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iPhone 6S and 6S plus

The most important Apple products are always the new iPhones. This year's event was bound to be a bit of a quiet one after the major updates introduced last year. The biggest new feature on the Apple 6S and Apple 6S Plus, the two phones announced Wednesday, is a feature called 3D Touch. This enables the phone to know how forcefully someone is touching the screen, so you can do one thing by touching the screen lightly, and something else by pushing hard.

As always, the phones have more powerful chips and cameras. They also have a new feature called Live Photos, which automatically record photos as short videos, so holding your finger on a photo will show you a moment of movement. Apple is also introducing an app for Android devices that makes it easier for people to switch to iPhones. The new devices range from $200 to $500 with a two-year contract, depending on size and storage, which follows the pricing of the previous versions of the phones. They will be available Sept. 25. IOS 9, the new operating system, will be available for older models on Sept. 16. 

Apple TV

Apple has been selling an Apple TV product since 2007. Eight years later, Tim Cook, the company’s chief executive, began Wednesday's discussion of television by saying that not much innovative had happened to the television experience in decades. “Our vision for TV is simple and perhaps a bit provocative,” he said. In short, Apple thinks that watching TV should feel like using a smartphone, with a home screen of apps.

Apple has developed a new operating system for the latest version of Apple TV and is opening it up to developers for the first time. One notable addition: games. Apple showed off a number of interactive games, including a bulked-up version of mobile game Crossy Road. They also showed off a version of Guitar Hero, which has mostly been played on consoles.

The new Apple TV comes with a new touchscreen remote with voice control via Siri ("show me a funny TV show") as well as motion sensors for gaming. The new device costs between $150 and $200, depending on storage capacity. A beta version of the software is open to developers immediately, and the devices will be available in late October. While the new Apple TV is clearly more advanced than previous versions of the device, it is actually far less provocative than Silicon Valley's real vision for television: the transformation of live television. Apple had hoped to launch a live TV service this year but delayed the project because it couldn't get the content deals lined up.

The iPad Pro

Phil Schiller, Apple's senior vice president for worldwide marketing, speaks about the prices for iPad Pro during the Apple event in San Francisco on Sept. 9, 2015.

Phil Schiller, Apple's senior vice president for worldwide marketing, speaks about the prices for iPad Pro during the Apple event in San Francisco on Sept. 9, 2015. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg

Apple’s new iPad, the long-anticipated iPad Pro, has a bigger screen than Apple’s smallest laptops. It has a 12.9-inch screen and weighs 1.57 lbs., about the same weight as the original iPad. While the iPad rivals Apple’s line of PCs in physical size, it runs the same operating system that powers its other mobile devices, iOS. The device will be available in November and costs between $800 and $1,080.

Apple also developed two notable accessories for the iPad Pro. There's a cover with a physical keyboard ($170) and a stylus called Apple Pencil ($100). Steve Jobs famously derided the idea of styluses, which seemed more like a square Microsoft thing. At Wednesday’s event, Apple brought Microsoft employees on stage to show how neat they can be.

Apple Watch

Jeff Williams, senior vice president of operations for Apple, during an Apple product announcement in San Francisco on Sept. 9, 2015.

Jeff Williams, senior vice president of operations for Apple, during an Apple product announcement in San Francisco on Sept. 9, 2015. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg

Apple first showed off its new Apple Watch software in June at its developer conference. The biggest change is that developers will be able to build apps that run on the watch itself instead of on an iPhone. On Wednesday the company said the new software will be available Sept. 16 and showed off a few notable apps, including Facebook Messenger and Airstrip, an app for health-care providers that uses the app to monitor vital signs. It also announced that Hermès is making a new line of bands for the watch and that there will be several new finishes, including rose gold.

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After weeks of hype and rumors, all eyes in the tech world turn to San Francisco Wednesday to see what's coming next from Apple. The company's annual fall press event is expected to showcase an updated version of the iPhone, new features for Apple TV and possibly an expansion of the iPad line.

It will be Apple's first big event since the debut of the Apple Watch in March. Wednesday's event will be held at San Francisco's 7,000-seat Bill Graham Civic Auditorium. It kicks off at 1:00 pm Eastern time, 10 am Pacific.

If these features will excite Apple fans and people around the world you can expect Apple stocks to go up. On the other hand, if Apple won’t be coming out with any innovative and interesting new products and features, you can expect the Apple stock to go down.

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Meet the Dawn, Rolls-Royce's sexy new convertible. The model is called the Dawn, and it is definitely not your usual Rolls. Its contours are much more fluid, with the sides flaring out around the rear wheel wells. The front end is more rounded. It is powered by a 563 horsepower V12 engine.

