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The Apple Watch Series 7 release date is October 15

Enlarge / The Apple Watch Series 7. The new Apple Watch Series 7 will be available starting October 15, Apple announced today. Online orders will begin this Friday, October 8. Specifically, those prerelease orders will start at 5 am PDT, one week before the watch hits Apple’s brick-and-mortar stores globally. In most cases, preordered Apple […]

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Apple Watch Series 7 orders begin next week, leaks claim

Enlarge / The Apple Watch Series 7. (credit: Apple) Two different apparent leaks have stated that preorders for the Apple Watch Series 7 will begin next week and that the wearable will ship the following week. Jon Prosser, a leaker with a long track record on Apple products, wrote on Front Page Tech that “multiple […]

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Apple AirTags can be abused to direct finders to malicious websites

Enlarge / Apple’s AirTags—as seen clipped to a backpack, above—allow users to attempt to find their own device via location rebroadcast from other Apple users. If all else fails, the user can enable a “Lost mode” intended to display their phone number when a finder scans the missing AirTag. (credit: James D. Morgan / Getty […]

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iPad mini teardown sheds new light on “jelly scrolling” controversy

iFixit’s 2021 apple ipad mini teardown. A new teardown of Apple’s latest iPad mini by iFixit found a clue that may explain the “jelly scrolling” effect that some of the tablet’s users have complained about. In case you missed our past coverage on the subject, some iPad mini users noticed a subtle, stagger-like disconnect between […]

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The MacBook Pro will soon get a resolution bump, macOS beta suggests

Enlarge / The 2019 16-inch MacBook Pro. (credit: Samuel Axon) The seventh beta of macOS Monterey contains what appear to be references to new screen resolutions suitable for the MacBook Pro line, as discovered by MacRumors . In a list of supported graphics resolutions within macOS, there are two new resolutions: 3, 456 by 2, […]

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Three iOS 0-days revealed by researcher frustrated with Apple’s bug bounty

Enlarge / Pseudonymous researcher illusionofchaos joins a growing legion of security researchers frustrated with Apple’s slow response and inconsistent policy adherence when it comes to security flaws. (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) Yesterday, a security researcher who goes by illusionofchaos dropped public notice of three zero-day vulnerabilities in Apple’s iOS mobile operating system. The […]

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iPhone 13 and 13 Pro review: If you could have three wishes

Enlarge / The iPhone 13 Pro Max, photographed by the iPhone 13 Pro in low light. Imagine you were visited by a genie who would grant you three wishes, but they all had to be about what you want from your next smartphone. As market research and surveys tell it, almost everyone would make the […]