[ad_1] All the usual caveats with patents apply here: just because Apple has patented this technology doesn’t mean we’ll see it make its way into one of the company’s future products. Moreover, it’s best to think of a specific patent application as one of the many directions a company can take a particular technology. With […]
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iPhone SE2 will look like an iPhone 8 and arrive early 2020
[ad_1] According to CNBC, Kuo suggested in an analyst note that the iPhone SE2 will retain the iPhone 8’s 4.7-inch screen. The iPhone 11 has a 6.1-inch display. Many people who bought the iPhone SE did so because it packed the guts of an iPhone 6S into the smaller body of an iPhone 5-style design […]
Tim Cook disputes Trump immigration policy in Supreme Court filing
[ad_1] The company also noted that it employed 443 Dreamers (DACA recipients) who “embody Apple’s innovation strategy” by being some of the company’s “most driven and selfless” staff. Moreover, it observed that immigration was central to Apple’s story — the late Steve Jobs was the son of a Syrian immigrant. The company has filed amicus […]
iOS 13.2 beta may shed light on Apple’s new AirPods design
[ad_1] For the moment, it’s best not to read too much into the icon. That said, if it is representative of what the next-generation AirPods will look like, the one interesting detail we can glean is that they’ll potentially feature interchangeable rubber tips. This would address the one issue almost everyone has with Apple’s Bluetooth […]
Apple’s Deep Fusion photography comes to iPhone 11s in beta
[ad_1] Deep Fusion takes an underexposed photo for sharpness, and blends that with three neutral pictures and a long high-exposure image on a per-pixel level to achieve a highly customized result. The machine learning system examines the context of the picture to understand where a pixel sits on the frequency spectrum. Pixels for clouds will […]
Apple fails to get tariff exemption for five Mac Pro components
[ad_1] The other components in the list are a circuit board for managing input and output ports, a power adapter, a charging cable and a cooling system for the computer’s processor. Bloomberg says the USTR sent Apple letters explaining that the company “failed to show that the imposition of additional duties on the particular product […]
Apple’s improved Maps expand across the northeast US
[ad_1] From Monday, folks in New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Maryland, Delaware, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Washington, DC and areas of Virginia and West Virginia can access more detailed maps, according to CNET. Reports emerged last month, before iOS 13 launched, that people in some of those states were already seeing […]
More like a laptop than ever
[ad_1] Speaking of iPad screens, I’ve always hated how — unless you had a physical keyboard connected to it — iOS’s keyboard eats up a third of the screen. There’s a fix of sorts for that now in the form of an iPhone-sized floating keyboard you can toggle from the main one. Typing while holding […]
The best USB-C cables and adapters
[ad_1] Name Ports USB-IF certified? Length Maximum charging rating Charges USB-C laptops Charges phones and tablets Can carry video? Maximum data rate Anker PowerLine II USB-C to USB-C 3.1 Gen 2 Cable USB-C to USB-C ✅ 3 feet 100 W ✅ ✅ ✅ USB 3.1 Gen 2 (10 Gbps) Anker PowerLine II USB-C to USB-C […]
A necessary update after a rough start
[ad_1] With iOS 12 last year, Apple’s big theme was stability. It’s not like there were no new features, but the real draw was that older devices might run a little better. This time is, a little different. iOS 13 is heavier on the new additions, perhaps to the detriment of its overall stability. iOS […]