Today, Apple executives took the stage in a virtual streaming event to announce the new flagship iPhone lineup. The iPhone 13 is official.
The body has a similar look to last year, but the cameras in the base model are arranged diagonally now.
Developing… The event is still ongoing, so check back for more details.
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Source: Ars Technica – Apple makes the iPhone 13 official
Following updates to the iPad Pro and iPad Air, Apple has now updated the basic iPad with more powerful components.
Source: Gizmodo – Apple’s Basic iPad Gets a Small Boost With Better Camera
Percy Deal lives in Black Mesa, a bowl-shaped region in northeastern Arizona that’s part of the Navajo and Hopi reservations. The mesa is situated along the Colorado River and two of its tributaries, the Little Colorado and San Juan. Yet Deal, like some 40% of Navajo people, doesn’t have running water in his house.
Source: Gizmodo – The Colorado River Can’t Be Divvied Up Without Indigenous People at the Table
Regolith can run as a standalone operating system or on top of a Ubuntu installation. Here we show how to install Regolith on Ubuntu for a pre-configured i3 experience.
Source: LXer – How to Convert Ubuntu Into Regolith Linux
Apple’s iPad mini has always been a popular device, and it is now getting its most significant upgrade ever. Like the fourth-generation iPad Air that came before it, the new iPad mini brings the iPad Pro design language (complete with its thin bezels) down to the consumer market.
The screen now measures 8.3 inches while keeping the same footprint
Source: Hot Hardware – Apple Launches All-New 8.3-Inch iPad Mini With 5G Support And Refreshed 10.2-Inch iPad
In a few weeks, we’re going to see the Lucasfilm galaxy through the lens of some top-tier creative teams from Japanese animation studios in the form of Star Wars: Visions. Airing on Disney+, the series is a short anthology collection presenting a unique twist on the saga. The work the studios have done previously is…
Source: Gizmodo – A Star Wars: Visions Anime Primer
With the iOS 15 update, Siri has grown by leaps and bound. It’s fast. Like, Google Assistant-level fast. It now has on-device processing for general questions and personalized requests; and not just that—Siri also works offline.
Source: LifeHacker – How to Use Siri to Share Whatever Is on Your iPhone Screen in iOS 15
Apple’s basic Watch design has remained largely unchanged since its 2015 debut, but that’s about to change. The company has introduced the Apple Watch Series 7 with a new (if long-rumored), more seamless design with larger 41mm and 45mm cases, including larger, brighter and more durable screens to match. There’s also a wider variety of aluminum colors. Green, anyone? The update takes advantage of the bigger displays, with more information and new watch faces.
As for durability? Series 7 is the first Apple Watch with a dust resistance rating (IP6X), making it better-suited to mountain climbing or the beach. The screen itself is more crack-resistant. You won’t confuse this with a rugged watch, but you might not panic quite so much after a fall.
The updates aren’t quite so aggressive under the hood. You can anticipate fast charging and fall detection during workouts. Most of the updates come through watchOS 8, which now includes detection of cycling workouts, better tracking for e-bikes and help if you fall off. You’ll also get a full swipe-based keyboard, support for more workouts (Pilates and Tai Chi) and respiratory rate tracking while you sleep.
Apple releases Watch Series 7 this fall starting at $399. The Apple Watch SE and Watch Series 3 will hang around at respective prices of $299 and $199. This isn’t as conspicuous a redesign as some had suggested, but it might still be worthwhile if you’re wearing an older smartwatch and crave more visual real estate.
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Source: Engadget – Apple Watch Series 7 delivers larger screens and more durability
As expected, Apple has announced details about the next version of the Apple Watch. Dubbed the Apple Watch Series 7, it has a new display new retina display with 20% more screen area and smaller bezels that are 40% thinner.
The Series 7 now detects biking sessions and auto-pauses and restarts for stops. Fall detection for while biking has been added, as well. Apple also improved the algorithm for ebikes to calculate calories more accurately.
