app

Rdio, the popular Internet radio service, on Tuesday announced three new sharing features in its mobile app for the iPhone and iPad: Share Replies that keep the conversation going, Smarter Sharing via a new Share icon and Tweet the Artist, which automatically puts the artist’s twitter handle in your tweets.

NBC gearing up to launch Apple TV channel in second half of 2015

The Wall Street Journal's story alleging Apple is gearing up to launch a web-based television service this fall with 25 cherry-picked channels for $30-$40 per month contains an important caveat: for now, Apple's talks with programmers about a TV bundle don't include NBCUniversal.

Be that as it may, a reliable blogger has provided credible evidence that NBC is planning to add its own channel to Apple's recently discounted $69 set-top box.

Unofficial solution allows Android Wear to accept incoming iPhone calls

Back in February, Cydia developer Mohammad Abu-Garbeyyeh, the brains behind jailbreak tweaks like DoubleTapToSleep and SpotlightSiri, showed off proof-of-concept which lets the stock iOS Messages app notification to be sent directly to a flagship Android Wear device, Motorola's Moto 360.

He's been since exploring ways to add more functionality to the app and this morning posted a new intriguing video depicting an Android Wear watch accepting an incoming call from an iPhone.