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Today’s can’t miss deals:

Toshiba Canvio Connect 2TB Portable USB 3.0 Hard Drive: $65 shipped (Reg. $85, Tax in NY)

Apple Watch 42mm Stainless Steel Case w/ Black Sport Band: $520 shipped (Orig. $599)

Camabond 10ft Nylon Braided MFi Apple Certified Lightning Cables $11 Prime shipped, more

iTunes Gift Cards 20% off w/ email delivery via PayPal: $50 for $40, $25 for $20

Apple 12-inch MacBook 1.1GHz/8GB/256GB from $1,190 or $1,150 w/ .edu (Reg. $1,299), more

13″ Retina MacBook Pro (newest) 2.7GHz/8GB/256GB: $1,280 shipped (Reg. $1,499)

More new gear from today:

Brother Color Duplex Laser Wireless Printer w/ AirPrint: $150 shipped (Reg. $200), more

• Lenmar MAVEN iPhone 6 MFi 3,000mAh Battery Case $29 shipped (Orig. $100), more
• Protect and charge your iPad Air with this Kensington Keyboard Case for $44 (Orig. $90)
• Games/Apps: Mario Party 10 $35, Zelda Ocarina of Time & Xenoblade 3D (pre-owned) $20 ea
• Daily Deals: Dell 22″ Monitor $90, Surge Protector w/ 4 USB Charging Ports $14, more
• Bluetooth Speakers: Inateck Honeycomb $30 (Reg. $43), SOL REPUBLIC DECK $40 (Reg. $40)
• Motorola Nexus 6 Unlocked 32GB in Midnight Blue (refurb): $270 shipped (Orig. $330)

Esky Solar Powered Outdoor LED String Lights, 55ft 17m 100 LED $9/ea shipped (min 2) http://ift.tt/1VQ57Cj http://t.co/R31Gq1tdrJ

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More deals still alive:

1Password secure password manager for Mac: $30 (Reg. $50)

App Store Free App of the Week: Wake Alarm Clock ($4 value)

The Executive for iOS goes free for the first time as IGN’s Game of the Month ($5 value)

Tweetbot for Mac drops to $10 (Reg. $13)

USB-C roundup: Aukey 3-Port USB Hub w/ Gigabit Ethernet $17, Aukey USB Adapter $7, more

• Klipsch HDTV home theater sound system w/ Bluetooth $155 shipped (Reg. $199)
• Aukey Bluetooth In-Ear Headphones $17 (Reg. $25), more
• Outdoor Solar lights: Nitewatch LED Floodlight $50, Two-pack oLED spotlights $33, more
• Headphones: Sony Bluetooth $130 (Reg. $199), Beyerdynamic from $170 (Reg. up to $270), more
• Crosley Ranchero Classic AM/FM Radio and Aux Speaker: $65 Shipped (Orig. $100, CA Tax Only)
• Sony announces official PlayStation 4 price drop, bundles now start at just $349
• Mac Bundle: 14 Mac Apps incl. RapidWeaver, Voila Screencapture, Kinemac 3D, more: $18
• Prime Members: Free 4-month subscription for 3 print magazines – GQ, Wired, more
• Pre-order Microsoft’s latest gadgets right now: Surface Pro 4, Surface Book, Band 2
• TP-LINK Wireless N Nano Router w/ 3-pack of networking cables (Refurb) $8 shipped
• Aukey USB Power Roundup: 6-Port 50W: $15, 5-port 40W: $10
• iPhone 6/s Accessories: 2-Pack Tempered Glass Screen Protector $3, more
• Freebies: Best Of albums + Halo 5 content + Krispy Kreme doughnut + More!
• Lytro Illum Camera, captures the entire light field: $700 shipped (Orig. $1,300)

New products & more:

Turn heads at any Halloween party with one of these high-tech DIY costumes

Koto’s smart sensors track your home’s health and can even forecast storms

• New Halo 5: Guardians trailer drops as retailers ramp-up pre-order deals
• This clothes-folding washing machine brings first-world laziness to defcon zero
• The new Light digital camera uses 16 lenses (!!!) to craft the perfect picture
• DJI’s new Osmo 4K camera is one expensive selfie stick
• The latest littleBits DIY electronics kit turns any kid into an inventor
• Handmade at Amazon launches with an eye on knocking off Etsy
• Marvel’s updated plans for phase three of its cinematic universe + comicbook goodies
• Dyson includes air purification in its newest hot + cool bladeless fan
• Ever wonder what a $130K VIZIO Ultra HDTV looks like? Now we know.
• The latest entry in the Far Cry series goes Primal, taking gamers back to 10,000 BC

