Your iPhone doesn’t need a cell signal to use the Emergency SOS feature. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images The Emergency SOS feature on iPhone lets you quickly call local emergency services. The iPhone 14 series introduced two new emergency features, Crash Detection, which automatically places emergency calls, and a coming Emergency SOS via Satellite feature. When you…
Monthly Archives: October 2022
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy speaks during a weekly Capitol Hill press conference on May 28, 2020 in Washington, DC. Alex Wong/Getty Images A new New York Times/Siena College poll finds voters are overwhelmingly concerned about the economy. Voters who are most worried about the economy are also leaning Republican ahead of the midterms. That’s…
UAE Energy Minister Suhail Mohamed Al Mazrouei. AP/Ronald Zak There was nothing political about OPEC’s decision to cut production or for the UAE’s support for it, according to UAE’s energy minister. The US has accused the cartel of siding with Russia amid the energy crisis, but the decision was based on market technicals, the minister…
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks on the student debt relief plan in the South Court Auditorium at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on October 17, 2022 in Washington, DC. President Biden gave an update on the student debt relief portal beta test. Alex Wong/Getty Images The Education Department is notifying around 8 million borrowers automatically…
Rolls-Royce has officially begun its transition to electric cars. The luxury British manufacturer has unveiled its first ground-up EV, the Spectre coupe. The “spiritual successor” to the Phantom looks much like its stately gas-powered counterparts (apart from a low 0.25 drag coefficient), but promises to be even quieter and smoother thanks to its powerplant. The…
The rumors were true — Apple has unveiled a redesigned version of its entry-level iPad. The new model borrows the thin-bezel form factor of higher-end models, including the switch to USB-C, no headphone jack and a fingerprint reader built into the sleep/wake button. You can expect a familiar 10.9-inch display with a 2,360 x 1,640…
Apple has unveiled its latest iPad Pro, which is powered by the company’s M2 silicon chipset. The tablet will offer faster connectivity thanks to WiFi 6E support and it has a new “hover” experience for Apple Pencil. The latest iPad Pro will offer ProRes video capture as well. The M2 will offer up to 15…
Apple has today announced its updated Apple TV set-top box, adding a faster chip and support for HDR10+ in the process. The newly updated box looks and works in the same way as other Apple streaming boxes have for some time and supports tvOS 16 out of the box. Apple says that the addition of…
Apple has announced the next iPad Pro models with M2 chipset, matching the power of the latest MacBook Air. Sporting the same design as their predecessors, the iPad Pro M2 models come in 11-inch and 12-inch display sizes, and they offer squared edges, Face ID at the top of their screens and a dual camera…
Apple has announced a 10th generation version of its standard iPad and, as per the rumours from the last few days, it ditches the front button. The new iPad instead adopts a similar design to the iPad Pro and Air models from the last few years. It comes with a 10.9-inch “all-screen” Liquid Retina display…