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Take nearly $300 off cellular 11-inch iPad Pro Kenwood’s 7-inch CarPlay Receivers are up to $100 off Best Buy’s official eBay storefront currently offers the previous generation Kenwood 7-inch In-Dash CarPlay and Android Auto Receiver DMX7706S for $330. Also, find it directly from Best Buy. Normally fetching $400, today’s offer saves you $70 and matches the best price we’ve seen in the past. Featuring a seven-inch touchscreen display, Kenwood’s CarPlay and Android Auto receiver is a must-have upgrade to your ride....

Battery life is one of the most important factors for smartphones these days. Apple doesn’t make it particularly easy to compare the lifetimes between iPhone models, so we’ve collated all the specs so you can break it down, and help with your buying decision. The latest entrant to this arena is the just-announced iPhone SE 2nd-generation. But how does the new iPhone SE battery life compare to the rest of Apple’s iPhone lineup?...

iPhone blood pressure measurement could become a thing — requiring nothing more than a short selfie video… You can currently get blood pressure readings on your iPhone, but that requires a gadget. Quartz reports that the simple approach, which needs no additional hardware, has so far shown itself to be accurate around 95% of the time. That could be a life-saver, as high blood pressure generally has no symptoms, hence the nickname ‘the silent killer....

Over the past few months, multiple rumors have pointed to Apple’s fifth-generation iPad being in development with a design akin to the recently launched iPad mini. That design would likely feature the black & slate/white & silver design language, thinner casing, chamfered edges, and a smaller overall footprint. Today, we received an unverified image from a purported China-based iPad accessories maker, an industry that seems to frequently tip off Apple’s future product designs, of the back plate for the next iPad....

Rami Malek won’t deny he’s playing Dr. No in the new James Bond film No Time to Die. Coming off his Oscar-winning performance as Freddie Mercury in the blockbuster Bohemian Rhapsody, Malek is next taking a trip to the dark side for his role as the mysterious villain Safin in the 25th Bond adventure. By landing the role of Bond villain, Malek joins an illustrious list of actors who’ve also taken on 007 on the big screen, including everyone from Donald Pleasance to Telly Savalas to Christopher Walken to Christopher Lee....

JBL Go is an ultra-portable Bluetooth speaker with a robust sound quality and IPX waterproof design. You can stream high-quality wirelessly from your smartphone with its Bluetooth capabilities. Despite its small size and high audio quality, the Go is immensely appealing. You can easily carry it in your bags wherever you go, and you can use it continuously for 6 hours on a rechargeable battery. Consequently, one of the most demanding JBL Go series speakers are Go 2 and Go 3....

Windows 10 Fall Creators Update Build 16299.334 There are no new features with this update, but here an extensive list of improvements and new fixes the patch contains: Addresses issue with a GDI handle leak in the Windows Ribbon control.Addresses issue where users can’t select OK after entering credentials in command line on Windows Server version 1709.Addresses issues where Bluetooth devices fail to receive data after a restart.Addresses issue where, during BitLocker decryption or encryption of a drive, files protected with the Encrypting File System (EFS) may become corrupted....

Mockups of rumored iPhone 11 features Macotakara, the Japanese Apple news blog that frequently reports reliable information about hardware in development, has shared new information about the iPhone 11 and its rumored bidirectional wireless charging feature. The site also has new details about what wired charging solution to expect with the next flagship iPhones. According to the latest report, Apple’s next-gen iPhone will include a feature like Samsung Galaxy S10’s Wireless PowerShare feature....

The iPhone 12 Pro price in India makes it so expensive that it’s actually cheaper to book a return flight to Dubai and buy it there than it is to buy it locally … That was the conclusion of India Today, who did the sums. iPhone 12 Pro Price in India for 128 GB: Rs 1,19,000 ($1,620) iPhone 12 Pro Price in Dubai for 128GB: Rs 84,000 ($1,114) Of course, this is probably not legal....

The document shared with AASPs states that some iPhone 7 and 7 Plus users may experience mic failure after updating their phones to iOS 11.3. They may also see the speaker button grayed out during incoming and outgoing calls. Other symptoms include no audio during playback for voice memos or videos creating by the affected iPhones. The document describes the steps to troubleshoot the issue, such as disconnecting any Bluetooth or other audio accessories and running audio diagnostics....

