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Apple building GPU team from former AMD engineers according to LinkedIn profile spot checks

This could lead to something interesting. Per MacRumors, Apple has hired at least a dozen former AMD graphics engineers for its Orlando offices in recent months, according to a spot check of employees’ LinkedIn profiles. The majority of hires, which include a graphics architect, hardware engineer and others, occurred in January of this year. AMD […]

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Apple quietly drops fourth-gen iPod touch, offers $229, 16GB units with 4-inch screen, no rear iSight camera in its place

It happened pretty quickly. Late Wednesday night, Apple quietly removed the fourth-generation iPod touch from their online store, replacing it instead with a modified version of the current generation. The new model features only a few differences from the fifth-gen, but the omissions are significant. Per 9to5Mac, the updated music player features a 4-inch Retina […]

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AT&T expands 4G LTE network to 16 additional U.S. cities

AT&T may drive you nuts at times, but they DO work on having a decent network… Per AppleInsider, AT&T has announced its continued expansion of its 4G LTE network for customers in Arizona, Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Washington. This latest rollout is part of a larger effort on the […]

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Rumor: Next-gen iPhone screen to feature “doubled” pixel count

You know that pixel count you love on your iPhone 5? It could double with the next generation of the iPhone. Per Weiphone and Unwired View, Apple is planning to increase the resolution of a future iPhone model to 1.5 million pixels — double that of the pixel count on the current iPhone 5. The […]

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Apple CEO Tim Cook drops hints, thinks wrist-based computing is “interesting” for users

If you were looking for hints as to upcoming Apple products, this might be one of them. Per 9to5Mac, during his recent interview at the AllThingsD D11 Conference, Apple CEO Tim Cook has for the first time talked at length about his view on wearable technologies as competitors like Google and others push ahead with […]