Over at the Brooklyn media event, Apple announced its new 2018 MacBook Air, complete with a Retina display, Thunderbolt 3, a redesigned trackpad and other new features.

The notebook now arrives in three finishes, and incorporates a pair of Thunderbolt 3 ports on the left side and a headphone jack on the right side.

The updated MacBook Air now offers four times the resolution of the previous MacBook Air. As such, the new design has ditched the aluminum bezels surrounding the old display, leading the display much closer to the edge.

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Alongside Apple’s release of iOS 12.1, the company also released watchOS 5.1.

The update, which can be downloaded and installed via an Apple Watch and a paired iPhone, offers the following changes and fixes:

– Apple Watch Series 4 automatically contacts emergency services if you are immobile for about a minute after detecting a hard fall. The watch will now also play a message that informs the responder that Apple Watch has detected a fall and shares your location coordinates when possible.

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You’ve been hankering for the iOS 12.1 update and it’s here.

The update, which is available via iTunes or over-the-air, delivers on previously promised features and adds the following fixes and changes:

Group FaceTime:
– Adds support for video and audio calls with up to 32 participants simultaneously

– Encrypted end-to-end so your conversations remain private

– Start Group FaceTime right from a group Messages conversation, or join an active call at any time

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If you liked the first Apple Pencil, you’ll like this.

The second-gen Apple Pencil was revealed today at Apple’s “There’s More in the Making” media event in Brooklyn, the new stylus for the iPad Pro featuring support for gestures developers can assign in their apps.

The new Apple Pencil has a swipe and tap area that can perform secondary tasks, similar to the way the side buttons on Wacom’s own tablet styluses work. Tapping the side of the stylus, for example, can switch brushes in art applications.

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2018 iPad Pro has been announced and it appears that most of the rumors were true.

Over at the media event in Brooklyn today, Apple announced the new iPad Pro models, which don’t feature a Home button, support Face ID, and replace the Lightning port with USB-C.

The new iPad Pro models have Liquid Retina LCD screens with rounded corners, front-facing 7 megapixel TrueDepth cameras with Face ID support, a 12 megapixel rear-facing camera with flash, stereo speakers, Bluetooth 5.0, Wi-Fi, and Apple’s own A12X Bionic processor. The screen resolution comes in at 3.98 million pixels at 364 ppi at 2388 x 1668.

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It’s been four years since the last Mac mini update, but today that changed.

Apple, during its Brooklyn media event, announced a new Mac mini with modern processors and specifications

The upgrades are spotlighted by quad- and six-core 8th-generation Intel processors, which go by the code name Coffee Lake. According to Apple, the new Mac mini is five times faster than the four-year-old model it replaces.

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Apple’s next-gen Pencil could receive gesture support.

According to well-known developer and leak king Steve Troughton-Smith, the Apple Pencil 2 could feature some form of built-in gesture support.

The updated accessory is expected during today’s “There’s More in the Making” media event in Brooklyn on October 30th.

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Sometimes it’s the small chunks of a beta that reveal what’s to come in the Apple universe.

In the case of the fifth beta of iOS 12, a discovered icon showed an iPad with no Home button, rounded corners and no notch, but it was a small icon designed to be used in the battery widget.

Late last week, a new icon found within iOS offers a more detailed view of the 2018 iPad Pro, which is expected to be announced during the Tuesday event in Brooklyn. This icon shows an iPad with rounded corners, no Home button and no notch. An interesting aspect of this icon is how large the bezels look when compared to the recent iPhones.

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This could come in handy if you happen to be on the swanky side of the Atlantic in the near future.

Apple Pay is rumored to be arriving in Belgium in a few weeks.

A Redditor who claims to work at an Apple Store in Brussels offered the following comment, jump starting the rumor as to Apple Pay’s forthcoming expansion in Europe.

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Customers in Australia and New Zealand have traditionally been the first to get their paws on Apple’s new devices, and the iPhone XR is no exception.

A number of Aussie and Kiwi customers who pre-ordered the iPhone XR have begun sharing photos of the device on Twitter, Instagram, Reddit, and other social media.

While there are currently no Apple Store locations in New Zealand, Australian customers were the first to snag an iPhone XR from an Apple Store. It’s been noted that iPhone XR stock quantities remained strong following pre-orders on October 19, Apple should have plenty of stock available for walk-in purchases around the world.

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