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Apple iPad Event: 4 AI features announced

At Apple's May 7 iPad event on Tuesday, the tech giant unveiled the iPad Air and iPad Pro with some snazzy new AI capabilities.

The iPad Air has an M2 chip, which offers AI features for design and photo editing. But the iPad Pro now comes with an M4 chip, confirming some last minute rumors, Apple leapfrogged over the M3 chip and, instead, packed the iPad Pro with an M4 chip. The chip has an upgraded Neural Engine for accelerating machine learning tasks, and can handle 38 trillion operations...

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How to preorder the new Apple iPad Pro (2024)

PRE-ORDER NOW: Shoppers can reserve the new Apple iPad Pro (2024) through the Apple Store as of May 7. The 11-inch model starts at $999, while the 13-inch version starts at $1,299. You can get them both as soon as May 15.

Where to preorder the Apple iPad Pro (2024): 11-inch model Apple iPad...

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Apple iPad event: Adaptive True Tone flash announced for better document scanning

Apple held a major iPad event on Tuesday and announced lots of new products and features. Among them was Adaptive True Tone flash for its newly announced iPad Pro. This is the sort of announcement that might not seem major but could be huge for folks using their iPad in a professional setting.

OK, so...what is Adaptive True Tone flash? It's a complicated-sounding name for an improved flash feature in the new iPad Pro's camera. It is primarily aimed at scanning documents. If you're trying to...

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Justine Calma

Can drones help the National Weather Service better predict a devastating tornado?

An aerial view shows homes destroyed by a tornado on March 15th, 2024, in Winchester, Indiana. | Photo by Scott Olson / Getty Images

Verizon’s first responder network inked a deal to share its drones with the National Weather Service in the hopes of “rapidly” deploying the drones to survey the aftermath of storms and tornadoes.

The US copes with more tornadoes than any other country, and millions of Americans have been under tornado watches this week as storms sweep across the...

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Emilia David

OpenAI strikes licensing deal with the magazine giant behind People

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Dotdash Meredith, publisher of People, Better Homes & Gardens, Investopedia, Food & Wine, and InStyle, signed a deal on Tuesday with OpenAI to use AI models for its ad-targeting product, D/Cipher. In turn, Dotdash Meredith will license its content to ChatGPT.

With the partnership, OpenAI will bring content from Dotdash Meredith publications to ChatGPT, link to the articles in the chatbot, and train AI models with its articles. (Presumably, this also...

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Sheena Vasani

Apple quietly kills the old-school iPad and its headphone jack

Apple no longer sells the ninth-gen iPad, which was the last iPad with a headphone jack. | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge

Along with introducing a new iPad Air and iPad Pro during its Let Loose event, Apple quietly killed its ninth-gen iPad — also known as the last iPad with a headphone jack. The 10th-gen iPad is now the sole entry-level iPad in Apple’s official lineup and, as such, has received a $100 price cut.

Released in late 2022, the 10th-generation iPad arrived starting...

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Allison Johnson

Google’s Pixel 8A is a midrange phone that might actually go the distance

Aloe is the new coral. | Photo: Vjeran Pavic / The Verge

The Pixel 8A is officially here, with very little in the way of surprises since it leaked to all heck over the past few weeks — as Google hardware always does. The 8A gets Google’s latest processor, adds a bunch of new AI features, and still starts at $499 in the US. But the very best news is that the 8A adopts the Pixel 8 and 8 Pro’s seven years of software support, which is just unheard of in a midrange phone.

The 8A...

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Andrew Webster

Wordle now has a playable puzzle archive

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Wordle players no longer have to worry about missing a daily puzzle. Today, The New York Times is launching a new feature for subscribers that will let them access an archive of past Wordle puzzles. The archive is rolling out now for those with a “Games” or “All Access” subscription and will include more than 1,000 past puzzles, though it sounds like not everyone will have it right away; the Times says that the rollout is...

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Emma Roth

TikTok is suing the US government

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TikTok is suing the US government over the new law that would force the short-form video app to be divested from its China-based parent company ByteDance or face a ban in the US.

