TopTechTrends

US, UK police identify and charge Russian leader of LockBit ransomware gang

May 7, 2024

The identity of the leader of one of the most infamous ransomware groups in history has finally been revealed. On Tuesday, a coalition of law enforcement led by the U.K.’s National Crime Agency announced that Russian national, Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev, 31, is the person behind the nickname LockBitSupp, the administrator and developer of the LockBit […]

© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Apple’s Final Cut Camera lets filmmakers connect four cameras at once

May 7, 2024

The latest version of Final Cut Pro introduces a new feature to speed up your shoot: Live Multicam. It’s a bold move from Apple, transforming your iPad into a multicam production studio, enabling creatives to connect and preview up to four cameras all at once, al in one place. From the command post, directors can […]

© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

The new iPad Pros are Apple’s first devices powered by its M4 chip

May 7, 2024

At its iPad event today, Apple announced its new iPad Pro tablets, powered by its new M4 chips, the fourth generation of its custom SoCs. The new chips feature a new display engine, as well as a significantly updated CPU and GPU cores. The base M4 chips come with up to ten CPU and ten […]

© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Apple unveils a new Magic Keyboard

May 7, 2024

At its iPad-focused event on Monday, Apple announced a new and improved Magic Keyboard, its keyboard accessory for iPad. The Magic Keyboard has been “completely redesigned” to be much thinner and lighter, Apple says, and now includes a function row for quick access to controls like screen brightness, volume adjustment and play/pause. Beyond that, the […]

© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Deepfakes of the dead are a growing Chinese business

May 7, 2024
Once a week, Sun Kai has a video call with his mother. He opens up about work, the pressures he faces as a middle-aged man, and thoughts that he doesn’t even discuss with his wife. His mother will occasionally make a comment, like telling him to take care of himself—he’s her only child. But mostly,…

Apple introduces Pencil Pro for iPad

May 7, 2024

Shocking as it may seem, it’s been nearly a decade since the first Apple Pencil was announced, way back in 2015. The stylus hasn’t seen much in the way of updates since then. The most significant arrived in 2018, bringing magnetic charging to the line. Last year, meanwhile, saw the arrival of a less expensive […]

© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Apple stacks two OLED screens – “Tandem OLED” – in its new iPad Pro

May 7, 2024

Yeah, you can put an OLED screen in an iPad, but then you lose the brightness that iPad Pro users are used to. What is a poor computer maker to do? You stack two of them, of course. “We’ve always envisioned iPad as a magical sheet of glass,” said John Ternus, SVP, Hardware Engineering during […]

© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Apple finally places front camera on iPad on the landscape edge — like it should be

May 7, 2024

Apple announced new iPads — new iPad Airs and new iPad Pros — at its “Let Loose” event on Tuesday. However, one of the important updates for people who take a lot of video calls was Apple shifting the camera to the landscape edge. Until now, the camera on the iPad was on the portrait […]

© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Apple iPad Pro gets an M4 chip and OLED display

May 7, 2024

As anticipated, Apple’s iPad Pro was the star of Tuesday’s “Let Loose” event. The arrival of the 7th generation device marks the first major upgrade to the premium tablet since 2022. “We’re not only going to push the limits of iPad,” Apple SVP John Ternus noted during the event, “we’re going to crush them.” The […]

© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.