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If you’ve avoided buying the new iPad Pro because of the high price, then you’ll want to head over to B&H Photo or Amazon right now. As part of one of its Flash Sales, B&H is selling the 256GB 11-inch iPad Pro with Wi-FiRemove non-product link for an impressive $150 off. That’s enough to bring the price to $799, down from the ordinary price of $949. You can also get it for the same price at Amazon, so long as you select a $100 coupon box under the price.

Updated: Added Apple's statement about the release.

The dreadful Group FaceTime bug that allowed a caller to hear their recipient before they pick up has been addressed.

When the exploit was first publicized on the evening of January 28, Apple rushed to address it, promising a fix “later this week” and disabling the ability to make Group FaceTime calls on the server side. On Friday, February 1, it issued a statement apologizing for the bug and bumping the software update to the following week. Читать дальше...

Apple’s scrappy 9.7-inch iPad is one of the best tablets you can get right now, and today you can get it on Amazon for anywhere from $49 to $74 off. The retailer was last selling it for these prices in early January.

You're not required to use an iPhone with iTunes in macOS and Windows, but plenty of people still plug in to a computer via USB and rely on Apple’s music-management software to handle syncing, updates, and backups.

Live PBS without cable: Why it's so hard to get, and what you can do about it

Editor's note: USA Today reports that SmugMug extended the deadline to March 12 for users to download their images from Flickr before they are deleted.

How are new emojis made?

Emojis are defined by a group called the Unicode Consortium, comprised of representatives from a number of hardware and software companies. They agree on updates to the Unicode Standard, which is a common means of encoding and representing text in digital formats. It's the foundation of transmitting and displaying text on nearly all modern digital platforms.

Emojis are a part of the Unicode standard, and the group gets together each year to decide which new icons will be added to the official list. Читать дальше...

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