Ohio State University on Wednesday announced it is working with Apple to Digital Flagship University, a school-wide digital learning program that involves an iOS laboratory that will serve not only students, but the wider community.
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Apple announced support for the High Efficiency Image File (HEIF) photo format at WWDC in June, a standard that supposedly retains image quality while boasting better compression that results in files half the size of past formats. We decided to test out Apple’s claims by using our iPhone 8 Plus to take photos in the legacy JPEG format and HEIF, then comparing them side by side.
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It cost upwards of $427.5 million to build Apple Park’s main ring alone, according to a report this week which examined building permits for each of the 15 major structures at Apple’s new headquarters.
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Three more reports of swollen iPhone 8 Plus batteries have surfaced in international markets, but the current rate of failure is still well within industry norms for infant failure of lithium ion batteries.
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Apple appears to have bought out a Init.ai — a startup focused on machine learning and processing of natural language originally intended to assist in customer service — to enhance Siri in some way.
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Apple on Wednesday informed developers that it’s removing three sections from the iOS App Store, including the Catalog category, and two Games subcategories, Dice and Educational.
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Apple device management firm Jamf has teamed up with The Bungie Foundation to give children in hospital a better experience while undergoing treatment, providing young patients with access to an iPad loaded with a variety of apps and other content to entertain and reduce distress.
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A widely publicized bug that shipped with the new Apple Watch Series 3 with cellular has been addressed with a new software update, in the form of watchOS 4.0.1, which should improve the reliability of LTE cellular connections without an iPhone nearby.
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As part of its Wednesday release event, Google announced the Bluetooth wireless Pixel Buds — however, the ability to invoke the Google Assistant at a touch doesn’t work at all on iPhone, and a translate function narrows compatibility further to only the Pixel phone.
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Google’s second-generation Pixel smartphones, geared to compete with Apple’s iPhone 8 and iPhone X, boast a new squeeze feature, where users can invoke the handset’s assistant by applying pressure to the handset’s bezels. And in a growing trend established by Apple’s iPhone 7, the new Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL do not have a 3.5-millimeter headphone jack.
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