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Here’s how the latest iPad Pro compares to the new iPad Air (and previous models)
The 2024 iPad Air still offers a nice display, though, not as nice as the OLED display on the new iPad Pro. After nearly a two-year wait, Apple finally updated its iPad lineup with a thinner iPad Pro and new iPad Air. The new tablets start at $999 and $599, respectively, and both are already ava...
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iPad Pro 2024 vs. 2022: What’s changed
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Get an Apple iPad (9th or 10th Gen) for under $400 following Apple's 'Let Loose' event
Apple may have just announced new iPads, but there's already great savings to be had on the iPad 9th and 10th Generations.
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Everything Announced at Today's Apple Event
Apple today held the first event of 2024, debuting new iPad Air and iPad Pro models and accompanying accessories. While the event was faster than normal and took 40 minutes, we've condensed it down even further for those who want a quick overview of everything that was announced. Subscribe to the...
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Hands-on with the new iPad Pros and Airs: A surprisingly refreshing refresh
And the new Apple Pencil Pro does some cool things, too.
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New iPad Pros Support Lower Refresh Rate, But Lack Always-On Display
The new 11-inch and 13-inch iPad Pro models are equipped with OLED displays that support a refresh rate as low as 10Hz, but the devices still lack an always-on display option like the iPhone and Apple Watch have, according to Apple's tech specs . While the iPad Pro has supported ProMotion since 2...
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I've used every iPad since the original. Here's my buying advice for the new 2024 models
The latest high-end iPad models pack a ton of upgrades that include Tandem OLED, M4 chips, and Apple Pencil Pro. But who should buy one?
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The 4 most exciting iPad Pro 2024 features (and what they can do for you)
Apple just unveiled its new lineup of 2024 iPad Pro tablets. From a next-gen chip to much-improved camera placement, let's break down the top four features.
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New 2024 iPads Still Have 10 Hours of Battery Life
The iPad Pro and iPad Air models that Apple introduced today continue to offer the same 10 hours of battery life that Apple has advertised with iPads for years now, despite the addition of new, more efficient chips. Apple's iPad Pro has an M4 chip that is built on second-generation 3-nanometer ...
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iPad Air 2022 vs. iPad Air 2024 Buyer's Guide: 19 Differences Compared
Apple's new iPad Airs arrive almost a year and a half after the previous models, offering almost 20 changes and upgrades. The 2022 iPad Air was a minor upgrade that added features such as the M1 chip and a 12MP Ultra Wide front-facing camera with Center Stage. The 2024 refresh is more substantial...
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Apple debuts AI-focused M4 chip in iPad Pro models
Apple on Tuesday introduced a new chip called the M4 that it said would outclass personal computers designed for artificial intelligence – but put the new chip in an iPad Pro model rather than a laptop. The move is unusual for Apple, which typically puts its latest chips into its Mac lineup, wher...
OpenAI is recruiting researchers to test its new deepfake detector.
OpenAI has added a new tool to detect if an image was made with its DALL-E AI image generator, as well as new watermarking methods to more clearly flag content it generates. In a blog post , OpenAI announced that it has begun developing new provenance methods to track content and prove whether i...
OpenAI is launching a tool that can detect images created by its text-to-image generator DALL-E 3 , the Microsoft-backed startup said on Tuesday amid rising worries about the influence of AI-generated content in this year’s global elections . The company said the tool correctly identified images ...
Preordering the new Pixel 8a will notch you a $100 gift card, whether you buy it from Best Buy, Google, or Amazon.
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The new budget Pixel 8a comes out May 14, and preorders through Amazon come with a $100 gift card right now.
Just moments after Google announced its latest smartphone , both Amazon and Best Buy swooped in with deals to convince you to get yours from one of them. Right now, the Pixel 8a is open for pre-orders at Google's storefront , but if you go through Amazon, you'll get a physical $100 Amazon gift ca...
Daimler Truck, a subsidiary of the Mercedes-Benz parent company, revealed its first autonomous truck demonstrator that it said will pave the way to fully driverless freight hauling by 2027. The demonstrator is an all-electric version of Daimler’s popular Freightliner Cascadia models. The so-call...
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Bankruptcy lawyers representing customers impacted by the dramatic crash of cryptocurrency exchange FTX 17 months ago say that the vast majority of victims will receive their money back — plus interest. The news comes six months after FTX co-founder and former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) was foun...
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The failed cryptocurrency giant says it has billions of dollars more than needed to cover its debts.
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Approach could help make forever upcoming tech more reliable Intel says it has made two advancements towards realizing silicon-based quantum processors which involves optimizing a standard fabrication process and developing a means to test the quality of resulting individual devices across a full...
