ComputersNews

Apple will pay 25 percent tax on five imported Mac Pro parts, thanks to Trump tariffs

September 30, 2019
The US Trade Representative’s office has denied Apple tariff relief on five parts for its new Mac Pro computer, as reported by Bloomberg. Each of the imported parts — the optional wheels, a circuit board for managing input and output ports, power adapter, charging cable, and a cooling system for the processor — are now likely to be subject to the proposed 25 percent tariff on goods imported…
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MobileNews

How to take square photos with iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro

September 30, 2019
Want to change the aspect ratio for iPhone 11 camera shots? Follow along for how to take square photos and more with iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro. The iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro have a new Camera app that includes exclusive features like Night mode, an interface to make…
MobileNews

Mate 30 Pro vs. iPhone 11 Pro vs. Galaxy Note10+ camera compare

September 30, 2019
The Galaxy Note10 led the way with its late-August announcement, Apple put out the iPhone 11s in mid-September, and Huawei followed a week later with the Mate 30 series. We had all three fall season big guns at the office at the same time, and we figured we’d do a quick shootout. A Galaxy Note10 (or a Plus, depending on where you stand on the Pro/Pro Max dilemma) is the most obvious…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Google researchers train AI to distinguish 9 Indian languages

September 30, 2019
The world speaks thousands of languages — roughly 6,500, to be exact — and systems from the likes of Google, Facebook, Apple, and Amazon become better at recognizing them each day. The trouble is, not all of those languages have large corpora available, which can make training the data-hungry models underpinning those systems difficult. That’s the reason Google researchers are exploring…
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GamingNews

Minecraft Marketplace August 2019: Lucky Blocks tops the charts

September 30, 2019
The Minecraft Marketplace didn’t have any major sales or events in August, but players still racked up 7,167,675 downloads for the month. That’s behind the 10.9 million in July and 7.9 million in June. But the store is up significantly from just 373,361 downloads during…
MobileNews

iWork for iOS updated to take advantage of iOS 13 and iPadOS 13

September 30, 2019
Apple has released updated versions of its iWork apps for iPhone and iPad to take advantage of new features that are available with iOS 13 and iPadOS 13. New features for the iWork iOS suite include Dark Mode support, external drive support, multitasking support in iPadOS 13, the ability to use custom fonts from the App Store, and much more for iPhone and iPad. Pages 5.2 release…
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