While Apple's controversial plan to hunt down child sexual abuse material with on-iPhone scanning has been abandoned, the company has other plans in mind to stop it at the source.Apple's proposed CSAM detection featureApple announced two initiatives in late 2021 that aimed to protect children from abuse. One, which is already in effect today, would warn minors before sending or receiving photos with nude content. It works using algorithmic detection of nudity and only warns the kids — the parents aren't notified.

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A French environmental group has filed a complaint against Apple because the company restricts the use of "unauthorized" parts in iPhone repairs.iPhone repairThe complaint targets a practice Apple uses for its devices, called pairing. It associates the serial numbers of components with a specific iPhone to make sure the repair parts are genuine.

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Save $454 on the high-end 14-inch MacBook Pro configuration with Apple's M1 Max chip and 32GB of memory, with units in stock and ready to ship with free expedited delivery.This 14-inch MacBook Pro is loaded.Apple's MacBook Pro 14-inch with the M1 Max chip is a powerful and versatile laptop that offers impressive performance and a wide range of features. Equipped with a 10-core CPU and 24-core GPU, this MacBook Pro is packed with upgrades, making it perfect for handling demanding tasks like video editing, 3D rendering, and image creation.

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Adobe recently announced it would begin accepting — and selling — stock images generated by AI tools, so long as they are labeled as such.Adobe StockMany generative AI tools exist, such as Dall-E, Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, and others, that let people create artwork.

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Grab a loaded M1 MacBook Pro 13-inch with 16GB RAM and 1TB SSD for $1,399, a $500 discount that works out to 26% off.Save $500 on a loaded M1 MacBook Pro

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Wednesday's best deals include one year of Disney+ for $80 before the December 8 price hike, $1,000 off a Samsung 55-inch curved monitor, the FlashForge 3D Printer for $329, and much more.Best deals December 7Every day, AppleInsider scours online retailers daily to find discounts and offers on hardware and accessories, including Apple devices, smart TVs, accessories, and other gear. The best offers we find are put together into our Daily Deals list for our readers to browse and save money.

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The MagSafe launch with the iPhone 8 and iPhone X brought with it a new twist on iPhone accessories. Here are the best holiday options for snap-on MagSafe wallets.A black Apple MagSafe Wallet on a brown leather case. Like other accessories, several brands attempt to make products that intersect quality, price, and design. Unfortunately, many fail to meet even one of those requirements.

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Powering multiple devices doesn't mean you need to use multiple outlets, as the new Baseus PowerCombo Pro 40W Power Strip provides connections so your iPhone, iPad, and four more device can charge at the same time.Baseus PowerCombo 40W Surge Protector Hybrid Power StripIf you're recharging a lot of devices at home, most setups have a charger here, a cable there, and it can be hard to find a consistent spot to charge your iPhone. Those who care about a tidy workspace may not necessarily want many cables trailing from their desk to multiple power outlets either, and probably don't want that many chargers in view to begin with.

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Apple on Tuesday announced Apple Music Sing, a karaoke experience that will be built right into the Apple Music app. The Verge reports: With Apple Music Sing, you'll be able to follow along with Apple Music's real-time lyrics and adjust the volume of the vocals so that you can better hear your singing voice. There are a few features designed to make it easier to sing with others, too. Background vocals can appear independently of main vocals, according to Apple, and there will be a duet view as well if you want to sing along with a friend. Apple will have more than 50 "dedicated companion playlists" featuring karaoke-ready songs that you can pick from. Apple Music Sing is launching "later this month" for Apple Music subscribers.

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You can look forward to App Store prices containing different numbers now that Apple has introduced 700 more price points—from $0.29 to $10,000—from which developers can select.

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Do you know the old thought experiment about the AI designed to make paper clips that quickly decides that it will have to eliminate all the humans to maximize paper clips?

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Enlarge / Some of the tools and parts offered in Apple's Self Service Repair program appear in this photo. (credit: Apple)

As of Tuesday, Apple's Self Service Repair program is now available in eight European countries. It had launched in the United States back in April, with promises from the company to expand to other countries by the end of the year.

