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Rumor: China-based Luxshare brought in to assist with iPhone 13 production, final push to meet deadline

Per the rumor mill and Nikkei Asia, Apple has begun tapping additional Chinese suppliers as it seeks to meet its targets for iPhone 13 production and launch. The company is set to produce between 90 million and 95 million iPhones through January, and China’s Luxshare Precision Industry has won 3 percent of orders away from […]

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Apple patent hints at research into keyboards with adaptive displays for each key

This could lead to something impressive. A recently-released patent, entitled “Electronic devices having keys with coherent fiber bundles,” indicates that Apple is currently researching keyboards with small displays on the keys that are capable of dynamically changing the label on each key. The patent was granted to Apple by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office […]

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Developer finds workaround to run Nintendo Switch games on M1-based Macs

If you’re a gamer or a coder, this is pretty cool. A developer by the handle of “Sera Tonin Brocious” (or @daeken on Twitter) has managed to get Nintendo Switch games to run on Apple Silicon Macs. While the implementation is not quite perfect yet given the technical limitations of the MoltenVK runtime library, which […]

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First 15-inch 2018 MacBook Pro with Pro Vega 16, 20 graphic card benchmarks released, results look impressive

Following up on last week’s story about Apple releasing 2018 model 15-inch MacBook Pro notebooks with the Radeon Pro Vega 16 and 20 graphics cards, the first bookmarks for these notebooks appear to have been leaked. In short, they’re pretty impressive and help show what to expect in terms of performance improvements over 15-inch MacBook […]

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Apple announces High Sierra, points out forthcoming changes

macOS High Sierra is coming. macOS 10.13, also known as macOS 10.13 High Sierra, was announced today at WWDC, complete with Apple executive Craig Federighi highlighting the following changes: Safari: Apple benchmarked a new version of Safari, which offered 80 percent better performance on modern JavaScript, blocking of auto-play videos and Intelligent Tracking Prevention using […]