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In a new interview with The Independent, Jony Ive describes the creation process of the new iPad Pro and shares more details about his design philosophies like what makes a device magical. The Independent’s David Phelan notes that Ive recently won the 2018 Professor Hawking Fellowship based on his “remarkable role in championing elegant and innovative design.” This of course is the latest in a long list of accolades he has garnered over his career at Apple....

Bono’s Product RED campaign to fight against HIV/AIDS in Africa has partnered with Apple for so long that you could easily mistake it as an Apple-created initiative, and this year the effort turns 10 years old with more than $350 million raised according to the Financial Times. In marking the decade-long effort to raise awareness and eliminate the virus/disease, FT highlighted Apple’s roots in the campaign: Apple’s design chief Jony Ive shared his take in the piece on how Product RED has had a humanitarian reach, challenging the idea of any corporate effect....

To go along with his complete redesign of iOS, Jony Ive’s official executive title at Apple has been flattened to drop the word “Industrial.” The change is notable as this new title plants Ive’s position as being where the buck stops for the design of all of Apple’s products… Ive’s former position as chief of hardware design was expanded to provide “leadership and direction” for Apple’s interface teams last fall in tandem with Scott Forstall leaving Apple....

On Keeping Up with the Kardashians this week, Kanye West was worried that his wife, Kim Kardashian’s dress was ’too sexy,’ but Kim shuts him down. On the eve of the Met Gala, Kanye decided to spring it on his wife that her ultra-sexy corset look was too much for him, but Kim’s mind was already made. Since their show first aired in 2007, the Kardashian family has been entertaining the reality TV audiences, with Kim at the center of it all....

Fortune reports that a Flextronics executive was taped by FBI officials revealing iPhone sales numbers two and a half weeks before the official announcement as well as the existence of the iPad. Flextronics director Walter Shimoon had a conversation with an an unnamed “cooperative witness” in late 2009 in which he revealed: Apple, he is heard telling CW-2, was “coming out next year” with a new iPhone that’s “gonna have two cameras … It’ll be a neat phone because it’s gonna have a five-megapixel auto-focus camera and it will have a VGA forward-facing videoconferencing camera....

Yet more signs on the glorious march of the iPad as US emergency room doctors begin using the devices to order lab tests and medications; and other medical pros find other ways to deploy the Apple tablet. Chicago area doctors are increasingly using iPads as medical tools, accessing medical records, showing X-rays and other lab tests and more. A report from Chicago’s Sun Times tells us that next month, the University of Chicago Medical Center plans to provide iPads to all of its internal medicine residents, expanding on a pilot program launched earlier this year....

Analytics data from Adobe shows Cyber Monday projected to be the largest online sales day in history, with a total spend of $6.59B. iPads and AirPods were among the most popular purchases, and a comparison of iOS and Android mobile purchases show that Apple owners had the higher spend … Google Chromecast and Samsung tablets were also popular. Adobe also predicts a record holiday shopping season. The company says that as consumers become more savvy, already knowing where to find the best deals, there is less comparison shopping, which is often done on computers, making shopping on mobile devices ‘the new norm....

A report last month suggested that Apple was taken by surprise by better-than-expected iPhone 12 demand, boosting 2021 production plans by between 20% and 30% – and supporting evidence continues to accumulate. Counterpoint found that the iPhone 12 was the world’s best-selling 5G phone, Qualcomm’s dramatic boost in Q3 2020 revenue was largely credited to the new iPhone lineup, and other supply-chain sources pointed to reality matching the supercycle hype. Today, record revenues for primary iPhone supplier Foxconn adds to the weight of evidence …...

If you buy an iPhone 7 from AT&T this week, you can take home a second iPhone 7 for free thanks to the carrier’s latest BOGO offer. The buy one, get one free promo only runs through Christmas Eve, however, so you’ll have to jump on it fast. Meanwhile, T-Mobile is trying to steal a few AT&T customers with free year of the carrier’s new DirecTV Now streaming video service…...

