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Apple And Tesla Had A Spring Fling

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Greg Barto Reports are out today in The San Francisco Chronicle, and just about every other techpublication, that Apple could be in preliminary talks to buy electric automobile manufacturer Tesla. With the mobile phone and tablet markets becoming increasingly competitive, Apple is interested in expanding to other markets to increase growth. But would Apple want to buy a company valued at $25 billion at closing? With nearly $160 billion in cash, money probably wouldn’t be the primary…

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Apple Patents iPad Smart Magnets For Attaching Controllers, Cameras, Other iPads And More

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Darrell Etherington A new Apple patent application published by the USPTO today describes a magnetic connector not unlike the one used to attach Smart Covers to the current iPad, but designed to be far more flexible with a variety of possible accessory combinations. It’s a smart connector system that could recognize the attached peripheral and change functionality accordingly. The types of peripherals described in the patent are many and varied, and include things…

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Steve Wozniak: Apple Should Make an Android Phone

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As reported on Wired. BY MAT HONAN Steve Wozniak. Photo: Ariel Zambelich/WIRED   At the Apps World North America conference in San Francisco, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak gave WIRED a wide-ranging interview, touching on everything from his preferred iPhone 5s color (he has all three) to the fictional operating system in the movie Her. But his most interesting comment by far was a heretical recommendation for his former company: Apple, he thinks, should release an Android handset. “There’s nothing…

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Apple reportedly testing inductive, solar and motion charging for its unannounced smartwatch

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As reported on Engadget. BY MAT SMITH  We’ve heard that when Apple reveals its first smartwatch product, there’s going to be a heavy focus on health and fitness, but There might also be a way to charge the wearable without plugging it in, according to a report from the New York Times. Inductive charging came in a wave of smartphones last year, including Google’sNexus 4 and Nokia’s Lumia 920 range, although we don’t often see it in anything smaller…

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Apple’s next cash cow could be your fingerprint

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As reported on Engadget. BY BRAD MOLEN The mobile payments arena may not seem so big right now, but make no mistake: We’re just seeing the beginning of a rapidly growing trend. Some estimates we’ve seen from market research firms put the future mobile payment market in the US alone at around $90 billion spent in 2017. Compared to that, the $12.8 billion spent in 2012 is just pocket change underneath the couch cushions. Apple’s very much aware…

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Apple gushes on 30 years of making Macs (video)

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As reported on Engadget. BY JAMIE RIGG This year signifies the 30th anniversary of the Macintosh computer, and who better to reflect on this achievement than the almighty creator Apple? Cupertino has dedicateda corner of its website to such a retrospective, the focal point of which is an inspirational video starring several fans who talk about what Macs have meant to them (embedded below). After learning that Moby is still a thing and that Macs represent a “truly…

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Storehouse: An Apple Vet Tries To Move The Needle On Long-Form Visual Communication

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Matthew Panzarino The way we communicate is increasingly visual. The devices that we carry with us are uniquely suited to both capturing and displaying stories primarily comprised of images, rather than words. Snapchat and Instagram are good examples of the changing ways we’re communicating with each other, but their ‘atomic unit’ — the capsule that they use to present their shared content — consists of a single image or series of…

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Apple’s new Mac Pro now on sale, will ship by December 30th

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As reported on Engadget. BY MATT BRIAN After months of waiting, Apple’s new Mac Pro is now available to order through its online store. Coming just a day after the company announced the availability of the trashcan-shaped desktop, the quad-core and six-core models start at $3,000 and $4,000 respectively. Should you order today, Apple says it’ll ship your new Mac Pro by December 30th. That base model will get you a 3.7GHz quad-core Xeon CPU, 12GB DRAM, two AMD FirePro…

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Big update for Final Cut Pro brings improved support for 4K and the new Mac Pro

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As reported on Engadget. BY JAMIE RIGG As Apple’s finally put its redesigned Mac Pro up for sale, the company’s also seen fit to update editing software Final Cut Pro. Version 10.1 optimizes rendering and playback for the new Mac, but for users of other “select” Macs, the most significant change will likely be the addition of 4K monitoring over Thunderbolt 2 and HDMI. Since 4K playback requires a lot of bandwidth, it’s probable only new Retina MacBook…

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The Future Of The iPhone, If Unbound By The Requirements Of Reality

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Jordan Crook Apple has taught us to dream. When the company launched game-changing products like the iPod, iPhone and iPad, Apple made us feel like the future we picture in our minds will one day be a reality. And here we are, with Elon Musk working on flying cars while Pebble and friends put your smartphone on your wrist. But some of us take the dream more seriously than others. Take, for example, these…

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