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iPhone production reportedly halted briefly in ‘nightmare before Christmas’ scenario caused by parts shortage

December 8, 2021
As Apple’s ever-important holiday shopping season continues, the company is facing what a new report from Nikkei Asia describes as the “nightmare before Christmas.” According to the report, Apple is ramping up pressure on suppliers amid iPhone and iPad shortages impacting lead times. Today’s report indicates that Apple missed targets for iPhone 13 production in September and October by…
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Google Docs making it easier to customize and edit tables

December 8, 2021
While Google Workspace offers Sheets, people still use Docs to create inline tables. Google is now letting you better create and customize tables in the Docs web app with a handful of upgrades. These “several new ways to customize tables” in Google Docs starts with a new sidebar to manage a table’s properties. Similar to one for image editing, you can adjust Row, Column, and Alignment…
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Google Stadia is now available for LG WebOS Smart TVs

December 8, 2021
As was promised at the beginning of the year, Google Stadia is now playable on the most recent generations of LG’s WebOS Smart TVs. At CES 2021, LG debuted a new lineup of smart TVs, and Google and Nvidia were each there to support the launch by announcing that dedicated apps for Stadia and GeForce Now would become available for the platform in the second half of this year. With less than a…
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Just published: More sample images from the Nikon Z9

December 8, 2021
We recently took delivery of a pre-production sample of the Nikon Z9, and we spent our time with it shooting as much as possible. We’ve just updated our previously-published gallery of samples with more than 50 new images taken in and around the Pacific…
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Nikon is licensing intoPIX's TicoRAW technology for 8K/60p Raw video in its Z9 camera

December 8, 2021
When Nikon announced its forthcoming Z9 camera, it confirmed it would be able to shoot 8K Raw video at up to 60 frames per second (fps) with a firmware set to be released in 2022. At the time, Nikon didn’t specify how it had achieved this, but we now know it’s being done with the help of TicoRAW, a compression technology from intoPIX that Nikon is licensing for its Nikon Z9 camera system. In a…
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