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Rumor: Apple may have acquired Fashwell, snagged additional machine learning assets in the process

Apple may have gone shopping yet again. Albeit not officially confirmed, Apple may have procured Shopping search startup Fashwell, as the company’s employees, including CEO Matthias Dantone, CSO Lukas Bossard, and CTO Michael Emmersberger, have begun listing Apple as their current employer on their LinkedIn profiles. Fashwell has designed a visual AI search engine to […]

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Apple Hardware News Patents

Apple patent shows Apple involved in work on “hybrid” displays, mixing OLED and quantum-dot LED technologies

A recently-published Apple patent filing indicates that Apple may be working on a “hybrid” display that mixes both OLED and quantum-dot LEDs. The U.S. filing, no. 20,190,131,356, describes a “tandem hybrid pixel” with an OLED subpixel and a quantum dot subpixel, plus various needed transport layers and cathodes.  Quantum Dots are photoluminescence particles embedded in […]

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AirPods Bluetooth Hardware Health retail Rumor

Rumor: Second-generation AirPods could ship in second half of 2019, could include health tracking features

Straight from the rumor mill and according to supply chain sources, it’s thought that the second generation of AirPods, complete with health tracking functionality, could arrive in the first half of 2019. The competitive wearables market has already seen considerable growth over the last few years, with Apple’s revenue from the wearable segment believed to […]

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battery Hardware iPhone News retail

Ohio-based iPhone XS Max owner cites catastrophic battery failure, explosion

There are times when a battery catastrophically fails within a product. This apparently occurred for Josh Hillard, an Ohio-based iPhone XS Max owner, whose handset reportedly caught fire and exploded on December 12th. Hillard, who reported that around 3 PM of that day, he noticed a smell and felt a “large amount of heat” and […]

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battery Hardware iPhone News

Apple’s $29 battery replacement program to end on December 31st

Once again, Apple’s iPhone battery replacement program is slated to end on December 31st. Following the revelation that older iPhone batteries had been throttled, Apple created a battery replacement program for customers. The program allowed customers a battery replacement on iPhone 6 or later models, thereby lowering the consumer cost to $29 for a qualifying […]