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Here’s a little factoid from WWDC that the Android Community is sure to hate. 80 percent of iOS users are using iOS 5 (Apple’s latest and greatest). Look at that little slice of pie for Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich). Ouch. To be fair, Apple had a head start here, but it’s indicative of a…
>Siri is moving beyond the iPhone 4S. In today’s WWDC keynote, Scott Forstall announced that it’s migrating to the new iPad with iOS 6. In fact, Siri has vastly improved with the next-gen mobile operating system. Apple has added some pretty cool features—movies, restaurant reservations, and Yelp reviews. Adding it to the iPad is going…
Siri hasn’t been perfect to this point, but Apple has added some pretty awesome new worlds to ask her about: Sports, restaurants, movies. Pretty much enough to plan a whole date right through Siri. Here’s the laundry list: You can ask about the scores of live games—”What’s the score of the Giants game?”—or about individual…
Apple’s new iOS 6 comes loaded with new features. From completely new Maps to a new version of the voice-activated personal assistant Siri to Facebook integration. And Passbook—Apple’s new app that controls coupons, boarding passes, cards and coupons—is really neat. This version looks quite sweet. These will be the new features of your iPhone and…
Apple just announced a new feature to OS X Mountain Lion called Power Nap. It syncs your computer’s email, keeps track of calendars, syncs to Time Capsule, and downloads App Store and system software updates—all while your computer’s asleep. This is basically Intel’s Smart Connect, just for Apple’s stuff, but it’s one of the cooler…
We saw a fair amount of OS X Mountain Lion when Apple dropped its developer preview a few months ago. And not only will the $20 download bring all the iOS-ified features promised to all the OS X machines you own, it will also serve up more than 1700 new APIs, added iCloud functionality, a…
Apple’s MagSafe chargers are getting smaller. Apple just announced MagSafe 2, a slimmer version of the charger found on all MacBooks. That means more space for the super skinny next gen MacBook Pros, but it also means you’ve got to go out and buy new chargers if you use more than one. Worth the tradeoff?…
Apple unveiled the latest iCloud iteration at today’s WWDC, beefing up the the fledgling service with a bevy of new features. Here’s what’s new. The Notes, Reminders, and Documents will be available on Mountain Lion through iCloud. Notes and Reminders, already mainstays on Apple iOS devices, will make the jump to the desktop while the…
Apple’s new next gen MacBook Pros are absurdly thin and powerful, but all that beef and skinny comes with a price: it’s missing a few of the larger ports. That’s made less of a problem with the new Thunderbolt adapters that connect to Firewire 800 and Gigabit Ethernet. Image courtesy GDGT. Follow along with the…
Apple’s Final Cut Pro is being updated for the new retina screened Next Gen MacBook Pro. That screenshot above? That’s a full size 1080p video on the new 2800 x 1800 resolution on a 15.4-inch screen. Image courtesy Ars Technica. Follow along with the rest of the Apple news today with our WWDC liveblog.
Well, it looks the same as ever, but Apple pumped up the Pro in MacBook Pro with the speediest of speedy new guts and graphics. This is still very much a pro rig, and the specs seal the deal. The 2012 MacBook Pro is stuffed with Intel’s latest processing guts: Ivy Bridge has arrived for…
OK—this thing is a space monster. Apple just dropped a Next Gen MacBook Pro with the highest resolution screen in laptop history, and the thinness of the air. Retina Display spewin’, HD chewin’ supercomputer. This is Apple’s crown jewel of computing. The Next Gen Pro is mind-boggling: a 2800 x 1800 resolution on a 15.4-inch…
Today’s lovely debutante is the 2012 Pro, of course, but the Air—who we suspect gave the Pro some serious body image problems over the years—is getting a promotion too. Ivy Bridge, USB 3.0, and speed, speed, speed. All MacBook Air models will now pack Ivy Bridge processors—up to 2.0 GHz. But in addition to the…
Tim Cook just announced that Apple has sold over 30 billion app downloads in the App store. That’s from 650,000 apps overall, with 225,000 designed specifically for the iPad. Apple’s also cut checks for $5 billion in payments to developers. Totally crazy. Follow along with the rest of the Apple news today with our WWDC…
Heading off to work on a rain-soaked bike is unpleasant, and paying for an expensive apartment with a car-sized garage is even moreso. So Japanese architects have designed the perfect compromise—an apartment complex that integrates a compact motorcycle garage into each unit. The NE Apartments are geared for bikers, with each unit’s double front doors…
Motorola has been awfully quiet this year. They haven’t really announced anything since the RAZR MAXX back in January. In short, they’re due. So it makes sense that we’re finally seeing their high-end phones start to leak. We’re ready. This morning The Verge received pictures of the Motorola “Dinara” which we assume is the Atrix…
Airbus’s fleet of A380s has been beleaguered by problems with cracks in their wings since January. Now, the company has announced that they could all be grounded for up to eight weeks in order to repair the problems. The BBC reports that Airbus is on record as explaining that, if it grounds all the planes…
Reuters’ Alexei Oreskovic just spotted this blacked out mystery sign hanging high at the Moscone Center, where Apple is about to reveal a whole bunch of expensive things to buy. What one will this be? We don’t know! Soon. Soon. We already have a pretty good idea of what Apple’s dropping today, so what the…
Whether he was inspired by Ikea, or simply wanted to one-up the Swedish furniture giant, Gustav Düsing’s flat-pack Chair 23D is a masterpiece. It requires a sheet of plywood and supreme skill with a router. And thanks to its interlocking one-time-assembly design, there’s no risk of it collapsing when you slump into it. The use…
There is something about a giant sphere that conjures thoughts of cosmic mystery. But this particular sphere is made out of the most earthly and primitive of materials—wood. The Big Wooden Ball Project, by Mike Leuis, features artist Keith Holamon, who created his own method for building striking sculptures out of found pieces of rotting…