Long queues built up at airports affected by a Border Force "technical issue" at passport control.
Two years after going live, the project that left staff unpaid still needs work The fallout from Edinburgh University's ill-fated Oracle HR and finance implementation continues with one department recording thousands of mis-coded transactions relating to more than £300,000 in spending.…
Google Wallet has debuted in India as the company’s digital wallet for non-payment use cases — two years after it was launched in the U.S. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. 
On the plus side, infosec's a good bet for a long, stable career Interview This year is an unfortunate anniversary for information security: We're told it's a decade since ransomware started infecting corporations.…
The social network said it is planning to introduce direct messages, support for videos, improved custom feeds, and new moderation controls. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. 
Last year Amazon upgraded its Echo Show 8 to make it look better, sound better and respond more quickly to Alexa commands. It made our best smart display list , and if you've been eyeing one, it's on sale at a steep discount. The third-gen, 2023 Echo Show 8 is 33 percent off , bringing it down to...
Where have you been, Cupertino? Analysis We can add Apple to the list of tech titans developing their own custom AI accelerators – at least that's what unnamed sources are telling the Wall Street Journal.… 
The French startup's AI assistant is aimed at helping obstetricians and gynecologists with the evaluation and documentation of ultrasound exams. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. 
Bereaved families whose children's deaths were linked to social media are sharing their stories with the BBC.
The US confirmed it revoked licences allowing the export of some goods to Chinese tech giant.
Let’s be honest: There should be a quick, wireless way to send files between all your devices. But even in 2024, it’s still not always obvious how to do it. If you use the built-in tools on modern devices, it can get complicated fast. Between Google’s Quick Share, Microsoft’s Nearby Sharing, and ...
Keynotes, physical security, playlists … the buck stops with Linda Gray Martin Interview The 33rd RSA Conference is underway this week, and no one feels that more acutely than the cybersecurity event's SVP Linda Gray Martin.…
'I'm blown away by the fact that they weren't using MFA' Interview The cybersecurity practices that led up to the stunning Change Healthcare ransomware infection indicate "egregious negligence" on the part of parent company UnitedHealth, according to Tom Kellermann, SVP of cyber strategy at Con...
No child process left behind Later this year, MITRE is getting its hands on a mini-supercomputer and planning to divvy out AI computing time to US government agencies.…
Sources slam aggressive 'back to school' grading system as HR vows to track VPN use, badge swipes Exclusive Dell has told workers it will track the onsite presence of hybrid employees – those who work part remotely, part in the office – using electronic badge swipes, VPN monitoring, and a rathe...
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Apple's latest stylus will only work with its newest iPads. The long-running second-gen Apple Pencil—which the company still sells—will not.
Or at least it might well be if these trial programs work out, with some civil lib oversight etc etc etc RSAC AI is a double-edged sword in that the government can see ways in which the tech can protect and also be used to attack Americans, says US Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.… 
Meta is testing a new way to boost engagement on Threads using Instagram. The company is now testing the ability to cross-post photos from Instagram to Threads. Meta confirmed the experiment after a handful Threads users noticed the setting crop up in Instagram ( TechCrunch was first to report th...
Kyle Kuzma is a lot of things. He’s a forward for the Washington Wizards NBA team and a 2020 NBA champion. He’s also a style icon — depending on who you ask — and an angel investor. Now he’s an adviser at a venture fund too. “I’m part of a new generation of the NBA,” […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All ri...
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As Tales of the Empire digs its way through the story of Barriss Offee —and her quest to survive the rise of the Empire, at any cost—there comes a moment that climaxes a decade-plus wait for fans who’ve wanted to see what happened to the former Jedi Padawan after the shocking conclusion of her st...
Big tech companies will have to make changes to their algorithms to comply with new online safety laws.
Ofcom is cracking down on Instagram, YouTube and 150,000 other web services to improve child safety online. A new Children’s Safety Code from the U.K. Internet regulator will push tech firms to run better age checks, filter and downrank content, and apply around 40 other steps to assess harmful c...
Solar panels point to the sky at the Weesow-Wilmersdorf solar park on May 3rd, 2024, near Grischow, Germany. The amount of electricity and greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel-fired power plants likely peaked in 2023, according to the annual global electricity review by energy think tank E...
Amazon is adding three types of shoppable ads to Prime Video's ad tier.
Reddit has always marched to the beat of its own drummer—so when it came time for its first earnings call as a public company, it had no plans to alter that strategy. The social media giant, on its earnings call Tuesday afternoon, not only took questions from investment firms, but also from its o...
