On this podcast, we talk about: How the Japanese company Zozo hopes to reinvent online clothing shopping. Amazon will start direct sales of a lot more new Apple devices. Alibaba’s Singles’ Day hits yet another sales record. Now playing: Watch this: Buying clothes online is about to get super weird (The… 4:37 The 3:59 gives …
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The Apple iPad Pro 11-inch and its new best friend, the Apple Pencil 2, enter the pantheon of iFixit teardowns. Published Monday, the iPad Pro teardown reveals that underneath the new gadgets’ slick surfaces lies a tap-happy array of sensors, smaller battery, the usual gluefest and a field of magnets. Once you remove the sleek white case and unroll the ribbon cable you …
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Apple cautioned earlier this month that it could miss Wall Street estimates for the holiday shopping season. Now that forecast is being echoed by TF Industries’ Ming-Chi Kuo. The well-known Apple analyst said iPhone XR shipments during the forth quarter of this year could be supplanted by the older, cheaper iPhone 8 and iPhone 7, and the top-of-the-line iPhone XS models, according …
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Never say never. Although it previously seemed like Apple wouldn’t release an iPhone with 5G support next year, new evidence makes the possibility of a 5G iPhone in 2020 seem more likely. That’s because on Monday Intel announced its new Intel XMM 8160 chip with 5G support. Intel says the 5G chip will be able to support peak speeds that are …
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Welcome to Day 6 of CNET’s 10 Days of Deals! As we count down to Black Friday, I’m bringing you some of my favorite products at some seriously discounted prices. The Amazfit Bip is an Apple Watch lookalike that’s more like a Pebble under the hood — and overall a pretty nice blend of the two. It normally sells for $100, but …
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Amazon has signed a deal to expand the selection of Apple products on its sites worldwide. The world’s largest e-commerce company said Friday it’ll soon start selling more Apple products directly and have access to Apple’s latest devices, including the new iPad Pro, iPhone XR, iPhone XS, and Apple Watch Series 4, as well as Apple’s lineup of Beats headphones. The Amazon-Apple …
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When the iPhone X was released last year, it ushered in a new look and feel for Apple’s handsets. The company got rid of the home button, offered a new Face ID unlock feature in return, and used a bigger and richer new type of screen called OLED for the display. It turns out some of the new displays Apple …
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Now playing: Watch this: CNET UK Podcast 547: Foldable phones, the iPad Pro and… 46:04 Apple’s new iPad Pro is here and it comes with a big price tag. But that doesn’t seem to have put off Andy, who is still unwaveringly excited about using Adobe Photoshop on the iPad. Rich isn’t so sure. Also up for discussion on the …
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A Chinese principal lost his job after hidden cryptocurrency mining machines were found sucking up his school’s electricity. The Ethereum-mining devices were discovered after teachers at the school in southeastern Hunan province got suspicious about a whirring noise they were hearing all day and night, the BBC reported Friday, citing local media. Cryptocurrency mining becomes more lucrative as you add …
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We rejoiced when Apple’s Mac Mini 2018 brought back the ability to upgrade memory, which had been soldered in its 2014 predecessor. Now iFixit’s teardown shows that the storage is soldered to the logic board instead. If it had to be one or the other, it does make more sense to solder the storage. Since Apple doesn’t use M2 NVMe, an external …
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