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Apple fulfilled three of my “minor-level” Mac dreams today, announcing (very) long-awaited updates to its 2007-vintage Wireless Keyboard and 2010 Magic Trackpad — accessories I’ve used and mostly loved for years — and a non-trivial update to the Retina 5K iMac it released last year.  Apple also unveiled a sequel to its 2009 Magic Mouse, and a Retina 4K version of the 21.5″ iMac. It’s easy to call these releases “inevitable” in the sense that we’ve known all of them were coming for a while now, but some of the details were surprising.

Who would have thought that the Magic Trackpad 2, for instance, would be Apple’s first Bluetooth 4-only Mac accessory? That the iOS Lightning connector would make its way into Mac accessories? Or that the Retina 5K iMac would receive a significant screen quality upgrade after only one year?

Each of these products reaffirms Apple’s commitment to a premium experience, and demonstrates that Steve Jobs’ theories about the inevitable march of progress remain part of the company’s DNA. Read on for my product-specific thoughts….

Magic Keyboard

I used the prior-generation Apple Wireless Keyboard for years, marveling at its excellent typing surface but eventually tiring of the need to swap AA batteries (thanks, Apple Battery Charger). Earlier this year, I reluctantly decided to switch back to a $50 Apple Wired Keyboard, and in all honesty, I’ve loved almost everything about it. OS X’s “low battery” warnings have gone away, I’ve enjoyed using a great typing surface, and if I need to plug in a USB flash drive, I can just connect it to the Keyboard’s pass-through USB ports rather than reaching around to my iMac’s back. But I’ve been dreaming that a next-gen Apple-made rechargeable Bluetooth keyboard would be considerably better.

When Logitech introduced the awesome Bluetooth Easy-Switch K811, it seemed obvious that Apple would follow suit with a similar rechargeable wireless keyboard. Apple’s new Magic Keyboard is that product… sort of. You get a rechargeable battery promising a “month or more of usage,” which doesn’t sound great compared with the 6-month and 1-year battery lives promised by top rivals. But the reality may vary based on the Mac you’re using, however, because the Magic Keyboard is supposed to support Bluetooth 4, and may eke out better life with Bluetooth 4 Macs. You also get a Lightning to USB cable, and a Lightning port so you can keep the keyboard connected as much or as little as you prefer, which is handy (and similar to many micro-USB-based Bluetooth keyboards).

On the other hand, Apple brought the controversial, lower-profile typing surface from the 12″ MacBook over to the Magic Keyboard, which means a reduction in key travel in the name of “33% more key stability” and “a new lower profile.” Unlike Logitech, Apple apparently doesn’t include any dedicated multi-device pairing keys with the Magic Keyboard, so you won’t be able to effortlessly toggle between a Mac, iPad, and Apple TV like the Easy-Switch K811. So although I was excited before it was announced, I’m going to have to seriously reconsider whether the Magic Keyboard will have a place on my office desk; for the $99 asking price, I would not call it a lock by any means.

Magic Mouse 2 + Magic Trackpad 2

I tested the original Magic Mouse and thought that it was pretty nice until the Magic Trackpad came out the following year. While I have nothing against mice in general or people who still use mice (hi, Mom and Dad, computer gamers, et al), switching over to the Magic Trackpad was a complete game-changer for me. I could never imagine going back to any mouse, even if it was a radically reinvented mouse.

Image courtesy Engadget

The $79 Magic Mouse 2 hasn’t been radically reinvented. It looks virtually identical to the original, swapping AA batteries for a rechargeable battery, tweaking the bottom glide surface for added smoothness when it’s moving on flat surfaces, and — critically — doesn’t get Force Touch support. Apple’s pitching it as useful for “simple gestures,” and only increased the price by $10, maybe because of the included Lightning cable (which unlike the other Magic accessories can’t be connected for charging while the Mouse 2 is in use). I’d call Magic Mouse 2 an easy pass, but that’s just me.

