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, …
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A new phone wasn’t the only dish on Xiaomi’s new menu on Tuesday. At its press conference in Shanghai, the Chinese company also introduced a new entry into its line of Mi Notebooks, and this one comes with specs suitable for gaming. Clad in black metal, the Mi Gaming Laptop 15.6, as the name suggests, comes with a 15.6-inch display. …
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If all the rumors are right, you won’t be able to escape foldable phones if you try. The latest scuttlebutt is that Apple is on track to join Samsung and Huawei in a growing group of device makers planning to make a foldable phone. While Samsung’s may arrive by the end of 2018, a foldable iPhone is said to be …
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The federal spending bill signed by US President Donald Trump on Friday does more than fund the budget. It also makes it easier for law enforcement agencies to demand access to online information no matter what country the data is stored in. Lawmakers added the CLOUD Act (PDF), which stands for Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act, to the …
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The minute Apple announced an education-focused event in Chicago for March 27, the betting on new hardware announcements focused on refreshed iPads. Now, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman is reporting the company “plans to show off a new version of its cheapest iPad that should appeal to the education market.” While once considered a potential powerhouse for education, the iPad has been …
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I’m standing in front of a mirror, looking at an avatar of a woman that isn’t me. “Blink,” I’m told. But it’s not working for me. One eye is permanently shut. Maybe it’s my glasses? I try lifting the goggles away from my face a bit. Now, it tracks. I roll my eyes around, and my virtual eyes in the …
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It looks like the blockchain bug might have bitten Google. The tech colossus’ cloud computing group is working on a service that could let customers use the heavily hyped transaction processing technology, Bloomberg reported Wednesday. Blockchain is a potentially disruptive technology to track assets and transactions in a digital record held collectively among many computers instead of a single centralized …
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“Hey Cortana, play My Daily Mix playlist.” Microsoft shuttered its Groove Music service at the end of last year and attempted to shift users to Spotify. As part of Microsoft’s embrace of Spotify, you can use Cortana to control the action in Spotify just as you had been able to do previously with Groove Music. The Cortana/Spotify integration is slick, …
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How much would you pay for high-end VR? HTC is betting $799. (UK and AU prices aren’t available yet, but the equivalent is roughly AU$1,040 or £575 converted.) But there’s a catch: This time, that’s only for part of the package. The HTC Vive Pro, a new PC-connected VR hardware update to the original HTC Vive, was unveiled in January …
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