Toshiba is selling its personal PC business to Sharp. The roughly $36 million deal, announced Tuesday, includes the issuance of $1.8 billion in new shares by Sharp to buy back stock from banks, ZDNet reports. Sharp, which was acquired by Apple supplier Foxconn in 2016 for around $3.5 billion, will have an 80.1 percent stake in …
Read More »
This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. I’m leaning over a table with nothing on it, playing with someone across from me. We’re holding iPads. On our screens, a field of blocks are laid out. We’re launching slingshots, knocking each other’s slingshots out to try to win first. This is …
Read More »
This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple’s 2018 WWDC keynote was about software, not hardware. And yes, there was a lot of news on iOS 12. But there was also a rundown on WatchOS 5, Apple’s newest software update for Apple Watches. And like iOS 12, it was about small …
Read More »
This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple may be one of the biggest tech companies in the world, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t too big to throw some grade-A shade. Just like last week’s celebrity saga of Drake vs. Pusha T and Kanye West, but less interesting and …
Read More »
Enlarge Image 9to5mac Add the ability to recognize a second person with Face ID authentication to the list of new features in iOS 12 that weren’t announced in the WWDC 2018 keynote on Monday. That’s according to a report by 9to5mac, which found the option to “set up alternate appearance” in a beta of the new operating system software for …
Read More »
Apple may be the world’s biggest tech company, but it had only the second most exciting tech event on Monday. While the iPhone maker focused on sensible-but-not-sexy updates to its iOS software, Asus played its wildest cards. Chalk the excitement up to three new announcements: the VivoWatch BP, the ZenBook Pro and — oh, that’s right — a freaking two-screen …
Read More »
This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. I have a thing about companies like Google and Apple trying to make out like digital assistants are our friends. Although I love the technology, I find the implication of making them more human pathetically desperate and ridiculously self-serving. But to me the …
Read More »
This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple’s AirPods are about to get a feature that helps you hear better. The next version of Apple’s mobile operating system, iOS 12, will include the capability to turn your iPhone into a directional microphone. The feature, called Live Listen, has been offered …
Read More »
This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. iPhones and iPads will soon be able to make a 3D emoji of your own face that moves when you do. Apple calls it a “Memoji,” and it’s an offshoot of Animoji, the animated emoji that live inside iMessage in Apple’s iOS 12 …
Read More »
This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. At today’s WWDC, Apple showed off a new AR-powered feature: Measure. See the video below. When iOS 12 arrives, you’ll be able to use your iPhone ($285 at Amazon) to take measurements of real-world objects. Now playing: Watch this: Apple shows new Measure …
Read More »
