Apple today unveiled a new generation of iPad mini, upgraded to be powered by the A17 Pro chip. That’s the same chip as the iPhone 15 Pro. This means the new iPad mini can support the full suite of Apple Intelligence features. It also features support for the Apple Pencil Pro.
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One new design change is a magnetic charging region on the side of the tablet to support the Apple Pencil Pro. That allows the Mini to wirelessly pair and charge the Apple Pencil Pro. iPad mini is also compatible with Apple Pencil (USB-C), by plugging a cable into the USB-C port.
Apple continues to view the iPad mini as an iPad Air-class device in a smaller case, and the high-end features seem likely to remain out of reach for quite some time.
Apple's Beats brand and Kim Kardashian have teamed up for a third time on special-edition colors of a Beats product, this time featuring the recently relaunched Beats Pill speaker in new Light Gray and Dark Gray hues.
Where Apple’s automatic editing irreversibly smooths out the digital grain that you get in dim images, Halide preserves it, yielding images that appear more textured. Eschewing the uncanny perfection that marks so much iPhone photography, Process Zero has made me enjoy taking photos with my phone again, because I don’t feel like I’m constantly fighting against algorithmic editing that I can’t control or predict. Ben Sandofsky, the co-creator of Halide, told me, of the program’s ethos, “We’re going to keep this as dumb as possible.”
Sapling works by rewarding users with credits for tasks completed. Those credits can be used to purchase trees via a fundraiser the teens set up through the National Forest Foundation.
The sixth season will be based on Mick Herron’s novels Joe Country and Slough House, which are the sixth and seventh books in the series.
One of the stranger elements about the streaming service acquiring a reputation for under-marketing its shows is that Apple has long been known as an innovative, practically irresistible, marketing powerhouse. (That recent iPad “crush” ad is the exception, not the rule.) Still, even from the beginning, the company has never applied an Apple level of innovation, let alone funding, toward making its streaming titles into household names.
The US's efforts to produce more semiconductor chips have encountered some challenges over the past few years, but the tide may be turning.
TSMC, the world's leading chipmaker, has begun producing A16 chips for Apple at one of its Phoenix semiconductor chip fabs (or factories), two people familiar with the matter told Business Insider.
I guess the new iPad mini continuen to disappoint both people who want an iPad Pro with a smaller screen, and people who want an even cheaper iPad SE.
On the other hand, if you are after an iPad Air-class device, you now have three different sizes to choose from.
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