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Best Prime Day iPad Deals: Save $40 on an iPad Air, $100 on an iPad Pro
You'll find discounts at Amazon and Walmart right now on all of Apple's tablets as Prime Day nears. Apple didn't announce any new iPads at WWDC 2022 earlier this month, but it did offer a preview of iPadOS 16 that will add better multitasking features to its tablets. The most recent hardware addition to the iPad lineup is the iPad Air that was released in March, bringing an update to the only i ... Read more
2022-06-23 20:20:03
Instagram Testing New Tool for Age Verification
Children who try to change their date of birth on Instagram to say they're adults will be asked to verify their age. Instagram is testing a new tool to prevent underage users from posing as adults, parent company Meta said Thursday. If someone whose account says the user is under 18 years old tries to manually edit the date of birth on the app, Instagram will ask for proof. People can prove th ... Read more
2022-06-23 20:19:41
Netflix Lays Off About 300 Employees in Latest Round of Cuts
Earlier this year, the streaming giant reported its first subscriber drop in a decade. Netflix confirmed it laid off "around 300 employees" on Thursday. It's the streaming giant's latest round of job cuts so far this year as it faces slowing growth. The layoffs were earlier reported by Variety. Netflix also cut 150 jobs in May, after it had eliminated a number of jobs at its fandom we ... Read more
2022-06-23 20:19:19
Download iOS 16 Beta to Your iPhone Today. Here's How
Can't wait for iOS 16's public release? You can download the developer beta to your iPhone now, but there are some things to keep in mind. Apple's iOS 16 is currently in its developer beta phase after being unveiled at WWDC 2022 earlier in June. The iPhone-maker's latest mobile operating system is only available for members of the Apple Developer Program, but you can download it right now if you ... Read more
2022-06-23 03:49:07
10 Shocking Facts About Power Strips
Don't buy a power strip or surge protector without reading this first. With your ever-growing collection of electronic devices, perhaps it seems your home never has enough power outlets. Power strips and their more elaborate siblings, surge protectors, offer an easy solution: one plug in the wall, many outlets for your devices. But wait! There's more to these simple-seeming products than meets th ... Read more
2022-06-23 03:48:33
New Tesla factories losing billions of dollars, Musk says
Elon Musk says Tesla's new factories in Germany and the US are "losing billions of dollars" due to battery shortages and supply disruptions in China. The multi-billionaire also called the plants in Berlin and Austin, Texas "gigantic money furnaces". Covid-19 lockdowns in China this year, including in Shanghai where Tesla has a huge factory, have made it increasingly difficult ... Read more
2022-06-23 03:44:17
Tim Cook on Apple's AR Headset: 'Stay Tuned'
Apple's CEO hypes his company's augmented reality technology to the Chinese state-run China Daily. Apple CEO Tim Cook has been talking about augmented reality and virtual reality for a long time. Now, he's starting to signal a big move from the company may be coming. During an interview with the Chinese state-run publication the China Daily, Cook was asked about what he believed it would take fo ... Read more
2022-06-22 20:57:22
Facebook Parent Meta Is Working on a Wallet for the Metaverse
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Wednesday the company is working on a digital wallet for the metaverse that will allow people to manage their digital items, identity and payments. "Ideally, you should be able to sign into any metaverse experience and everything you've bought should be right there," he said in a Facebook post. "There's a long way to get there, but this kind of interop ... Read more
2022-06-22 20:56:44
Fitbit Challenges Samsung With New Sleep Analysis Feature
Fitbit's Sleep Profiles feature analyzes your sleep and assigns an animal that symbolizes your habits. In a blog post, Fitbit said the animals can change each month based on the data collected, and there's no ideal animal. Each symbol has been crafted to give you a better understanding of your sleep. Fitbit's Sleep Profile will also incorporate new metrics such as sleep schedule variability, th ... Read more
2022-06-22 20:56:23
Apple M2 MacBook Pro 13-Inch Review: Familiar Design, New M2 Chip
The first M2 Mac available exists in its own bubble, but it also delivers better performance than the original M1 version. "What a strange-looking MacBook." That was my first thought when I first saw the 13-inch MacBook Pro with the new M2 chip at Apple's headquarters in Cupertino during WWDC 2022. There wasn't anything particularly strange about it -- it looked like the last several ... Read more
2022-06-22 20:55:17