Apple Collaborates With WACKO MARIA to Bring The Beats Flex Earbuds in Unique Leopard Finish Apart from the unique finish for WACKO MARIA, the Flex earbuds are exactly the same as the ones that originally made a debut in 2020. The entry-level earbuds from Apple under the Beats brand are available for only $69. You will not find any high-end features part of the mix as the company has reserved them for the AirPods or the modern Beats earbuds....

Ahead of Mass Production, Apple Has Completed Hardware Tests for iPhone 14 Satellite Connectivity According to the prominent analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple has completed all hardware tests related to the iPhone 14’s Satellite connectivity ahead of mass production. However, support for the Satellite functionality relies on “whether Apple and operators can settle the business model.” Take note that the iPhone 13 also features satellite hardware, but the service could not be introduced to the world because “the business model had not been negotiated....

Apple’s Latest Supply Chain Entrant Jahwa Electronics Is Said to Invest a Mammoth Amount Building Plants for the New Components South Korean manufacturer Jahwa Electronics will reportedly join Apple’s supply chain, according to The Elec, as it aims to invest around $155 million in setting up new plants. These plants will be used to mass produce optical image actuators. Apple was said to have visited Jahwa Electronics’ production lines in South Korea during the first half of 2021 and would likely have wanted actuators specific to its specifications, requiring the supplier to make dedicated plants to commence operation....

Apple to Develop Future Mac Chips in Israel The announcement was made on LinkedIn by Elad Wertheimer who is responsible for Apple silicon talent sourcing (via Times of Israel). The new facility in Israel will take part in various flagship projects with “future processors for the Mac” as the main objective. The company has already started recruiting employees for the new site. The company has spent years on the research and development of its custom chips and the it does not plan to stop....

There Were Several Ways to Use a Bridge to Allow Two M1 Max Chipsets to Communicate With One Another, but TSMC’s InFO_LI Enables Cost Reduction TSMC’s CoWoS-S packaging method is used by many of the chip maker’s partners, including Apple, so it was assumed that the M1 Ultra would also be mass produced using it. However, Tom’s Hardware reported that Tom Wassick, a semiconductor packaging engineering professional, republished a slide clarifying the packaging method, showing that Apple employed the use of InFO_LI on this occasion....

Check Out Apple’s WWDC Event Start Time in Your Region or Local Time Zone Apple’s WWDC 2022 opening keynote will begin on Monday, June 6 at 10:00 AM PDT. The event will be live-streamed from Apple Park and anyone can watch it online. Take note that the WWDC 2022 event start time will differ for each time zone. Check out how you can watch the WWDC 2022 live stream on any device....

Apple is No Longer Signing iOS 15.2 Which Means You Can No Longer Downgrade From iOS 15.2.1 - Should Users With a Jailbreak Be Worried? As mentioned earlier, Apple has decided to stop signing iOS 15.2 which will prevent users on iOS 15.2.1 to downgrade. For average users who do not consider the downgrade portion or do not need it, the news is pretty much invalid. However, for those of you who consider jailbreak, the ability to downgrade from a newer iOS build to an older one is very important....

$4 whistle achieves more than twice the loudness range compared to the Apple Watch Ultra in a unique test With the Apple Watch Ultra given to some professional outdoor adventurers, The Verge decided to see how useful the wearable would be in a tricky situation. In an earlier teardown, it was revealed that the smartwatch features a large 542mAh battery, meaning that compared to the other Apple Watch models, it will last significantly longer, making it an ideal companion in an emergency situation where you need to use the Siren to call for help....

The updates that need to be manually installed often have the word “Preview” in them. This means that the features and improvements included in the update are not yet finalized and may still contain some glitches. So, why is it being offered to the public? Types of Windows Updates Before we dive deeper into whether an optional preview update should be explicitly installed, let us discuss the different types of Windows updates, so they are easier to differentiate....

As the entire financial world is watching the explosion in Credit Suisse’s CDS rates with angst, bringing back memories of Bear Stearns’ failure back in 2008, the SEC just charged Kim Kardashian for failing to disclose the incentives offered to promote a crypto asset, leading to Elon Musk’s detractors calling for similar charges to be leveled against him for allegedly precipitating Dogecoin’s (DOGE) pump-and-dump. This case is a reminder that, when celebrities / influencers endorse investment opps, including crypto asset securities, it doesn’t mean those investment products are right for all investors....

