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Sure, today’s mostly about the iPad Mini, but Apple just announced a new fourth generation full sized iPad. It’s a lot the same, but some key things have changed. Here’s everything you’ll want to know about it. The tablet has a new A6X chip, which Apple claims runs twice as fas on both CPU and…
Apple’s new iPad Mini is here, with all the attendant fawning. But strip away the smaller size, and what is it really? A tiny little iPad 2. Let’s start with guts. The Mini runs on an A5 chip—the same one that’s in the iPad 2. The major upgrade to the A5 chip in this year’s…
Timing is everything! So turns out, the day this challenge is issued, my wife is getting an eye exam to see if she is a good candidate for laser eye surgery. So she comes home and has the coolest dilated pupils ever! I like it because you don’t get to see a photo of the…
I went to visit a friend and there was a nice big window with a pretty fall view outside. She was looking good so I made this photo challenge an excuse to take pictures of her. win. Nikon D700 ISO 1600 105mm Nikkor macro @f/4.0 1/30 sec -Aaron Hwang I used my canon rebel t3i…
Apple just announced its new, fourth generation iPad, and it’s got a new chip, too. The A6X is, according to Apple, twice as fast on both general CPU tasks and graphics. We’ll let you know as we know more about the chip, but chances are it’s designed by Apple, just like the A6 was. https://gizmodo.com/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-new-fourth-generation-i-5954217…
Sprint is finally getting its own Apple tablet with the surprise fourth-gen iPad.
But however you feel about Apple’s dumb, expensive adapters, you’re going to need new cables at some point. Apple’s got them for you now. It just announced Lightning cables that connect to USB camera adapters and SDCard adapters, HDMI, and VGA. Those might not be as crucial as your basic charging cables, but it’s nice…
The iPad Mini is here. It’s a sleek, thin and light 7.9-inch tablet made of anodized aluminum and glass that follows the format reduction pioneered by Google and Amazon. This thing is really neat. Really light and thin at 0.68 pounds and 7.2 millimeters. In a nutshell: it has better specs and it’s thinner and…
Apple’s new iMacs are crazy thin. But for all that svelte design, the machines lack Retina display. https://gizmodo.com/apples-new-imacs-are-crazy-thin-5953775 Would you give up some girth for a better display?
While introducing the new ridiculously thin iMac, Apple also revealed its new Fusion Drive. What is it? It’s a new storage system that supposedly combines the best of SSD and HDD. Basically, the speed of a SSD with the storage space of a big spinning HDD. https://gizmodo.com/apples-new-imacs-are-crazy-thin-5953775 The Fusion Drive is made of a 128GB…
Apple has defied that assumption that the desktop is on the outs and dropped refreshed super-thin iMacs at its event today. They were expected this summer at WWDC, but the wait might have been worthwhile—this refresh is far more significant than we thought. The new models are 80 percent thinner (just 5mm) and about eight…
A new tiny iPad isn’t the only little-big news out of today’s Apple extravaganza. Here’s a the brand new set of upgraded Mac Minis that’ll be delivering that Apple love at sub-$1000 prices—Now with upgraded Intel Ivy Bridge processors. They’re available for purchase now. Apple claims the new Ivy Bridge Mac Minis are two times…
Great news for anyone who’s lusted after the gorgeous retina display on the MacBook Pro—but has been hesitant to drop $2,200 or make room for a 15-inch laptop. Apple has officially announced a 13-inch version of its portable workstation, with a 2560 x 1600 Retina Display. That’s just a slight drop in resolution from the…
Apple just announced a new version of iBooks. It’s got a continuous scrolling reading option, which is pretty great. It’s also got its own iCloud-enabled version of Whispersync, that will sync your current page across any device you’re reading on—iPhone, iPad, etc. You’ve also got more sharing options, like copying and sharing quotes. It’s got…
Starting right now, Apple will finally lift the veil on its iPad Mini, lock in new iTunes goodies, and maybe intro a new iMac. And we’ll be covering it all right here. https://gizmodo.com/ipad-mini-rumor-roundup-everything-we-think-we-know-u-5948203 While you may think you know what the iPad Mini looks like by now, nothing’s official until Tim Cook waves it around…
We’ll be liveblogging our butts off today when Apple drops new goodies, but if you want to watch what’s happening in California too, we’ve got your video right here. We know the tiny tween-sized iPads are coming—but what else? New MacBooks! New Mac Minis! A new iPhone? No, definitely not. Will Foo Fighters take the…
The carpenters of the world might want to consider adding an iPhone holster to their toolbelts. Because Prexiso’s new iC4 iPhone accessory promises to make tape measures obsolete, replacing them with an iPhone laser measuring accessory that works alongside an accompanying app. It assumes that construction types aren’t necessarily on the bleeding edge of new…
Legendary jazz keyboardist Herbie Hancock stops by Sesame Street explain the inner workings of the state-of-the-art (in 1983, at least) Fairlight CMI synthesizer and it’s monochrome touchscreen monitor to a bunch of seven year-olds. Among them, a girl that would one day play Will Smith’s cousin on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and go on…
You want to get pumped up on certain occasions—before a big game, when you’re preparing for a fight, and of course, when you’re liveblogging. Seriously. We get in the zone just like everyone else. That’s why we made a Spotify playlist specifically for today’s Apple event. Subscribe and enjoy! These news-filled event days are a…
Fighting wars would be a hell of a lot easier if everybody still just lined up on the field of battle where we can see them. But with the advent of guerilla tactics and asymmetric warfare, you now need to keep your head on a swivel in a vicious cockfight—or just let Lockheed Martin’s new…