By comparison, the Magic Trackpad 2 is really appealing. The touch surface is 29% bigger than its five-year-old predecessor — something I didn’t really think was necessary — but that gave Apple room to add both a rechargeable battery and Force Touch, features I’ve been waiting for since they first came to trackpads and Macs, respectively. The top is now white glass, a curious shift given Apple’s “black and silver” design philosophy for Macs, and the inside holds four pressure-sensitive sensors. It would probably be too much to hope for haptic feedback in a trackpad at this point, given both power consumption and the potential to rattle on a flat surface, so it’s no shock that Apple Watch- and iPhone 6s-like feedback isn’t included here.

One show-stopper about the Magic Trackpad 2: it’s the only one of the new accessories that literally requires a Mac to have Bluetooth 4 in order to work. The Magic Keyboard and Magic Mouse 2 are backward-compatible with older, non-Bluetooth 4 Macs (so long as they’re capable of running OS X 10.11). I had hoped to use the Magic Trackpad 2 with my mid-2011 iMac, but it’s pre-Bluetooth 4, so I’m probably out of luck. A lot of people are going to find the $129 asking price hard to swallow for a trackpad, too. Unless I upgrade to a new iMac, I’ll probably be sticking with the original, $70 Magic Trackpad, instead.

Retina 4K and 5K iMacs

I’ve kinda-sorta wanted to buy a Retina 5K iMac since the new model was introduced last year, but held off for three reasons: first, I didn’t really need a new iMac, second, the price premium over a regular iMac was considerable, and third, I suspected Apple would release a more polished version within the next year. The mid-2015 27″ iMac update and price drop handled the second point, and the just-announced late-2015 version takes care of the third.

Beyond chip updates, Apple took the rare (but not unprecedented) step of confirming that there was indeed room to improve on its prior “Retina” display with improved color accuracy. Note that Apple’s Mac tech specs pages never dive into color accuracy, instead generically claiming “support for millions of colors,” a pretty meaningless description of color performance.

Today, Apple’s iMac press release notes:

The new Retina displays feature a wider color gamut that brings more brilliant and true-to-life colors to your desktop. With standard sRGB-based displays, many of the colors you see in real life never make it to your screen. The new Retina 5K and 4K displays feature a wider P3-based color gamut that provides a 25 percent larger color space, and with more available colors, images are more vivid, reveal even greater detail and appear more lifelike than ever.

So if you bought a Retina 5K iMac last year because you wanted the most true-to-life screen around, you may be surprised to learn today that “many” real life colors never made it to that screen. But the new Retina 5K and 4K iMacs will fix that. Suffice it to say that I’m glad I waited until at least now to get a Retina iMac.

If I was shopping today, the $1499 21.5″ 4K model would be exceptionally tempting. But then, the new $1799 5K iMac ships with Intel’s sixth-gen/Skylake Core processors, which are missing from the 4K model. The bigger screen, better CPU, and superior GPU would all be worth the added dollars. If only I needed a new iMac…

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With the iPhone 6s/Plus offering the ability to shoot 4K video, and the new 4K 21.5-inch iMac out today, Apple is bringing iMovie for Mac up-to-date with support for 4K footage.

With the latest update to iMovie, support for 4K editing lets you make and share movies that are sharper and more beautiful than ever. iMovie also supports 1080p HD video at 60 frames per second for smoother, more true-to-life action. And now you can begin editing on your iPhone or iPad, then finish editing on your Mac to take advantage of powerful features including color correction, green-screen effects, and animated maps …

Apple updated the iOS version of iMovie with 4K support shortly before the release of the iPhone 6s. The latest Mac version also allows you to import movies from the iOS app to continue editing them on your Mac. Minor additional improvements include 10 additional filters borrowed from the iOS app.

This means that all Apple’s video editing apps – iMovie on iOS and OS X, and Final Cut Pro on the Mac – now allow you to create ultra-HD masterpieces.

The updated app should be rolling out across the course of the day.

Thanks, Kenny

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After a quiet period between the last set of new banks and iOS 9’s public release, Apple has updated its list of Apple Pay participating banks to include more than two dozen more additions. If you bank with one of these banks or credit unions, you should now be able to setup Apple Pay in your Wallet app for use on supported iPhones, iPads, and Apple Watch:

Advia Credit Union
AIM Bank
Alma Bank
American Bank & Trust Company
Armstrong Bank
Arvest Bank
BankIowa
Central National Bank
Clear Mountain Bank
EECU
First Advantage Bank
First Kentucky Bank
John Marshall Bank
Justice Federal Credit Union
Kern Federal Credit Union
Kinecta Federal Credit Union
Los Angeles Police Federal Credit Union
Martin Federal Credit Union
Northern Bank & Trust Company
Partners 1st Federal Credit Union
Radius Bank
Republic Bank & Trust
Scottrade
Sharefax Credit Union
Signature Federal Credit Union
Sussex County Federal Credit Union
The First National Bank in Sioux Falls
Velocity Credit Union
Washington Trust Bank

