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Tuesday, 28 April 2020

DJI Mavic Air 2: Hands on with the new camera, 34-minute flight time for $799 on May 11 - CNET

The compact folding 4K camera drone might be DJI's best consumer drone yet.

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Apple Watch saved my life: 5 people share their stories - CNET

With its fall detection feature, heart rate notifications, exercise tracking or just the ability to make a call from your wrist, the Apple Watch has made a mark in each one of these stories.

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DJI Mavic Air 2: Specs, Price, Release Date

The latest quadcopter from the drone leader goes on sale next month for $799, and it's packed with automated flying and photo improvements.

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DJI’s new Mavic Air 2 has an upgraded camera and much longer flying time

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Two and a half years after introducing the first Mavic Air, DJI is announcing its successor: the Mavic Air 2. It comes with a bigger image sensor, ditches Wi-Fi in favor of DJI’s own OccuSync transmission technology, has up to 34 minutes of flight time, and is packaged with a completely redesigned controller.

The Mavic Air 2 is available for preorder starting today for $799 and will begin shipping May 11th in the US. The Fly More bundle, which, for the first time, includes ND filters (finally) along with a carrying bag, prop guards, charging hub, and three batteries will be available for $988.

DJI also touts this as its smartest and safest drone yet. It comes with preprogrammed scene detection modes for photos that include snow, trees,...

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Dine like Deadpool with Marvel Eat the Universe cookbook - CNET

Chow down on Deadpool's Chimichangitas, Phoenix's Hot Chicken and Egg Oyakudon, Storm's Tournedos of Beef, Dazzler's Pizza Bagels and more.

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Is the 11-inch iPad Pro Magic Keyboard big enough?

Sure, the 12.9-inch iPad Pro with the Magic Keyboard is like having a laptop, but what if you have the 11-inch iPad Pro?

I don't like Apple's Smart Keyboard or Smart Keyboard folio. I find the key feedback to be a bit ... mushy. I think it's a genius design, and for some, it's a wonderful experience, but it's just not for me. I prefer keys that are a bit more clicky, springy, noisy, even. So when Apple announced the Magic Keyboard with trackpad for iPad Pro in March, I threw my money at my computer screen with a celebrated, "huzzah!"

Because I love the Magic Keyboard for the iMac. It's my favorite keyboard experience and I've tested out a lot of different keyboards. Combining my love of the best keyboard ever with my love of using a keyboard with a trackpad on my iPad Pro was a no-brainer. Apple Card: charged.

At this point, all the big tech bloggers and vloggers have already told you what's great and what's not-so-great about the Magic Keyboard for the 12.9-inch iPad Pro, but what about the smaller one? I don't want my iPad setup to be as big as my laptop setup. If I need a laptop size workspace, I'll use ... my laptop. I prefer my iPad to be smaller, more portable. If, like me, you want to know is whether the smaller 11-inch iPad Pro and Magic Keyboard configuration could be a comfortable laptop-like experience, too, you're in the right place. Let's dig in.

And yes, I wrote and published this review exclusively on my iPad Pro with the Magic Keyboard.

Keyboard class

Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro

From $299 at Apple

A typing experience on iPad like no other.

The Good

Thin profile
Excellent key feedback
Backlit keys
Tactile trackpad
Unique design

The Bad

Limited view range
Still wobbly on laps

It's the keyboard you've been waiting for Apple to make and it does not disappoint.

Clickity-clack this keyboard is stacked

Is the keyboard all it's cracked up to be? That's the question everyone is asking. Keyboards are definitely a personal experience. Some don't really have a strong opinion. They are "keyboard agnostic." Others have very strong opinions about what makes a good keyboard and the slightest changes to tactility and feedback have a huge effect.

Here's how I'd describe the Magic Keyboard for the iPad Pro; It's like the Magic Keyboard for the iMac, but with a cloth under the keys. I don't mean that they are mushy like the Smart Keyboard for iPad. There is plenty of springiness and bounce. But the click is less clicky, more thumpy, when you type.

The keys themselves have rounded edges. They aren't sharp like the iMac's Magic Keyboard, but also not as soft as the Smart Keyboard for iPad. The keys have just the slightest bit of a concave curve. It's almost unnoticeable, but if you run your finger across the keys, you can feel the curve.

On the iMac/Mac's Magic Keyboard, keys are loose. They sort of wiggle when you move your finger around on the keyboard. They're much tighter on the Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro. There isn't as much of a clickety-clackity experience.

