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Apple Pay Later is dead, long live Affirm loans
17 Jun

Apple Pay Later is dead, long live Affirm loans

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Apple Pay Later is kaput. The company confirmed to TechCrunch on Monday that it’s killing the service only two years after first announcing it at WWDC 2022 — and only seven months after it became available to everyone in the US.The company said at its developer conference last week that loans through third-party service Affirm are coming to Apple Pay later this year, so the two would have been redundant. “Users in the U.S. will also be able to apply for loans directly through Affirm when they check out with Apple Pay,” the company wrote in a newsroom post after…
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The best iPad for 2024: How to pick the best Apple tablet for you
17 Jun

The best iPad for 2024: How to pick the best Apple tablet for you

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Screen size: 11 inches or 13 inches | Display resolution: 2420 x 1668 (11-inch), 2752 x 2064 (13-inch) | Storage: Up to 2TB | RAM: Up to 16GB | Weight: 0.98 pounds (11-inch), 1.28 pounds (13-inch) | Battery life: Up to 10 hours | Front camera: 12MP | Back camera: 12MP Read our full Apple iPad Pro (M4) review The latest iPad Pro is more tablet than most people need, full stop. But if you have cash to burn, are determined to use an iPad as your main mobile computer or just want the most technically impressive iPad possible, this…
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Apple reportedly has plans for a thinner iPhone, MacBook Pro and Apple Watch
16 Jun

Apple reportedly has plans for a thinner iPhone, MacBook Pro and Apple Watch

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Just how thin can a Macbook Pro get? We may soon find out. According to ’s Mark Gurman, Apple’s mission to make its thinnest product ever won’t stop at the iPad Pro — the company also has plans for a skinnier Macbook Pro, Apple Watch and, as also reported last month, iPhone. According to Gurman, Apple is on the cusp of ushering in “a new class of Apple devices that should be the thinnest and lightest products in their categories across the whole tech industry.”Adding further fuel to the earlier iPhone rumors, Gurman says he too has been told the…
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How Messages via Satellite will work on iOS 18 and how much it will cost
16 Jun

How Messages via Satellite will work on iOS 18 and how much it will cost

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Apple is slowly turning the iPhone into a fairly capable satellite communications device. It first rolled out Emergency SOS via Satellite on the iPhone 14 lineup. While you were previously limited to relying on the spacecraft for communications only when dialing emergency services, in iOS 18 this capability will apply to all situations where you're away from cellular or Wi-Fi coverage. I got to check out the updated experience at Apple Park, here's how it will work with iMessage or SMS messages.When you’ve been disconnected from cellular or Wi-Fi for some time, an alert will appear to say you’ll need…
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Apple Intelligence Won’t Work on Hundreds of Millions of iPhones—but Maybe It Could
15 Jun

Apple Intelligence Won’t Work on Hundreds of Millions of iPhones—but Maybe It Could

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Apple has announced its next era. Your experience of using an iPhone, Mac, or iPad will be guided by, and suffused with, artificial intelligence. Apple calls it, of course, Apple Intelligence. It’s coming later this year. That’s right: We have another “AI” to deal with.You may have heard plenty about how it makes Siri smarter, rewrites your emails and essays, creates never-before-seen emoji, and turns rough sketches into bland AI art.It truly is a vision of the future. And, while not groundbreaking, thanks to the usual Apple gloss it may well be one of the most friendly, intuitive, and useful…
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What is RCS and how is it different from SMS and iMessage?
15 Jun

What is RCS and how is it different from SMS and iMessage?

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For years, the iPhone’s two-tiered texting system has been a hot topic. iPhone-to-iPhone texts in the Messages app are blue, and enjoy full encryption and more robust media features, like animations. But messages to and from Android devices are merely standard SMS texts, and marked with a green tint. Apple’s segregated messaging platform has been the subject of a , and even sparked chatter of regulatory intervention. But with Apple’s recent confirmation that it will begin supporting the newer RCS texting standard in iOS 18, is the iPhone messaging playing field about to be leveled? Or are we just exchanging…
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Engadget Podcast: The fallout from Apple’s WWDC 2024 and Summer Game Fest
14 Jun

Engadget Podcast: The fallout from Apple’s WWDC 2024 and Summer Game Fest

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This week has felt like a month worth of news, now that we've wrapped up Apple's WWDC 2024 and Summer Game Fest in LA. In this episode, Cherlynn and Devindra discuss their final thoughts on Apple Intelligence and the company's upcoming software, and they chat about some of our coverage highlights from the pseudo-E3 Game Fest. Also, we dive into X making likes private (what is Elon hiding?!) and the news around Sony buying the Alamo Drafthouse theater chain.Listen below or subscribe on your podcast app of choice. If you've got suggestions or topics you'd like covered on the show,…
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No Matter How You Package It, Apple Intelligence Is AI
14 Jun

No Matter How You Package It, Apple Intelligence Is AI

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While companies like Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and others had been upfront about their efforts in AI, for years Apple had been silent. Now, finally, its executives were talking. I got an advance look one day. Eager to shed the the impression that the most innovative of the tech giants was a laggard in this vital technology moment, its software leader Craig Federighi, services czar Eddie Cue, and top researchers argued that Apple had been a leader in AI for years but just didn’t make a big deal of it. Advanced machine learning was already deep in some of its products,…
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Apple hit with lawsuit for allegedly underpaying female employees
14 Jun

Apple hit with lawsuit for allegedly underpaying female employees

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A class action lawsuit filed by two women against Apple seeks damages for 12,000 current and former female employees for allegedly underpaying them. The complaint says the tech giant “systematically” paid them a lower wage than their male employees over a four-year period.The lawsuit filed in a California state court in San Francisco County on Thursday claims Apple’s systematic behavior of sexual discrimination stems from a policy that set employees’ salaries based on their previous employment, according to the Wall Street Journal.Prior to fall of 2017, the complaint states that Apple used job applicants’ provided prior pay rates to set…
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Apple Proved That AI Is a Feature, Not a Product
13 Jun

Apple Proved That AI Is a Feature, Not a Product

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Apple's otherworldly, flying-saucer headquarters in Cupertino, California, felt like a suitable venue this week for a bold and futuristic revamp of the company’s most prized products. With iPhone sales slowing and rivals gaining ground thanks to the rise of tools like ChatGPT, Apple offered its own generative artificial intelligence vision at its Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC).Apple has lately been perceived as a generative AI laggard. Its WWDC offerings failed to persuade some critics, who have branded WWDC’s announcements as downright boring. But with the focus on infusing existing apps and OS features with what the company calls “Apple Intelligence,” the…
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