The new banks join the hundreds of already-participating institutions across the United States and the United Kingdom. Starting with the recently released iOS 9 update for iPhone and iPad and watchOS 2 update for Apple Watch, Apple Pay now supports credit cards from Discover as well as retail-issued and reward cards for the first time. Apple’s Passbook app picked up a new icon and name, Wallet, to reflect its focus toward Apple Pay.

Apple also recently announced that its mobile payment system will soon be accepted at Starbucks (in-stores), KFC, and Chili’s. Best Buy recently turned on support across its stores just in time for the holiday shopping season.

Is your bank included on Apple’s latest list, or are you still awaiting your bank to catch up? Let us know below.

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While Apple may have waited for the iPhone 5s before it introduced Touch ID, it’s been working on the technology since shortly after the launch of the original iPhone. A patent first filed in 2007 was finally granted today, and includes the use of a fingerprint sensor in laptops – though the drawing Apple used to illustrate the concept seemingly dates back even further than 2007!

A finger sensing apparatus may include a finger sensor including an integrated circuit (IC) substrate, an array of finger sensing elements on the IC substrate, and match circuitry on the IC substrate for performing final finger matching. […] FIG. 1 is a perspective view of an electronic device in the form of a laptop computer including a finger sensor and enhanced security in accordance with the present invention.

The patent also covers use in desktop computers, aka the iMac today, embedding the sensor into the keyboard … 

The computer 10 is illustratively shown to be a laptop computer, but the present invention is applicable to other computers (e.g. desktop computers) as well.

It would of course be no surprise for Apple to add a Touch ID sensor to future MacBooks and keyboards after making the security system standard in iPhones and iPads. We haven’t yet seen any sign of this, however, with Apple having passed up an opportunity to add Touch ID to the new Magic Keyboard.

Via Patently Apple

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Apple has today announced updates to the entire iMac family. Most notably, the company has brought Retina to the 21.5 inch iMac range, with 4K resolution displays. Apple has also dropped the non-Retina 27 inch iMacs, so they feature 5K displays across the board. The new iMac displays include faster processors, upgraded graphics, improved wider color gamut and two Thunderbolt 2 ports. The new iMacs have launched alongside updates to the Magic Trackpad, Magic Mouse and keyboard.

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Alongside today’s expected new iMac updates, Apple has announced a trio of new input devices for desktops: the Magic Trackpad 2, Magic Mouse 2, and Magic Keyboard. The new keyboard and trackpad have an updated design to accommodate improved keys on the keyboard and Force Touch on the trackpad, while the mouse has been redesigned internally. All three devices work on rechargeable lithium-ion batteries that juice up via a standard USB Lightning cable:

The all-new Magic Keyboard, Magic Mouse 2 and Magic Trackpad 2 are more comfortable, capable and environmentally friendly. Designed around a built-in rechargeable lithium-ion battery, all three accessories eliminate the need for disposable batteries and feature a noticeably more solid internal structure and quality feel. The new Magic Keyboard features a full-size keyboard in a sleek new design that takes up 13 percent less space on your desktop. With a new scissor mechanism and lower profile, the Magic Keyboard provides an incredibly stable, precise and comfortable typing experience. The new Magic Mouse 2 is lighter, sturdier and features an optimized foot design for a smoother glide. The new Magic Trackpad 2 features a 29 percent larger surface and brings Force Touch to the desktop for the first time. Force Touch enables a range of new ways to interact with your Mac®, including the new Force click to quickly look up a word, preview a file or bring up a map from an address. The new Magic devices pair instantly with your Mac as soon as they are plugged in via the Lightning®-to-USB charging cable, and can last about a month or more on a full charge.***

The new keyboard includes the new scissor-mechanism from the keyboard on the latest 12-inch MacBook, while the trackpad’s Force Touch feature is akin to the trackpads on those MacBooks and latest MacBook Pro models. The Verge has gone hands on with the new input devices, while Steven Levy has published a profile about the product line’s development on Medium.

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Interviewed by Bloomberg, Steve Wozniak reiterated his comments about the difference between fact and fiction in the Steve Jobs movie, saying that almost nothing shown actually happened, but that it was about personalities, not facts.

