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All the ways Siri is changing in iOS 14
Apple has made advancements to its Siri personal assistant in every version of iOS, but it’s still looks and acts nearly the same as it did back when it was introduced in iOS 5! Finally, with iOS 14, Siri is getting a much-needed redesign. Here’s what you can expect from Siri when you upgrade to iOS or iPadOS 14.
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You can upgrade an Apple iPod Classic with an M.2 SSD fit for a PC
The Apple iPod Classic is a piece of technology that will go down in history as best in class. There's no PC/Mac rivalry here, these are just the facts, and I still use mine on long journeys to this day. But even MP3 royalty grows old, and the iPod's spinning platter HDD is certainly showing its age in an era of solid state. But what if you could swap it out for something a little faster?
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iOS 14 Apple Music features new animated playlist artwork
Apple Music gets a bunch of nice feature enhancements in iOS 14 including autoplay and a whole new iPad-optimized layout. However, it appears the app is adding something that has not been previously announced: animated artwork for Apple Music playlists.
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Why macOS Big Sur is flatter than ever
Forget skeuomorphism, or even the newly coined “neumorphism”. macOS Big Sur is flatter than ever. In the last few weeks there have been a lot of suggestions that this is the start of a new “fun” era of visual design, or that Apple is returning to skeuomorphism, or even a new thing called neumorphism.
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'It took genius to chisel these buttocks' – the top 10 bottoms in art, chosen by our critic
They are ‘the founding curves of the Renaissance’. As Yorkshire Museum calls on collections worldwide to display their best behinds to boost attendance after coronavirus, we name our favourites.
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Apple 'adding periscope telephoto lens to iPhones' - reports
The move could see Apple compete with Huawei which last year released a phone capable of zooming in 50 times.
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20 years ago, Steve Jobs built the “coolest computer ever”—and it bombed
This month marks the 20th anniversary of the Power Mac G4 Cube, which debuted July 19, 2000. It also marks the 19th anniversary of Apple’s announcement that it was putting the Cube on ice. That’s not my joke—it’s Apple’s, straight from the headline of its July 3, 2001, press release that officially pulled the plug.
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iOS 14: How to Enhance Speech, Movies, and Music When Listening on AirPods and Beats
In iOS 14, Apple continues to build out its extensive accessibility features, and here we're going to show you how you can use the new Headphone Accommodations to amplify certain sounds if you're having difficulty hearing them.
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The Evolving Designs of US Voting Ballots
This Is What Democracy Looked Like by Alicia Yin Cheng is the first book of its kind to look at the history of ballot design.
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Meet the “menu engineers” helping restaurants retool in the pandemic
In a changing dining economy, restaurants are turning to a small group of experts who specialize in the science of menu design.
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Why great design is timeless
More than a decade ago, Apple introduced the iPhone 4, with its new boxy rectangular design. It was the first time we got to experience the Retina display.
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Oppo introduces new “slide” concept phone with three hinges
The product was designed in cooperation with the Japanese studio Nendo.
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DropTop home workstation folds up into a wall-mounted art piece
One of the many cultural shifts driven by the COVID-19 pandemic is the growing number of people working from home, and English furniture-maker Pith & Stem is looking to tap into this trend with a wall-mounted workstation that you mightn't even know was there. The DropTop fold-down desk is packed…
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Apple doesn't care about Album Cover Art
Album covers have never been smaller. Look at the size of this album cover. Why isn’t it touching the edges of the screen? Why can’t I read the album name from the cover? [2] And why can’t I see that The Who took a piss on the monolith?
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You need to start using this psychology-based productivity hack
When we try to solve a problem or improve a design, we typically think something needs to be added to the existing model. It’s much harder for us to think about subtracting something to solve a problem. This flaw in thinking ultimately makes us worse at fixing an issue, scientists report in a study published Wednesday in Nature.
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Touch ID Magic Keyboard only available with iMacs but compatible with all M1 Macs
As Apple has done in the past with refreshed Magic Keyboards, the new version with Touch ID is only available with the new iMac – at least for the time being. But the useful new keyboard with built-in biometrics will work with any M1 Mac.
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Apple announces winners of the 2021 Apple Design Awards
Apple today hosted its annual Apple Design Awards, celebrating 12 best-in-class apps and games from developers around the globe. Every year, Apple Design Award winners bring bold, creative, and distinctive ideas to life. Through their brilliance, vision, style, determination, and hard work, the people who design and build these award-winning apps and games inspire not only their peers in the Apple developer community, but everyone at Apple, too.
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Today in Apple history: Apple acquires the company behind Touch ID
July 28, 2012: Apple buys biometrics company AuthenTec, acquiring the technology that will power future authentication and secure payments initiatives.
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Why Should We Cater to the Disabled?
Universal design is the process of creating products that are accessible to people with a wide range of abilities, disabilities, and other characteristics. It is designed for all users as opposed to the typical or average user.
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The Oxymoron of “Data-Driven Innovation”
Building for the majority group identified in summary statistics is exactly the trap that data-driven decision making can fall into.
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