Lake Vrangla immersive environment appears for all Apple Vision Pro users

Lake Vrangla now available to all Apple Vision Pro users Lake Vrangla is a foggy new environment available in visionOS, beta or not, and is found near Oslo, Norway, in the real world. Bora Bora debuted in the first visionOS 2 beta, and now we have Lake Vrangla. However, it arrived as a server-side push…

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Apple’s Jeff Williams takes another secret overseas trip, this time to China

Apple's Chief Operating Officer, Jeff Williams Apple's Chief Operating Officer Jeff Williams has been seen in Chinese state media photographs, meeting with senior officials in the country. In May 2024, Jeff Williams went on what's been described as a secret visit to TSMC in Taiwan. It was secret in that neither Apple nor it chip…

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India makes it cheaper to import and manufacture iPhones

Mumbai, India India is cutting back its import duty on iPhones and also selected iPhone components, meaning it will cost Apple less to bring in completed phones, and to make new ones locally. At least one reason that Apple even began producing iPhones in India was because locally-made devices have avoided the country's 20% import…

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Google ditches plan for third-party cookie blocks in Chrome

Google Chrome icon Four years after declaring it wanted to block third-party cookies in Chrome, Google has confirmed it won't block the online trackers after all. In 2020, around the time when Apple blocked third-party cookies in Safari, Google insisted it would do the same thing. Four years later, Google has seemingly given up on…

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Save on every M3 iMac for easy back-to-school shopping

Article Hero Image Back-to-school deals on iMacs are heating up at Apple resellers this week, with Prime Day pricing returning at Amazon and exclusive triple-digit discounts on upgraded models at B&H and Adorama. But if you're looking to future-proof your purchase (and budget allows) we highly recommend upgrading to a model with 16GB or 24GB…

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Future Apple Vision Pro update could let users create their own gestures

Apple Vision Pro may recognize familiar gestures and let you assign them to tasks Apple has plans for making Apple Vision Pro even more accessible and allowing for it to be controlled with customized gestures. Imagine being on a Zoom call and being able to mute yourself the way a radio DJ does by making…

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HighPoint Updates NVMe RAID Cards for PCIe 5.0: 50 GBps+ Direct-Attached SSD Storage

HighPoint Technologies has updated their NVMe switch and RAID solutions with PCIe 5.0, and supporting up to eight NVMe drives. The new HighPoint Rocket 1600 (switch add-in card) and 7600 series (RAID adapters) are the successors to the SSD SSD7500 series adapter cards introduced in 2020. Similar to its predecessors, the new Rocket series cards…

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