AppleCare+ for HomePod will cost $39, covers AirPort products

In case you want to protect your $349 HomePod from accidental damage, you’ll be able to get AppleCare+ coverage for $39.
Official announcement – DJI Mavic Air specifications confirmed, priced at $799-999

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Finally, the adventure unfolded! Today is the day of the official announcement of the all-new DJI Mavic Air. We now know all of the specifications of this drone that slots right in between the current DJI Mavic Pro and DJI Spark and priced at $799. As usual, many specs had already been leaked through different channels and we tried our best to gather them and present them to you. However, today is the day, so let’s get started!
HomePod can play purchased iTunes music, podcasts and stream Beats 1 without Apple Music subscription

Apple today announced that HomePod goes on sale February 9. Whilst HomePod works best with an Apple Music subscription, allowing users to ask Siri to play any of the 40 million tracks in the Apple Music catalog, it does not require a subscription to function. We have learned that the HomePod can play content purchased from iTunes, stream Beats 1, and listen to podcasts without needing a subscription.
Snapchat will from today let you share Stories on Facebook, Twitter & elsewhere
Comment: Why I’m keeping the iMac Pro [Video]

Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been trying to decide whether to keep the iMac Pro or go back to the 5K iMac. On the surface, both machines look almost identical outside of the Pro’s space gray exterior. And depending on the type of tasks you regularly engage in, performance differences can vary widely.
But the more that I use the iMac Pro, the more that I come to appreciate how good it really is for my workflow. In this post and hands-on video, I consider five reasons why I’ve decided to stick with Apple’s professional-grade all-in-one. more…
Report: Apple shipped 29M iPhone X units in Q4 2017, including 7M in China
HomePod will cost £319 in UK and A$499 in Australia, coming to France and Germany next

When Apple announced HomePod last summer, it introduced the smart speaker with a $349 price tag in the United States and promised availability in the UK and Australia. Now that Apple has announced both the order and release dates, we now know how much HomePod will cost in the two other launch countries.
Apple shares new HomePod details including gesture controls ahead of launch

Apple has unveiled lots of HomePod details this morning including a new guide for how the smart speaker can be controlled with the top surface area. HomePod will be primarily driven by Siri, but tapping the top will support a number of gestures for playback control.
With no multi-room support for HomePod at launch, will you buy now or wait? [Poll]

Those waiting eagerly for Apple’s HomePod smart speaker have now twice been disappointed. First, when Apple delayed the release from December until February, and a second piece of bad news now as the release date has been announced.
Coming this year in a free software update, users will be able to play music throughout the house with multi-room audio.
So if you were planning on buying more than one, it won’t offer multi-room support until some unspecified later date …
Adobe announces Sensei-powered updates to Photoshop CC, third-party integrations for XD, more

This morning, Adobe is introducing several significant updates to both Photoshop CC and XD, the company’s user experience prototyping tool. Today’s announcements bring features and improvements developed thanks to Adobe’s work in machine learning and from customer feedback and requests in the Creative Cloud desktop apps.