Insempra plans to turn oil yeast in lipids on an industrial scale using yeast fermentation factories. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. 
Mowing your lawn less often can be good for the environement—depending on how you do it.
The ACP provided a broadband subsidy for millions of Americans. Now Congress has a plan to reinstate it.
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Mobile medical care firm DocGo confirmed it suffered a cyberattack after threat actors breached its systems and stole patient health data. [...]
Services like TikTok and Facebook can track you even if you don't have an account with them.
The wait is almost over. X-Men ‘97's three-part finale continues tomorrow when “Tolerance Is Extinction, Pt. 2” drops on Disney+. Read more...
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AI is supposed to help militaries make precise strikes. Is that the case in Gaza? Israel ’s war with Hamas , in response to the attacks of October 7, 2023, has led to more fatalities than in any previous Israeli war, with at least 34,000 Palestinians killed as of May 7, 2024. In Israel’s 2014 wa...
The Department of Justice has unsealed charges against a Russian national accused of developing and administrating LockBit ransomware. In a filing on Tuesday , the DOJ claims the 31-year-old Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev helped make LockBit one of “the most prolific and destructive ransomware group...
The US places a $10 million bounty for the arrest of Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev.
Tinder continued to lose paying users in its first quarter , with Match Group CEO telling investors Tuesday that the company expects to slow user declines in the back half of this year. Tinder’s paying user base declined 9% from the same time a year ago to just under 10 million, which it blamed o...
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said that lidar sensors are a “crutch” for autonomous vehicles. But his company has bought so many from Luminar that Tesla is now the lidar-maker’s top customer. Tesla accounted for “more than 10%” of Luminar’s revenue in the first quarter of 2024, or a little more than $2...
Elon Musk doesn’t like lidar, the laser sensor that powers many companies’ self-driving ambitions. He previously called it a “crutch” and said any company that relies on lidar for its autonomous capabilities was “doomed.” Well, apparently Tesla is stocking up on crutches. In its quarterly earnin...
Avoid traffic-redirecting snoops who have TunnelVision A newly discovered vulnerability undermines countless VPN clients in that their traffic can be quietly routed away from their encrypted tunnels and intercepted by snoops on the network.…
A new attack dubbed "TunnelVision" can route traffic outside a VPN's encryption tunnel, allowing attackers to snoop on unencrypted traffic while maintaining the appearance of a secure VPN connection. [...]
Hackers have been targeting WordPress sites with an outdated version of the LiteSpeed Cache plugin to create administrator users and gain control of the websites. [...]
Reach your little Pis from nearly any browser—and free up your RealVNC slots.
The only thing better than a classic mayo-slathered potato salad is one that's topped with crispy roasted potatoes.
Ride-hailing company Lyft projected higher-than-expected gross bookings and core profit for the current quarter on Tuesday, driven by robust demand for its services and benefits from new user and driver features. It also reported first-quarter revenue and core profit above expectations, sending i...
OpenAI is partnering with another publisher as it moves towards a licensed approach to training materials. Dotdash Meredith, the owner of brands like People and Better Homes & Gardens , will license its content for OpenAI to train ChatGPT while the publisher will use the AI company’s models to bo...
A large previously contained nearly as much caffeine as the FDA's daily safe limit. 
Rejoice, Wordle lovers. The game’s owner, the New York Times, has announced that paying subscribers will now be able to go back into an archive of over a thousand previous Wordle puzzles to play them at their leisure. Previous to this, the game’s puzzles were very much like an episode of televisi...
The New York Times Games announced on Tuesday that it’s launching a Wordle archive, offering subscribers access to more than 1,000 past Wordle puzzles. The company has started rolling out the Wordle archive on mobile and desktop to “Games” and “All Access” subscribers, but notes that the the roll...
U.S. realty trust giant Brandywine Realty Trust has confirmed a cyberattack that resulted in the theft of data from its network. In a filing with regulators on Tuesday, the Philadelphia-based Brandywine described the cybersecurity incident as unauthorized access and the “deployment of encryption”...
Russell T Davies may have already returned to Doctor Who with its 60th anniversary specials , but a new, full season of the show brings with it myriad opportunities. Doctor Who’s latest relaunch is no exception: a new Doctor, a new companion, new adventures, and perhaps in the biggest change of a...
Nintendo has finally confirmed the rumors. On Tuesday, the company acknowledged that a successor for the phenomenally successful Switch console is on the way—and that it will offer more details by the end of its fiscal year. The Switch has sold over 141 million units worldwide since its 2017 laun...
