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With iOS 11 and macOS High Sierra unveiled this week at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, the company is introducing a handful of new Accessibility features that will improve the experience for users with disabilities. Head below for a tour of the new features coming this fall… Among the new features, Apple is making improvements to text detection and photo descriptions for VoiceOver users, it’s enhancing the large text experience system wide, introducing a new “Smart Invert Colors” mode, and has a brand new onscreen Accessibility keyboard for Mac users....

Dark roof adorning Apple’s upcoming Spaceship campus suggest solar panels. UPDATE [Wednesday, December 7, 2011 at 12:55pm]: A reader chimed in about that black roof. Find the update added to the article bottom. Apple’s upcoming campus in Cupertino, California is reminiscent of a spaceship with a footprint bigger than the Pentagon. The spectacular building should be completed by 2015, provided all goes as planned. Now, over the past few months we’ve been shown breathtaking renderings and descriptions of the 175-acre circular structure adorned in glass....

It is a ten-second long video and was first seen on Xiaomi’s official Weibo handle. It shows a person using the smartphone in an unfolded (open) state in portrait mode, scrolling through some content. He goes back to the home screen and changes the smartphone’s orientation to landscape, and then folds it from both the sides before placing it on a box. Upon noticing closely, a few seconds of lag in the animation can be noticed on a couple of occasions....

MacRumors is reporting a plastic white iPhone found on Tinhte.vn may be the next value iPhone. We only have 3 issues with these pictures: It is running Cydia which is unlikely to be an easy install on a new prototype iPhone with a new cellular chip, internal hardware and firmware. It is doubtful Apple is testing Cydia and it isn’t a cakewalk to jailbreak an entirely new device. Probably most damning, it has the tell-tale old white speaker grill at the top which was phased out as the white iPhone was improved over the past year and a half....

en an episode ends, Netflix minimizes the credits queues up the next one, which begins automatically in about 15 seconds. This avoids you needing to dig for your phone or tablet while sitting in awkward silence. th movies, Netflix now auto-suggests three similar selections in case you want to extend the cuddle-on-the-couch time. Netflix says that the feature is coming over the next few days to the company’s Android iOS apps, which both connect to the Chromecast....

It’s easy to predict that many responses to Netflix’s limited series Unbelievable will make a comparison between this true-crime tale and the exaggerated noir of HBO’s True Detective. That’s not only too obvious, it does the former the ultimate disservice. Based on the real-life case of a young woman’s victimization at the hands of both a serial rapist and the police who refused to believe her story, as well as the subsequent Pulitzer Prize-winning article from The Marshall Project and ProPublica, ‘An Unbelievable Story of Rape,’ by T....

A report suggests that half of young subscribers would cancel Netflix if they lost The Office, Friends and Disney. With subscription streaming services a bigger part of home entertainment than ever before, the race is on for providers to offer the biggest, most comprehensive service possible for the best price. For years, Netflix has been the go-to source for an extensive collection of licensed as well as original programming. However, as more time passes and more streaming services begin to crop up, the dominance that Netflix once held over the subscription-based market is constantly being reassessed to see if it can still compete....

But are Macs really all that virus-proof? While the market share for Macs is too small for most serious malware developers to care about, incidents of Mac-targeted malware have actually increased in recent months. Tap or click here to find out if your computer is safe enough. As safe as Apple products have been for some time, those days may be numbered thanks to the threat of a newly discovered malware tailored specifically for Macs....

While at D23 Expo 2019, Marvel Studios reveals a new Black Widow white costume worn by Natasha Romanoff (Scarlett Johansson) in the upcoming MCU movie. Ever since her introduction in 2010’s Iron Man 2, fans have been calling for Black Widow to get her own movie. Now 10 years later, Johansson will finally lead her own MCU movie with Black Widow, directed by Cate Shortland from a script by Jac Schaeffer....

The newest Borderlands 3 controversy is the strangest one yet, and it might be the one that finally forces 2K Games to take action, as fans have begun a #boycottborderlands3 movement on Twitter that trended worldwide and has brought scores of new negative publicity to the title. Borderlands 3, despite previewing extremely well during hands-on sessions across exclusive events and the E3 showfloor, has nevertheless experienced an extremely troubled development thanks to outside factors....

