Is Apple about to ‘invent’ Xbox Kinect? The latest Apple rumor comes from another abandoned Microsoft concept.

What you need to know An upcoming Apple TV may have a built-in camera for FaceTime. Discussions at Apple are ongoing, so it’s unclear if we’ll ever see an Apple TV with a built-in camera. Apple added support for FaceTime on Apple TV last year, but the app requires another compatible device, such as an […]

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MagSafe Charger Prototype Reveals Abandoned 2010s Design

Images purporting to reveal the original version of Apple’s MagSafe charger today surfaced online, providing a look at how the company conceived of the accessory over two and a half years before its release. The images, shared by the Apple leaker and prototype collector known as “Kosutami,” claim to show the original version of the […]

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Abandoned Farms Are a Hidden Resource for Restoring Biodiversity

Southern Europe is not so different. Greece, Italy, Spain, and Portugal never had collective farms, but the inexorable aging of their populations and the exodus of young people to cities is emptying villages and leaving fields and pastures untended. Francesco Cherubini of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology calculates that in the past three […]

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Apple Provides Further Clarity on Why It Abandoned Plan to Detect CSAM in iCloud Photos

Apple on Thursday provided its fullest explanation yet for last year abandoning its controversial plan to detect known Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) stored in iCloud Photos. Apple’s statement, shared with Wired and reproduced below, came in response to child safety group Heat Initiative’s demand that the company “detect, report, and remove” CSAM from iCloud […]

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An Abandoned Arctic Military Base Just Spilled a Scientific Secret

Previously, scientists reckoned that Greenland iced over some 2.5 million years ago, and has been that way since. In 2021, Bierman and his colleagues determined that it was actually ice-free sometime in the past million years. Now, they’ve dated the tundra ecosystem captured in the Camp Century core to a mere 416,000 years ago—so northwestern […]

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iPhone may get health features abandoned by Samsung

The future of biometric authentication on Apple’s iPhones is uncertain. Two main theories on how biometric authentication will change on iPhones exist, and both involve Samsung-inspired technologies. One claims that future iPhones will hide the Face ID module behind the screen using a technology similar to Samsung’s Under-Panel Camera. Another theory suggests that Apple may […]

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Microsoft’s $200 Surface Earbuds have seemingly been abandoned

The Surface Earbuds are a weird product in Microsoft’s line of Surface devices. Now over two years old, and still available to buy at a close to launch price of $160 (opens in new tab), the Surface Earbuds might be the worst “Surface” branded device you can buy brand new right now. They launched at […]

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