The car shares much of its engineering with the Rolls-Royce Wraith, a two-door hardtop, but the body is almost entirely different. Prices are expected to start around $400,000.

The Dawn was unveiled at the Frankfurt Motor Show, and Rolls-Royce designers chose an exterior paint color, Midnight Sapphire, that mimicked the color of a nighttime sky. Inside, the leather seats were dyed in vibrant orange so that, as the top is lowered, the bright interior is revealed.

The Dawn's name harkens back the Rolls-Royce Silver Dawn, introduced in in the early 1950s as Great Britain was recovering from the destruction of World War II. Only 28 convertible Silver Dawns were built between 1950 and 1954.

As in other Rolls-Royce cars, the Dawn's doors open "backwards." They're hinged in the rear so that occupants step out through an opening in front of them rather than behind them as in most cars. Because that can make the car's big doors a little hard to close from inside, there are buttons that operate a door-closing mechanism.

"In creating Dawn, we have accepted no compromise to the comfort and luxury of four adults who want to travel together in the pinnacle of style," said Giles Taylor, director of Rolls-Royce design, in a statement.

Pains were taken to make sure the cloth top would work as quietly as possible. It can open and close at speeds of up to 30 miles an hour. The Dawn will not be the only convertible in the Rolls-Royce line-up: The Phantom Drophead Coupé is a convertible version of the Phantom.

Rolls-Royce's headquarters and factory are still in England but, today, it's a division of the German luxury automaker BMW.

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There is a milk crisis going on in Europe that is threatening farmer’s income.

Russia has banned imports, Chinese demand is weakening and limits on production have been removed. The result: a huge glut of milk. There is so much sloshing around the European Union that milk is now cheaper than bottled water. A liter bottle of water costs around $1.50; a liter of milk $1.

The slump is a disaster for dairy farmers. Thousands protested in Brussels Monday, blocking streets with their tractors, and showering police with hay and eggs. While the price of milk in shops has fallen by around 5% this year, wholesale milk prices have collapsed by about 20% to around 33 cents.

That's forcing many farmers to sell their milk for less than it costs them to produce it. The EU said Monday it will provide farmers with 500 million euros ($555 million) in emergency support to help them cope with the plummeting prices.

Europe's dairy farmers were already reeling from the food embargo imposed by Moscow last year in retaliation for Western sanctions over Ukraine.

Russia was one of the EU's biggest markets for dairy products, accounting for 32% of cheese exports and 24% of butter exports. A slowdown in demand from China, the world's biggest milk importer, is also hurting the dairy industry. China is a big buyer of powdered milk.

Europe's farmers are now calling for the reintroduction of production quotas to try to balance the market. The quotas were abolished earlier this year, leaving farmers free to produce as much as they like for the first time in 30 years.

The deregulation led to more oversupply, piling even more pressure on prices. "Unless production is reduced, the market will carry on deteriorating at a pace," said Romuald Schaber, president of the European Milk Board, which represents dairy farmers.

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Google has released a new version of Chrome that it claims will make your browser faster and give your laptop battery extra life.

Chrome is the world's most-used browser, but it isn’t perfect. All those nifty Chrome extensions and useful background apps take up a tremendous amount of your computer or smartphone's memory, slowing them down in the process. And Chrome guzzles power from your laptop or phone battery.

So Google sought to address both those gripes in its latest Chrome update this week.

To fix the speed issue, Chrome will now look for data no longer being used that's just sitting in your computer's memory. When the time is right, Chrome will take out the garbage (believe it or not, that's actually the computer science term for what the new version of Chrome is doing).

Google (GOOGL, Tech30) had already been doing some garbage collecting in previous versions of Chrome. But now, it will wait until Web pages are finished loading and completely idle -- then it will "aggressively clean up old, unused memory."

By waiting until a page is idle until it drops the hammer on unused memory, Google says that Web pages will perform faster. Previous versions of Chrome took out the garbage at random times, sometimes in the middle of an animation or video. (Ever notice an animation just stop for a second? Your browser might have been emptying the garbage.)

The new feature will reduce memory usage by 10% on average and up to 45% in some cases, Google said in a blog post.

Also, if you set Chrome to automatically restore the tabs you were using when you last closed your browser, Google will now check your system's memory before reloading all of your previously used tabs. That will save some of your system's memory too, Google said.

In addition to all the memory savings, Chrome will also spare your smartphone or laptop's battery consumption. By automatically pausing Flash animations that aren't crucial to a website's operations, Google believes it can save up to 15% of your battery life.

If this is the case and the Chrome upgrade will be as successful as Google claims, it can be a good time to invest in Google stocks.

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