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Shoppers should also take note that while Amazon and Google are known to regularly roll out discounted promotions on its devices-the Echo was going for $130 for Amazon Prime Day last summer-Apple introduces discounts rarely, and pretty much never for brand-new products.

Apple says it does not want its customers using its products while driving and so has introduced a "Do Not Disturb While Driving" mode that will be activated when the phone senses the user is in a auto. The iPhone screen will be locked to prevent drivers from using their apps while driving, CNN reports. You can open a second app from the Dock, and both apps remain active in Slide Over as well as Split View.

There are four Thunderbolt 3 ports and 10GB Ethernet. Messages will now be stored primarily on Apple's servers, meaning that when you swap between the iPad , iPhone and Mac your messages will follow you without needing any complicated syncing.

Samsung Electronics' upcoming Galaxy Note 8 smartphone will come with a dual-camera, South Korean media Newsis reports. This has given birth to the rumors that the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 would feature come with a fingerprint sensor embedded into the front display.

With HomePod , only after " Hey Siri " is recognized locally on the device will any information be sent to Apple servers, encrypted and sent using an anonymous Siri identifier. As for its hardware, the HomePod sports an array of six microphones; a set-up that is expected to let Siri hear the user's instructions or messages even when the music is playing loudly or the person is situated at a distance from the home speaker .

Radeon Pro 500 graphics also support GPU acceleration through OpenCL across creative applications like Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Photoshop. The base model of the iMac will have the Intel Iris Plus Graphics that is claimed to be 80% faster than the previous generation GPU. At today's WWDC event in San Jose, California, Apple announced incremental updates to its iMac and MacBook Pro lineup.

Apple's new HomePod speaker may be music to the ears of its loyal fans, but how much it can crank up volume in the smart speaker market remains to be heard. But overall, Apple showed enough innovation at WWDC 2017 to give consumers and marketers reason to believe that the upcoming introduction of the 10th anniversary edition of the iPhone will capture hearts, minds, dollars, and our attention.

Apple also introduced a new version of its business-oriented iPad Pro at an intermediate size with more storage, a better display and an improved camera. Google sells Home for US$180, promoting the smart speakers with discounts. Where does this position Apple relative to Amazon and the Echo? Amazon's (NASDAQ: AMZN ) Echo smart home speaker device now dominates the global intelligent home speaker market.

Obama said it's important to teach girls to value themselves and to let them know that they can compete in all kinds of settings. The former First Lady assured the crowd that her husband is doing well but did not miss the chance to offer some indirect criticism of his successor.

New photo editing tools, as well as filtering tools based on machine learning which can sort images by keywords and faces, will refresh the Photos app in High Sierra too. But perhaps Apple wants to introduce this new device category slowly so that any initial missteps in the product won't get the outsized bad publicity such flubs might get if they start malfunctioning at the outset of that season.

IDC estimates that Apple shipped about 3.6 million watches during the first three months of the year . Apple is expected to unveil new features for its Apple Watch as its Worldwide Developers Conference kicks off on Monday. The company also unveiled new iMacs for software programmers with better displays and graphics capabilities. It's not just the National Football League and NFL-related programming that will be devoured now that Prime Video is going to be more accessible.