Apple CEO Tim Cook really cares about the company’s professional users — even though Apple’s Mac desktop computers are overdue for updates. “You will see us do more in the pro area,” Cook said Tuesday during Apple’s shareholder meeting in Cupertino, California. “The pro area is very important to us. The creative area is very …
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28 February
You won’t believe this Apple accessory
Apple products have created major cottage industries for accessory makers over the years, but it always seems a little strange when a company makes an accessory for an Apple accessory. That’s the case with Pad & Quill’s Leather Apple Pencil Grip, which is exactly what it sounds like: a leather cover for the Apple Pencil (for the iPad Pro). It …
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28 February
Gimme pizza! Domino’s will now deliver your order anywhere
Domino’s has delivered pizza by drone, by robot and by reindeer, but finally the fast food delivery company is coming through with a service that we can actually see ourselves using: pizza delivered anywhere. We’re not just talking about delivery to hard-to-find addresses or suburbs out in the sticks. Domino’s Anywhere will use your phone’s GPS to let you place …
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28 February
AR could find its way into the iPhone 8, suggests report
Apple may have over 1,000 engineers working on a project related to AR, UBS reports, and it could hit the iPhone 8 as early as this year. We’ve heard Tim Cook rave about augmented reality before, so this doesn’t come as a huge surprise. If Apple brings AR to the iPhone it will be competing with Google Tango enabled phones, …
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28 February
Turn off those pesky location requests in your Chrome, Firefox or Edge browser
It seems like more and more websites these days want to get a bead on you. You’ve no doubt seen the pop-ups: “XYZ-Site wants to know your location.” Then you have to click Allow or Block. In most cases this is an innocuous request, as determining your location is helpful (or even required) for things like calculating a shipping price …
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28 February
This government recruitment ad is brilliantly awkward and uncool
Being a graduate can be tough: Long hours, low wages, being forced to appear in poorly-scripted recruitment videos so your employer “goes viral”… But if you work in the Department of Finance, going viral can happen for all the wrong reasons. In a sign that making Canberra look good on screen is a Herculean task, the federal government’s Department of …
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28 February
LG and Valve are working on a VR headset
LG looks like another upcoming player in the VR landscape. LG is developing a VR head-mounted display, Valve said in a release Monday. A prototype of the headset will be demonstrated at Valve’s booth at the Game Developer Conference in San Francisco this week. LG experimented with VR in a pair of mobile goggles about a year ago, but the …
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28 February
Qualcomm wants you to use your real hands to grab virtual things
Now playing: Watch this: Throwing dice with Qualcomm’s hand-tracking VR headset… 1:06 Do you really want to strap on a backpack, or chain yourself to a beefy computer, to step into a VR world? You may not need to, if Qualcomm keeps on trucking. The chipmaker’s building a cord-free, hand-sensing, eye-tracking headset reference design that could make it way more …
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28 February
Find out if someone has accessed your MacBook’s camera
After reading about how hackers have taken control of a MacBook’s iSight camera to spy on the person sitting in front of it, you might start to get a feeling that someone is watching you. Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you, after all. Making matters worse, hackers have been able to spy on people without triggering …
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28 February
Google touts big VR, AR advances
They say that numbers tell the story. If that’s true, then Google’s $15 Cardboard virtual reality viewer plays an oversized role in the virtual reality market. That’s because more than 10 million of the heavy paper viewers have shipped since 2014, and Cardboard apps have been downloaded 160 million times from Google Play. “And 30 of those apps have more …
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