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When done wrong, higher performance hurts power efficiency. When done right, power efficiency enables higher performance.

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• Samsung Galaxy S9 battery life problems and what it means for Apple

• Heart of the Machine

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iPad 2018 (6th gen) is the linear successor of last year's iPad 2017 (5th gen). It takes what was the best value in tablets, adds the Apple A10 Fusion chipset, faster LTE (if you go with the LTE model), a more coppery gold finish (if you go with the gold model), and support for the Apple Pencil, all while keeping the price the same. And that makes iPad 6 almost exactly half an iPad Pro — for almost exactly half the price.

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• iPad 2018 (6th-Gen) review

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'Let's take a field trip' was one of Apple's freshest events in years — even if there's a lot of schoolwork left to be done.

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• Apple's love note to education
• Apple Renews its Love for Education not the Education Market
• Why Apple's education strategy is not based on reality

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Therapist Georgia Dow gives tips on how to be more aware of manipulation that takes place on the web and in social media — and how to avoid it.

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• Facebook, Privacy, and You: The Ultimate Guide
• @georgia_dow

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What is CLOUD Act, what does it mean for Apple and Apple's customers, and how does it affect your data and your right to privacy both in the U.S. and around the world?

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• CLOUD Act and Apple: What you need to know

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Apple's education-focused event is just around the corner on March 27th. Industry analyst Carolina Milanesi identifies three areas that would help Apple grow marketshare in education: hardware pricing, improved productivity/collaboration suite, and better classroom management tools.

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• As Tech in Education Matures, it calls for more than Hardware
• @caro_milanesi on Twitter

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The only way to win the social game is not to play. Facebook has been caught allowing the personal data of fifty million users — 50,000,000 — get siphoned off by political data company Cambrige Analytica and hiding it until it knew the story would come out in the press. Here's what you can do about it.

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• www.imore.com/facebook
• How Trump Consultants Exploited the Facebook Data of Millions
• Revealed: 50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica in major data breach
• Facebook and the endless string of worst-case scenarios
• Facebook Really Is Spying on You, Just Not Through Your Phone's Mic
• NSA staff used spy tools on spouses, ex-lovers: watchdog
• Uber employees 'spied on ex-partners, politicians and Beyoncé'
• Deactivating or Deleting Your Account
• How to opt out of Facebook data sharing

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Education IT expert Bradley Chambers feels that Apple needs to do more than just offer less expensive iPads and Macs to education customers. Not all of the challenges are Apple's fault, but it is their problem.

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• @BradleyChambers on Twitter
• Chambers Daily
• Making the Grade

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Brian Roemmele believes the next undiscovered continent for voice-first computing is the ability to carry on complete dialogues between device and user. Looking beyond the recent soap opera, Siri is full of potential. But Apple needs to take it in the right direction.

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• Voice First Expert

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HomePod shipped a month ago. How's it holding up? Dave Mark from The Loop shares his experience with the device.

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• Dave Mark on Twitter
• Jim Dalrymple on Twitter
• August Smart Lock

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