Apple is reportedly looking into acquiring Intel’s German smartphone modem business. The acquisition could help Apple’s attempts to develop its own 5G chip for the iPhone, The Information said Tuesday, citing four people briefed on the Apple-Intel discussions. Apple had originally used modems from Germany’s Infineon when it launched the iPhone 10 years ago, before switching to Qualcomm in …
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Microsoft’s next Xbox, code-named Project Scarlett, is coming next year. But the company’s already releasing key parts of it now, and it says the reception has been big. In the past couple months, Microsoft’s been beefing up its subscription offerings. In April, it announced a new Xbox Games Pass Ultimate for $15 per month, combining its $10 monthly Xbox Games …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Want to a new way to retouch photos on your Mac? Adobe‘s Lightroom will test Sidecar, a technology coming to Apple’s new MacOS Catalina that lets you use an iPad as a second display for your Mac or as an Apple Pencil-equipped tablet for controlling your …
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Lenovo’s jumped on the Quadro RTX 5000 bandwagon, bringing the high-end processor into its ThinkPad P53 and P73 mobile workstations; the P53 especially benefits as it brings a new level of power down to the 15-inch class of laptops. The P53 is also getting an option for a 4K OLED touch display. The OLED panels are making their way into …
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This story is part of Father’s Day Gift Guide, featuring our top picks for dads who love tech. You don’t need to be shopping for a dad or a grad to cash in on Best Buy’s three-day Dads and Grads sale. The sale runs from Friday, June 7 through Sunday, June 9 and includes a wide variety of tech, from …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple is known for slickly produced product launches and, in Steve Jobs‘ time, a singular masterful showman unveiling groundbreaking products including the iPhone and the MacBook Air. But WWDC is when the company lets its hair down and gets geeky with its developers. I finally got …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. When Apple introduced the new Mac Pro at WWDC Monday, it announced the price of the entry-level configuration: $5,999. And yes, that’s a lot of money to spend on a computer. But it’s peanuts next to what we expect the most premium configuration to …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple has debuted the new Mac Pro — a dramatically retooled version of its flagship desktop computer that had not been significantly updated since 2013 — on Monday at WWDC. The new $5,999 entry-level configuration features an eight-core Xeon processor, 32GB of RAM, a Radeon Pro …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. At Apple’s WWDC 2019, it’s like Marvel and DC Comics characters crossing over into the same movie. Or the Yankees and Red Sox sharing the same dugout. You can hear the exasperated voice of Seinfeld’s George Costanza: “Worlds are colliding!” Well, sort of. One of …
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If you like the high-speed Thunderbolt port for plugging stuff into your PC, there’s good news for this year and beyond. Thunderbolt debuted on MacBook Pro laptops in 2011 as an all-purpose port for monitors, storage systems and other high-end peripherals, and has since spread to Windows machines, too. This holiday season, though, Intel’s new Ice Lake processor will make …
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