Forget the Touch Bar, Apple wants screens all over the MacBook Pro keyboard

Detail from the patent showing an image of a surprised rabbit perhaps being edited using the smaller displays by the keyboard Apple still won't make us a touch-screen Mac, but it is at least considering adding touch-sensitive displays on just about every surface that surrounds the MacBook Pro keyboard as the next best thing. Unbelievably,…

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AppleCare+: Everything you need to know about Apple’s extended warranty

Your Apple gear wasn’t cheap. And if you drop your iPhone, your iPad stops turning on, or you smack your Apple Watch into something and shatter it, getting it repaired probably won’t be cheap either. Apple includes a one-year limited warranty with all hardware so if there’s a manufacturing defect, you’ll be covered. To also…

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You now have more time to extend AppleCare+ coverage when it runs out

If you’ve invested in AppleCare+ for your Apple device and the policy runs out, you now have more time to extend it. According to an Apple support document, customers now have 45 days to extend an AppleCare+ policy. Previously, Apple granted 30 days. The policy change seems to have gone into effect on August 14,…

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Five years later, the Apple Card is a huge but controversial success

Apple Card On August 20, 2019, Apple officially launched Apple Card with any US citizen able to apply. Since then it's been a hit, but it's faced controversy over everything from low reward rates to alleged sex discrimination — and Apple's partner wanting to pull out. In every sense bar one, Apple Card is a…

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Photomator and Pixelmator Pro add custom auto-straightening

Photomator works across Mac, iPad, iPhone, and Apple Vision Pro Claiming a five-fold improvement in accuracy, image editing developer Pixelmator has replaced Apple's straightening tool with its own for both Pixelmator Pro and Photomator. "Auto Straighten has been completely redesigned," says the company, "now offering 5x more precision, particularly in images with unclear horizons and…

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New AirPods 2024: What to expect from the AirPods, Pro, Lite, and Max

Apple’s AirPods–which dropped with a bit of controversy and little interest back in 2016–hit some kind of inflection point around 2018, and suddenly became the hot thing. This was handily timed for the 2019 updates, as the 2nd-gen and then Pro versions of the AirPods launched to a newly receptive public and sold like the…

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National Public Data leak gets worse after it exposed its own passwords

New NPD breach exposes passwords, raising fresh security concerns If you thought last week that just about every piece of personal data about you was stolen last week was bad, wait until you hear about how the passwords for the holding company were stolen too. In April, cybercriminals began selling data stolen from NPD, which…

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