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Apple Arcade: Butter Royale and three other games get updates

This story is part of CNET’s coverage of Apple Arcade, including exclusive first looks we got at some of the service’s high-profile new games. Apple Arcade on Friday updated four games with new features, just in time for the weekend. Arcade, the tech giant’s $4.99 (£4.99, AU$7.99)-a-month gaming service, updates games almost weekly as well as releasing …

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Apple Arcade’s new Winding Worlds game seeks to ease pandemic stress for all ages

This story is part of CNET’s coverage of Apple Arcade, including exclusive first looks we got at some of the service’s high-profile new games. Winding Worlds, a new game from Montreal indie development studio KO_OP, became the latest to join Apple Arcade‘s growing catalog of over 110 games on Friday. In the colorful puzzle game, you play as Willow, a bunny-like creature who’s hired …

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iPhone SE is already cheap, but there’s a way to save even more money

Apple’s new iPhone SE is a long overdue update that takes the iPhone 8 ‘s design and adds modern iPhone 11 features, all while keeping a $399 starting price that’s several hundreds of dollars cheaper than the iPhone 11‘s $699 entry point. If you’re looking to maximize your savings, buying the phone is just the first step. To really get …

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Apple’s AR glasses won’t launch until at least 2022, analyst says

Apple’s long-rumored foray into the augmented headset market won’t happen until 2022 at the earliest, Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo reportedly said in a note to investors. Sources told CNET in 2018 that Apple would reveal its plans for an augmented reality and virtual reality headset sometime this year. But the coronavirus pandemic has created supply chain issues in China and a …

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Apple buys NextVR, which broadcasts sports and music in virtual reality

Virtual reality got a little more real Thursday, with news that Apple bought the VR streaming sports company NextVR. The California startup is mostly known for partnerships with the NBA and Wimbledon to stream live sports from specialized cameras set up courtside to people’s headsets at home. The effect is meant to make people feel as though they’re sitting in premium seats, …

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Nvidia’s new data center GPU packs 20 times the performance of its predecessor

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Whenever a new GPU or CPU hits the market, it boasts faster speeds, usually in the magnitude of two or three times better than before — at most. But Nvidia on Thursday blew right past those normally strong performance increases. The company’s new …

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Apple supplier report details safety changes due to COVID

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Apple’s annual audit of its supplier chain highlights the company’s plans to increase safety and protection for workers in its global supply chain in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak. Apple’s 14th annual Supplier Responsibility Progress Report, released on Thursday, includes a letter …

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Apple said to begin plans to return workforce to the office by summer

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Companies around Silicon Valley are reconsidering their work-from-home strategies amid the coronavirus pandemic, telling employees they can work remotely after the crisis subsides. Apple is reportedly taking a different tack, sharing plans to potentially bring employees back to its offices by the summer. …

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Slack revamps iPhone and Android app with simpler design

Slack on Wednesday rolled out a major update to its iPhone and Android apps, which aims to improve navigation and make it easier to access DMs and availability and status settings. The mobile improvements follow a big update to Slack’s desktop platform that arrived in March, just as coronavirus lockdowns and quarantines were beginning and more people started working from …

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Amazon upgrades its Fire HD 8 tablet with USB

Back in October, Amazon updated its value-price 10-inch tablet, the Fire HD 10, and now its popular Fire HD 8 gets a similar update, adding a faster processor, 2GB of RAM (up from 1.5), USB-C charging and 32GB of storage in the base 8-inch model (up from 16GB). The new model is $90, or $10 more than the previous HD …

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