Apple has announced extending its education partnerships, adding 10 historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) to its Community Education Initiative. The schools will have coding centers to become “technology hubs” for their regions, Apple said Thursday. There, people can learn coding and app design using Apple’s Everyone Can Code and Everyone Can Create courses. “At …
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For the company that rules search, Google complicated the Android app launch of Peacock, a streaming service from Comcast’s NBCUniversal, Wednesday, when the Google Play Store failed to show the app in search results for much of the app’s launch day. Android’s Peacock app published overnight in the Google Play Store as planned, and it was available to download if you had a link to find …
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In the age of coronavirus we’ve been asked to shelter in place at home, which leads to watching more TV than ever. At the same time, the economy is in recession and lots of Americans face financial stress. That combination means you might be looking for TV deals to buy a new TV without spending a lot of money. The …
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Oppo is a hugely popular phone maker in China, but it’s far from well known in the US. A sister company to OnePlus, Oppo is hoping to change that with a stream of futuristic features, which it announces with the same amount of hoopla usually attached to the unveiling of a new phone. Last year, it was an in-screen selfie …
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Apple on Wednesday is releasing iOS 13.6, the latest version of its operating software for iPhones. Along with the usual under-the-hood tweaks, like improved support for system updates, the version 13.6 brings a couple of key new features — most notably, the arrival of CarKey, which lets you create virtual keys for supported vehicles that you can store in the …
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Every summer, the routine is the same: Back-to-school shopping looms, and Apple releases a public beta of its next version of iOS. This year, the routine’s been disrupted, but the new iOS beta is still here. iOS 14 on the iPhone and iPadOS 14 in the iPad have a lot in common, but the iPad version of iOS has its …
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Apple might’ve paid a penalty of around $950 million to Samsung Display for failing to purchase enough OLED panels to meet its contract, according to a report from Display Supply Chain Consultants, spotted earlier by MacRumors. The reported payment could mean that Apple didn’t meet projected iPhone sales, as many of the tech giant’s retail stores have been closed as …
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Japanese conglomerate SoftBank is exploring the possibility of a full or partial sale or IPO of chip designer Arm Holdings, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday. SoftBank purchased the UK-based Arm four years ago for nearly $32 billion. ARM isn’t as well-known as mega chip companies such as Qualcomm and Intel, but its work lies behind the processors inside many …
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Apple has teased that it will ship the first computers running its own Apple A-series Arm chips later this year. Now, a new report from notable Apple watcher Ming-Chi Kuo, of TF International Securities, suggests that the first computers packing the new processors could be a 13.3-inch MacBook Pro and possibly a new MacBook Air as well. In the report, …
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Update, July 27: The OnePlus Nord is here. Read our in-depth review. Original story follows. The OnePlus Nord will have a 105-degree ultrawide selfie camera, which the Chinese phone maker said Monday will save its users from the embarrassment of using a selfie stick. The phone will come with “pretty much everything you could ask for,” according to the company. View …
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