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Apple Pay, other contactless forms of payment, reinstated at JCPenney’s locations

If you’re looking to resume using Apple Pay at JCPenney, it looks like the system’s back up. The retailer reinstated Apple Pay as its stores on Thursday, June 19th. JCPenney has reinstated Apple Pay at its stores, it emerged Thursday. The reactivation is said to have happened on June 19th. JCPenney stopped accepting Apple Pay and other […]

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Apple hires ARM chip designer Mike Filippo, takes another step from Intel CPU reliance

In what could definitely be considered a significant step in its transition form Intel to ARM processors, Apple has hired one of ARM Holding’s Inc.’s top chip engineers. This, in turn, could allow for Apple to create its own new hardware, including devices, new Macs, and a possible headset. Apple has hired Mike Filippo as […]

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Apple Design Chief to leave Apple, start new design company with Apple as a primary client

Jony Ive is moving on from Apple. Apple announced on Thursday that Ive is leaving to start his own design firm. While Apple will function as one of Ive’s “primary clients, ” he’ll be able to handle work for other firms while continuing to design for the Cupertino company. In a statement, Apple CEO Tim Cook said […]

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DisplayPort 2.0 spec published, will use Thunderbolt 3, support resolutions up to 16K

It’s hard to envision what a 16K image would look like outside of mind blowing. VESA on Wednesday announced the DisplayPort 2.0 video standard, the move marking the first major update to the DisplayPort standard since March 2016, increasing data bandwidth performance up to three times more than the previous version of DisplayPort 1.4a.  The […]

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OWC releases Envoy Pro Ex drive with USB-C support, promises 980MBps data transfer speeds

If you have a USB-C port on your computer, this could be awesome. OWC on Tuesday unveiled its Envoy Pro Ex with USB-C support. The company claims 980MBps of sustained throughput with the device, the drive being Mac and PC-compatible and available unpopulated for $95. It also arrives with an NVMe SSD pre-installed: 250GB for […]