The Apple Watch Series 7 will be available for preorder next week starting at $399. Units will start shipping “later this fall.”
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Source: Ars Technica – The Apple Watch gets a visual makeover with the Series 7
TikTok faces two investigations by the Irish data watchdog following intense scrutiny for months over concerns that children’s data isn’t safe on the platform. From a report: Ireland’s Data Protection Commission, said on Tuesday it opened two “own volition” investigations into ByteDance’s TikTok amid worries about the way it handles its users’ data. The Irish regulator became TikTok’s lead European Union data protection authority in December. The first probe will look into TikTok’s processing of data by its underage users and whether it’s in line with the EU’s strict protection rules. The second follows concerns expressed by the Irish privacy chief, Helen Dixon, that some EU user data could be accessed by “maintenance and AI engineers in China.”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – TikTok Faces EU Data Probes Into Children’s Safety, China Link
Developer 1047 Games has raised $100 million from a bunch of venture capital investors, the studio announced via press release today. The eye-popping fundraising haul will allow the outfit to remain independent and beef up work on its enormously popular free-to-play arena shooter, Splitgate.
Source: Kotaku – Splitgate’s Getting Bigger And Better, Thanks To A Cool 0M
After two and a half years without a refresh, Apple is at long last revamping the iPad mini. The 8.3-inch device has slimmer bezels and rounded corners, and it leaves no space for a physical Home button. As with last year’s iPad Air, you’ll now find the Touch ID sensor in the power button.
The Lightning port is gone too, with a USB-C port taking its place. The port offers data transfer speeds of up to 5Gbps, as well as connectivity with a broader range of devices, including cameras and external 4K displays.
Apple has moved the volume buttons to the top of the tablet, which runs on iPadOS 15, and there’s an intriguing reason for that: The latest model can accommodate a second-gen Apple Pencil. You can attach the peripheral magnetically to the side of the iPad Mini.
The screen is a liquid retina display with 500 nits of brightness, a P3 wide color gamut, anti-reflective screen coating, True Tone and full lamination. The iPad Mini now has stereo speakers, so watching video on it could be much better this time around.
The tablet is powered by a new A15 Bionic chip. Apple says the chip can deliver up to 80-percent faster performance than the previous iPad mini, with the six-core CPU offering a 40-percent performance boost and the five-core GPU delivering up to 80 percent better graphics performance.
The company says the tablet’s machine learning (ML) capabilities have improved too, with a 16-core neural engine and ML accelerators capable of running tasks twice as quickly as the fifth-gen tablet. Among the ML capabilities are on-device recognition of text in photos, and the ability to translate that into seven different languages.
The camera system is getting an upgrade as well, with iPad Pro’s Center Stage experience coming to iPad mini, so you’ll stay in frame as you move around while on a video call. The front-facing camera now has a 12MP sensor, as does the rear camera, which also has a larger aperture than in the past and a True Tone flash.
On the connectivity front, there’s WiFi 6 support and models with 5G. Apple’s continuing to support Gigabit LTE and eSIM too.
Apple has created a new $59 Smart Folio cover for iPad mini with colors (black, white, dark cherry, English lavender and electric orange) to match the tablet’s new finishes.
The new iPad mini is available in purple, pink, starlight and space grey. It starts at $499 for the WiFi-only model and $649 for cellular connectivity, each with 64GB of storage. Pre-orders are open now, and the tablet will be available starting on September 24th in 28 countries and regions.
Meanwhile, Apple updated the entry-level iPad with an A13 Bionic chip.
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Source: Engadget – Apple’s sixth-gen iPad mini gets USB-C and an all-screen design
Apple introduced a brand new iPad today, and one of its biggest features is that it ships with an A13 Bionic chip. Apple promises that it has a 20 percent faster performance than the previous iPad, from the CPU, GPU and the Neural Engine. The company also claims that the new iPad is three times faster than the top-selling Chromebook and six times faster than the top-selling Android tablet.
