The Beam may be a luxury, and has a few rough edges, but proves to be a cool way of making smart lighting a focus of your home instead of just another fixture.

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Apple’s “Hey Siri” function may be handy for most users, but there are times when you don’t want it to activate and cause an interruption. AppleInsider explains how to prevent the hands-free voice prompt from activating, and how to turn it back on again.

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There has been a near-constant debate about Apple and the choices it has made with ports and connectors spanning the company’s entire history. AppleInsider takes a look back at most of the different ways Apple devices have connected over the years — and what they tell us about the company itself.

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With few setbacks, Apple is almost continuously expanding and updating its global retail chain, now over 500 locations. Here’s the company’s evolution in 2018 so far, updated with renders of a possible store in Stockholm, Sweden.

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Apple is seeking to expand its enterprise-related operations by working with a new partner, with a job advertisement indicating the iPhone producer has an arrangement with Hewlett Packard Enterprise to produce business solutions.

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The Rymek retro Bluetooth mechanical keyboard is an interesting take on a mechanical keyboard. AppleInsider got to spend a bit of time with it ahead of the crowdfunding campaign.

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Apple senior director of Siri, Alex Acero, is scheduled to appear at this year’s AI Frontiers conference, where he will be joined by other experts in the field to discuss the role natural language processing plays in modern personal assistant technology.

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One of the new watchOS 5 features demonstrated by Apple’s Vice President of Technology Kevin Lynch at its Worldwide Developer Conference in June was “raise to Siri,” a new Machine Learning shortcut that will invoke a Siri listening session without pushing a button or speaking the “Hey Siri” trigger phrase. It’s now working in the latest beta versions, including beta 3 released today.

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A new MacBook Pro with a powerful 28W Intel processor may be on the way, if newly surfaced Geekbench results are anything to believe.

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Apple included a number of changes in the latest beta of iOS 12, the biggest of which include updated mapping data, new animated Activities stickers in Messages and a load of bug fixes.

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