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Apple patent shows Apple involved in work on “hybrid” displays, mixing OLED and quantum-dot LED technologies

A recently-published Apple patent filing indicates that Apple may be working on a “hybrid” display that mixes both OLED and quantum-dot LEDs. The U.S. filing, no. 20,190,131,356, describes a “tandem hybrid pixel” with an OLED subpixel and a quantum dot subpixel, plus various needed transport layers and cathodes.  Quantum Dots are photoluminescence particles embedded in […]

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Adobe quietly raises price of individual Creative Cloud accounts from $9.99/month to $19.99/month

If you have an Adobe Creative Cloud account, you’re not going to love this. The going price for an Adobe Creative Cloud subscription has quietly risen from $9.99/month to $19.99 for individual accounts. Adobe offered the $10 plan back in 2013 as a special limited deal. But the plan proved to be so popular that […]

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Apple Pay “coming soon” to Holland via ING bank, specific launch date yet to be announced

For those of you on the other side of the pond, Apple Pay is about to launch in Holland in the near future. Dutch bank ING announced Wednesday its customers in Holland will soon be able to use Apple Pay. It said the facility was “coming soon” in a message posted to its website. Although […]

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Toyota begins offering CarPlay retrofits to some 2018 models

This is definitely nifty. Per Car and Driver, Toyota is beginning the process of retrofitting select 2018 cars with both Apple CarPlay and Amazon Alexa. At this point, owners of the 2018 Camry sedan and Sienna minivan are being offered the option to have CarPlay added to their car. At this point, those are the […]

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Apple Maps receives additional terrain data for Arizona, New Mexico, and Nevada

As part of its continual effort to rebuild Apple Maps, Apple has added detailed terrain features to the U.S. states of Arizona and New Mexico as well as the southern portion of Nevada, including the city of Las Vegas.  The additional data is derived from Apple’s street-level data gathering via LiDAR-equipped vehicles, which Apple has […]