Mirage will be the last cross-generation installment in the series. Speaking to the Ubisoft Blog, Vice President Executive Producer of the Assassin’s Creed brand Marc-Alexis Côté teased some of the tech advancements that the developers are preparing for the Anvil engine going forward. I don’t want to spoil too much of what our creative teams are working on. However, from a technological point of view, these are games that will benefit from a tremendous increase in fidelity with all the improvements that we’re working on with this new iteration of the Anvil pipeline, so you can just imagine it being a very next-generation approach to RPGs, at least from a graphical-fidelity point of view....

Bugs. Crashes. Areas of what’s in the game unfinished. You’ll find it all here, but even with the sort of issues that would make you turn away from a game, there’s something just so addictive here. There’s something that makes you keep coming back for more and something that makes you want more. When you think about Baldur’s Gate 3, it’s going to be impossible to not make comparisons to Larian’s Divinity: Original Sin titles....

It isn’t just Season 1 that’s being pushed back, either. The Battlefield 2042 dev team originally promised an update for February with a number of quality-of-life improvements, including an updated scoreboard, but that update has now been pushed back to March. In it’s place, players are just getting a small hotfix to address some issues with January’s ver. 3.2 update (because of course it created new issues). Get the very limited patch notes for that update, below....

[ORIGINAL STORY] At a behind-closed-doors remote event organized earlier this week by DICE and EA, we learned a great deal about the upcoming Battlefield 2042 Season 2 Master of Arms, which is dropping on August 30th. The free update will be headlined by the new Stranded map, which has been designed to favor close-quarters combat. During our brief hands-on (limited to just a handful of matches), the map seemed able to provide tight gameplay encounters while allowing for plenty of surprise attacks via less traveled routes....

In a statement posted to Twitter, Bethesda states the following: “The recent post by Mick Gordon both mischaracterized and misrepresented the team at Id Software, the development of DOOM Eternal, Marty Stratton, and Chad Mossholder with a one-sided and unjust account of an irreparable professional relationship. We are aware of all the details and history in this matter and unequivocally support Marty, Chad, and the team at id Software. We reject the distortion of the truth and selective presentation of incomplete “facts....

Some of the specs of Surface Laptop 4 include: Dimensions: 12.1” x 8.8” x 0.57” (308 mm x 223 mm x 14.5 mm) PixelSense Display | 2256 x 1504 (201 PPI) | 10 point multi-touch Intel Core i7 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD Connections: 1 x USB-C, 1 x USB-A, 3.5 mm headphone jack, 1 x Surface Connect port TPM 2.0 chip for enterprise security and BitLocker support Enterprise-grade protection with Windows Hello face sign-in 720p HD f2....

Black Shark 5 Pro is powered by the advanced Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 with enhanced UFS 3.1 + LPDDR 5 that delivers a lightning-fast and strong performance. Pro’s 144Hz OLED display with a 720Hz touch sampling rate makes it the perfect phone for the best entertainment and gaming experiences. The phone comes with an advanced Constant Temperature Charging Mode that empowers you to charge your phone to a full 100% within 24 minutes without blowing up your phone (something that many companies… ahem… are struggling at)....

Blue Origin, the aerospace company founded by retail billionaire Jeff Bezos, experienced its first anomaly during flight earlier today as its New Shepard rocket saw a large fire underneath its engines blaze out a little over a minute after the company’s latest mission, dubbed NS-23 took to the skies. The mission was uncrewed, and the capsule on board the rocket performed as it was designed to do so in an emergency, with its rocket motors firing immediately as the anomaly occurred and carrying it away to a safe distance before the parachutes deployed for a soft landing....

While full remakes or even remasters of the first entries in the Call of Duty series don’t seem likely, we still got the chance to see how a modern, Unreal Engine 5-powered remake of Call of Duty 2 would look like thanks to Teaser Play, who shared a concept trailer for such a remake on YouTube. With Lumen, Nanite, and ray traced reflections, this fan remake couldn’t have looked any better....

At least, that’s what the official PlayStation Store (Dutch) listing mentions. Recently, it was reported that on Xbox, Warzone 2.0 will clock in at more than 115GB. Whether this means that the PS5 version has been better compressed, or that the listing is just a placeholder, remains to be seen at this point. Of course, it’s also possible that the install size on Sony’s console will increase after the free-to-play battle royale mode has received an update....