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Apple Memoji get accessories, makeup and stickers

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple will let you make your iPhone Memoji look even more like you, the company said on Monday at its WWDC 2019 developers conference. Apple introduced new features to let you further customize your avatar. You’ll be able …

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Apple WWDC 2019: 12 things to do in San Jose, CA

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple’s kicked off its WWDC developers conference on Monday, introducing several products and software updates including the Apple Pro Display XDR, MacOS Catalina and  iOS 13, and the new Mac Pro. Though the audience sounded excited enough about the devices, it was to the collective …

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iPadOS will let you plug flash drives and memory cards into your iPad

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. With the upcoming iPadOS, you’ll be able to plug external drives and SD cards into your iPad the way you already can with your Mac or Windows PC. “iPadOS … supports external drives, allowing users to easily plug in USB drives, SD cards …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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: …

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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 …

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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, …

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These affordable audiophile in

Etymotic made a big splash in 1991 with its ER4 in-ear headphones, which brought professional audio monitoring into the mainstream.  The Etymotic ER4 headphone was my go-to in-ear for years, and in 2017 the line was refreshed with the ER4SR (Studio Reference) and ER4XR (Extended Response) at $349/£360 each.  This model was quickly followed by the ER3SE/XR ($179/£199), and it was the Audiophiliac affordable …

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