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  • Apple's 2025 Pride Collection features a unique Apple Watch Sport Band

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    tiredskills said:
    Why anyone would choose an analogue-style watch face on a digital watch is beyond me.  Other than that, a really nice combo.
    I change mine around. I have digital right now, but I’ll probably switch to analog in a month or so. When I see one that grabs me. 
    I don’t worry too much about what others think of my preferences…
    ronnmuthuk_vanalingamsconosciuto

  • Hands on with Apple's 25W MagSafe charger for iPhone 16

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    abrvhm said:
    I don’t understand this article. What were your test results? Only 10W? On which iPhone? But 15W on last year’s Pro Max?
    I believe the confusion stems from an iPhone 16 not being available yet. Kind of a premature article.
    It says all over the article and in the headline it's for the iPhone 16 which ships...tomorrow.  What's confusing about that?
    The confusion is that the article makes it sound like there is no increase in charging wattage when comparing the two versions. Cpsro’s comment helped me understand why that was. 
    watto_cobra

  • Jake Gyllenhaal's 'Presumed Innocent' gets renewed for a second season

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    Xed said:
    Pema said:
    clexman said:
    Spoiler alert. I guess if he’s in a second season, he’s not guilty in the first. 
    Totally pointless. And if you have read the book by Scott Turow and watched the movie with Harrison Ford and Greta Scatchi you would know that he is acquitted on a technicality and the wife did it. Which was an excellent ending. 
    What in the hell are they going to come up with to create a new season? Let's hope that it is not based on Scott Turow's later books. They have been plainly awful. Churning the same characters through the same county on an utterly forgettable plots. 

    I can't imagine Rusty Sabich is going to have another affair in which he is implicated killing the lover. Oh wait, his wife has an affair with the barman from the tele series - which btw was not in the original book or movie - she gets pregnant. We already know that Rusty has a violent temper. He finds out about the affair and that his wife is pregnant with the baby from the barman, goes into a vengeful killing spree and wipes out the barman and the wife. Because the latter two are black and Rusty is white he is accused of murder with the added component that it a racially-motivated killing. It spurs the Chicago South Side to at first peacefully demonstrate then to launch violent rampages throughout Chicago, burning, looting - you know like Watts. 

    But wait Rusty, while guilty as hell, hires a dream team - like OJ - and get away with killing the wife and the barman. 

    Don't call it Presumed Innocent instead call it Innocent? Yeah Right! 
    Did you just spoil the ending?
    Clexman didn’t, but Pema did. 

    macguiSpitbath

  • Don't toss your Apple Watch away if you get a hard fall warning, like Steven Spielberg did...

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    gardnervh said:
    False fall and crash warnings were so common during daily activities, i turned them off.  They didnt work, creating tons of false positives, i was unwilling to put first responders at risk over immature tech.  Perhaps if i engaged in higher risk behaviors, but for now, ill take my chances rather than make false alarms
    Interesting. I’ve never had a false alarm. I am very active and have had fall alerts when I wreck on my mountain bike, but I don’t consider those false alarms—it’s never gone off just from hard riding, other sports or hard yard work. I wonder why/how some people get many. 

    Anyway, my last wreck was a year ago and I broke some ribs trashed my shoulder. I turned the alarm off before I even knew how bad off I was. But if I had been unconscious out in the woods alone, you can bet that my watch alerting people to my situation would have been worth a few false alarms (if I ever had ever had any)
    Anilu_777ronntimpetuscharlesatlaswatto_cobra

  • How Apple has steadily been dropping the 'i' from its devices for over a decade

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    Luis.A.Masanti said:

    (As a side note, the PowerBook name… reflected the name of the chip inside: PowerPC… and that was a registered trademark of IBM. When Apple used Intel chips… ghould it name the laptop IntelBooks?)
    This is incorrect. The first PowerBooks were released in 1991 but the PowerPC chips didn’t make it to Apple computers until 1994. 
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