The new iPad also features a new front-facing 12-megapixel Ultra Wide camera that is especially useful for video calls. It has a 122-degree field-of-view and comes with Center Stage, a tech that we’ve already seen in Apple’s iPad Pro. Similar to the tech on Facebook’s Portal devices, Center Stage automatically detects people and dynamically adjusts the frame as you move around, or as more people join the call. The tech works in both portrait and landscape mode.
This Center Stage feature works not just on Facetime but in other video apps too, like Zoom, Bluejeans and WebEx. Plus, the tech isn’t just for video calls. Users can also utilize the tech to record, stream and publish videos to apps like DoubleTake, Explain Everything and TikTok.
Elsewhere, the new iPad has a 10.2-inch Retina display with True Tone, which adjusts the screen content to the color temperature of your surroundings. It will support existing accessories like Apple’s Smart Keyboard and the first-generation Apple Pencil.
The latest iPad will ship with iPadOS 15, which has more intuitive multitasking thanks to Split View and Slide Over features, new widget layouts for the home screen, and systemwide Notes. Other iPad OS 15 features include the Translate app, Live Text that recognizes text in a photo, and Focus which lets users filter out notifications. iPadOS 15 will be available starting September 20th. It will be available for iPad mini 4 and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad 5th generation and later, and all iPad Pros.
Apple’s new iPad starts at $329 for 64GB, in silver and space gray finishes. WiFi + Cellular models start at $459. There’s also a 256GB option. It’ll be available starting on September 24th.
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Source: Engadget – Apple updates the entry-level iPad with a new A13 Bionic chip
Enlarge / A health care worker administers a COVID-19 test to a child at the Austin Regional Clinic drive-thru vaccination and testing site in Austin, Texas, US, on Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021. (credit: Getty | Bloomberg)
COVID-19 cases in children have risen 30-fold since late June and are now at record highs, with nearly 500,000 new child cases reported in the past two weeks, according to the latest data released by the American Academy of Pediatrics on Monday. Pediatric cases have “increased exponentially,” the AAP said in a statement.
The rise coincides with a dramatic surge in overall COVID-19 transmission driven by the hypertransmissible delta variant. But with more adults vaccinated, children are getting hit harder in this wave than ever before, and they make up a larger and larger share of the cases.
At this point, the US has recorded 5.3 million cumulative cases in children, accounting for 15.5 percent of total cases in the pandemic. That percentage has risen steadily during the current surge, up from 14.2 percent at the end of June.
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Source: Ars Technica – COVID in children: Infections skyrocket 30X, now account for 30% of cases
Oracle released Java 17, the latest version of the world’s number one programming language and development platform. Java 17 delivers thousands of performance, stability, and security updates, as well as 14 JEPs (JDK Enhancement Proposals) that further improve the Java language and platform to help developers be more productive.
Oracle JDK 17 and future JDK releases are provided under a free-to-use license until a full year after the next LTS release. Oracle will also continue providing Oracle OpenJDK releases under the open-source GPL, as it has since 2017.
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Source: Linux Today – Oracle Java 17 Delivers Thousands of Performance and Security Updates
Enlarge / The new iPad Mini takes most of its cues from the iPad Air 4. (credit: Apple)
After years of stagnating in the same look and features, Apple’s iPad mini will finally get a major redesign akin to last year’s iPad Air update, the company announced today. The tablet’s screen size gets a bump from 7.9 to 8.3 inches, and includes a new A15 Bionic processor that Apple says is “up to 80% faster” than the A12 chip in the old iPad mini 4. But the redesign also comes with a price hike: the new iPad mini starts at $499 for a Wi-Fi model with 64GB of storage, $100 more than the previous model.
