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Apple sets up offices near Imagination Technologies’ headquarters, reportedly poaching staff for GPU development

Apple seems to be making moves to poach additional staff from Imagination Technologies, the British chip designer behind the GPUs used in iOS devices. Per the Telegraph, Apple has established its own GPU design team in offices just a few miles from Imagination’s offices in St. Albans. The report states that Apple has already hired […]

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Rumor: Next-gen iPhones may not feature inductive charging upon release

Apple’s 2017 iPhone models might not feature inductive charging after all. Per a tweet by Mac guru John Gruber, a tipster has indicated that that the new charging technology “might be late” and not launch until iOS 11.1 is released. Gruber has likened the delay of wireless charging to the delay of Portrait Mode on […]

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Rumor: Next-gen iPhone could also arrive in new reflective/”mirror” color

Apple’s next-gen iPhone handset is now rumored to arrive in four difference colors, including a new reflective “mirror” version that’s never been seen before. The rumor comes from a tweet posted by Benjamin Geskin, who said the handset will come in four total colors, one of them new. He also posted an iPhone 6s mirror-like […]

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Rumor: Apple looking to release three OLED iPhone models in 2018, will include OLED functionality on all 2019 iPhone models

Apple may just be going all in with OLED iPhones come 2019. A supply chain report published by Nikkei said that Apple plans to make all of its iPhones with an OLED screen by 2019. Apple was believed to be preparing to adopt OLED panels for 60 million units of the “iPhone 8” in 2017, […]

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iFixit announces DIY MacBook Pro Retina Battery Fix Kits

This will come in handy. The cool cats at iFixit have come up with a fix to the issue pertaining to Retina display MacBook Pros that have plagued the notebook since their release in 2012: Inordinate amounts of glue holding the battery in place that make it next to impossible to replace. As such, iFixit […]