Short on cores, big on threads and matrix math Not to be left out of the AI infrastructure game, on Tuesday IBM unveiled a pair of tiny Power 10 servers designed to preprocess data at the network edge.…
It's been a busy day of Apple news thanks to some new iPads , but the company has plenty of other M-series devices, including the iMac. Apple slotted M3 chips into its desktop computers late last year , and now the base version of the 2023 iMac is cheaper than ever. Thanks to a coupon at Amazon (...
The first laptop with LPCAMM2 memory is finally here. The folks at iFixit got their hands on the Lenovo ThinkPad P1 (Gen 7), which uses LPDDR5X memory in an LPCAMM2 module that you can upgrade or replace by simply unscrewing from the laptop’s motherboard. That’s a major change from existing LPDD...
Available now on the ThinkPad P1 Gen 7, LPCAMM2 RAM modules are not only upgradable but provide a host of other benefits.
Pull text from Zoom presentations, YouTube videos, or literally anything you can see on your Mac's screen.
Rivian lost $1.45 billion in the first quarter, showing that its recent company-wide cost-cutting measures have a ways to go before it can approach profitability. The EV-maker brought in $1.2 billion in revenue in the period, coming in just under its record haul from the prior quarter, the compan...
Tesla's gigafactory in Germany has temporarily paused production as protests ramp up.
The company's new advertiser tool helps you get more out of a single product image.
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Meta is expanding its paid verification service for businesses, adding three new tiers to the program that offers extra perks to companies willing to pay a monthly subscription. The company began testing the service, called Meta Verified, with businesses last fall after rolling out a paid verific...
Here’s our first look inside Rapunzel’s Lantern Festival, a new dark ride at Tokyo DisneySea’s Fantasy Springs based on Disney Animation’s Tangled. The attraction is a boat ride not unlike Pirates of the Caribbean that takes you through the story of Rapunzel’s dream to see the floating lanterns g...
Celebrities go to the Met Gala to serve looks , not cease-and-desist letters. Lately, though, it seems like they may have to start doing both—thanks to generative AI. When Katy Perry’s mother texted her during this year’s festivities—to congratulate her on the gorgeous, high-floral gown she’d see...
AI-generated images of Katy Perry, Rihanna, and more celebrities in Met Gala refinement took over X and other platforms Monday night.
Here are the best upgrades you weren’t even aware existed.
The agency released a final order clarifying that pay-to-play internet "fast lanes" for consumers violate its net neutrality rules. It also guarantees the new rules won't preempt state broadband affordability programs.
In the first year alone, that's saved us all a lot of money and woe RSAC As ransomware gangs step up their attacks against healthcare, schools, and other US critical infrastructure, CISA is ramping up a program to help these organizations fix flaws exploited by extortionists in the first place.…
Around 4.5 billion years ago, Earth and Venus were born in the midst of a chaotic star system. With the neighboring worlds being of the same size and similar structure, it’s believed that both planets likely began with similar amounts of water. Today, however, Venus is a hellish world with intens...
Apple now offers four different Apple Pencil models at $79, $99, and $129 price points, each with different feature sets and compatibility. Our guide helps you decide which Apple Pencil is best for you. Which Apple Pencil you should buy is firstly determined by which iPad model you have. Some...
How does the new Apple Pencil Pro stack up against the previous Apple Pencil (2nd Gen)? Here are all the reasons why you may want to buy one rather than the other.
The most important upcoming hardware product for Sonos is undoubtedly its long-anticipated Sonos Ace headphones. They will mark the company’s debut in a massive (and highly competitive) new category. But spring and summer are always the seasons of new portable speakers, and Sonos hasn’t forgotte...
The Swiss Army Knife has become such a shorthand for multifunctionality that companies producing does-a-lot-of-stuff wares will often say that their goods are the “Swiss Army Knife” of whatever category they’re a part of. You can use the tool to cut stuff, snip stuff, uncork stuff, file stuff, in...
The cloud vendor also is working with Asean schools to train 5,000 individuals a year on AI skills over the next three years.
Walmart has listed its new “Pro” Google TV streaming box / smart speaker combo a week after the product leaked into the real world and intermittently appeared on the store site. The new Onn 4K Pro, which retails for $49.88, comes with new features, including a built-in Google Assistant smart spe...
Apple today introduced a new version of the Final Cut Pro software that's designed to run on the iPad , introducing capabilities designed specifically for the M4 iPad Pro . A new Live Multicam feature allows users to capture up to four different angles of a single scene using connected iPhones an...
