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Perhaps this is a new Apple, one that’s kinder and gentler to your wallet. The Cupertino, California, consumer electronics on giant on Tuesday unveiled a new iPad. While the $329 price tag (£319, AU$469) is identical to last year’s model, the new version comes packed with more features — notably support for the Apple Pencil …

Apple has a new perk to attract customers in the education business: 200GB of iCloud storage, a major step up from the 5GB ordinary Apple customers get. Apple announced the deal at an event Tuesday at the Lane Tech High School in Chicago, where it also unveiled a new, more powerful iPad in an effort to re-establish itself in the classroom. Better …

You could already draw all over the iPad with the Apple Pencil, but how about crayon?  Logitech just announced a $49 alternative to Apple’s $99 Pencil called the Crayon, which lets you write and draw as you would with a pencil and paper. The digital pencil promises not to roll off the desk, and claims 8 hours of battery life — …

Google wants to make it easier for you to find that perfect GIF. On Tuesday, the search giant said it’s acquiring Tenor, a platform for searching for GIFs on Android, iOS and desktop. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. Google will integrate Tenor’s library of GIFs into its image search engine, as well as use it to improve other products, …

Nine months ago, Apple stole the augmented reality race. Google has been playing catch-up practically ever since.  But now that millions of iOS and Android phones can become portals to any world an app developer dreams up, what’s a Cupertino company to do next? Dissect frogs, apparently.  Froggipedia is one of a host of new ARKit apps that Apple just announced, …

Apple is bringing its Apple Pencil stylus to more of its iPads. On Tuesday, the tech giant said the stylus will now be compatible with a newly unveiled 9.7-inch iPad that starts at $329 for consumers (the same price as the previously cheapest iPad). Previously, the Pencil was only compatible with pricier iPad Pro tablets. Also, Apple won’t be adding Pencil …

Vodafone is about to take its NBN plans to the farthest reaches of Australia (read: Brisbane, Gold Coast, Adelaide, Perth and Tasmania, as well as the Melbourne and Sydney markets it’s been operating in) so it’s decided to make some announcements to sweeten the deal.  Vodafone First is Vodafone TV, a fairly open Android TV box that will retail at …

The iPhone X, may have the most famous “notch”, but the best notch-screen design doesn’t come from Apple at all.  Today, that honor goes to Huawei, whose P20 and P20 Pro let you quickly and oh-so-easily hop into the Display settings to toggle the notch off. It’s that simple. What’s the big uproar over the notch anyway? Found first on the iPhone X …

Apple is making a big push to get students to use its products in the classroom. On Tuesday, the iPhone maker unveiled several new education tools during an event at Chicago’s largest public high school, Lane Tech College Prep, in which it launched a new iPad.  Here’s a brief look at the new tools and programs. Apple School Manager: Lets teachers …

Apple has brought augmented reality to its Swift Playgrounds app designed to teach kids the basics of programming and maybe even groom them into the next generation of iPhone developers. The move means kids can incorporate Swift Playgrounds’ cartoon characters — protagonists who follow students’ programming instructions — into their Swift Playgrounds projects. The technology uses Apple’s ARKit technology. Apple …