Samsung just turned its biggest quarter ever — no thanks to smartphones. The South Korea electronics giant on Tuesday reported its biggest operating profit ever as it benefited from strong demand for its memory chips and other components. Samsung not only uses processors it manufactures in its own devices but also sells them to customers …
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Editors’ note, Nov. 1: We’ve added hands-on impressions of the new version of the MacBook Air, which starts at $1,199 and features a Retina display, Touch ID and USB-C ports. Apple introduced its biometric Touch ID feature for the new MacBook Air on Tuesday. The tech giant unveiled the latest version of the MacBook Air at its event at the …
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The death of the MacBook Air ($1,400 at eBay) was greatly exaggerated. Instead of folding the MacBook Air into its MacBook ($445 at Amazon) line or MacBook Pro ($575 at Amazon) line, Apple kept the MacBook Air name and introduced a redesigned MacBook Air on Tuesday at its late October product announcement event in Brooklyn, New York. In addition, Apple …
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The online Apple Store went down ahead on Tuesday ahead of the company’s iPad event in Brooklyn, New York. Apple pulling down its offline store is part of its standard launch day procedure — when it pops back up it’s sure to list all the newly announced products. The company unveiled its 2018 lineup of iPhones back in September, and …
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Apple has given the iPad Pro its biggest makeover since first introducing the premium tablet back in 2015. After souping up the entry-level iPad in March, adding Pencil support and a faster processor but keeping the price at $329, Apple desperately needed to put the “Pro” back into the iPad Pro. Today’s update achieves that — though it also pushes the devices’ prices …
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Editors’ note, Nov. 1: We’ve added hands-on impressions of the new MacBook Air, which starts at $1,199 and features a Retina display, Touch ID and USB-C ports. Apple announced an update to its most popular laptop, the MacBook Air, at a special event in Brooklyn, New York, on Tuesday. The 13.3-inch laptop now has a Retina display with four times the …
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A new iPad Pro with Face ID. A replacement for the MacBook Air — finally. And maybe even a new iPad Mini for good measure. Those are just some of new items we expect from Apple at its big event later today (Tuesday, Oct. 30) in Brooklyn, New York. Last year, Apple didn’t have an October event. But for 2018, those products — …
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Remember the last time you felt terrified during a horror movie? Take that moment, and all the suspense leading up to it, and imagine it individually calibrated for you. It’s a terror plot morphing in real time, adjusting the story to your level of attention to lull you into a comfort zone before unleashing a personally timed jumpscare. Or maybe …
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HP continues to double-down on security, making it a primary selling point — even for consumer laptops. Two new Spectre x360 models, announced Tuesday, will be the first HP notebooks with a webcam kill switch, a physical button that cuts off power to the integrated front-facing camera to protect you from creepy voyeur-hackers. This is surely more elegant than covering up …
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A long-promised chip manufacturing technique is now here. And that means our phones will keep getting faster, while our batteries will last longer. Samsung on Wednesday said it’s now building 7-nanometer chips using technology called extreme ultraviolet, or EUV. EUV has been in development for decades, but it’s been difficult to roll out in real world factories. Samsung now is …
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