The iOS 12 developer beta 5 released on Monday has confirmed that Apple's HomePod smart speaker is picking up an all-new calling feature. Though previously rumored, this is the first time specific details about the feature have been discovered. The information was first found in the setup UI for HomePod in iOS 12 by 9to5Mac.
Obscura 2, the award-winning iPhone camera app by developer Ben McCarthy, is currently available at no charge for a limited time through Apple's official Apple Store app, a $5 value.
Just days after images leaked, there's now a video purportedly showing dummy units for two of Apple's three upcoming iPhone models. Posted by serial leaker Steve Hemmerstoffer, the hands-on video shows the forthcoming 6.5-inch "iPhone X Plus" and 6.1-inch LCD iPhone.
The latest iOS 12 beta includes images for Apple's revised wireless charging case for AirPods. First teased last year, the case has long been delayed along with the AirPower charging pad. Both are expected to finally launch this year.
Google Maps for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch makes it easy to customize vehicle icons. You can only spicy up your ride this way when using the app's driving navigation mode.
Apple has released the iOS 12 beta 5 update to app developers. The last update, iOS 12 beta 4, was released on July 17. Today's build number is 16A5339e.
The 2018 MacBook Air is expected to use Intel's Kaby Lake processors that were first introduced in 2017. The decision to use the year-old processors comes as Intel's faster Whiskey Lake processor isn't expected to be ready in time for a Fall release, according to Taiwan's Economic Daily News.
An alleged CAD drawing published Monday morning by Twitter account OnLeaks, managed and run by reliable French leakster Steve Hemmerstoffer, apparently shows a new location of Apple's redesigned Smart Connector on the upcoming iPad Pro models for 2018.
Certiport, a leading provider of learning curriculum, practice tests, and performance-based IT certification, has announced a new global program for secondary schools and higher education. The App Development with Swift Certification curriculum is built on Apple's Everyone Can Code program. It arrives this Fall to allow schools to validate student Swift programming language skills.
Designed by Apple engineers and educators, the full-year App Development with Swift course takes students with no programming experience and teaches them how to build fully functional apps. The App Development with Swift Certification exam provides instructors with third-party validation and a measurable outcome for Swift programming material in the classroom.
Ray Murray, vice president, business development, Pearson VUE explains:
Earning an App Development with Swift certification will give students the confidence they need to further their programming education or move on to a career in programming. Earning a certification endorsed by Apple shows that they have a solid grasp on the language and can apply it – today – to create innovative iOS applications. We expect this new certification to gain widespread adoption due to the popularity of the Swift programming language.
Back in May on Global Accessibility Awareness Day, Apple announced its Everyone Can Code curriculum would be expanding to eight schools serving deaf, blind, or visually impaired students, also this Fall. Coupled with today's news, it's evident Swift programming language skills are becoming much more popular with coders and beginners alike.
You can find more information about the new curriculum on the Certiport website.
What do you think? Do you see a need in the workplace for the App Development with Swift Certification curriculum? Let us know below.
Samsung Display last week announced a new type of OLED panel that the South Korean display maker says is virtually “unbreakable”. To illustrate the point, they released an interesting video showing a sheet of flexible OLED panel withstanding some heavy hammering.
The new panel is verified by Underwriters Laboratories, an official testing company for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration of the United States Department of Labor.
Samsung may use it in Note 9, which will be announced on August 9.
The way this new flexible OLED panel has been realized is by leveraging an unbreakable substrate with a fortified plastic window securely adhered to it, as opposed to having a glass-covered window like you see on today's screens which often breaks when severely impacted.
Here's that reliability test video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_innzQWrAE
Underwriters Laboratories has found the new panel to pass durability tests based on US Department of Defense military standards. It withstood a waist-high 1.2-meter drop 26 times in succession, as well as temperature tests at 71 degrees and -32 degrees.
Even after a subsequent drop test administered at 1.8 meters (nearly 6 feet) above the ground—higher than the US military standard— it operated normally with no sign of damage.
On paper, it's better than Gorilla Glass 6—a major improvement over its predecessor, the new Corning glass can survive 15 drops from a height of 1 meter (3.2 feet) without shattering.
Samsung did not detail how scratchable its newly-launched plastic screen is.
In addition to smartphones, the new strengthened OLED panel should be used in other electronic products such as display consoles for automobiles, mobile military devices, portable game consoles and tablet PCs aimed at education.
Apple currently buys all its OLED panels for iPhone X from Samsung Display, but other suppliers are expected to jump in within a year or two. It's unclear if Apple plans on using this “unbreakable” screen given it's been using cover glass protection for iPhones from US-based Corning Glass, in which it invested $200 million in May 2017.
What do you make of Samsung's unbreakable OLED panel?
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Apple's likely to turn the 1981 Terry Gilliam-directed fantasy film Time Bandits into a TV series. If approved, the series would be co-produced by Anonymous Content, Paramount Television, and Media Rights Capital, with Gilliam as a non-writing executive producer, according to Deadline.
Smartphone leakster Benjamin Geskin yesterday tweeted out images of alleged iPhone dummies depicting size difference between Apple's rumored 6.5-inch iPhone X Plus and a new budget model, suggesting two major tradeoffs for the latter: the lack of a dual-lens camera in addition to the use of power-hungrier LCD screen technology.