Today, the University of Nevada, Reno announced that the iPad Air would power its Digital Wolf Pack initiative for its incoming freshman for the Fall of 2021 as students return to campus. The iPad Air, launched during a pandemic-filled 2020, has quickly become a favorite of education and enterprise customers. Although slightly more expensive than the low-end iPad, the iPad Air is a powerful way to use iPadOS with support for almost all of Apple’s smart accessories....

Apple debuted its standalone Magic Keyboard for Mac back in 2015, which wasn’t drastically different from the aluminum Apple Wireless Keyboard that launched all the way back in 2007. While we’ve had a few updates to color options over the past years, a new Mac Magic Keyboard is definitely due – here’s what we want in refreshed versions and when we might see them. New Mac Magic Keyboards Colors Space gray After a decade of only silver and white with the aluminum Apple Wireless Keyboard and Magic Keyboard, Apple released the first space gray version bundled with the iMac Pro in 2017....

The flagship feature of the new MacBook Pro is the Touch Bar, an OLED display strip that replaces the physical row of function keys. This adds a dynamic zone to top of the keyboard where apps can display custom buttons, sliders, switches and scrubbers to enhance the MacBook experience while adding a new way to interact with Mac applications beyond text input and mouse pointers. How does the Touch Bar interface work?...

Magic: The Gathering’s latest set, War of the Spark, will feature a planeswalker card in every pack for the first time in the game’s illustrious history. Typically, sets usually contain around three planeswalker cards, and they’re mythic rares, which means they’re the hardest ones to acquire. War of the Spark appears to be the end of a years-long saga between Magic: The Gathering’s most recognizable heroes, the Gatewatch, and the game’s most iconic villain, Nicol Bolas....

It is certainly not breaking news to state that the DCEU – specifically The Batman, with Ben Affleck stepping down as director – has received some bad press lately. That being said, everything on the Wonder Woman front still appears to be coming up roses. Sure, there has been the occasional negative story here and there, but for the most part, it would seem as though the moviegoing public is ready for a female-led superhero film featuring Diana Prince, a....

Look I’ve been bleating on ad infinitum about how your iPhone will one day be your wallet — now over at the real world, New Yorkers may soon pay for their travel fares with a flick of their iDevice. Visa has just launched a new pilot scheme in which New Yorkers can pay for subway, bus and train fares with their iPhone. New York City Transit, NJ TRANSIT and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey are participating in the pilot program, Mashable tells us....

Lucasfilm officially announces the next Star Wars Celebration will take place in Anaheim next year. After taking 2018 off, the studio’s trademark convention returned in a major way this past weekend, serving up a treasure trove of treats for fans of the galaxy far, far away. While The Rise of Skywalker was arguably the centerpiece of the event thanks to the debut of the teaser trailer, all corners of the franchise were represented in full force....

The Nexus 9 has been available for a bit of time now, but for those who might not have picked up the tablet just yet, Best Buy’s got an intriguing deal to stoke the flame. Right now, and only for a limited time, Best Buy has the Nexus 9 tablet, in both variants, available for $100 off. That means customers can pick up the device for $299.99 for the 16GB model, and $379....

This would be the Mate 10 Pro, the new flagship of Huawei The launch event of the tech giant Google’s Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL is gone and now with only Huawei ahead and recent rumors of a OnePlus 5T in November, the calendar of submissions is coming to an end for 2017. In view of it, the great protagonist seems to be Huawei, who has been promoting for several months its new range of devices, the Mate 10, which will come in three different variants: Mate 10, Mate 10 Pro and Mate 10 Lite, touted in China recently as Maimang 6....

A brand new portable Nintendo Switch Dock is taking Kickstarter by storm. Obviously, Nintendo Switch owners are enthusiastic about bringing their portable console with them wherever they go. However, due to the make of the Nintendo Switch’s current dock, it’s not really the most optimal device to take on the go. It can’t fit in your pocket, that’s for sure, and carrying all of those additional wires and an adapter on top of the dock can prove to be problematic....