Apple iPad (2022) gets a new look

Source: Apple

As we've heard in rumours, Apple has finally revamped its entry-level iPad. The home button is gone and replaced by a fingerprint reader in the power button. The design is squared off, matching the iPad Air and iPad Pro. It has a 10.9-inch display and ditches the Lightning connector for USB-C. Apple introduces a wider colour array, with silver, blue, yellow, and pink options. It runs on Apple's A14 Bionic processor, comes with 12-megapixel ultrawide front and 12-megapixel rear cameras, with the front camera finally in landscape for better video call orientation.

The catch is this new iPad won't work with the second-generation Apple Pencil. You'll need a USB-C to Lightning adapter to charge the Apple Pencil (Learn more about that here). Apple also introduces a new Magic Keyboard Folio for the iPad, complete with a kickstand, function keys, trackpad with multitouch support, and magnetic connector. There will be Wi-Fi 6 and 5G models. The biggest bummer might be a $150 price increase from its predecessor. You can now order the new iPad starting at $599 for the Wi-Fi only model and $799 for the Wi-Fi + cellular one. Availability and shipping begins on October 26.

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Game of Thrones is most pirated show of 2012 with 25 million downloads

Winter is Coming down the torrent sites as HBO's Game of Thrones is the most pirated TV show of 2012. The second season of the popular show  began early April. It has been tracked by Big Champagne which revealed that the show has been downloaded 25 million times with a peak of 2.5 million downloads a day.

Game of Thrones, which is based on George R. R. Martin's sword and sorcery epic Song of Fire and Ice series of books.

Being an HBO-exclusive series, Game of Thrones is accessible only to cable subsribers and HBO/Go users.

"This is absolutely a reaction to the show’s not being available elsewhere online," explains Robinson. "It’s a very tricky game trying to create this kind of scarcity," explained John Robinson, a senior media analyst with Big Champagne in a report from TGDaily.com.

Source: TG Daily

Chrome OS to power Google's cloud in 2010

 

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Google recently announced its Chrome desktop OS that is set to launch in 2010.  What makes the Google OS is unique is that it works entirely inside the Google Chrome browser with tabs as the main means of navigation between programs.

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