Iodyne Pro Data review: External storage as fast as your Mac Studio’s SSD

By news@appleinsider.com (Mike Wuerthele) The Iodyne Pro Data offers storage for creative professionals working in teams, combining multiple Thunderbolt connections with high capacity NVMe SSD storage, in an appliance accessible by multiple users.Videographers and others working in creative fields have to deal with vast amounts of data, that needs to be worked on as fast as possible. In a team, this could also mean the need to have the same trove of data being accessed by multiple people at the same time.Apart from duplicating data for each user who will use it, the typical solution is to use some form of network-attached storage, and to have the various …

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Apple’s Cork campus expanding with 1300 new hires

By news@appleinsider.com (Malcolm Owen) Apple is expanding its Cork campus with another office building to accommodate 1,300 new employees at its European headquarters in Ireland.A render of the new office [via Apple/RTE]Apple has been in Cork for over four decades, and has a sizable campus in the Irish city. Now, Apple wants to increase the building count by one more, with plans to build new offices on the site. …

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Corey B. Marion, co-founder of The Iconfactory, dies age 54

By news@appleinsider.com (William Gallagher) Designer and The Iconfactory cofounded Corey B. Marion has died, aged 54, following a long battle with cancer.Corey B. MarionMarion founded The Iconfactory in 1996 with Talos Tsui, and Gedeon Maheux, when he was 29. For a quarter of a century, he led the firm while also designing icons — including the company’s own factory logo one — and created a typeface based on his own handwriting. …

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Apple shares full program for its upcoming hybrid WWDC 2022 event

By news@appleinsider.com (Mike Peterson) Apple has shared the schedule for its upcoming Worldwide Developers Conference, including the event’s keynote slated for 10 a.m. Pacific on June 6.Credit: AppleUnlike past WWDC events during the pandemic, the 2022 conference will see a limited number of developers on-campus. However, the 10 a.m. Pacific (1 p.m. Eastern) keynote itself will still be an online-only media event. …

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Apple could let you switch active devices in the future just by picking them up

By news@appleinsider.com (William Gallagher) You’re using your iPhone and Mac, plus you’re wearing your Apple Watch — but Apple wants future devices to know which you’re concentrating on right now and deliver notifications to that active one, instead of everything.You’ve no reason to know this unless you’re one of those people suffering under having too many Apple Watches to wear. But it used to be that switching between them as you try out different outfits entailed tapping a button on your iPhone, and now it doesn’t.Now, so long as you set it up in advance, you can have your Watches effectively know which one you’re wearing now, which one is the active Watch from your collection. And Apple wants that to be equally possible with other devices, ranging from the iPhone, to “jewelry, shoes, or clothing.” …

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