How well does this keyboard size work with the 11-inch iPad Pro? Much better than I would have imagined.

How well does this keyboard size work with the 11-inch iPad Pro? Much better than I would have imagined. There is enough room between keys to make for comfortable travel. The keys don't feel cramped into the small space at all. There is plenty of wrist pad room for me to rest my palms next to the trackpad without accidentally clicking it.

The overall setup, however, is a little too small. This has nothing to do with the keyboard itself and more to do with the fact that an 11-inch "laptop" is a little too small to be a daily use, 8 hours per day, computer. I can't keep my arms in any sort of ergonomic position. It gets uncomfortable after a couple of hours of straight typing. This is just a general observation on an 11-inch computing setup. It is no reflection on the Magic Keyboard case.

Magnetic personality is strong

The folio part of the keyboard case, the magnetic backing that the iPad Pro sticks to, is where most of the unique design aspect comes in to play.

As far as material and general fit and feel, it's very similar to the folio part of the Smart Keyboard folio. It uses the same silicon exterior material and the same soft microfiber lining. there is a single bendable joint about a quarter of the way up from the bottom. This joint locks into position at a 30-degree angle. It is adjustable up to that angle, but not past it.

Instead of a case that you snap the iPad Pro into, it's designed so you can simply plop the iPad Pro onto the mount magnetically. There are multiple strong magnets on either side of the mount to keep the iPad Pro in place. There is no chance your iPad will slip away from the magnetic connection without a serious jolt.

There is no chance your iPad will slip away from the magnetic connection without a serious jolt.

Where the magnets are positioned on the mount, in conjunction with the iPad Pro's Smart Connector support means the iPad snaps into place. There's no question whether you've lined up the back camera hole correctly. If you're really sloppy about placement, you might connect it with a crooked angle, but it's also easy to correct that mistake with a simple sliding up or down of the iPad Pro so it reconnects with the correct magnets. It's a very elegant design.

The magnets are very strong, which means you'll need to use two hands to remove it from the mount. Or really, one finger resting on the keyboard while the other removes the iPad from the mount.

I was actually able to disengage the iPad Pro from the magnets with one hand by grabbing it right next to the angled backside and pulling forward, but it was a little awkward.

Still, I'd give up one-handed removal from the mount in exchange for a reliable magnetic connection, which I think Apple was betting on when the design team came up with this system.

The hinge design

The magnetic mount and multiple-angled hinge design gives the Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro its unique "hover"aesthetic. It's also how the design team figured out how to account for weight and balance. Since the iPad Pro, which would essentially be the display part of a laptop, is so top heavy (because it's a whole computing device, not just a display), the anchor hinge at the base and the mount angle hinge had to be adjusted to correct for too much weight on top. That's why the iPad Pro lifts up and moves forward before angling backward.

This hinge design makes this case stand out from every other iPad keyboard in existence. But is it the best possible design?

There are things about it that I love and things about it that I think are over designed.

It was pretty ingenious to come up with a way to counter balance the top heaviness of the iPad Pro while still allowing for some angling freedom. Most cases either have an awkward kickstand on the backside, which is pretty uncomfortable on a lap, or only offer two or three stationary angles, with the bottom of the iPad anchored down to the keyboard base magnetically (think, Smart Keyboard design).

The Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro, however, has a maximum angle of 30 degrees, which is adjustable, but all adjustable angles are too inward to be useful to anyone. You can only angle downward from the open-most angle. No one uses an iPad at a 15-degree (toward the keyboard) angle. It's an over-designed idea.

There are things about it that I love and things about it that I think are over designed.

There aren't a lot of options for an iPad keyboard that doesn't end up with an imbalance between the base and the iPad. Brydge, actually, seems to have come the closest with an infinite number of adjustable angles, though if you go past the sweet spot, it'll start to tip over.

I'm not saying the unique angling isn't a good idea. It's certainly one of the best ideas I've seen for a keyboard case. I'm just saying I think it suffers from being overly designed.

Moving away from angling and into hovering, I really like the way the iPad hovers over the keyboard. I don't think Apple could have made the keyboard as roomy if it weren't for the fact that the iPad is up and out of the way.

If you were able to place the iPad directly onto the keyboard base at the exact angle it sits when fully open, you'd cut off the number keys row entirely. This hover design allows for plenty of keyboard space, while also providing enough wrist pad distance for you to comfortably set the palm of your hands, if that's how you type.

