Editor's Pick: Apple Unveils Budget-Friendly iPad, Dresses iPhone in Red

Apple Unveils Budget-Friendly iPad, Dresses iPhone in Red

John P. Mello Jr. Mar 22, 2017 10:44 AM PT

Apple has announced an iPad update, a red iPhone 7 and 7 Plus, and a new video-editing app for iOS. The iPad upgrade has a 9.7-inch, 2048 x 1536- pixel Retina display and Apple's A9 64-bit processor. The unit will come in silver, gold and space gray with a starting price of $329 for 32 gigabytes of storage and WiFi-only support. It will cost $459 for a 32- GB unit with WiFi and cellular support. [More...]

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The Morning After: The life-changing magic of tidying up (your PC)

It's Wednesday, March 22, 2017. Hey, good morning! You look fabulous. How would you like a stealth delivery of Apple announcements? Well you’ve got them. While there’s nothing earth-shattering, there is a new tablet, a vivid new iPhone and a new video app. Also in today’s Adult Week series, we digitally clear out our PC and feel all the better for it. Say goodbye to the Air.   Apple's new 9.7-inch iPad is its cheapest yet   Apple just simplified its tablet lineup in a big way. The company has introduced a new 9.7-inch iPad -- not the Air 3, just... iPad. You'll find a slightly older but still speedy A9 processor inside instead of the Air 2's aging A8X chip, and Apple has doubled the capacities to give you either 32GB or 128GB of storage. There are some drawbacks, however, that come with that cheaper price tag. Beats two different shades of black.   Apple's iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus now come in red   Apple has also just snuck out a new special edition red iPhone 7, with barely any fanfare. Both new shades of the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus will be launching globally, adding some welcome color to the black and plainer metallic hues we've had until now. The pair of iPhones (with either 128GB or 256GB of storage) will launch in stores and online this Friday, March 24th, starting at $749.   The 16GB iPhone is dead.   Apple doubles the storage of the iPhone SE and iPad Mini 4 Apple is also increasing the storage across all iPhone SE and iPad Mini 4 configurations. The lowest-capacity 4-inch iPhone SE is now 32GB, up from 16GB, and the 64GB model has been scrapped in favor of a 128GB version. Basically, Apple has doubled the storage and finally killed off the last 16GB iPhone, but good news: The prices haven't changed. You can try it out today   Meet Android O   Google has officially announced the next version of Android, and it’s O. There’s no dessert-themed nickname yet, but the next big update will have some tweaks aimed at extending battery life. They’ll work by managing how apps operate in the background, limiting services, location updates and broadcasts to help squeeze out more time between charges. Other new features include picture-in-picture on phones and tablets, and an autofill feature that should make it easier to use a password manager. If you want to get an early jump, there’s a developer preview available right now for several Nexus and Pixel devices.   It involves more than just emptying your Trash folder   Adult Week: The life-changing magic of tidying up (your computer) Now that many of us have terabytes of storage at our fingertips (or in the cloud), there’s a temptation to keep everything, from apps to old bookmarks. Despite that, Dan Cooper tried applying strategies from Marie Kondo’s famous book to his digital life, hitting the delete button on things that don’t provide some form of joy.   Deal from the middle   The hidden depth of mobile puzzle game 'Where Cards Fall'   This top-down 3D puzzler will have players follow a handful of teenagers over the course of ten years, building houses of cards to navigate them along the way. Coming from the developers of Alto’s Adventure, Where Cards Fall will arrive later this year on iOS, Apple TV and Steam with more complex mechanics and story than we’re used to seeing in a mobile game. How did it not have this already?   iTunes movie rentals finally work across multiple devices   Nearly a decade after iTunes added movie rentals, Apple has finally made it work across devices. Previously, if you watched a rental on one phone, tablet or Apple TV, it would be stuck there until it expired. With the latest update, viewers can pause and resume on another iPhone or anywhere else they’re logged into the app. The only problem is that for now, the feature is limited to beta and developer builds, but it should be available widely soon enough.   But wait, there's more... 1. Manually mark your parking spot in Google Maps for extra precision 2. UK also bans devices from cabins on flights from Middle East 3. Adult Week: I don't know how to drive and I may never have to learn 4. Adidas 'Knit for You' pop-up shop uses robots to make your clothes on the spot The Morning After is a new daily newsletter from Engadget designed to help you fight off FOMO. Who knows what you'll miss if you don't subscribe. Craving even more? Like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter. Have a suggestion on how we can improve The Morning After? Send us a note. Copyright © 2016 Aol Inc. All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: AOL 770 Broadway #4 New York, NY 10003 You are receiving this email because you opted in at engadget.com. Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe from this newsletter.

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Headline Scan
Apple May Alter the AR Competition
Why Tech Can't Help Donald Trump and Most CEOs
IBM Launches Enterprise-Strength Blockchain as a Service
Crafty Phishing Technique Can Trick Even Tech-Savvy Gmail Users
Google Unveils Guetzli, Open Source JPEG Encoder, to Speed Browsing

Today's Story Highlights

Apple May Alter the AR Competition
Apple is stockpiling resources to make a splash in the augmented reality
market. The company reportedly is not only marshaling internal resources
behind its AR efforts, but also hiring talented outsiders and acquiring
companies with expertise in AR hardware, 3D gaming and virtual reality
software. The new outsiders include engineers who worked VR headsets for
Google and Microsoft.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84391.html

Why Tech Can't Help Donald Trump and Most CEOs
The new president is making almost the identical mistake President Obama
made during his first two years. Trump has picked a major entitlement to
hang his hat on -- the same major entitlement, healthcare -- and shortly
will discover what most CIOs know: You don't mess with anything that
touches everybody. The likely outcome will be that like Obama, Trump
will lose the house in the next election.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84388.html

IBM Launches Enterprise-Strength Blockchain as a Service
IBM has unveiled the first enterprise-ready Blockchain as a Service
offering based on The Linux Foundation's open source Hyperledger Fabric.
IBM Blockchain, which lets developers quickly establish highly secure
blockchain networks on the IBM cloud, is a transformative step in being
able to deploy high-speed, secure business transactions through the
network on a large scale, the company said.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84390.html

Crafty Phishing Technique Can Trick Even Tech-Savvy Gmail Users
Gmail users recently have been targeted by a sophisticated series of
phishing attacks that use emails from a known contact. The emails
contain an image of an attachment that appears to be legitimate,
according to Wordfence. The sophisticated attack displays
"accounts.gmail.com" in the browser's location bar and leads users to
what appears to be a legitimate Google sign-in page.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84386.html

Google Unveils Guetzli, Open Source JPEG Encoder, to Speed Browsing
Google on Thursday announced Guetzli, a new contribution to its evolving
set of tools for the open source community. Guetzli is an encoder that
allows JPEG files to be compressed as much as 35 percent, resulting in
much faster Web page loading. "Guetzli," which means "cookie" in Swiss
German, allows users to create smaller JPEG images.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84384.html

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