The UK Government confirmed today that a threat actor recently breached the country's Ministry of Defence and gained access to part of the Armed Forces payment network. [...]
On April 29, Senators Jon Ossoff (D-GA) and Marsha Blackburn (R-SC) proposed a bipartisan bill to protect children from online sexual exploitation. President Biden officially signed the REPORT Act into law on Tuesday. This marks the first time that websites and social media platforms are legally ...
Tech can play a role in combating the illegal trade in elephant ivory.
You need to keep the inside of your bag more organized, sorry.
The pandemic ushered in an e-bike boom. But like so many other pandemic trends, that boom didn’t last. The last year has seen e-bike startups VanMoof and Cake file for bankruptcy amid a backdrop of micromobility doom and gloom. Tier and Dott merged. Superpedestrian closed up shop. Bird also had t...
Air-gapping GPT-4 model on secure network won't prevent it from potentially making things up.
Oh, right – there's new iPad Pro and Air models, a pencil and some other stuff Apple held its anticipated iPad event today, and the most attention-grabbing news wasn't the new device models or the refreshed iPad Air lineup - it was the unveiling of Apple's homegrown M4 chip with a surprisingly po...
Law curtails "massive amounts of protected speech," TikTok and ByteDance allege.
Nothing like folks in Beijing lecturing us on the Constitution TikTok and its China-based parent ByteDance sued the US government today to prevent the forced sale or shutdown of the video-sharing giant.… 
Beats might have some new audio gear to blab about, but its older models are nothing to sniff at, especially when you can score solid deals on them. Take, for instance, the Beats Fit Pro . Those true wireless earbuds have dropped by $40 to $160 . That matches the Black Friday price and it's just ...
This past weekend, Lucasfilm dropped Tales of the Empire , the second entry in its animated anthology series exploring the dual stories of characters in the galaxy far, far away. But what worked and what didn’t in getting to explore the stories of Morgan Elsbeth and Barriss Offee during the time ...
ChatGPT developer OpenAI says that artists and other content owners will be able to request that their work be excluded from use in AI development. Many details of the scheme remain unclear.
Google has made the 128GB Pixel Tablet available as a standalone device , without the charging dock. It costs $400, as compared to around $500 at most outlets with the dock. This is a great deal on paper, but there’s one elephant-sized caveat. We had some issues with the tablet on its own and wer...
Robert Kahn has been a consistent presence on the Internet since its creation — obviously, since he was its co-creator. But like many tech pioneers his resumé is longer than that and in fact his work prefigured such ostensibly modern ideas as AI agents and blockchain. TechCrunch chatted with Kahn...
Microsoft has shuttered three ZeniMax teams: Arkane Austin, Tango Gameworks and Alpha Dog Studios. The company is also folding Roundhouse Games into Zenimax Online Studios. Arkane Austin is the home of Prey and Redfall , while Tango is responsible for The Evil Within , Ghostwire Tokyo and Hi-Fi R...
Amazon is launching a new tool, Bedrock Studio, designed to let organizations experiment with generative AI models, collaborate on those models, and ultimately build generative AI-powered apps. Available in public preview starting today, the web-based Bedrock Studio — a part of Bedrock, Amazon’s ...
Apple's next Apple Watch activity challenge will launch on Tuesday, May 21 to celebrate World Meditation Day. This marks the first time that Apple has hosted an activity challenge for the occasion. To complete the challenge, Apple Watch owners will need to record five or more mindful minutes usin...
Perhaps just make sure the stuff that is already there works properly? Microsoft will temporarily halt the rollout of Copilot features based on feedback from Windows Insiders.…
TikTok isn't going down without a fight.
TikTok said the measure was an "extraordinary intrusion on free speech rights".
VPNs are no longer safe if these security researchers are right.
The AI-powered music production app leverages iPad Pro's features to improve songwriting, producing, mixing, and beat-making components.
Microsoft deployed a generative AI model on Thursday for U.S. intelligence agencies to analyze top-secret information, Bloomberg reports . Microsoft announced the AI offering at the 2024 SCSP AI Expo for National Competitiveness in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday. The GPT-4-based model was created to...
It’s been a while since we’ve had an update on Blade Runner 2099 , the sequel series heading to Amazon Prime Video. The cast list is starting to take shape, as Oscar-winner and all-around icon Michelle Yeoh is set to play a lead role, as reported by Variety . Plot details are being kept under wra...
Amazon is deploying 50 battery-electric heavy-duty trucks in California, which it claims is the largest such fleet in the country. The company says the new trucks represent an important step in its mission to eliminate pollution from its global operations — even as its carbon emissions have spik...