The only problem with the hover design is that my fingertips will oftentimes inadvertently tap the iPad whenever I'm reaching for a number or the delete key. It stops me in my typing tracks every time I reach for any key in the top row. Angling the screen downward fixes that problem, but the screen is no longer in my ideal position at that point.

The weight

I've heard a lot of reviewers mention that the Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro is a lot heavier than they anticipated. I've been typing on my iPad Pro with the Brydge Pro+ for a few months now and got used to the extra weight that comes along with a keyboard and trackpad combo. To me, the Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro is just about right, in terms of weight. Holding just the cases up, I think it weighs about the same, maybe slightly less than the Brydge Pro+, but only slightly.

The Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro actually wins a lot of points for its thinness.

The Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro actually wins a lot of points for its thinness. It's significantly thinner than most keyboard cases I've used. Not thinner than the Smart Keyboard case, of course, but much thinner than the Brydge Pro+.

This, I really like, because the palms of my hands don't mash into the edge of the keyboard base while I type.

The stability

I have to be honest, I expected the Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro to be more stable when it's on my lap. I wanted it to work miracles. It's ... fine. But still suffers from a bit of wobbling. It still tips back just a little, making me feel compelled to hold down the base with the palms of my hands in order to avoid any potential spill over. It doesn't tip, but it always feels like it could if I'm not careful. If I raise my wrists up from the base in an attempt to practice good typing positioning, I get a lot of bounce.

My lap has to be in a particular position for the setup to feel truly stable.

I also noticed that my lap has to be in a particular position for the setup to feel truly stable. I have to be sitting in a chair low enough for my knees to be at a 90-degree angle, which doesn't happen all that often. Chairs are usually a little too tall for me. When my knees are angled even slightly lower than 90-degrees, the weight balance is off and there is no new angle I can reposition to in order to fix it.

On any flat surface, the stability is irrefutable. It's a solid keyboard system. Nothing bounces. Nothing tips. It feels like a laptop on a table or desk. The base is solid with no bounce at all. the angle of the iPad is pretty much perfect. Not too high. Not to low. If you're sitting in front of a flat surface, this is going to feel amazing.

The trackpad

The trackpad is where the Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro really shines. I've had limited experience with multiple brands of trackpads, but so far, this is the best one I've ever used. Where other trackpads tend to misstep is in scrolling. When trying to scroll down large amounts of text, other trackpads either stutter or go too far to fast. Even with adjustments in settings, I still struggle with this.

The trackpad on the Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro is incredibly smooth and intuitive.

The trackpad on the Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro is incredibly smooth and intuitive. The cursor moves into position perfectly and reacts to buttons, text fields, and action bars perfectly. This, in my opinion, is what makes the iPad experience feel more like a laptop experience.

Though I'm happy that Apple chose real clicking buttons for the trackpad, not haptics, I prefer Tap to Click with my trackpad usage, which this trackpad also supports.

No function keys

I am very aware of why Apple didn't include a row of function keys with the Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro. It just wouldn't have fit. The overall experience would have been full-time poorer as opposed to only been poorer once in a while when you want to use function keys.

I really miss having those keys, though. When I want to turn the volume up or down on my music, or want to hop back to the Home page, or increase or decrease my screen brightness, the function keys have always been there for me within a finger's reach.

What I miss the absolute most is the media control keys. I really wish Apple had included volume, playback, fast forward and rewind keys. Even if they were buried under another key.

Battery hog?

I managed to get about nine hours straight of working on my iPad Pro with the Magic Keyboard attached with about 25% battery left. That's with standard work-based activities like email triage, two 30-minute meetings in Google Hangouts Meet (a serious battery hog), writing this review and uploading it to our system (along with the photos), planning content for the website, checking in with my coworkers in Slack regularly, and a few other work-type things.

It does suck up a few percentage points of juice over the day, but it's still within Apple's battery performance estimate of 10 hours of usage for the iPad Pro, so the drain is negligible.

When charging via the Magic Keyboard, I noticed that it doesn't juice up nearly as fast as if I were to charge directly through the iPad (about 1% per minute versus about 3 or 4% per minute), but if I need the iPad's USB-C port free for other peripherals, it's good to know I have a different method to charge.

