Here’s how serious Xiaomi is about its status as a phone maker: It’s now building its own phone chips. That puts it in a small but noteworthy group, along with phone titans Samsung and Apple and up-and-comer Huawei. The new Surge S1 chip, designed in-house by Xiaomi, makes its debut in the midrange Xiaomi Mi …
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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 important to us in particular. …
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Apple’s iPhone could celebrate its 10th birthday with a curved screen and USB-C connection. According to the Wall Street Journal, at least one model in Apple‘s next update to the iPhone range could have a curved OLED screen, similar to the Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge. More intriguingly, the Journal quotes anonymous sources claiming the new iPhone would ditch Apple’s proprietary …
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Another day, another iPhone rumor. The latest report comes from KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who suggests the next iPhone could feature a Touch Bar similar to the MacBook Pro. The analyst claims the smaller iPhone will feature a large 5.8-inch OLED display, though only 5.15 inches will be useable screen. The remaining area will apparently be reserved for virtual …
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It’s been a year since Apple fought the FBI over data privacy, and we’ve barely heard a peep from either side on the issue. So everything’s fine, right? Uh, no. The FBI’s attempt to force Apple to unlock an iPhone used by a terrorist set up a grand legal battle between security and privacy. On one side is a massive …
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After buying a 15-inch 2016 MacBook Pro in December with initially disappointing battery life, I became one of the skeptics. But I’ve been running tests and talking to Apple techs — read the details here — and I’ve extended my useful battery life dramatically. In one day’s test, mostly using a browser with a dim screen, I made it beyond …
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The iPhone’s home button may not be long for this world. Apple has been granted a patent for an “interactive display panel with IR diodes” — a method that would let users activate a device through a virtual home button placed within the touchscreen. The technology, described in a filing made public Tuesday by the US Patent and Trade Office, …
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It took six weeks of tech support calls, power usage monitoring and Genius Bar diagnostics, but I’m finally convinced my new MacBook Pro isn’t an expensive mistake. And what I’ve learned along the way can help you, too — regardless of what laptop you’re using. I bought a 15-inch Touch Bar-equipped MacBook Pro sight unseen late last year, confident that …
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Foxtel isn’t angry, it’s just very disappointed. While Australia’s pay TV heavyweight has previously been more than willing to wage war on pirates in the media and to go to court to protect its copyright, the company today took a surprise back step in its long running battle against “illegal” file sharing. Faced with two of its own customers who’d …
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Steam, the world’s biggest PC game store, is about to get a lot bigger. That’s because its owner, game developer Valve, is done picking and choosing which games will appear there. (Yes, the same Valve behind Half-Life, Portal and DOTA 2, among other popular games.) Valve has been experimenting for the past five years with a feature called Steam Greenlight, …
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