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Apple’s got a new plan to bring creativity (and more iPads) to schools

Two years ago, Apple targeted the left side of kids’ brains with Everyone Can Code. Now it’s turned its attention to the right side with its new Everyone Can Create program that launches Monday. With Everyone Can Code in 2016, Apple called out coding as an “essential skill.” It started delivering learning guides and tools to help …

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Steve Wozniak’s Woz U is ‘a $13,000 e

Steve Wozniak’s Woz U may not give students the programming skills they need. A number of former students and employees told CBS News the 33-week online program has many problems that make it not worth the $13,200 tuition fee. Wozniak, who co-founded Apple with Steve Jobs in 1976, launched the digital institute in 2017. Among the complaints, former student Bill …

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5 features your Android phone needs right now

I’ve been watching Android for 10 years, from the moment it first blinked to life on the T-Mobile G1 phone. It grew up with support for on-screen controls and reached its teenage years with the Google Assistant. That’s an impressive feat for a mobile platform that already started far behind BlackBerry, Windows Mobile and Apple’s then year-old iOS. Android survived where …

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FBI unlocked an iPhone X by forcing suspect to use Face ID

Your face can and will be used against you. During an FBI investigation of six Ohio men charged with sexually abusing children and creating child pornography, agents forced one of the suspects to unlock his iPhone X by showing his face to the phone. On Aug. 10, federal investigators searched Grant Michalski’s home in Columbus, Ohio, and found an iPhone …

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LG V40 ThinQ lets you add a splash of motion to still photos

LG’s next flagship smartphone, the LG V40 ThinQ, hasn’t even been officially announced yet, but that’s not stopping the company from touting one of the device’s marquee features.  The upcoming smartphone will be able to take cinemagraphs, which are still photos with minor bits of repeated movement. Creating a cinemagraph normally requires the composition of a series of photographs or …

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iPhone XS vs. XS Max vs. XR: Buy your best iPhone for 2018

Our full review of the iPhone XR is here. How does it compare to the iPhone XS and Pixel 3? We answer that and much more in our exhaustive review.  You want the best new iPhone for your lifestyle, but which one should you buy? Great question. The iPhone XS, XS Max or iPhone XR lineup is a tight race, mostly because the …

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Apple Store robbery ring: 17 charged in $1M scheme

California is cracking down on Apple store thieves. The state’s attorney general, Xavier Becerra, on Thursday said 17 people had been arrested and charged in connection with a robbery scheme targeting Apple stores across 19 counties, which caused over $1 million in property loss. The investigation is ongoing. The people charged allegedly went into the retail stores in large groups …

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Inside Facebook’s massive center storing your personal information

In a vast, dark room, the lights glow a steady green, blue, yellow. I’m not inside the Matrix, but it’s not far off. With every step, I walk past thousands upon thousands of virtual interactions between real people happening through the world’s largest social network, Facebook. I’m inside the company’s newest European data center in Clonee, Ireland, a small town …

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iOS 12 is now available: How to update, best new features and more

Apple’s latest update to iOS is here, and it’s full of new features. The update is available now for the iPhone ($899 at Amazon), iPad ($170 at Amazon) and iPod Touch. For those with a shiny new iPhone XS or iPhone XS Max ($427 at eBay), iOS 12 comes preinstalled.  Apple also recently released iOS 12.1 through its beta program, which …

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ITC says Apple infringes a Qualcomm patent but iPhones shouldn’t be banned

Apple might’ve infringed a Qualcomm patent, but that doesn’t mean iPhones should be banned from sale, a new US International Trade Commission filing said Friday. Qualcomm in late 2017 had asked the ITC to prevent iPhones that had Intel 4G chips from being sold because of allegations of patent infringement. Administrative Law Judge Thomas Pender on Friday agreed that Apple …

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