The price

When we all found out how much the Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro costs, I think we had a collective double-take. At a time when you can get a brains new iPhone for $399, a $299 keyboard case seems a bit tone deaf. It's $120 more than Apple's next most expensive keyboard case, the Smart Folio.

I love that I can have the same scissor switch, bouncy key, springy feedback keyboard with my iPad Pro.

Now, I love the Magic Keyboard. I love that Apple has transformed it for mobile and I can have the same scissor switch, bouncy key, springy feedback keyboard with my iPad Pro. There's no denying it's worth a few extra bucks.

I was disappointed enough, however, in the functionality to consider this not an instabuy (even though I insta-bought it). Apple didn't truly solve the pain points of typing on laps. It's still wobbly. The keyboard still angles upward if your lap isn't in the exact right position, and to add to the frustration, you can't simply angle the iPad further back to accommodate an imbalance. It's an amazing keyboard, but not the be-all-end-all experience I was hoping for.

There are plenty of features that make this keyboard worth considering at this price; the trackpad, the unique look, the ultra thin (for a keyboard case) design, the fact that it is distinctly Apple (everyone will know you've got the Magic Keyboard as soon as you open it).

But I still think it's a little overpriced for all its pluses.

The bottomline

4 out of 5

I love the Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro. I love the springy, bouncy tactile feedback I get when typing away. The keys are stable — no wiggling — and have a low enough profile that key travel is comfortable. The keys are spread out enough, even on the 11-inch iPad Pro, that it doesn't feel cramped or compact. The trackpad experience is second-to-none. The ease of which I can toss the iPad Pro onto the case and remove it is simply a joy. When I close it all up, I can take it with me without it taking up extra space thanks to the ultra-thin design.

The way the angled design addresses top-heaviness is especially ingenious, but suffers from a little too much designing. It's unnecessarily complex at the expense of limited viewing angles. And in the end, it doesn't really solve the problems of tying on a lap. It still wobbles around and tends to tip backward just a bit if you don't have your knees angled at exactly 90 degrees.

I would like to tell you that it's the best keyboard case ever made for the iPad Pro and you should throw all your other keyboards away, but at this price, I think it's more of an Apple fan's luxury buy than any true reason you shouldn't ever try any other keyboard case.

There are still very few good iPad keyboards with trackpads on the market, and the Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro is top-of-the-line. I definitely recommend it, and anyone that uses it is probably going to fall in love with the typing experience. The Magic Keyboard looks and feels like using a laptop, even on the 11-inch model. It's only real flaw is that it doesn't magically make lap typing less annoying.

Keyboard class

Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro

From $299 at Apple

A typing experience on iPad like no other.

It's the keyboard you've been waiting for Apple to make and it does not disappoint.

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Apple lawyer fired for insider trading says charges are unconstitutional

Insider trading is legal, according to a lawyer that Apple fired.

What you need to know

Former Apple lawyer Gene Levoff is fighting his insider trading charges.
The defense claims prosecution over insider trading is unconstitutional.
Apple had fired Levoff back in 2018 because of his actions.

A former in-house lawyer for Apple, who was indicted in 2019 for insider trading, is asking the court to dismiss his case because it is unconstitutional.

Reported by Bloomberg, Gene Levoff has asked a New Jersey judge to dismiss the case against him on the grounds that no criminal law bars the conduct he is accused of.

Kevin Marino, Levoff's lawyer, filed the complaint, saying that insider trading as a crime was invented by judges and not legislators. That, according to the defense, "renders the criminal prosecution of insider trading unconstitutional."

"The definition of insider trading is wholly judge-made: Every element of the crime and the scope of regulated individuals subject to it was divined by judges, not elected legislators ... This alone renders the criminal prosecution of insider trading unconstitutional."

Levoff is being charged with insider trading due to his action taken with Apple stock. He had been privy to financial information about the company before it reached investors, and his actions resulted in "$227,000 in profits, while allowing him to avoid $377,000 of losses". Before being indicted for insider trading in 2019, Apple had placed Levoff on leave and then fired him in 2018.

"Levoff's trades based on the inside information led to about $227,000 in profits, while allowing him to avoid $377,000 of losses, according to prosecutors. Levoff was Apple's senior director of corporate law when the company fired him in September 2018 after placing him on leave two months earlier."