It’s a great movie. If Steve Jobs had been making movies, this is the quality it would have had.

Asked about the accusation made by Tim Cook and other Apple execs that movies about Jobs were opportunistic and didn’t accurately portray the man, Woz said that the movie showed Jobs at an earlier time in his life … 

Everything any business does is opportunistic […] These movies go back to a former place in time […] Some of these people, like Tim Cook, weren’t around in those days.

Woz said that he did feel Apple was still an innovative company, but that’s not just about a continual stream of new product categories.

The state of innovation in Apple is high […] You reach a point where a product like a phone kind of reaches a plateau, and the thing is to make sure the product works as well as possible.

He did, though, think an Apple car had great potential, saying that Apple could make a car that was as good as, or better than, his much-loved Tesla.

I’m extremely optimistic about the Apple Car […] How is a company like Apple, the largest company in the world, going to grow? It has to do something huge financially, and cars are about to go through a huge [change].

Woz also revealed that Jobs asked him if he wanted to return to Apple. The way he described it, it sounded more like Jobs offering him the opportunity rather than actively soliciting him, but Woz says he was never tempted.

Steve Jobs has asked me questions along the lines [of coming back to Apple] close to his death, and I told him no, I love the life I have.

The full video interview is available over at Bloomberg.

The movie opened at the weekend to the highest per-theater average takings of any movie this year, with full nationwide rollout by October 23.

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Samsung is already eying the iPhone 6s’s most significant new feature, 3D Touch, for its next-generation Galaxy phones. A report on Weibo suggests that the Korean company will be adding pressure-sensitive screens next year following Apple’s lead.

Samsung will apparently be using screen technology from Synaptic, called ClearForce, which we reported on last week. Although right now pressure-sensitive screens are effectively exclusive to iPhone, the availability of Synaptic hardware to OEMs is seemingly allowing Samsung (as well as other manufacturers, not yet disclosed) to jump on board in the near future.

The Huawei Mate S has already been announced with a pressure sensitive display, likely with Synaptic hardware backing it. Samsung phones already include some smart contextual menus when they detect pressure from stylus input but obviously it’s not the same as direct force manipulation with a finger on the screen.

Whilst this rumor is focused on the hardware specifics of detecting force, much of what makes up 3D Touch is actually software implementations. Things like Peek and Pop take advantage of the force data to show custom preview interfaces across iOS as well as show quick actions on the Home Screen. At the moment, it is unclear exactly how far Samsung will ‘be inspired’ by Apple’s ideas in that regard.

Samsung got its reputation as an Apple photocopier many years ago with earlier Galaxy models that resembled the Apple iPhone hardware and software designs. This resulted in a multi-year billion dollar lawsuit over intellectual property, the ramifications of which are still ongoing. Since then, Tim Cook has generally steered Apple away from court litigation, however, and Samsung has done a more respectable job at making unique products.

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The U.S. Justice Department has said that is now satisfied with Apple’s measures to guard against any repetition of the type of anti-competitive behaviour ruled illegal in the long-running ebooks trial. Bloomberg reports that the department has recommended that the court-appointed monitor is no longer necessary.

In a letter to the Manhattan federal judge who found in 2013 that Apple illegally conspired with publishers to set e-book prices, the U.S. said Apple has “now implemented meaningful antitrust policies, procedures, and training programs that were obviously lacking at the time Apple participated in and facilitated the horizontal price-fixing conspiracy found by this court.”

The letter did, however, note that Apple “never embraced a cooperative working relationship with the monitor” … 

Apple denied this, but did agree that the relationship had been “rocky.” Apple had previously complained that it was being overcharged by the lawyer appointed by the court to monitor its compliance with the ebook ruling, after it received a bill for $138,432 for a fortnight’s work by Michael Bromwich.

Apple later called for Bromwich to be removed from the role, stating that he was attempting to extend his remit beyond that specified by the court, and demanding interviews with senior Apple execs who’d had no involvement in any of the ebook negotiations. Apple’s motion was denied.

While this chapter of the ebook saga appears to be at end end, it may not be the end of the story: Apple is appealing the case to the U.S. Supreme Court. Apple’s argument is that it needed to act aggressively in pricing negotiations to break Amazon’s near-monopoly in the ebook market at the time. Some judges from Apple’s previous appeal have expressed sympathy with this view.

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