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The new iPad Pro is excellent today, but can it deliver augmented reality tomorrow?
Dieter Bohn//33 views/1 comments
The headline on this story — never buy hardware today based on a promise of software tomorrow — doesn’t really apply to the new iPad Pro, which I reviewed yeste...
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Apple says customers must wait to pick up repairs locked inside its retail stores
Jay Peters//32 views/1 comments
Apple customers who didn’t pick up devices dropped off for repairs within two days of the company closing all of its retail stores will have to wait to pick the...
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Dell now lets you control iPhones from its PCs
Jon Porter//36 views/1 comments
If you’re an iPhone user with a modern Dell computer, you can now mirror your phone’s screen to your PC and control it using Dell’s Mobile Connect app. Version ...
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The right shape for big-screened, portable computers
Dieter Bohn//33 views
Last week, Tom Warren argued that Apple finally admits Microsoft was right about tablets by adding trackpad support to the iPad. I knew he was working on this p...
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Personal voice assistants struggle with black voices, new study shows
Monica Chin//37 views
Speech recognition systems have more trouble understanding black users’ voices than those of white users, according to a new Stanford study. The researchers use...
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Apple iPad Pro review 2020: trackpad, LIDAR, wide-angle camera
Dieter Bohn//27 views/1 comments
The 11-inch iPad Pro starts at $799 and the 12.9-inch model starts at $999, but in both cases, a more realistic cost is at least a couple hundred dollars more: ...
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Apple updates Safari’s anti-tracking tech with full third-party cookie blocking
Nick Statt//27 views
Apple on Tuesday released a major update to its Safari Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP), the privacy feature that allows the company’s web browser to block...
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iOS and iPadOS 13.4 are out now with mouse and keyboard support for iPads
Jay Peters//35 views/1 comments
Apple has released iOS 13.4 and iPadOS 13.4, which add full mouse and trackpad support to iPads, iCloud Drive folder sharing, new nine new Memoji stickers, and ...
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Apple’s Siri voice assistant now provides coronavirus advice
Jon Porter//39 views
Apple has updated Siri to provide information to people who are concerned they have COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, CNBC reports. Users c...
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Apple may include improved image stabilization on one of the next iPhones
Taylor Lyles//30 views/1 comments
One of the next iPhone models could introduce sensor-shift image stabilization, potentially bringing image stabilization to the ultrawide camera, according to a...
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Apple is expanding the App Store to 20 new countries later this year
Chaim Gartenberg//30 views/2 comments
Apple is expanding the App Store to 20 new countries this year, the company announced on its developer portal, marking the latest expansion of Apple’s app marke...
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Apple CEO Tim Cook says the company is donating 10 million masks to healthcare workers in the US
Kim Lyons//50 views/1 comments
Apple CEO Tim Cook tweeted Saturday that the company was donating “millions of masks for health professionals in the US and Europe,” to help combat the spread o...
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Apple’s shutter button case highlights the power of software control
Chaim Gartenberg//42 views
In today’s digital age, it sometimes feels like hardware has taken a back seat to the software that drives our devices. Button of the Month will look at what so...
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The new iPad Pro’s LIDAR sensor is an AR hardware solution in search of software
Chaim Gartenberg//35 views
Apple announced a new iPad Pro yesterday, and one of the biggest additions was a new LIDAR system on the rear camera, which Apple argued was the missing piece f...
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This handy Mac app is a one-click way to check how you look before your next video call
Jay Peters//33 views/2 comments
You know that feeling you get one minute before hopping on a video call when you realize you have no idea how you actually look? A handy new Mac app, Hand Mirro...