According to Miriam Baer, a professor at Brooklyn Law School, Levoff's is unlikely to win. Baer says that the Supreme Court has dealt with an insider trading case as soon as 2016 and that "if they thought the way insider trading law has been developed was unconstitutional, you'd think this would have come out by now."

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Halide shows the iPhone SE uses machine learning to shoot portrait photos

Apple takes a huge step in machine learning with the iPhone SE camera.

What you need to know

Halide has gone in-depth on the new iPhone SE camera.
The company details how Portrait Mode is possible with machine learning.
It also compares photos between the iPhone SE and iPhone 11 Pro.

Halide, the company behind the popular camera app for iPhone, has gone in-depth in its tests with the new iPhone SE and how its camera stacks up against the iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro.

In a blog post posted to Medium, the company has gone deep into how the new iPhone SE accomplishes its Portrait Mode photographs with software.

"This iPhone goes where no iPhone has gone before with "Single Image Monocular Depth Estimation." In English, this is the first iPhone that can generate a portrait effect using nothing but a single, 2D image."

While some may point out that the iPhone XR can also shoot in Portrait Mode with a single camera, Halide notes that the XR's sensor had focus pixels that enabled this feature through hardware. The iPhone SE, in comparison, is generating a portrait photo entirely through machine learning.

"While the iPhone XR has a single camera, it still obtained depth information through hardware. It tapped into the sensor's focus pixels, which you can think of as tiny pairs of 'eyes' designed to help with focus. The XR uses the very slight differences seen out of each eye to generate a very rough depth map ... The new iPhone SE can't use focus pixels, because its older sensor doesn't have enough coverage. Instead, it generates depth entirely through machine learning."

Currently, Apple is saying that its Portrait Mode on the iPhone SE only works with people. Halide chalks this up to Apple's strategy to "under-promise and over-deliver."

"As long as the subject in the foreground in sharp and in focus, most people will never know you're playing fast and loose with the background blur. So back to the question, "Why does Apple limit this to people?" Apple tends to under-promise and over-deliver. There's nothing stopping them from letting you take depth photos of everything, but they'd rather set the expectation, "Portrait Mode is only for people," than disappoint users with a depth effect that stumbles from time to time."

The exciting thing about this is that, as Apple's machine learning improves, Portrait Mode could become available for more and more subjects for a single camera. If you want to see all of the comparisons between Portrait Mode on the iPhone SE and the iPhone 11 Pro, check out Halide's blog post.

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Qoala raises $13.5M to grow its insurance platform in Indonesia

Online lending firms might be beginning to feel the heat of the coronavirus pandemic in Southeast Asia, but investors’ faith in digital insurance startups remains unflinching in the region.

Jakarta-based Qoala has raised $13.5 million in its Series A financing round, the one-year-old startup said Tuesday. Centauri Fund, a joint venture between funds from South Korea’s Kookmin Bank and Telkom Indonesia, led the round.

Sequoia India, Flourish Ventures, Kookmin Bank Investments, Mirae Asset Venture Investment, Mirae Asset Sekuritas and existing investors MassMutual Ventures Southeast Asia, MDI Ventures, SeedPlus and Bank Central Asia’s Central Capital Ventura participated in the round, which pushes the startup’s to-date raise to $15 million.

Qoala works with leading insurers including AXA Mandiri, Tokio Marine, Great Eastern to offer customers cover against phone display damage, e-commerce logistics and hotel-quality checks. The startup says it offers personalized products to customers and eases the burden while making claims by allowing them to upload pictures.

The startup maintains partnership with several e-commerce firms including Grabkios, JD.ID, Shopee and Tokopedia and hotel and travel booking firms PegiPegi and RedBus.

It uses machine learning to detect fraud claims. It’s a win-win scenario for customers, who can make claims easily and have more affordable and sachet insurance products to buy, and for insurers, who can reach more customers.

Qoala processes more than 2 million policies each month, up from 7,000 in March last year. The startup said it is working on insurance products to cover health and peer-to-peer categories. The startup, which employs about 150 people currently, plans to double its headcount in a year.

“As a relatively new entrant in the space we are delighted to partner with leading global investors whose tremendous thought leadership as well as operational experience will allow us to maintain our innovative edge. This truly demonstrates the ecosystem’s belief in what Qoala is trying to achieve — humanizing insurance and making it accessible and affordable to all,” said Harshet Lunani, founder and chief executive of Qoala, in a statement.