Internet based TV (IPTV) seems to be gaining a ton of traction as of late. With YouTube TV, Hulu TV, Sling, PlayStation Vue, DirecTV Now, and a few others, it seems to be a relatively popular way to watch TV. Hulu TV specifically, has today reached over one million subscribers (via TechCrunch). The company reported back in May that it passed 800K, which means they’ve gained 200K+ subscribers in the span of four months, which is impressive....

Gaining Followers is a major aspect of the social media platform these days. It may be a college kid or a business firm looking to sell or spread its idea, followers are what they look for. Those who watch YouTube a lot, know how YouTubers do a call of action. They summon the viewers to like/share their videos and subscribe to their channel. Subscribing is the same as the concept of the following....

itel A56 Pro (W6004P) is the new smartphone launched in the year 2020 with Android 9.0 Pie out of the box. If you are here, then you may be looking for a stock firmware file for your itel A56 Pro. If yes, then you are in the right place. In this guide, we will help you to flash the stock ROM file on itel A56 Pro by using the SPD Flash tool aka Spreadtrum Flash Tool....

The Bourne franchise boasts one of the most innovative and thrilling trilogies of all time. And although the subsequent entries have faced harsh criticism, they do have their moments. The action in this series is consistently filled with clear motivation, creativity, and practical stunts. It keeps even the more implausible stunts grounded, and introduced a unique and practical form of hand-to-hand combat. During any chase or fight, there is often improvisation, which keeps things fresh....

Academy Award winning actress Jennifer Connelly (A Beautiful Mind) talked to us about working on such a large scale practical set and about her Alita: Battle Angel character, Dr. Chiren. Neither bad or good, she’s someone with her own plans. Screen Rant: Congratulations on the film. It’s one of the most visually stunning movies I’ve ever seen, but it also has so much humanity in it that blows my mind. Dr....

Joker’s Joaquin Phoenix was arrested while protesting climate change in DC. Phoenix recently won a Golden Globe for his performance in Joker where he played Arthur Fleck, a man who adopts the Joker persona after a fair amount of trauma. The film was also nominated for Best Picture and Best Director at the 2020 Golden Globes but did not win. Still, Phoenix’s triumph at the Globes has lent even more momentum to his Oscar campaign....

Oscar-winning Silence of the Lambs director Jonathan Demme has passed away at age 73. Demme, who nabbed the Best Director Oscar for helming the chilling 1991 crime drama, launched his directorial career in 1974 with Caged Heat, under the auspices of legendary B-movie producer Roger Corman. In addition to Silence of the Lambs, Demme directed such acclaimed films as Philadelphia, Something Wild and Swing Shift. His last feature film was Ricki and the Flash in 2015....

Jordan Peele has waded into the ongoing Martin Scorsese versus Marvel debate, stating that he wants to see more original movies in theaters, too. The conversation surrounding the issue has grown substantially ever since Martin Scorsese initiated it last month. Originally, Scorsese was quoted as saying that Marvel movies weren’t cinema, but The Irishman director eventually said that his initial comments were misquoted. After weeks of intense media coverage, Scorsese finally set the record straight by writing a highly praised op-ed in The New York Times on the subject....

Queer Eye’s Karamo Brown has returned to social media where he explained the negativity that led to him taking his social media hiatus. Brown deleted his Twitter page last month and went ghost on Instagram following fierce backlash he received over his comments on former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer. However, he returned to social media to post a video explaining the “bad state of mind” he was in last month, saying, “So… some of you may know I deleted my other social media pages and took a long break from posting on ig because I been in a bad state of mind....

Although it seems likely that Apple will soon discontinue its legacy iPhone 3GS, some reports have said that Apple will retain the device as its cost-effective pre-paid option. Others, including us, have reported that Apple is preparing two next-generation iPhones for this fall: one as the successor to the iPhone 4 and one as a cheaper, possibly pre-paid model. According to several sources in different countries, stock of Apple’s iPhone 3GS is quickly tightening with hardly – or even any – shipments coming through to certain regions....

(Click for full size images) Apple has made it clear that it isn’t going to get into the megapixel race with the likes of Nokia and Sony when it comes to the camera system used in its iPhones. The new iPhone 5s has the same 8-megapixel shooter as previous generations, but Apple is touting a brand new camera system for the device that includes a new five-element lens designed by Apple, a F2....