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For the Mac or MacBook Pro user in your life, here are some holiday gift ideas with each priced at less than $100.Mac gift ideas under $100Sales this holiday season are in full swing and there's no better time to sort out which presents you're going to buy. With an abundance of tech available online to purchase, there's so much choice available to you.

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Cherry Americas has released two keyboards specifically for Mac users, plus a Bluetooth mouse to help enhance productivity.KC 6000CThe new products include the KW 9100 Slim for Mac, KC 6000C keyboards, and the Bluetooth-enabled GENTIX BT mouse.

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Apple has scaled back ambitious self-driving plans for its future electric vehicle and postponed the car's target launch date by about a year to 2026, Bloomberg reported Tuesday, citing people with knowledge of the matter. From the report: The car project, dubbed Titan inside the company, has been in limbo for the past several months as Apple executives grappled with the reality that its vision for a fully autonomous vehicle -- without a steering wheel or pedals -- isn't feasible with current technology. In a significant shift for the project, the company is now planning a less-ambitious design that will include a steering wheel and pedals and only support full autonomous capabilities on highways, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the information is private. [...] Apple had expected each car to sell for more than $120,000, but the company is now aiming to offer the vehicle to consumers for less than $100,000, according to the people.

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Apple has announced that in the spring it will provide developers with 900 price points, plus new App Store pricing tools to set prices by country and region.Under the new pricing system, developers can select from what Apple says is nearly ten times more than what's currently available. Prices will start at $0.29 and go as high as $10,000. Developers will need approval for the highest pricing levels."To provide developers around the world with even more flexibility, price points — which will start as low as $0.29 and, upon request, go up to $10,000 — will offer an enhanced selection of price points, increasing incrementally across price ranges (for example, every $0.10 up to $10; every $0.50 between $10 and $50; etc.)."

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Nothing, a smartphone manufacturer based in the UK, has announced plans to launch its smartphones in the United States. The company’s CEO, Carl Pei, ...

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Parental controls in macOS are designed to keep children safe. Here's how to use them, and why you should.Use macOS Parental Controls to monitor and limit your child's use of the computerUsing a Mac for schoolwork is great, but if not careful, it can lead to trouble.

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It's great that Apple has a self-repair program, but the tools that they sell are very, very expensive. There's no need to spend a small fortune on Apple's iPhone repair tools, with these options.The best tech repair toolkits include a variety of specialty tools and products.In April, Apple announced the launch of its self-repair program. For the first time, you can buy parts from Apple and get detailed instructions on how to fix your iPhone.

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Sweden, Norway, Finland, and South Africa are finally getting the HomePod mini in December 2022, two years after the US launch.The caption reads "Colorful sound like never before," in Norwegian.Apple launched the HomePod mini in October 2020, with the first ones arriving in buyers' hands the next month. It also discontinued the original HomePod at the same time, which was a shame for all users but perhaps most of all for the many, many countries that did not get the HomePod mini.

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Microsoft may build an all-in-one "super app" to combine various services and fight the mobile search partnership between Apple and Google.MicrosoftAccording to a report on Tuesday, the company has considered building an app that combines shopping, messaging, web search, news, and other services.

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Before the first Arizona TSMC fab opens its doors in 2024, the company has already committed to building a second — and has announced that it will spend $40 billion on it.TSMC investing $40 billion in Arizona fabsTSMC originally committed $12 billion to build an Arizona-based semiconductor fabrication plant in 2020, which was already a record investment for the company outside of Taiwan. After delays related to COVID 19 and labor shortages, TSMC expects to begin manufacturing on schedule in early 2024.

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An update on Tuesday to Mac image editing app Pixelmator Pro adds the ability to import, edit, and export video using all of its existing photo tools.The latest update to Pixelmator Pro concentrates on adding video editing features to the longstanding Mac image editor. The new Pixelmator Pro 3.2, known as Lumiere, is a major update that lets the app be used to create videos, GIFs, and animated movies."With the addition of video editing features in Pixelmator Pro, making quick edits to videos has never been easier," Simonas Bastys, lead developer at the Pixelmator Team, said. "Users can make all the most important edits - trim and crop videos, adjust their colors, combine them with text, images, and shapes, apply masks, and do much more - without ever leaving Pixelmator Pro."