Kenneth Li, managing partner at Centauri Fund, said Qoala’s multi-channel approach has the potential to unlock Indonesia’s untapped insurance industry.

“Our thesis identified that Indonesia has a considerably low gross written premium (GWP) to GDP ratio in comparison to other emerging countries, coupled with the large growing middle class in need of more security in their financial planning which allows immense potential for the insurance sector to take off in Indonesia through innovative propositions,” he added.

According to one estimate (PDF), Southeast Asia’s digital insurance market is currently valued at $2 billion and is expected to grow to $8 billion by 2025. Last week, Singapore-based Igloo extended its Series A financing round to add $8.2 million to it.

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COVID-19 pushes Westpac to jump on Apple Pay

Westpac also announced it would be copping a AU$2.2 billion impairment charge in its first half financial results as a result of the global COVID-19 pandemic.

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Victorian government invests AU$5.2 million in tech upgrade to move VCAT to remote work

The upgrade will mean the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal can continue to hear planning and other matters digitally during the coronavirus pandemic.

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New Avengers: Endgame footage shows Brie Larson's first day as Captain Marvel - CNET

The Russo Brothers tweet exciting behind-the-scenes footage while hosting an Endgame watch party. (Live updates)

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The new iPhone SE is missing Haptic Touch support for notifications

The new iPhone SE is missing a feature none of us would have guessed.

What you need to know

Haptic Touch is not working for the new iPhone SE.
Long pressing on a notification does not expand it to reveal more information.
The feature has existed in every iPhone since the iPhone 6S.

The iPhone SE is a fantastic phone for the price, and response to its release has been overwhelmingly positive. That said, a few owners have discovered a glaring omission in a feature that many of us have grown so used to over the years that we've apparently taken it for granted.

According to a new report from MacRumors, iPhone SE owners have reported on Reddit that Haptic Touch is not working on notifications on the lock and home screen. It is, however, working when you long-press on an app icon.

"I received my SE yesterday and very quickly realized that Haptic Touch is not supported on notifications. I am not seeing this reported anywhere, haven't seen one review mentioning it, no video I watched mentioned it. Haptic Touch works for peek and pop, and on icons on the home screen but if you are on the lock screen or Notification Center and try to long-press an email to archive, or a text to quick reply you are out of luck.

While some users have pointed out that you can slide to the left of a notification and tap "View" in order to see the additional information of a notification, the omission of the Haptic Touch functionality marks a major feature missing from the new iPhone SE. Not only does the iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro support long pressing a notification for more information, but so did the iPhone 8, the phone that the iPhone SE has effectively replaced.

"On the 6S-XS 3D Touch was the solution, with the XR and 11 series Haptic Touch was the replacement, but this is the first non 3D Touch phone to be released where all the features of Haptic Touch are not fully baked into the OS."

According to Matthew Panzarino, Editor-in-Chief of TechCrunch, the lack of Haptic Touch for notifications on the iPhone SE is not a bug and the user experience is "working as intended".

I have not been able to determine whether there is any technical reason why or not. But it is 'working as intended' currently. I'm probably not an iPhone SE customer due to iPhone 11 camera stuff, but this would stop me from buying one.
— Matthew Panzarino (@panzer) April 27, 2020

It is unclear if Apple truly intended this functionality to be absent from the new iPhone SE, but even if they did, it seems to be an odd omission as it breaks the software experience between its latest iPhones.

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Go read this analysis of the new iPhone SE’s AI-powered depth camera system

Unlike most phones released these days, Apple’s new iPhone SE has just one 12-megapixel rear camera lens. But it turns out that one camera is still pretty good, at least in well-lit situations, my colleague Dieter Bohn found in his iPhone SE review.

For portrait photos, the iPhone SE’s camera uses machine learning to estimate depth of field, and Ben Sandofsky, one of the developers of mobile photography app Halide, took a closer look at how at how portrait photos taken by the SE’s single camera actually work.

The key feature of the iPhone SE’s portrait mode is that can do something called “monocular depth estimation,” which is enabled by the iPhone SE’s A13 Bionic processor (the same processor in the iPhone 11 and 11 Pro). That...

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Keyboard class

Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro

The Good

The Bad

Clickity-clack this keyboard is stacked

Magnetic personality is strong

The hinge design

The weight

The stability

The trackpad

No function keys

Battery hog?

The price

The bottomline

Keyboard class

Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro

What you need to know

What you need to know

What you need to know

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