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TODAY’S CAN’T MISS DEALS:

Apple 13-inch MacBook Air gets a $239 price drop, now $760 shipped

Daily Deals: WD Elements 1TB USB 3.0 Hard Drive $40, VIZIO 50-inch 4K Chromecast Built-in UHDTV with HDR $550, more

Logitech’s M705 Wireless Mouse goes to $20, MX Master $60, more

Apple 9.7-inch iPad Pro Wi-Fi + LTE 32GB $579 shipped (Reg. $729)

Apple’s 15-inch MacBook Pro 512GB gets a nearly $400 discount for Memorial Day

Apple’s Great Games for $1 Sale: BADLAND, Assassin’s Creed, many more

Review: Logitech’s Z537 Speaker System gives your Mac the audio it deserves [Video]

9to5Rewards: Sphero’s Star Wars BB-8 smartphone-controlled droid [Giveaway]

MORE NEW GEAR FROM TODAY:

Canon PIXMA Inkjet All-In-One Printer w/AirPrint $56 shipped (Reg. $75)

Smartphone Accessories: Mophie Juice Pack for iPhone 6/s Plus $50, more

Mophie Battery Case for iPhone 6/s: $30 (Reg. $50)

NEW PRODUCTS & MORE:

How-to build your very own LEGO fidget spinner

MORE DEALS STILL LIVE:

This Brother Wireless Printer w/ AirPrint is an Amazon favorite, now $100 (Reg. $130)

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Intel’s new X-Series processor family boasts a $1,999 18-core CPU

Intel today has announced its new family of Intel Core processors. Titled as Intel Core X-Series, these high-end desktop processors are the next step in Intel’s processor family. Ranging from $242 – $1,999, the X-Series looks to cover the gamut of next generation desktop processing power.

Most notable from today’s event is Intel’s X-Series i9-7908XE which boasts 18-cores and 36-threads.

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Pixelmator team teases new Mac app ‘Graphique’ coming soon

The team that make Pixelmator, a photo image editing app for Mac and iOS, are today teasing a whole new project on its way soon. Pixelmator was most recently featured by Apple at its last product event as an example of Touch Bar integration from third party developers.

Although details are scarce, the teaser image appears to reveal the name of the app as ‘Graphique’. The team describes the upcoming app as the ‘most Mac thing’ they have ever done and has apparently been in development for five years.

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Essential Home is a Siri Speaker competitor that integrates with HomeKit and offers proactive information

Today the Essential Phone, built by the father of Android, went official and it’s an impressive device, to say the least. However, that’s not all the company had to announce. Along with the phone is the Essential Home, a new home assistant that looks to compete with Apple’s upcoming Siri speaker and other Amazon Echo and Google Home-like devices.

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Latest Apple Park drone tour provides our first peek inside the Steve Jobs Theater [Video]

The Apple Park images keep coming. Soon after the first press images, lovely sunset footage and 3D buildings in Apple Maps, the latest 4K drone footage gives us our first glimpse inside the Steve Jobs Theater.

Drone pilot Matthew Roberts noticed that some of the window coverings on the auditorium had been removed, so took us down low for a sneak peek …

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Poll: Should the iPhone 8 uses the same camera cutout as the bezel-less Essential Phone?

There’s a new kid on the block when it comes to flagship Android phones: father-of-Android Andy Rubin has today unveiled the Essential Phone. Despite the name bringing to mind a basic device, it has great specs and a scuff-resistant titanium & ceramic casing – and carries a flagship-sized $699 price-tag.

But the first thing anyone will notice about the design is that camera cutout in the screen. It’s the approach Essential has taken to creating a near-bezel-free phone while retaining a high-spec front-facing camera …

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Comment: China shows the future of mobile payment as it hits more than 50% of GDP

Listening to some of the Apple Pay stats put forward by the company, you might get the impression that the payment method is taking the market by storm. In Apple’s Q1 2017 earnings call, Tim Cook told us that the number of Apple Pay users tripled year-on-year, and that transaction volumes increased by 500%.

In Q2, we finally got some actual numbers, at least for the US: a total of 4.5M transactions to date.

But while these are big numbers, they are still a drop in the ocean given that total card transactions are numbered in the tens of billions each year. Viewed in this light, Apple Pay accounts for a fraction of a percent of all card purchases.

However, if you want to see the potential of mobile payments, you need look no further than China …

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15-inch MacBook Pro delivery times slip until after WWDC, hardware updates expected

The Apple Online Store is now out of stock of current 15-inch MacBook Pro with Touch Bar configurations, with estimated delivery quoted as June 5 – June 7. Amazon is also reporting constrained stock availability of the 15-inch models.

June 5 just happens to be the same day as the WWDC keynote which points to a hardware refresh at the event. The change in shipping times was first noticed by MacRumors. Although WWDC is typically a software event, there have been several rumors of new hardware this time around …

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