Like other recent iPads and iPhones, the iPad mini drops the home button to make more room on the front of the device for a larger, almost edge-to-edge screen. However, it does not feature Face ID like the iPad Pro. Rather, it follows the 2020 iPad Air in featuring a TouchID fingerprint reader on one of the power button for authentication. It also leaves behind Apple’s long-standing, proprietary Lightning port in favor of industry standard USB-C—a change that also came to other recent iPad redesigns. The flat edges of the tablet bring the new mini’s design in line with the iPad Air 4 and post-2018 iPad Pros, and also enables Apple Pencil 2 compatibility.
An overview of the new iPad mini’s features. (credit: Apple)
Internally, the A15 chip combines a six-core CPU that Apple says is 40% faster than the A12, and a 5-core GPU that’s it says is 80% faster than the A12—no word on the mix of performance vs. efficiency cores on the CPU, but the A14 includes two fast cores and four efficiency ones, and we’d expect that balance to stay the same for the A15. Both the rear and front-facing cameras get significant upgrades—the 8MP rear camera in the mini 4 is bumped up to 12MP in the new model, and the front-facing camera gets a 12MP resolution bump and support for the face-and-body-tracking “Center Stage” feature from the 2021 iPad Pros. Support for 5G and Wi-Fi 6 round out the connectivity features.
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Source: Ars Technica – The redesigned 9 iPad mini finally catches up with the times
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Apple announced a modest refresh of its entry-level iPad at the company’s product event on Tuesday. The tablet’s design hasn’t changed, but the new model swaps out the A12 chip for the newer A13, which Apple says is “up to 20%” faster than the previous chip. The new iPad costs $329, the same price as the previous model, despite the fact that the storage has been bumped from 32GB to a much more reasonable 64GB.
Apple is also bringing a handful of iPad Pro features down to the cheapest iPad. Its new 12MP front-facing camera supports the “Center Stage” feature that can shift the camera’s perspective as you move around. While the rear camera is apparently unchanged, both the front and rear cameras will benefit from the upgraded image signal processor (ISP) in the A13. The tablet’s 10.2-inch screen also supports True Tone, which changes the screen’s color temperature to match the lighting in the room you’re in.
The new $329 iPad will be available for preorder today and will be available on September 24. The Wi-Fi + Cellular model of the tablet starts at $459, and there will also be a 256GB storage option (though Apple hasn’t said how much it will cost yet).
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Source: Ars Technica – Apple refreshes entry-level 9 iPad with faster chip
Hailing from the darkly humorous animated show, Ren and Stimpy are the newest additions to the Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl roster, developer Ludosity announced on Tuesday.
Source: Kotaku – Ren And Stimpy Are Coming To The Nick Fighting Game As A Duo
When people (usually on the internet) start start fighting a new front in the iPhone versus Android wars, the latter seemingly always has a trump card in form of its ultra customizable Do Not Disturb mode—but no more. In iOS 15 and iPadOS 15, Apple has supercharged the iPhone’s own distraction-limiting capabilities in…
Source: LifeHacker – You Should Definitely Use iOS 15’s New, Distraction-Squashing ‘Focus’ Mode
Twitter has once again started accepting applications from the public for account verification, the company announced this week. This latest restart comes after Twitter temporarily “hit pause” on verifications at the start of August to implement improvements to the application and review process.“If you’re planning to apply and don’t yet have access, keep checking your account settings,” the company said. “Thanks for sticking with us.”
We’re back to rolling out access to request a blue badge.
If you’re planning to apply and don’t yet have access, keep checking your account settings. Thanks for sticking with us.
— Twitter Verified (@verified) September 13, 2021
In recent months, Twitter has struggled with handing out blue badges. Since launching its latest system for public verifications in May, the company has had to stop accepting new applications twice. The first suspension came just eight days after the company launched the new system. And before the most recent step back, a fake Cormac McCarthy account was briefly verified. Here’s hoping Twitter doesn’t run into any further issues.
Source: Engadget – Twitter reopens public verifications following August pause
