Adobe Fresco makes me wish I had talent. The company’s iPad Pro app for painting and sketching also makes me wish the Apple Pencil had a softer nib, but hey, one dream at a time. Now playing: Watch this: Adobe announces Fresco for Surface Pro 3:30 There are a lot of painting apps littering the …
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We may have to wait a while for a foldable iPhone and a TouchID comeback. In this week’s Apple Core roundup we’re fast forwarding to 2021 when Apple is rumored to launch a foldable iPad and an in-screen fingerprint scanner. We’re also looking at how the iPhone 11 rumors stack up against Samsung’s newest Note 10, and we’re giving you …
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Do you hate robocalls enough to let an app give your data to third parties in exchange for blocking the spam? Researchers found that’s exactly what’s happening to millions of people using the most popular robocall-blocking apps. Robocalls have become an epidemic, as lawmakers and phone carriers seek to stomp out the massive number of spam calls sent per day. …
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Since being blacklisted in May by US President Donald Trump, Huawei has been rumoured to be working on its own operating system. We’ve heard that it’s called Hongmeng, that it’s designed to work across smart devices and power Huawei’s phones as an alternative to Google’s Android. On Friday Huawei revealed most of that to be true. At its Huawei Developer …
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Have a new Mac or iPad Pro and ready to start living the “dongle life?” Apple’s new $69 (£75, AU$99) AV adapter is getting updated to help you. (See it at Apple here.) The new USB-C dongle has a traditional HDMI port, a USB-C port and an older full-size USB-A port. It now supports HDMI 2.0, allowing it to output …
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The FBI has reportedly been unsuccessful this week in trying to crack the PIN on a phone belonging to the suspect in Sunday’s mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio. FBI Deputy Director David Bowdich said if the suspect used a six- or eight-digit passcode, it could take months or years to break, The Hill reported Thursday. The shooting left nine people dead and …
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Russia’s competition watchdog is probing Apple over allegations that it’s abusing its dominance over iOS apps. The complaint came from cybersecurity company Kaspersky Lab. The Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia (FAS) is looking into why Kaspersky’s Safe Kids parent control app wasn’t updated — causing a major loss in its functionality — while Apple‘s own Screen Time was. Apple didn’t …
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For a long time, Apple laptops were expensive, premium products that were rarely discounted. You might find a modest deal on an older model or a retailer might sweeten a sale with a gift card. But that’s changing — we’re seeing significant, sustained price breaks on an almost daily basis. Some of those lower prices come from back-to-school discounts — …
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Samsung would rather you forget that it mocked Apple for killing the headphone jack in a 2017 ad. Now that its Galaxy Note 10 phones have also done away with the headphone jack, Samsung appears to be quietly deleting an ad called Growing Up from its YouTube channels. The video shows an iPhone user getting increasingly annoyed at each new iPhone …
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Samsung’s new Galaxy Note 10 line is ditching its headphone jack. After years of being one of the last true holdouts, it seems that not even the mighty Samsung could continue to prolong the inevitable death of the beloved port. Of course, with this switch, there is a bit of irony. As rumors continued to pick up steam that Apple …
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