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According to AppleInsider, the settlement was approved by Judge William Alsup of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The lawsuit was first filed in 2013, and Alsup writes the following in his approval. To recap, Apple’s retail policy required staff to have their bags and personal belongings checked before they ended their shift. While this would be normal in any retail outlet with a boatload of expensive hardware neatly arranged across various corners, it was argued that retail employees should be paid for the time spent when completing the security checks, which according to one report, lasted for as long as 45 minutes....

Apple announces second-generation HomePod with new sensors, improvements in design, a $299 price tag, and more The latest model features the same design as the first-generation model and comes in two color options - White and Midnight. It features the acoustically transparent mesh fabric with a touch surface on top that lights up from one end to the other. The major design change brought forward with the latest model is that the top surface illuminates similar to the HomePod mini....

Apple does have plans to introduce a different MacBook, but it will likely be a larger MacBook Air Looking at the current ‘fanless’ MacBook models that Apple sells at this time, the 12-inch version could have been way ahead of its time, meaning that its design could be re-used and updated slightly to make it look futuristic. Unfortunately, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman has mentioned another update in his Power On newsletter that while a bigger MacBook Air is on the cards this year, consumers should trash their hopes for the 12-inch MacBook....

Apple Rumored to Be Testing a Mac Pro Configuration With a 24-Core CPU and 76-Core GPU, but That Is Not the Most Top-End Spec While one reason for this delay could be that TSMC is facing difficulty ramping up 3nm wafer production that will be used for Apple’s upcoming custom silicon lineup, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman believes there is another reason for the Mac Pro not materializing this early. When the company announced the M1 back in 2020, it mentioned that its Apple Silicon transition would be completed in two years....

Apple Seeds iOS 15.4, iPadOS 15.4, watchOS 8.5, macOS 12.3, and tvOS 15.4 Beta 5 to Developers For Testing Purposes You can install the latest iOS 15.4 and iPadOS 15.4 beta 5 from the Apple Developer Center as well as over the air. Make sure that you have installed a proper configuration profile from the Developer Center. iOS 15.4 and iPadOS 15.4 will bring a boatload of new additions to the table like Face ID with a mask on, 37 new emojis, and much more....

Apple Releases iOS 15.7.1 and iPadOS 15.7.1 With Important Security Fixes - Download Now on Compatible iPhone and iPad Models While iOS 16 was released last month, iPadOS 16 made its debut last week with many front-facing additions. However, all iPhone and iPad models that do not support Apple’s latest iOS 16 and iPadOS 16 updates can download iOS 15.7.1 and iPadOS 15.7.1 from the Settings app. Simply head over to General > Software Update and follow the on-screen instructions....

Benchmarks Comparison Shows iPhone SE 3 Beating The Galaxy S22 Ultra in Single and Multi-Core Scores The model identifier number for the new iPhone SE 3 is “iPhone 14,6,” and Geekbench scores for the device are now out. iPhone SE 3 benchmark reveals a single-core score of 1695 and a multi-core score of 4021. These scores are pretty much on par with the iPhone 13 at 1672 and 4481 for single and multi-core scores, respectively....

Apple is No Longer Signing iOS 15.5, Downgrade No Longer Possible - What You Should Know With Respect to iOS 15 Cheyote Jailbreak As mentioned earlier, it is no longer possible to downgrade from iOS 15.6 to iOS 15.5. This is not the first time the company disallowed users to downgrade from the latest iOS version. Apple usually stops signing iOS builds a week after the subsequent version arrives. The company does this to ensure that users stay on the latest build....

iOS 16 to Come With an Enhanced Lock Screen, a New Kind of Wallpaper, iPadOS 16 to Bring Windowing For Improved Multitasking Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman suggests in his latest Power On newsletter that Apple is planning to make a variety of changes to the Lock Screen with iOS 16. This includes a new kind of wallpaper with widget-like capabilities to display information. Other than iOS 16, Gurman also points out that iPadOS 16 is expected to bring “major changes to windowing and multitasking....

Apple TV 4K with A12 Bionic and New Siri Remote Heavily Discounted to $129, a Full $50 off The Apple TV 4K is a device which you should buy right away if you are living the ecosystem lifestyle. Not only it gives you access to a ton of apps on the big screen, but acts as a hub for your HomeKit setup as well. The brand new Apple TV 4K, with the new Siri Remote, is currently available to purchase with a hefty discount in place, bringing the price of the device down to just $129....

