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The long-standing rumors of an Apple car keep gaining traction, with the Cupertino firm's supposed collaboration with Hyundai helping add some potential specifications to the upcoming electric vehicle. The subject of speculation and leaks for several years now, Apple's car project - known as "Project Titan" internally - got more serious in early January, when Hyundai seemingly confirmed that the two companies were in talks about a partnership.

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For a long time, the most complicated part of the car dashboard was figuring out where to hang your furry dice. These days, though, bigger screens - and more of them - are just the surface glitter on a new age of vehicle tech. The potential for confusion is accelerating, not least as new names wade into car software.

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Apple has released its first iOS 14.5 beta for developers, revealing a number of new features that will make life easier for iPhone users. Perhaps the most notable addition for the average user is the ability to unlock an iPhone with Face ID when wearing a face mask, assuming you're also wearing an Apple Watch.

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In the past, if you had an Apple product, you had to live in the Apple ecosystem and only in the Apple ecosystem. Sure, there was iTunes on Windows but that's pretty much on the way out, too. Today's Apple is very different from that, however, and it is more confident in its own products, especially its services, that it doesn't mind mixing with other platforms and software. Knowing that even its own users would sometimes be forced to use a different web browser, Apple is now at least providing them a way to protect themselves even when using Google's Chrome.

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Apple Studios has set a Sundance record by paying more than $25 million for CODA, a hit movie that was also reportedly sought by competitors Netflix and Amazon. With this purchase, Apple has achieved the worldwide exclusive rights to the feature film, which is expected to launch on the company's Apple TV+ streaming service.

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If you are finding it hard to resist the $549 AirPods Max, you might just want to hold your horses as the Apple AiPods Pro 2 is speculated for a launch much earlier than previously believed. The true wireless earbuds will be far cheaper than the outrageously priced AirPods Max (only if you are not a diehard headphones fan) and pretty much like the earbuds-style accessory.

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It would seem that the shifting state of the world through the course of events that was 2020 made a big impact on sales of Chromebooks and tablets at the tail end of the year. Canalys records of device shipments showed Q4 as the third consecutive quarter of annual growth for the global PC market. The global PC market saw 143.7 million units shipped in Q4, a whopping 35% growth VS the same period the year before.

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The iPhone 13 could see the return of fingerprint security, a new report suggests, with work underway at Apple to reboot Touch ID for the upcoming 2021 iPhone range. The technology was effectively superseded in most iPhone models with the launch of the iPhone X back in 2017, when Apple added Face ID facial recognition.

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The iPhone 12 mini is really the odd one out of the iPhone 12 series. It shares many things in common with the main iPhone 12 model but packed in a more compact form that Apple is hoping will appeal to fans of the iPhone SE series. It might not be turning out to be the case but those that did invest in the entry-level iPhone 12 option won't have anything to worry about, at least not in terms of photography performance based on DxOMark's rating.

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A few years ago, almost every market analyst and tech news site repeated the mantra of the death of tablets that no longer have any place in a consumer market filled with large phones. Today, tablets have apparently become one of the strongest contenders in the global PC market, helping continue that market's growth after languishing for years. Of course, the pandemic is partly to thank for that but a bit more interesting is how Apple's tablets have played an important role there as well.

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Starting in "early spring", Apple will be releasing a new version of iOS 14, iPadOS 14, and tvOS 14 with a requirement for App Tracking Transparency. Per Apple's update, coming first with Apple's next beta update, App Tracking Transparency "will require apps to get the user's permission before tracking their data across apps or websites owned by other companies." Users will be able to see app requests for permissions in iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV Settings, and "make changes as they see fit."

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IDC has issued its report on the smartphone market's performance in the final quarter of 2020, and it probably won't surprise many to learn that the market was able to finish the year strong. According to the analytics organization, smartphone sales rebounded a bit in the final quarter of the year, showing 4.3% year-over-year growth and ending what was otherwise a down year - smartphone sales were down 5.9% in 2020 as a whole over 2019 - on a high note.

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