Chipmaker Arm, owned by Japanese tech giant SoftBank, is making plans for layoffs after SoftBank’s $40 billion deal to sell Arm to Nvidia collapsed in February. The company is preparing to cut 12% to 15% of its staff in the US and UK, Bloomberg reported on Monday. The layoffs were announced to staff via a memo from Arm CEO …
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Backing up your Mac is one of those routine tasks that can wind up buried beneath the more urgent priorities on your to-do list. But if your MacBook or iMac crashes at an inopportune time — as computers always seem to do — you’ll be infinitely grateful you took a few minutes to save all your important files. A backup …
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From phones to headphones to laptops, Apple’s products are some of the best and most popular on the market. They come with a hefty price tag to match, however, and Apple almost never offers discounts on its own products directly. And while deals do flare up occasionally at retailers, your best bet to find Apple devices at a bargain is …
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The Mini’s time in the iPhone lineup may be done. While Apple did unveil an iPhone 13 Mini in September, the company has no plans to include the smaller version of the phone in its iPhone 14 lineup, according to a 9to5Mac report on Monday. Sources tell the site that the lineup for the as-yet-unannounced handset will include four models, …
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Foxconn, one of Apple’s top suppliers of iPhones and other devices, has temporarily halted operations in Shenzhen, China, due to a citywide lockdown imposed by the government after a COVID-19 outbreak. Also known as Hon Hai Precision Industry, Foxconn has suspended operations at two campuses and has worked to relocate production to other sites in an effort to reduce the …
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After a stint in beta, the Universal Control and Spatial Audio features are now available to all Mac users via the new MacOS 12.3 update. The Universal Control feature is still marked under beta, however, meaning users might run into issues when trying to seamlessly move windows between iPad OS and MacOS. Universal Control, first announced at WWDC in June …
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Apple’s 2022 iPhone SE represents a notable upgrade over its predecessor: It has 5G support, the same processor as the iPhone 13 and longer battery life compared to the 2020 model. But there are still some features we hoped to see that didn’t make it into the third-generation iPhone SE. Apple announced the new iPhone SE during its first product launch …
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The premium iPhone 14 may also come with a premium performance upgrade, according to one analyst’s prediction. The new lineup of iPhones isn’t expected to debut until the fall, but when it does, the iPhone 14 Pro will feature an A16 chip, while the other models will sport the A15 Bionic, the chip that powers the current iPhone 13 lineup, …
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Quick show of hands: Who wants to spend $1,000 or more on a new phone? Not everyone, that’s for sure. That’s where devices like the iPhone SE come in, and this week Apple introduced the newest SE, priced at $429. As part of our coverage of the “Peek Performance” Apple event, CNET’s Lisa Eadicicco stacks up the iPhone SE against …
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Apple’s iPhone line did not get any cheaper with the launch of the new iPhone SE this week. The iPhone SE revealed at the March “Peek Performance” event starts at $429, offering the faster connectivity of 5G along with Apple’s A15 Bionic chip from the iPhone 13 line to improve on the 2020 model that was $399. The slightly higher starting price is not …
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