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Tuesday's best deals include $50 off an Apple Watch Ultra, $330 off the Samsung M8 32-inch Smart Monitor, a $99 2021 Apple TV 4K, and much more.Best deals for December 6Every day, AppleInsider scours online retailers daily to find discounts and offers on hardware and accessories, including Apple devices, smart TVs, accessories, and other gear. The best offers we find are put together into our Daily Deals list for our readers to browse and save money.

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Apple's 79-pound iPhone Self Repair Program toolkit is on our test bench. Here's what's inside the hefty repair package.Some of Apple's tools in its repair toolkitApple's self-service repair portal has just launched, and is now available internationally as well. With the iPhone repair kit, you can perform several common repairs such as broken displays and depleted batteries for the iPhone 12 line, iPhone 13 line, and the iPhone SE.

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Whether you use Apple's own Calendar app or a powerful third-party alternative, you can stay more organized by leveraging multiple calendars. Here's why, when, and how to do it.If you deliberately set out to make confusing terminology, then you couldn't do much better than the word "calendar." That word "calendar" is seemingly so simple, but it's used in many different ways.Enough so that it's also a reason why new Mac and iOS users may not be making the most of the Calendar app.

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The National Labor Relations Board has evidence that Apple used anti-union tactics to try to stop unionization efforts, including interrogating and coercing employees.Apple Cumberland MallApple has long been suspected of engaging in anti-union tactics, especially at its Atlanta, Georgia, location. In May, Apple Cumberland Mall retail workers accused the company of countering an ongoing union drive.

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The Beats Studio Buds are currently on sale on Amazon for $99.95, a 33% discount off their original price of $149.95. This limited-time offer ...

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Eufy isn't patching out a potential security issue in the Eufy Security app, and is instead just telling users that their thumbnails will be uploaded to the cloud when they choose specific notification settings in the app.In late November, a security researcher discovered that Anker's Eufy security cameras sent user images and information to the cloud without the owners' consent — even if the user doesn't pay for a cloud subscription.In response, Eufy has added a statement on their App Store listing and in the Eufy Security app that discloses when the cloud service will be involved when users choose a specific notification option.

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The 2022 Apple MacBook Air with M2 chip is currently on sale on Amazon for $1,349, down from its original price of $1,499. This ...

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Readers this week can save $200 on Apple's high-end MacBook Air, with units in stock plus free expedited delivery.Save $200 on this MacBook Air.The $200 exclusive discount on Apple's 2022 MacBook Air is courtesy of B&H Photo. The high-end M2 configuration featuring a 10-core GPU, 16GB of memory and a spacious 1TB SSD is on sale for $1,699 when you shop through the pricing links in this post from a laptop or desktop.

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Serif launched the next generation of its Affinity layout, design, and photo apps in conjunction with a 40%-off sale through 14 December 2022 that drops the one-time price of all three to just $99.99, less than the cost of two months of an Adobe Creative Cloud subscription. Adam Engst encourages those who aren’t sure why they’re paying for Creative Cloud to give Affinity a try.

New data shows that people are reading fewer big-name publications in the Apple News+ subscription service — but it's not clear if it's a sign of a wider trend.Apple NewsCirculation numbers recently published by Press Gazette show that the top 25 magazines on Apple News+ had a combined circulation of over 1.3 million in the first half of 2022. That is greater than the numbers for the first half of 2021 but lower than the second half of that year.

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Save $900 on the upgraded 13-inch MacBook Pro with a quad-core Intel chip, 16GB of RAM and a 512GB SSD during Adorama's Deal of the Day. AppleCare is $50 off as well.Save $900 today only.This blowout special is valid today only, with the closeout Intel MacBook Pro 13-inch on sale for $1,099.99. AppleInsider readers can save even more, though, as promo code APINSIDER knocks an additional $200 off, bringing the cost of the system down to $899.99*. Add three years of AppleCare for $219 (reg. $269) with the same coupon code.

