Apple announced its newest smart speaker, the HomePod mini, earlier this year. It went up for pre-order last week, and launches Monday, November 16.
HomePod mini reviews roundup: great sound for a compact design
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A teardown confirms that the iPhone 12 Pro Max battery is only 3,687 mAh
A user in China posted on the country's microblogging site Weibo images of an iPhone 12 Pro Max that has been torn apart to reveal a 3,687 mAh battery inside the device.
Instagram adds Reels and Shop tabs, its first home screen redesign in years
Facebook-owned Instagram is adding the Reels and Shop tabs to the home screen of its mobile app for iOS and Android, a major change to the app's layout for the first time in years.
Early benchmarks show M1 outperforming every Mac ever made in single-core scores
Just how much faster Apple's new M1 chip is when pitted against its Intel silicon counterparts? Well, someone with access to Apple's new M1-powered Macs submitted alleged Geekbench 5 scores showing the chip outperforming every Mac ever made in single-core performance.
The highly-anticipated mythic adventure “The Pathless“ launches on Apple Arcade
The mythic adventure “The Pathless“ is now available on the iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV as part of the $5 per month Apple Arcade game-subscription service.
Oprah’s interview of Barack Obama will air November 17 on Apple TV+ show ‘The Oprah Conversation’
We first heard about The Oprah Conversations way back in July of this year. The new series premiered at the end of that month, and now an upcoming free episode will center around former President of the United States, Barack Obama.
Apple’s TestFlight app for iOS adds support for automatic updates and more
Apple has issued a relatively minor update to its TestFlight app, but has added a new feature to the mix anyway.
Windows emulation for M1-powered Macs is in active development, Parallels confirms
When Apple announced the switch away from Intel chips this summer, many people have been wondering about Boot Camp's future. And while Apple has only said that Boot Camp will not work with the new M1-powered Mac computers, companies that build virtualization software may provide a solution down the road. Parallels Desktop, a popular virtualization app for Mac systems with Intel chips, announced today that a new version of the app that can run on these new Mac computers equipped with the Apple M1 chip is in “active development.”
Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says a new iPhone SE probably won’t be announced in early 2021
Apple announced a brand new iPhone SE earlier this year, but renowned analyst Ming-Chi Kuo doesn't believe a successor will see the light of day soon.
The new MacBook Air keyboard has dedicated keys for Spotlight, Dictation, DND and Emoji
Apple's just-refreshed MacBook Air with the new Apple M1 laptop chip that was announced yesterday features an updated media key layout in the function row, with the new shortcuts for Dictation, Spotlight and Do Not Disturb functions replacing the previous keys for adjusting brightness and invoking the Launchpad feature. Also, there's now a dedicated Emoji key.
MacBook Pro with M1 processor tech specs
Earlier this week, Apple announced a trio of new computers featuring the M1 processor. It's the first batch of Apple Silicon Macs for the market, and they're already available to buy.
M1-powered Macs are Apple’s first computers to support Wi-Fi 6
The new Mac mini, MacBook Air and MacBook Pro models powered by the new Apple M1 laptop chip bring support for Wi-Fi 6 aka 802.11ax to the Mac platform for the first time.