Dassault Systemes announces new Apple Vision Pro apps

Dassault Systemes has announced new Apple Vision Pro apps. French company Dassault Systemes worked with Apple to integrate the Apple Vision Pro into its existing 3DEXPERIENCE platform, offering spatial computing via multiple applications. Dassault Systemes announced the collaboration on Tuesday at its annual 3DEXPERIENCE Forum held in Houston, Texas — an event geared toward industrial…

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Apple is finally ready to conquer Qualcomm in the 5G game

The most important thing about the new iPhone 16e is the Apple-designed cellular modem inside, the C1. The C1 is the first visible sign of Apple’s decade-long goal to no longer be reliant on Qualcomm for one of the most important parts of any smartphone, namely its connection to cellular networks. The C1 is also…

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Apple’s iPhone C1 5G modem is here: What does it mean and what comes next?

Almost hidden within the announcement of the iPhone 16e, Apple dropped something of a bombshell: It is producing its own 5G modems now. This has of course been rumored for a long time, and has frankly taken longer than expected; Apple bought Intel’s modem division in 2019 for its patents and engineers, with the intent…

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New firmware available for AirPods Max with Lightning port

Apple has released a firmware update for the original version of the AirPods Max. Apple has deployed a new firmware update for the Lightning-equipped variant of the AirPods Max, though there is no information about what the update contains. Tuesday's firmware update increases the build number to 6F25, up from the previous 6F21, released in…

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Microsoft Office vs. Microsoft 365: Why one is low-key a scam

Paying monthly for apps you’ve used for years feels like a bad deal… because it is! With Microsoft 365 charging $10 every month, those fees add up fast. There’s a reason so many people are leaving the subscription service behind for the lifetime version of Microsoft Office. Sure, the cost is higher upfront, but it…

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Apple’s $500 billion US investment announcement is business as usual

Apple's latest $500B investment in the United States may sound like a big deal, but it's clearly just a continuation of what it's done for quite a few years already. On Monday, Apple announced it is making a $500 billion program of investment into the United States. The official press release said that it will…

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No, Apple isn’t subliminally calling Trump a racist with its iPhone dictation feature

Voice Memos showing the audio waveforms for the spoken words 'Trump' and 'racist' Conspiracy theorists believe Apple may be subliminally programming speech-to-text dictation users by briefly showing "Trump" when the word "racist" is said, which is obviously not true. Machine learning algorithms can be fickle things. Apple's on-device dictation is still run by machine learning…

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Tim Cook says Apple’s DEI program could change in the future

Apple CEO Tim Cook said the company's DEI program might see changes in the future. During a shareholders' meeting on Tuesday, Apple CEO Tim Cook explained that the company might have to alter its DEI program policies as the US legal landscape shifts. On February 25, Apple held its annual shareholder meeting for 2025. Though…

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