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OneOdio's A10 ANC Headphones offer a lot of value for the price, with high audio quality, great ANC functions, and ludicrous battery life.OneOdio A10 ANC HeadphonesActive noise cancellation (ANC) has always been a feature associated with premium headphones. You always had to pay a lot to get it in a quality personal audio accessory.

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Apple's macOS provides a way to mount and access storage volumes used by other operating systems on your desktop. Here's how to get started.Your Mac is able to read an audio CD, or most USB thumbs drive pre-formatted for a Windows. The Mac has supported foreign file systems for decades with a plug-in architecture that allows macOS to mount, read, and in some cases write to and from storage volumes formatted for other computers.It also supports mounting of some remote network volumes on the desktop as if they were disks.

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After five people were killed and dozens more were injured in November during a shooting at an LGBTQ+ nightclub in Colorado, Apple made what many would consider a very ordinary business decision to pause ads on Twitter temporarily. Two former Twitter employees told The New York Times that the tech company was protecting...

Premiering from January 13, 2023, the fourth season of M. Night Shyamalan's "Servant" sees the conclusion of one of the first Apple TV+ dramas.The first episode of this last season will debut on Friday, January 13, 2023, with the series finale on March 17, 2023. Described by Apple as an "epic and emotional conclusion," the season is the "final chapter of the Turner story.""Leanne's war with the Church of Lesser Saints heightens, threatening Spruce Street, the city of Philadelphia, and beyond," says Apple in a statement. "Meanwhile, the shattered Turner family must not only confront the increasing threat of Leanne, but the certain reality that Dorothy is waking up."

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The Nothing company wants to launch its Phone (1) in the US, and is talking with carriers — but it's not going to be taking on the iPhone on its home turf for years.Nothing Phone (1) launched in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, in July 2022, but not in the US or Canada. Now the Nothing company, backed in part by "father of the iPod" Tony Fadell, says that it looking to launch in the States at some point.According to CNBC, Nothing founder Carl Pei says that "we felt we weren't ready before," but has now begun some talks.

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Apple's production order changes for second-generation AirPods Pro has severely impacted assembler Goertek's finances, with it seeing a 60% cut in revenue for the year.Apple AirPods Pro 2Goertek, an audio component producer and assembler of AirPods for Apple, updated its annual revenue estimates downward on Saturday, cutting its figures significantly. While it was previously anticipating 4.7 billion yuan ($676 million) for the year, it's now expected to earn just 1.7 billion yuan ($244.4 million) instead.

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Apple's launch of the second-generation AirPods Pro helped extend its lead in the "True Wireless Stereo" market in the third quarter, according to new market research data.Second-generation AirPods ProApple's AirPods lineup has dominated the TWS market for quite a while, and for the third quarter of 2022, it continued to do so. With the introduction of its updated AirPods Pro in September, that lead has extended even further.

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Monday's best deals include discounted refurbished iMacs, $100 off an OWC 10-port Thunderbolt 3 Pro Dock, $100 off a Mac mini, and much more.Best deals for December 5Every day, AppleInsider scours online retailers daily to find discounts and offers on hardware and accessories, including Apple devices, smart TVs, accessories, and other gear. The best offers we find are put together into our Daily Deals list for our readers to browse and save money.

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Crowds lined up to attend the opening of the new Apple Store at the American Dream Mall in New Jersey on Saturday, one that also provided shoppers with a specially-branded tote bag.Apple American Dream launch logoApple's opening of the Apple American Dream storefront in East Rutherford, New Jersey took place at 11am on December 3. While the opening was announced less than a week prior on November 28, the event saw a considerable crowd gather to take part.

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Victrola's new Bluetooth speaker makes a strong showing, offering impressive sound quality in a small package, perfect for hanging out on your desk near your Mac.Victrola, known for its affordable modern turntables, has finally broken into the world of Bluetooth speakers. We're excited to check out the Music Edition 2, a tabletop speaker with ample battery life and built-in wireless charging.

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