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At a product launch event in Brooklyn on Tuesday, Apple at long last overhauled the Macbook Air out of the blue since 2015 and upgraded it totally for 2018. A big deal on the grounds that the Macbook Air, at $999, was Apple"s cheapest laptop. Apple had a $1,299 thin laptop back in 2015. The recently unveiled MacBook Air is a blend of the MacBook Air and the 12-inch MacBook. It"s littler and lighter than Air. The screen is 13.3-creeps of @2x Retina display. It"s not wide array DCI-P3, but rather it is 48% more sRGB than the old Air. Furthermore, truly, obviously, Apple has erased a lot of the bezels. It ships with an 8th generation Intel dual-core CPU with integrated graphics, up to 16GB of RAM, and up to 1.5 terabytes of storage room. It likewise has two USB-C Thunderbolt ports that let you attach it to an outer 5K screen. With respect to security, there’s no Face ID for the Mac yet, however it"s difficult not to imagine that it will be coming soon seeing as Apple...

Bad news for those hoping to stick with the classic desktop version of Skype: Microsoft is pulling the plug. Again. “As we continue to focus on and improve Skype version 8, support for Skype versions 7, and below will end on November 1, 2018 on desktop devices and November 15, 2018 on mobile and tablet devices,” a revision to Microsoft’s original post about the latest Skype version now reads . “Although you may be able to use older versions for a little while, we encourage you to update today to avoid any interruption.” As you may recall, Microsoft suddenly and unexpectedly started upgrading the classic Skype desktop client—version 7.x—to a new, less capable product called Skype 8 in mid-July, right as I was heading to Sweden. Worse, they informed users that they had until September 1 to upgrade: After that, classic Skype would stop working. The deprecation comes as the Windows operating system developer is consolidating its Skype development on...

Apple has announced that it has upgraded its 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Pro with Touch Bar for faster performance; it has also introduced new pro features to the lineup. Both models now come with the new eighth-generation Intel processors, with the 15-inch laptop boasting up to 70-percent improved performance and the 13-inch version running up to two times its original speed. [caption id="attachment_12057" align="aligncenter" width="2400"]                          MacBook Pro now delivers faster performance for complex simulations and data manipulation. [/caption] "The latest generation MacBook Pro is the fastest and most powerful notebook we"ve ever made," said Philip Schiller, Apple"s Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing. "The 8th-generation 6-core processors, up to 32GB of system memory, up to 4TB of super-fast SSD storage, new "True Tone" technology in its Retina display and Touch Bar, the Apple T2 chip for ...

If you’re a fan of Apple’s photo printing service, you won’t like this shocking news one bit. According to a new message popping up in the Photos app , and After 16 years, Apple is killing off its Photo Print Products service, a service that has been part of iPhoto and subsequently Photos. Apple Photo Prints Products grew from just supporting simple prints to producing albums, calendars, and photo books. The message, first spotted by 9to5Mac , instructs users of macOS 10.13.6 to make their “final purchases” by September 30 of this year. MacOS Mojave’s Photo app has already scrapped any mention of the service. The message also encourages users to download the Photo Project Extension from the Mac App Store to get access to a range of third-party printing services. These services include Mimeo Photos, Wix, GoodTimes, WhiteWall, and Shutterfly. Following the news, shares of Shutterfly and Wix were up 2 and 3.1 percent, respectively. Here’s the messa...

Kicking off its annual software developer conference in San Jose, California, Apple announced software updates and new features to its platforms. “Today is all about software,” CEO Tim Cook said at the beginning of his WWDC keynote this year, before announcing that the Mac App Store is getting a much-needed redesign in the macOS Mojave update that’s scheduled to arrive in the fall. The new features include a new dark mode, "desktop stacks" — which allows users to organise desktop icons into, well, stacks, new additions to Finder and support for iOS apps, including News, Stocks, Voice Memos and Home. Apple has also redesigned the Mac App Store and added apps to it from the likes of Adobe and Microsoft. Mac App Store redesign From a visual perspective, the update puts the App Store more in line with its iOS equivalent, presenting a more curated list of apps, along with some editorial content (think tutorials, reviews, and app roundups). The redesign App Store, has...