I found the repurchase behavior figures of the same study quite interesting. It would seem that Android users are the most loyal to their type of smartphone when it comes to buying a new device. 89% will buy another phone running Google’s platform, while only 84% of iPhone users will buy another one of Apple’s smartphones. BlackBerry users are third, at 61%. Also interesting is that 33% of Symbian S60 users and 36% of Palm Pre users would buy an iPhone....

Pieces in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal suggest that the real target of Apple’s second courtroom patent battle with Samsung may be Android. Jury selection begins today for the second patent case between the two companies after mediation attempts failed. Apple is seeking around $2B in damages for five patents it alleges Samsung has violated, while Samsung is counter-claiming that Apple is in violation of two of its own patents....

He was a respected attorney and jurist who was born in Los Angeles in 1919, attended Hollywood High School and was said to have once dated screen legend Lana Turner. He retired from the bench in 1979, but his greatest fame came in a different kind of courtroom. Joseph Wapner was the presiding judge on The People’s Court from 1981 to 1993, pioneering a brand new genre of TV show and becoming an unlikely pop culture touchstone and household name at a time when he was already in his 60s....

Jumanji: The Next Level easily wins the box office in its opening weekend, setting a new Sony record in the process. With the notable exception of Joker, a number of this fall’s would-be tentpoles (like Terminator: Dark Fate and Charlie’s Angels) fell well short of expectations and bombed commercially. The hope was the holiday season’s crop of blockbuster releases would get things back on track, and so far that’s proven true....

Zack Snyder shared a Christmas present for Justice League fans in the form of a new image from his film. Support for the infamous “Snyder Cut” of Justice League has gained a lot of traction in the past few months, with fans taking to Twitter to demand Warner Bros. release it and multiple cast members (like Gal Gadot and Jason Momoa) sharing their support. For his part, Snyder has released several images of the cut on his Vero account, further stoking fan excitement....

On Tuesday, SentinelOne published an analysis of the bug, tracked as CVE-2021-45388 and deemed critical by the research team. The vulnerability impacts the KCodes NetUSB kernel module. KCodes solutions are licensed by numerous hardware vendors to provide USB over IP functionality in products including routers, printers, and flash storage devices. KCodes NetUSB, the subject of a SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab analysis in the past, is proprietary software used to facilitate these connections – and the software is currently “used by a large number of network device vendors,” of which the security flaws “affect millions of end-user router devices,” according to SentinelOne....

iPad and iPhone production rates are beginning to catch-up with demand, Rodman and Renshaw analyst Ashok Kumar has said. He believes Apple’s on course to achieve 14 million iPhone 4 sales in the current (September) quarter and another 15 million by the end of the year. iPad sales continue to be strong. LG has apparently managed to boost display manufacturing, beefing up iPad supplies. Apple should sell between 5 million and 6 milllion iPads in the current quarter, the analyst said....

An Apple patent application for a metallic glass process may hold the secret to the beautiful iPhone 11 Pro finish on the rear glass. The rear glass is a subtle yet lovely design feature of the flagship iPhone, looking more like a metal than a glass — and that may be because the material includes the properties of both… In its promotional video for the flagship device (below), hardware SVP Dan Riccio drops a few clues about the matte glass back, but doesn’t get into specifics....

Screen Time in iOS 12 offers a lot of different options for reining back how much you, or your kids, use your iPhone and iPad. You can track your activity, and also set time limits for apps and categories of apps to ensure you get some downtime. Here’s how to set an iPhone time limit for a specific app that you just can’t put down. To use Screen Time and set up iPhone time limits, you need to be running iOS 12 on your device....

Morgan Stanley says that the iPhone X is proving such a hit in China that it is accelerating the rate at which existing iPhone owners upgrade, and the rate at which Android users switch to iPhone. Analyst Katy Huberty also echoed an earlier report that the iPhone X rapidly overtook the iPhone 8, despite the head-start of the lower-cost phone … Huberty believes that there is plenty more room for growth, reports Yahoo Finance....