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Rumor: Apple recently considered purchasing Plessey Semiconductors as part of augmented reality development efforts

Apple is said to have recently considered purchasing British company Plessey Semiconductors, a maker of Micro-LED display for augmented reality devices. The report claims that Plessey has instead reached a licensing deal with Facebook, which in a statement said it wants to build “a glasses form factor that lets devices melt away so we can […]

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Apple sets up offices near Imagination Technologies’ headquarters, reportedly poaching staff for GPU development

Apple seems to be making moves to poach additional staff from Imagination Technologies, the British chip designer behind the GPUs used in iOS devices. Per the Telegraph, Apple has established its own GPU design team in offices just a few miles from Imagination’s offices in St. Albans. The report states that Apple has already hired […]

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New patent points towards possible Touch ID sensor under screen of next-gen iPhone

A newly-published patent shows that Apple may be going the way of a bezel-free iPhone wherein the display extends all the way to the edges of the handset. The patent describes three different technologies that can be used for fingerprint sensors, and says that the third of them – ultrasonic imaging – would not only […]

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Rumor: Apple Pay to launch in UK in first half of 2015

Apple Pay may be coming to the old empire before too long. Per 9to5Mac and the Telegraph, sources involved in talks taking place between Apple and “Britain’s top banks” have stated that the service is expected to launch in the UK in the first half of 2015. A job listing revealed earlier in the month […]

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Adium updated to 1.5.4

Adium, the open source instant message chat client with support for multiple programs (including AOL Instant Messenger, ICQ, Jabber, MSN, Yahoo! Google Talk, Bonjour, etc.) has been updated to version 1.5.4. The new version, a 22.7 megabyte download adds the following fixes and changes: – Updated the included Growl SDK to 2.0, adding support for […]