Guilty Gear Strive will be returning as a main stage title in the 2022 Arc World Tour, and alongside it will be the recently-released DNF Duel. Both games were confirmed in an announcement trailer for Arc World Tour 2022, that detailed some of the tour’s information, which you can watch below. The Arc World Tour’s confirmed both main titles showcased (as stated above) and also revealed every event that will be part of this year’s Arc World Tour....

Will Elon Musk actually end up buying Twitter? Fortunes could be made and lost depending on the outcome of this seemingly innocuous question. And the markets are paying attention, salivating at each morsel of tidbit. After all, the world’s richest person has a unique knack for imbuing theatrical flamboyance to even the banalest of elements. So, why should the fate of the global town square be any different? As most of our readers would know, the biggest stumbling block that Elon Musk had identified – or manufactured, say the skeptics – to the finalization of his Twitter takeover deal was the quantum of bots or fake accounts that populated the social media giant’s Daily Active Users (DAUs) metric....

Ashampoo® Office Bundle Features This bundle has a lot to offer. Especially if you are looking for affordable solutions. Here are highlights of what the Ashampoo® Office Bundle has in store for you: Ashampoo® Backup Pro 16 A Backup Solution to Play It Safe; Easy to Use, Highly Reliable, & Future-Proof Well laid out user interface with all important information Single-click access to all important menus Presets for ready-to-use backup plans Handy backup plan overview Detailed information on each backup Up-to-date cloud support Extensive online help and printable PDFs Better stability, flexibility, & performance...

The ASUS Prime AP201 is a highly compact case, offering 33 Liters of space. Users will be able to equip AIO radiators measuring 280 to 360 mm, while also containing a 338 m GPU (one of the largest card sizes available) and PSUs that measure up to 180 mm. The mesh on the front and back of the case consists of over 57,000 holes with a diameter of 1.5 mm....

The Asus Zenfone 9 Proves That Compact Flagships with Fan-Favorite Features are Still Possible Asus has updated its official website with a new banner that confirms that the Zenfone 9 will be launching at an event on July 28 at 9 a.m. ET. The banner does not reveal anything other than a look at the device display, we do know what the phone is going to be about thanks to the specs that we have seen in the promotional video....

In a new blog post posted on the Square Enix official website, directors Kenji Saito and Takahisa Sugiyama commented on the visual improvements coming with Season 2, saying that the team did not manage to do enough testing on the graphics before release, especially when it comes to visibility, so the changes are also meant to address such issues. Kenji Saito and Takahisa Sugiyama also talked about what’s coming in terms of new content to Babylon’s Fall with Season 2, confirming that a new weapon will be introduced, among other things....

Backblaze reveals HDD statistics for the second quarter of 2022 As of the end of the second quarter of this year, Backblaze was observing 219,444 HDDs and SSDs in the company’s data centers throughout the world. The analysis, 4,020 are used as boot drives, splitting between 2,558 SSDs and 1,462 HDDs. In their latest report, Backblaze focuses on the data drives under management — 215,424 to be exact — and reviews the quarterly and lifetime failure rates....

Ever since Binance spurred the fall of the crypto exchange FTX, Changpeng Zhao (CZ) has positioned his firm as one of the cleanest shirts in the crypto sphere. However, a number of back-to-back developments are now calling into question this pristine persona that Binance has worked hard to project over the past few weeks. — *Walter Bloomberg (@DeItaone) December 12, 2022 For starters, Reuters is now reporting that the US Department of Justice (DoJ) is currently split on whether to formally level charges against Binance in a money laundering investigation that began in 2018, with some investigators now pushing for aggressively moving against key Binance executives, including its co-founder and CEO, CZ....

We also learned that the script will be penned by Michael Green, who wrote Logan, Alien: Covenant, Blade Runner 2049, Murder on the Orient Express, The Call of the Wild, Jungle Cruise, and Death on the Nile. Vertigo Entertainment will produce. About six months ago, Netflix announced the partnership with Take-Two Interactive on the BioShock film adaptation. Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick said at the time:

Take-Two Interactive’s Chairman and CEO, Strauss Zelnick, shared the following statement about the upcoming BioShock movie adaptation: This won’t be the first attempt at a BioShock movie adaptation, anyway. Just a few months after the debut of the original game, Take-Two announced a partnership with Universal Studios to make the film, which would feature Gore Verbinski (The Ring, The Pirates of the Caribbean, The Lone Ranger, A Cure for Wellness) directing the project based on a script written by John Logan (The Gladiator, The Last Samurai, Sweeney Todd, Skyfall)....