In a court filing submitted Tuesday, TikTok says Congress has “taken the unprecedented step of expressly singling out and banning TikTok” and calls the move “unconstitutional.” The complaint argues that a sale from ByteDance isn’t possible and that the law would “force a shutdown” by...

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Here’s where you can preorder Apple’s latest iPad Air and iPad Pro

The new iPad Air comes in two sizes, while the Pro model picks up an M4 chip and a more vibrant OLED panel. | Image: Apple

At long last, Apple’s newest iPad Pro and iPad Air are finally, officially real. Preorders begin today, May 7th, with the former starting at $999 and the latter at $599. Both models come in 11- and 13-inch sizing and are set to arrive in stores on Wednesday, May 15th.

One of the most notable changes in the Pro models is the switch from LCD-based displays to...

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22 Ruthless Yet Harmless Jokes About Yesterday's Met Gala

The Met Gala is my favorite time of year because everyone puts on their Anna Wintour glasses and becomes a candid fashion critic.

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Nanoplastics: Small particles, big problems

Nanoplastics are attracting growing concern thanks to recent technological advances that have made researchers more able to detect and analyze them.

It’s become common to read that microplastics—little bits of plastic, smaller than a pencil eraser—are turning up everywhere and in everything, including the ocean, farmland, food and human bodies. Now a new term is gaining attention: nanoplastics. These particles are even tinier than microplastics—so small that they’re invisible to...

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Ukraine Says It Foiled Russian Plot to Kill Zelensky

The Ukrainian security services arrested two Ukrainian colonels and accused them of spying for Russia. They said the plot also targeted top Ukrainian intelligence officials.

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Cassandra Vinograd

Israel’s Closures of 2 Gaza Border Crossings Prompt Alarm Over Humanitarian Aid

International agencies and officials said Israel’s moves could exacerbate an already dire humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

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Jaina Grey

7 Best Clitoral Suction Toys (2024): Suction Vibrators, Air Pulse Toys, and More

The world of clitoral suction sex toys is getting bigger every day. We’ve tested dozens, and these are our favorites.

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Chris Baker

RIP 'Red vs. Blue.' Machinima Is Gone—but Its Legacy Is Everywhere

Red vs. Blue: Restoration is the end of the line for Halo-fueled digital shorts. But machinima’s impact as a content creation tool lives on.

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Brenda Stolyar

Apple May 2024 iPad Event: iPad Pro, iPad Air, M4, Apple Pencil, Magic Keyboard

Apple has launched a new M4 chipset, new iPad Air and iPad Pro models, and even an Apple Pencil Pro.

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Luke Donald early Ryder Cup homework at Bethpage Black ought to scare Team USA

Luke Donald poses with the Ryder Cup after Team Europe’s win in 2023. | Photo by Andrew Redington/Getty Images

Luke Donald paid a visit to the Long Island track, which is set to host the Ryder Cup for the first time in 2025.

Preparations for the 2025 Ryder Cup are already underway, and the Americans still do not have a captain.

Rumors around Tiger Woods leading Team USA at Bethpage Black, where he won the 2002 U.S. Open, have picked up steam recently, but the PGA of America has yet...

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Apple’s new Magic Keyboard makes the iPad Pro feel ‘just like’ a MacBook

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Alongside the long-expected OLED iPad Pro, Apple has also released a lightly updated Magic Keyboard with an aluminum palm rest and a larger trackpad with haptic feedback — and finally, a function row.

The new Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro (M4) comes in two colors (black and silver) and two sizes: one for the 11-inch Pro and one for the 13-inch model. They cost $299 and $349, respectively, and like the new iPad Pro models, they are available for preorder today, shipping...

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Jess Weatherbed

The new Apple Pencil Pro is harder to lose and better to draw with

The Apple Pencil Pro’s “Barrel Roll” gyroscope feature can adjust the size and orientation of brushes in iPad software. | Image: Apple

Apple announced its third-generation Apple Pencil today during its “Let Loose” iPad event, adding Find My support and new capabilities for adapting the stylus to different creative tasks. Available to order today for $129 — the same price as the second-gen Apple Pencil — the new Apple Pencil Pro introduces features closer to what you’d...

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