Category: apple
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Notes From Apple’s October 2016 Event
Apple held an event today at their Town Hall in Cupertino to announce new Macs. Here’s what got announced. Accessibility Apple opened with a video produced using their accessibility features, and announced a new accessibility website demonstrating them. As I get older I find myself using more of these features, so I am glad they…
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iPhone 7 and 7 Plus
Apple held an event at the Bill Graham Auditorium at just about the regular time as they’ve done for years to announce their new iPhones. Here’s a brief summary of what’s changed in this year’s phones. Headphones. As was rumored, the iPhones 7 have dropped the headphone jack. It was generally used as a single-purpose…
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The Definition of Genius
Ashton Applewhite has an article for the New York Times about ageism in hiring preventing good workers from working. In it is this incredible story of a former Apple engineering lead who couldn’t get a tech support job at Apple’s retail stores: I’m lucky enough to get my tech support from JK Scheinberg, the engineer at…
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Update Your iPhones and iPads Now
New exploits were found in the wild, being used to target human rights activists, that could take over your phone with one click on a link in a text message or through another vector. Unlike Google’s Android, Apple was able to roll out a fix for this issue very quickly to affected devices running iOS…
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September 7th is Going to be a Busy Day
Now we know where Patrick Klepek went. In a post for Vice Gaming, with fellow Giant Bomb alumnus Austin Walker, Klepek confirms that the rumored variation of the Playstation 4 with improved horsepower would be announced on a very busy September 7th: Sony will reveal the first details on an upgraded PlayStation 4 at a September…