The Apple Watch ($70 at Amazon) serves as an extension of your iPhone ($899 at Amazon) on your wrist, allowing you to take calls, control your music, and read emails. But more than that, it’s a robust health and fitness device that supports your workouts, fitness goals, heart health and sleep. Apple Watch series 4, …
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Apple Maps gets a makeover
This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple Maps is getting a new look. Apple on Monday unveiled a more detailed Maps app that the company said will roll out to US users by the end of 2019 and to more countries by 2020. The company also has added new features that …
Read More »The new Mac Pro makes its debut at WWDC 2019: Starts at $5,999, available fall 2019
This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple has debuted the new Mac Pro — a dramatically retooled version of its flagship desktop computer that had not been significantly updated since 2013 — on Monday at WWDC. The new $5,999 entry-level configuration features an eight-core Xeon processor, 32GB of RAM, a Radeon Pro …
Read More »Intel’s Ice Lake chips are the latest attempt to make Thunderbolt relevant
If you like the high-speed Thunderbolt port for plugging stuff into your PC, there’s good news for this year and beyond. Thunderbolt debuted on MacBook Pro laptops in 2011 as an all-purpose port for monitors, storage systems and other high-end peripherals, and has since spread to Windows machines, too. This holiday season, though, Intel’s new Ice Lake processor will make …
Read More »BlackBerry Messenger is dead: Use these apps instead
It’s official: BlackBerry Messenger is no more. The beloved messaging platform was officially shut down on May 31, following an announcement earlier this year. BBM was one of the first messaging apps to use read receipts and typing indicators, but it long held up security as a key selling point. While you may be feeling nostalgic about the demise of BBM, …
Read More »Samsung Notebook 7 Force Macbook Pro alternative appears ahead of WWDC
The Notebook 7 Force is Samsung’s newest 15.6-inch laptop, and it’s all clean lines and high performance wrapped up in a black metal chassis. The Force, which will start at $1,500 when it’s available in the US on July 26, is a traditional clamshell design — not a two-in-one like Samsung’s Notebook 9 Pro — and looks very much like …
Read More »Apple WWDC could bring big iTunes change
This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. It’s long been suspected Apple’s iTunes — that clunky tool we’ve used for almost two decades to play, download and manage our media — is set to be replaced, or at least relegated to a legacy application for synching data between old iPods and …
Read More »iOS 13 dark mode leaks and more WWDC 2019 predictions
Today we round up the top iOS 13, MacOS 10.15 and WatchOS 6 rumors and preview all the changes your Apple devices could see in the coming months, along with anything else Apple could surprise us with at WWDC 2019. We’re also taking a look at Apple’s latest product launch: the new seventh-generation iPod Touch, which seemed to come out …
Read More »Trash can redux: Reexamining the legacy of the 2013 Apple Mac Pro
This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. In London last week to speak at a video games industry conference, I found myself in Harrods, the famously extravagant department store with everything from gourmet food to expensive suits to collectible coffee table books the size of actual coffee tables. (Editor’s note: …
Read More »UEFA Champions League final: How to watch Liverpool vs. Tottenham live
It’s an all-English final match for the championship of the UEFA Champions League. The annual football tournament started with 79 top-division clubs from all over Europe, and now it’s down to two. Liverpool and Tottenham meet in the final on June 1, a match expected to rival the Super Bowl as the most-watched television broadcast in the world. Both teams …
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