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Amazon drops the Apple AirPods Max down to $395 for October Prime Day 2024
08 Oct

Amazon drops the Apple AirPods Max down to $395 for October Prime Day 2024

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Amazon Prime Day typically brings at least a few good Apple deals (iPhones excluded of course) and this fall Prime Day has delivered. The Lightning AirPods Max headphones are on sale for a record-low price of $395, a discount we last saw during July Prime Day. The new USB-C version of the headphones is also on sale for $500, which is $50 off their regular price.During the iPhone 16 event in September, Apple announced new standard AirPods but didn't reveal a new pair of over-ear phones. Instead, the AirPods Max were given a couple of new colors and an upgrade…
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Prime Day deals on laptops include the M2 MacBook Air for a record low of $749 on Amazon
08 Oct

Prime Day deals on laptops include the M2 MacBook Air for a record low of $749 on Amazon

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Now that October Prime Day is here, we're seeing all of the deals the online retailer has to offer for its fall sale event. One of the best Prime Day Apple deals is on the M2-powered MacBook Air laptop, which you can snag right now for $749. That's $250 off and a new record low on the machine we consider to be the best budget MacBook in Apple's laptop lineup.In our initial M2 MacBook Air review, we were impressed by the laptop's thinner design, gorgeous 13.6-inch display, great quad-speaker setup and the M2 chip's excellent performance. It had been our…
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Where Have All the Chief Metaverse Officers Gone?
07 Oct

Where Have All the Chief Metaverse Officers Gone?

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Ball adds that the speed at which brands wanted to act, without a real plan or understanding of the space, created issues for its longevity: “There was definitely a lot of, ‘We need to do this because everyone's doing it,’ and ‘We need to do this because shareholders expect us to be doing it.’ There were many that overestimated the relevance of their brand in these 3D spaces.”A Pivot to AINow, many of the chief metaverse officers, who had been so quickly installed, scrambled to reinvent themselves—or otherwise found themselves out of a job entirely. Coca-Cola’s Pratik Thakar swiftly pivoted…
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Apple’s revamped Mac mini and iPad mini could be here as soon as November 1
06 Oct

Apple’s revamped Mac mini and iPad mini could be here as soon as November 1

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It seems Apple has a slew of hardware announcements in store for us this fall. In the Power On newsletter this week, ’s Mark Gurman reports that Apple is gearing up to announce new MacBook Pro models, the , the M4 iMac and a new iPad mini before the end of the month, and is targeting a release date of November 1 for “at least some” of these products.According to Gurman, we’re likely to see a low- and high-end 14-inch MacBook Pro, both packing the M4 chips. There will also be a 16-inch high-end MacBook Pro. As for the Mac…
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The first Apple Intelligence features are expected to arrive on October 28
06 Oct

The first Apple Intelligence features are expected to arrive on October 28

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Apple Intelligence will start rolling out on October 28, according to ’s Mark Gurman. Apple said last month that it was targeting October for the , iPadOS 18.1, and macOS Sequoia 15.1 — which will bring some of the first Apple Intelligence features to iPhone 16 and other Apple devices — but it didn’t set a firm release date at the time. The first wave of Apple Intelligence features will include the text editor and summarization tool, Writing Tools, along with smart audio recording and transcriptions for Mail, Notes, Pages and other apps.We’ll also likely see the new Memories feature…
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New iOS update fixes microphone and password problems
06 Oct

New iOS update fixes microphone and password problems

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There’s a new fix available for certain iPhones and iPads that addresses issues with recording and password security. Apple released two new patches including iOS 18.0.1 for iPhones and iPadOS 18.0.1, according to the support website. The update also finally allows users with an M4-powered iPad to upgrade to iOS 18, after the initial version was pulled for bricking users’ devices.The patch fixes recording issues with all of the iPhone 16 models in the Messages app. The iPhone’s microphone would accidentally start recording a few seconds before becoming activated with the orange microphone icon.The password patch fixes an issue in…
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Apple will reportedly debut its in-house 5G modem with the iPhone SE 4
04 Oct

Apple will reportedly debut its in-house 5G modem with the iPhone SE 4

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Bloomberg recently reported that Apple is close to releasing an updated iPhone SE, which will be its first update to the low-end model since 2022. According to 9to5Mac, Apple is also planning to use the phone as a launching pad for its in-house 5G modems. The company purchased the majority of Intel's smartphone modem business for $1 billion back in 2019 after taking steps to be more self-reliant and aggressively recruiting staff to make that happen. But it has yet to release devices that use the modems designed by its internal team.Apple and Qualcomm have somewhat of a complicated history.…
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The USB-C Apple Pencil is cheaper than ever in this early Prime Day deal
01 Oct

The USB-C Apple Pencil is cheaper than ever in this early Prime Day deal

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There are bargains aplenty to be had in the lead up to the October edition of Prime Day. Many are even bringing the prices of certain products down to record lows. Case in point: the USB-C Apple Pencil is cheaper than it’s ever been right now. You can , which is $10 off and matches the lowest price we’ve seen to date for it.Apple as its most budget-friendly Apple Pencil so far, and this sale makes the peripheral even more wallet-friendly. However, Apple's long had a problem with making it clear to consumers .AppleThe USB-C Apple Pencil was already the…
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Epic Games Is Suing Samsung Now
30 Sep

Epic Games Is Suing Samsung Now

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Tim Sweeney, the CEO of Epic Games, had always worried that his company’s victory last year in a multimillion-dollar legal battle against Google’s app store monopoly wouldn’t be enough to open up competition. Even if Google could no longer keep alternative marketplaces out of Android, phone manufacturers could make them harder to access. In a US lawsuit filed today, that’s exactly what Epic alleges Google has conspired with Samsung to do.Some newer Samsung phones have required settings changes to install apps from the web such as Epic’s app marketplace, according to Epic, which also develops Fortnite and Rocket Racing. The…
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Apple’s rumored smart display may arrive in 2025 running new homeOS
30 Sep

Apple’s rumored smart display may arrive in 2025 running new homeOS

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Apple is planning to debut a new operating system called homeOS with its long-rumored smart displays, the first of which is expected to arrive as soon as 2025, according to ’s Mark Gurman. Reports of have been swirling for over a year, and said just this summer that Apple is working on a tabletop smart display that can tilt and rotate the screen for better viewing. In his latest report, Gurman says there are two versions in the works: a low-end display that will offer the basics, like FaceTime and smart home controls, and the high-end robotic variant that’ll cost…
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