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Apple’s official charger trade-in scheme will cover UK, Canada and Australia

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As reported on Engadget. By Sharif Sakr When we originally reported on Apple’s replacement program for third-party USB chargers, we only knew for sure that it covered the US and China. As 9to5Mac has spotted, however, the official webpage for the scheme now lists a number of other countries in which Apple will start accepting trade-ins on Friday, August 16th. These include the UK, where an official first-party charger will be reduced to £8 (from £15) when you hand over…

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Apple patent hints at possibility of Liquidmetal iPhone and iPad

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As reported on Engadget. By Sharif Sakr For all its tough chemical properties and unusual capacity for intricate molding,Liquidmetal apparently still can’t be turned into anything much bigger than Apple’sSIM ejector tool or, perhaps, the chess pieces rendered above (for illustrative purposes only!). Attempts to use so-called “metallic glass” to manufacture larger objects, like the bodies of phones or tablets, have been hampered by difficulties in creating large sheets of controllable thickness, because stretching and other traditional techniques…

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Apple reportedly hiring new talent to solve iWatch design problems

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As  reported on Engadget. By Sean Buckley Rumors, suggestions and trademark applications have been building a case for anwrist-worn Apple product for some time now — an official iWatch to fulfill the wearable potential of the iPod Nano. Now, the Financial Times says the company is “aggressively” hiring to help it get the product ready for release. According to the usual sources familiar with the matter, the new staff might have been sought out to help Apple wrap its head around wearable computing, moving the…

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Apple Said To Be Working On “Mogul” Slow-Motion Video Recording Feature For New iPhones

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As reported on TechCrunch. by CHRIS VELAZCO These days it seems like just about every smartphone player worth its salt is devoting time and resources to upping their camera game, and Apple is no exception. A new report from 9to5Mac’s Mark Gurman points to snippets nestled within iOS 7 beta builds that seem to indicate the company is working on a camera feature called “Mogul” that will let users record video at 120 frames per second. That’s a…

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Beautifully Warped Landscapes From Apple’s Glitchy Maps App

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As reported on Wired. BY KYLE VANHEMERT Peder Norrby collects screenshots of glitches in Apple Maps. Image: Peder Norrby   Of the handful of self-inflicted blunders Apple’s had to deal with over the last few years, the Apple Maps debacle stands apart simply because it was so hard to miss. Where Antennagate had been an invisible plague and Ping was almost instantaneously forgotten, Apple Maps announced its screwiness from day one, unapologetically misplacing businesses and matter-of-factly routing…

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OS X 10.9 Mavericks preview: faster, smarter, and leather-free

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As reported on The Verge. By David Pierce Apple’s latest desktop OS isn’t an overhaul — it’s a tune-up The 10th version of OS X, Mavericks, felt like an afterthought in the midst ofApple’s radical overhaul of its mobile operating system. In this case, rather than completely overhaul the look and feel of the entire platform, Apple has instead picked its spots, removing and adding features in particular places while all the while tuning for performance and…

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Researchers able to predict iOS-generated hotspot passwords, takes under a minute

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As reported on Engadget. By Mat Smith Anyone who’s tried to tether to their iPhone or iPad will recall how iOS manages to craft its own passwords when used as a personal hotspot. The aim is to ensure that anyone sharing their data connection will get some degree of security, regardless of whether they tinker with the password themselves. However, three researchers from FAU in Germany have now worked the structure behind these auto-generated keys — a combination…

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Apple’s 2013 13-Inch MacBook Air Sweetens The Deal For One Of The Best Available Computers

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As reported on TechCrunch. by DARRELL ETHERINGTON The MacBook Air was the only new Apple hardware to be announced and launched at WWDC this year (besides the new AirPort Extreme), and while it isn’t a big change from the previous version, it packs some crucial improvements that really cater to the Air’s existing strengths. The 2013 Air is really Apple pushing the envelope with its ultraportable, and that has helped make one of the best computers in the…

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Apple Is Building A Beautiful New Store To Overshadow Microsoft In Palo Alto

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As reported on TechCrunch. by BILLY GALLAGHER Apple is building a big, visually stunning store in the Stanford shopping center. A few hundred yards from the construction site sits a small, modest Apple location. Last spring, Microsoft opened a flagship spot right next to the small Apple store with a free Maroon 5 concert. Whether for pure dollars and cents or for appearances (maybe both), Apple has been very aggressive in Palo Alto in the past couple of…

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Apple releases statement on customer privacy, received over 4,000 government information requests in six months

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As reported on Engadget. By Mat Smith Following the likes of Microsoft and Facebook, Apple has publicly responded to the explosion in interest in the NSA’s PRISM program, and has been authorized to reveal some of the data on what it’s shared with the US government in the past. It apparently first heard of the program when the media started to ask about it earlier this month and has reiterated that it provides no government agency with direct access…

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