Apple is gearing up for their annual spring thing, now set for March 27th, and while it appears the “Let’s Take a Field Trip” event will be focused on education – it’s being held at a Chicago high school – there are rumors some new Apple hardware may also make it onto the bus. According to CNET, new or refreshed iPads may be revealed, but of course, it is all rumors at this point. Apple, as usual, has confirmed nothing.
But CNET says two new iPads could be revealed: a refresh of the base $329 iPad, and perhaps a new top-of-the-line iPad Pro called the iPad Pro X(“Ten”). Will the X model have an OLED screen and do away with the home button, just like the iPhone Ten? Probably not, but it could get more horsepower, and maybe a Face ID system, although it’s more likely Face ID won’t appear on an iPad until later this year.
Also possible: A new or reworked Apple Pencil to go with the iPads, with perhaps a more kid-friendly design and a more intuitive “eraser” on the other end… for erasing stuff.
Controversy continues to swirl around Facebook following revelations that political strategists at Cambridge Analytics used data from millions of users in ways Facebook says they didn’t intend.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly going to address the topic at a regularly scheduled Facebook meeting on Friday, but in the meantime, cries of “delete Facebook” and calls for investigations are dogging Zuck, the company, and the stock price. Even What’sApp co-founder Brian Acton tweeted out that “It is time: #deletefacebook.” Pretty strident for a guy whose company was purchased for $16 billion by Facebook.
But it’s just the latest blowback from high-profile technorati who have said that Facebook may be out of control – or at least is not controlling user’s data in a responsible manner. What do you think about Facebook’s latest crisis? Leave us a comment via our link to DT Daily on YouTube.
Do you have a room full of bad paintings and worthless picture frames you found at garage sales in the hopes of finding that long-lost undiscovered copy of the Declaration of Independence? Yep, us too. But we’re giving up on yard sales after hearing the story of lucky UK resident Justin Whiting, who sent $10 through the interwebs for a vintage photo of a guy in a suit. You can guess the rest: It could be worth millions.
Why? Because it’s been confirmed to be a rare image of notorious outlaw Jesse James, and one of the very few of him as a teen, and an even smaller set of photos that shows his whole body. Whiting bought the photo, a “tin type” just over 2 by 3 inches in size, not knowing who the subject was, and then added it to his growing vintage photo collection. Sometime later, while researching the image, he figured out who it might be, and sent it to an expert for verification – and verify it he did.
Experts think it could be worth about $2 million, seeing how a similar image of Billy the Kid went for $2.3 million at auction in 2011. We’ll see you on ebay, where tin-type values just went way, way up…
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Affinity’s new all-in-one creative app is finally coming to the iPad, nearly a year after Canva launched the redesigned desktop version for Mac and Windows. Creatives have been asking for the iPad release ever since, especially because files created in the new Affinity app cannot be opened in the older V2 iPad apps.
Affinity already has Photo, Designer, and Publisher apps on iPad, but the new release combines those tools into the same unified app that Canva launched on desktop last year.
Touchscreen laptops have been around for years. You can get them in all sizes and shapes. Just not from Apple. For years, the Cupertino giant has treated the idea of a touchscreen MacBook the way I treat a meeting that could have been an email: with open contempt. However, Wednesday looks like the day the company could finally change its mind.
The latest Apple invite puts the “Pro and Tell” showcase in Los Angeles at 10 a.m. PT (1 p.m. ET) on October 28, 2026. Instead of a regular live-streamed keynote, it is an invitation-only, hands-on event for a handful of press and creators (similar to what the company did for the MacBook Neo earlier this year).
Apple has just launched its latest iPad mini with a notable set of upgrades, including an OLED screen, improved speakers, and a more resilient build. It also gets a new chip, and the whole package costs $200 more than its predecessor. But if you look closely at Apple’s online store, you’ll realize that $699 isn’t enough to get you the most powerful version of the A20 Pro chip inside this tablet. In fact, even if you pay $800 for the 256GB model, you still won’t get the beefiest variant. Only when you jump to the 512GB trim, which costs an absurd $999, do you get the most powerful flavor of the A20 Pro.
The $999 model gets more than extra storage