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iFixit publishes AirPods 2 teardown report, reports low repairability factor

The good news is that the cool cats at iFixit recent completed and posted a teardown of Apple’s AirPods 2 headphones to gauge how repairable they were. The bad news is that they’re at the low end of repairability among Apple’s products. Per the report: “Let’s get the second of those points out of the […]

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Apple abruptly cancels AirPower project

Sometimes you have to fold ’em. Late Friday, Apple announced that its long-awaited AirPower charging mat product had been abruptly canceled. “After much effort, we’ve concluded AirPower will not achieve our high standards and we have cancelled the project,” Dan Riccio, Apple’s senior VP of hardware engineering, said in a statement. “We apologize to those […]

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Johns Hopkins University now allowing iPhone and/or Apple Watch to function as campus ID

Your iPhone and/or your Apple Watch can now function as your ID around Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins University campus. Students can now use the devices in place of a physical ID card for getting around campus, as well as paying for university services. Students at Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins University can now use an iPhone or Apple […]

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Initial GeekBench results show significant gains for iMac with Intel’s Coffee Lake processors

If you’re hankering for a speed boost from the new generation of Intel processors, 2019 might be the year for it. Geekbench has just released the test results of Intel’s 8th and 9th-generation Coffee Lake chips. All of the new 27-inch 5K models offer superior performance compared to their 2017 counterparts, with single-core performance up […]

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Apple releases watchOS 5.2 update, brings ECG app support to Hong Kong, select European regions

Apple on Wednesday released watchOS 5.2, which brings ECG app support for Hong Kong and select European regions. The update doesn’t specifically name which European regions received the ECG functionalities. As of this writing, the ECG app has gone live in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Guam, Hong Kong, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, […]