Each week, there are a ton of great products that get released that we don’t have time to cover. Here are our top picks for new gear from the last seven days you should check out, including new arrives in Apple Stores, Sonos/IKEA AirPlay 2 speakers and LIFX HomeKit bulbs.
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Following a second mass shooting in a 24-hour period in the United States, Apple CEO Tim Cook has expressed his support for the victims and families while also declaring a need for politicians to stop arguing and to ‘address this violence for the good of our country.’
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The FBI hacked an iPhone in the Long Island Iced Tea crypto investigation, a Chinese counterfeiter in a million-dollar fake iPhone ring has been sentenced, and more in the Apple crime roundup.
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This is the Microsoft Surface Book 2. It’s a hybrid 2-in-1 laptop that can be used as a tablet or a full blown laptop. Should you pick up Microsoft’s Surface Book 2 in 2019?
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Mixer, Microsoft’s game-centric live streaming service, saw a surge of popularity that sent it to the top of the App Store charts on Friday, driven by the news celebrity streamer ‘Ninja’ will be moving over to it exclusively from market leader Twitch.
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Following Apple’s decision to temporarily halt Siri grading as it evaluates the program’s privacy safeguards, Amazon and Google this week followed suit and updated their respective policies on human reviews of recorded voice assistant audio.
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With a launch just weeks or even days away, Goldman Sachs has published the customer agreement for Apple Card, sharing APRs, usage restrictions and other details.
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It’s both handy and simple to be able to have your phone calls rerouted to another number, but if Apple makes it easy to set up, it doesn’t let you do the kind of advanced features that would make this so much more useful.
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Weekend price cuts from Amazon and Best Buy see Apple’s 2019 MacBook Air drop to $999 (or shoppers can snag a 2018 model for $899 for a few more hours). Apple’s 2019 iPad Air is also $50 off, a new record low, while refurbished iPhones start at $35 with promo code.
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U.S. Democratic Senators Amy Klobuchar and Richard Blumenthal introduced a new bill on Friday, the “Monopolization Deterrence Act,” which if passed could impose stiffer penalties on companies like Apple and Facebook if they’re caught in anticompetitive practices.
Source:: Apple Insider