Apple reportedly paid at least $485 million to acquire the Texture subscription service, which serves as the underlying core to the Apple News+ service. The transaction is thought to have acquired in early 2018. The launch of the Apple News+ subscri…
Lees meerEven amongst the recent kerfuffle as to who Apple might be getting its 5G modems from, Chinese company Huawei, which develops its own processors and modems, has indicated that it might be interested in selling them to Apple. Huawei has developed a 5…
Lees meerThis is a good way to save $99. Apple has apparently integrated a new policy wherein when you buy a new Mac at an Apple Store location, they’ll migrate your data over for free. Previously, this service retailed for $99. Data migration was originally…
Lees meerApple chipmaker TSMC has apparently just hit a milestone, and is now able to produce 5 nanometer A-Series chips for the 2020 iPhones. The company offered the following statement: “TSMC has announced delivery of the complete version of its 5nm design…
Lees meerThe professional-grade display and the 17-inch notebook you’ve always wanted could be less than two years away. A new research note penned by Ming-Chi Kuo predicts that Apple’s long-awaited professional-grade display will arrive in the next few mont…
Lees meerAs with any company, the new hires sometimes reveal the path the company’s about to take. In the case of Ian Goodfellow, a well-known expert in the machine-learning community, as well as Open AI, there might be some interesting things about to happe…
Lees meerLate last week, Apple cut the price of its HomePod smart speaker on its online store by $50, the price dropping from $349 to $299. The price drop follows a bevy of recent promotional discounts at a number of third-party retailers across the United S…
Lees meerFrom the depths of Rumorville, a photo posted on Thursday from Chinese social network Weibo claims to show a component from a 2019 model iPhone with cutouts for three lenses. An early claim suggested that the third lens would be a 5x telephoto one, …
Lees meerIf you’re headed to Singapore, this’ll come in handy. Commuters in Singapore can now use Apple Pay for their travel needs. The service went live at transport locations there Thursday. Apple has stated that travelers in Singapore can use the service …
Lees meerLate Wednesday, the super cool cats at iFixit published their full teardown of the iPad Air 3, complete with x-rays for good measure. Per the teardown “Our first peek inside reveals an internal layout that’s rather different from Airs past, featurin…
Lees meerAdding to Facebook’s being unable to catch a break, security researchers have uncovered multiple instances of the company’s user data being exposed publicly on Amazon’s cloud servers. It’s currently unknown as to which company is at fault, but in on…
Lees meerIf your Apple Watch battery looks like that, then things have gone awry. New Jersey resident Gina Priano-Keyser has launched a class-action lawsuit against Apple related to swollen Apple Watch batteries. Per the court documents that were accessed by…
Lees meerOnce again, the cool cats at iFixit have torn down the new iPad mini and posted a full report of their findings. The iPad mini 5 has been dissected, the 7.9-inch tablet looking nearly identical to its iPad mini 4 predecessor, the only external diffe…
Lees meerIn a recently published note from analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, the 2019 model iPhone lineup could feature two-way wireless charging. In the note, quo mentioned wireless charging as well as suppliers Lunshare, and Sunway, which are thought to be providing Q…
Lees meerThe good news is that the cool cats at iFixit recent completed and posted a teardown of Apple’s AirPods 2 headphones to gauge how repairable they were. The bad news is that they’re at the low end of repairability among Apple’s products. Per the repo…
Lees meerSometimes you have to fold ’em. Late Friday, Apple announced that its long-awaited AirPower charging mat product had been abruptly canceled. “After much effort, we’ve concluded AirPower will not achieve our high standards and we have cancelled the p…
Lees meerYour iPhone and/or your Apple Watch can now function as your ID around Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins University campus. Students can now use the devices in place of a physical ID card for getting around campus, as well as paying for university services.…
Lees meerIf you’re hankering for a speed boost from the new generation of Intel processors, 2019 might be the year for it. Geekbench has just released the test results of Intel’s 8th and 9th-generation Coffee Lake chips. All of the new 27-inch 5K models offe…
Lees meerApple on Wednesday released watchOS 5.2, which brings ECG app support for Hong Kong and select European regions. The update doesn’t specifically name which European regions received the ECG functionalities. As of this writing, the ECG app has gone l…
Lees meerIf you’re annoyed with the butterfly keyboard on your MacBook, Apple might finally be on the verge of doing something about it. The company issued an apology on Wednesday for ongoing problems with the third generation of its so-called butterfly keyb…
Lees meerAmid Monday’s announcement and software update-o-rama, Apple released macOS 10.14.4 Mojave, the long-awaited update to its Mac operating system. The new version, which weighs in around a 2.5 gigabyte update, offers the following fixes and changes: F…
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