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Apple’s new iPhone 17e is now available for pre-order

Apple’s has opened up pre-orders for the newest member of the iPhone 17 lineup. The iPhone 17e is after first being announced on Monday. Apple will officially release the latest iPhone on Wednesday, March 11.

Compared to iPhone 16e, the new iPhone 17e features faster performance with Apple’s A19 chip and C1X modem, next-generation portrait photography with Focus and Depth Control, 3x better scratch resistance with Ceramic Shield 2 front glass,

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MacBook Neo is now official: A18 Pro chip, $599, four colors, more

Apple’s new MacBook Neo is now official. After already announcing six new products this week, Apple just unveiled the all-new MacBook Neo at its special “experience” in New York City. MacBook Neo is Apple’s first laptop powered by a chip that first appeared in an iPhone: the A18 Pro.

The all-new MacBook Neo is priced from $599 and comes in four colors:

  • silver
  • indigo
  • blush
  • citrus

It runs on Apple’s A18 Pro chip and features

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Apple store down ahead of MacBook Neo announcement

The Apple Store app and website has just with the ‘Be right back’ message Apple uses ahead of major new product announcements.

We’re of course expecting the imminent announcement of the new entry-level MacBook , which may be branded as the MacBook Neo

Our own Chance Miller is at Apple’s special event in New York. We’ll of course be bringing you live coverage of this and other announcements, along with some hands-on time with the new machine.

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Apple retail stores and corporate offices in UAE temporarily closed [U]

Apple has temporarily closed its corporate offices and five Apple Store locations in the United Arab Emirates following a significant escalation in Middle East conflict over the weekend.

Update: As of March 4, closures now extend through Friday with re-opening set for Saturday, March 7.

Apple Store locations in the region first closed on Saturday, February 28, at 3 pm.

The from the Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation asking that “private sector establishments in the country take the necessary measures to avoid the presence of workers in

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TikTok says it won’t introduce end-to-end encryption for DMs

TikTok is setting itself apart from most other online platforms that offer messaging by stating that it won’t be introducing end-to-end encryption to ensure the privacy of direct messages.

This means that the company will be able to read messages sent between users, which is likely to cause concerns even after its US operations were separated from its Chinese owner …

End-to-end encryption (E2EE) means that only message recipients have the ability to decrypt the content of messages. The companies that own the


Apple Silicon

Latest MacBook Pro battery life unaffected despite a big change

We noted that the brand new M5 Pro and M5 Max versions of the MacBook Pro have a significantly different chip architecture to their predecessors.

While the M4 Pro and M4 Max models had a mix of efficiency and performance cores to balance battery life against power, the new models ditch the efficiency cores …

The M4 Pro chip was available in two configurations. The 12-core CPU combined eight performance cores with four efficiency ones. The higher-end 14-core CPU retained the same four


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M5 chips now have three types of core – what does this actually mean?

Prior to yesterday’s launch of the new M5 Pro and M5 Max chips , Apple Silicon chips had two types of core: efficiency and performance.

The M5 chips now have three types of core, with a complication caused by the renaming of one of them. Here’s what’s going on …

Apple silicon chips were a massive improvement on the Intel ones that preceded them for two reasons. First, they were substantially more powerful than even the best Intel chips at the time. Second,


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Early benchmarks show the likely performance gains of the iPad Air’s new M4 chip

As it usually happens when new Apple products are about to hit the shelves, early Geekbench benchmark results are already making the rounds. Here’s how two results credited to the M4 iPad Air turned out.

As , two Geekbench test results surfaced earlier today purporting to be for the new M4 iPad Air.

Both list an iPad model identifier iPad16,11 (which corresponds to the 13” Wi-Fi + Cellular model), with the first test scoring 3,438 in


Google and iVerify reveal government-grade iPhone exploit kit spreading to hackers

Google’s Threat Intelligence Group and security company iVerify have shared details about Coruna, an exploit kit that chains multiple vulnerabilities to target iPhones running older iOS versions. Here are the details.

As , a post published today on the reveals details of an exploit kit called Coruna, which leverages five full iOS exploit chains and 23 vulnerabilities to compromise unpatched iPhones running iOS 13 through iOS 17.2.1.

At a very high level, the Coruna exploit kit works by chaining multiple vulnerabilities to progressively breach the


VSCO launches standalone Galleries app to replace messy shared photo folders

The new app was designed to tackle the friction of shared folders in collaborative photography projects. Here are the details.

As most professionals will likely attest, shared folders are hardly the best way to share images with a client, especially when multiple photographers are involved, like at events, weddings, or portrait sessions.

For this reason, VSCO released to the App Store today, an app that “simplifies the delivery process while promoting collaboration, enabling photographers, guests, event organizers and content creators to gather and share photos in

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