South Korea is getting its second Apple Store.

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Apple is planning on opening its second retail location in South Korea.
Apple Yeouido will be located in Seoul’s financial district.

Reported by MacRumors, Apple is preparing to open its second retail location in South Korea. The store will be located in Seoul’s financial district.

The store, which will have a home in the IFC Mall, is being marketed by the company with wallpapers and an animation on its store website. Soon-to-be customers can download the wallpapers for their iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

Apple Yeouido will be located in the IFC Mall, which is in Seoul’s financial district by the Han River. Apple has shared wallpapers and an animation on its website to announce the opening of Apple Yeouido. Apple’s first retail store in South Korea, Apple Garosugil, opened in 2018 in Seoul’s Gangnam area. Apple Garosugil was the first Apple Store outside China to reopen earlier this year.

The report notes South…

Apple TV+ is getting another thriller.

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Gugu Mbatha-Raw is set to star in Surface, a new psychological thriller series coming to Apple TV+.

Reported by Deadline, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, star of The Morning Show, has led the lead role in Surface, a new psychological thriller coming to Apple TV+. The series is created by Veronica West, co-creator and executive producer of High Fidelity.

Apple has reportedly given a green light for a straight-to-series order for the thriller, which comes from Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine and Apple Studios. Witherspoon will executive produce the series alongside West and Lauren Neustadter with production set to begin next year.

Mbatha-Raw, who played Hannah Shoenfeld alongside Witherspoon in The Morning Show, will also co-exec produce. The British actor also recently starred in Misbehaviour alongside Keira Knightley and in Jessica Swale’s Summerland with Gemma Arterton and is set to star in Disney+’s Loki.

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If you just got a shiny new iPhone 12, iPad Air 4, or a new M1 Mac, then you should get a new pair of amazing headphones to go along with it. One of the best higher-end options are the Bose 700 Noise Cancelling Over-the-Ear Headphones, and it’s at its lowest price ever at a few places. The Arctic White color, which is white with a rose gold accent, is just $299 right now for Cyber Monday at Amazon and Best Buy. If you don’t like that color, then there are a few other colors to choose from, though they are slightly more, but still less than the normal price of $379.

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Bose 700 Noise Cancelling Headphones | From $299 at Amazon and Best Buy

From $299 at Amazon

From $299 at Best Buy

The Bose 700 are one of the best noise cancelling headphones on the market right now. This is the cheapest price we’ve seen these come down to for Cyber Monday.

When it comes to noise cancelling headphones, one of the top brands is Bose. The Bose 700 are the upgrade to the popular…

We’ve seen a surprising amount of great Apple Cyber Monday deals this year but there are still some you may not have seen. If you’re willing to shop at places other than the big retailers, you could even score some extra savings.

Take Woot’s Cyber Monday Extravaganza sale, for example. It feature a bunch of iPad and MacBook models on sale with prices from only $290. There are also some stellar Beats headphone deals in the mix.

On the tablet side of things you have several options, though the 7th-gen iPad is the most affordable with prices from $289.99. The 2019 release features a 10.2-inch Retina Display, A10 Fusion chip, 8MP camera, and supports Apple’s latest iPadOS software.

Power users may prefer to opt for one of the deals on the iPad Air or iPad Pro models for a little more power and screen real estate. The iPad models are offered open-box with a 180-day Apple warranty so you’re basically only missing out on paying full price for these.

Prospective Mac buyers can take their…

mini-LED Apple products are on the way as soon as the first quarter of next year.

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DigiTimes reports that Apple will release a mini-LED MacBook Pro and iPad Pro next year.

Reported by MacRumors, DigiTimes has been told by sources which suppliers are being tapped to produce mini-LED technology that is expected to be featured in the company’s upcoming MacBook Pro and iPad Pro models.

According to the report, Apple is expected to launch an iPad Pro featuring a mini-LED display in the first quarter of 2021 with a mini-LED MacBook Pro coming in the second quarter of the year. A number of Apple’s suppliers are ramping up in anticipation of the new products.

Apple’s suppliers in Taiwan, including LED chip vendor Epistar, testing and sorting specialist FitTech, SMT service provider Taiwan Surface Mounting Technology, backlight board supplier Zhen Ding Technology, cooling solution provider Auras Technology and process equipment maker All Ring Technology, are all…

The iPhone might have a periscope hidden inside of it soon.

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Apple is looking for suppliers of folded cameras.
The technology could enable better optical zoom and get rid of the camera bulge found on the back of the iPhone.

Reported by Korea IT News, Apple is apparently searching for suppliers to bring ”folded cameras” to the iPhone in an attempt to improve optical zoom on the phone. A folded camera refracts light like a periscope with the lenses and sensors placed horizontally instead of vertically.

According to the industry on Thursday, Apple is pushing to introduce triple camera to its iPhones. According to industry officials who are familiar with a situation related to development of iPhone cameras, Apple is currently looking for appropriate folded camera technology and patents in order to strengthen optical zoom feature of iPhones and it already had a discussion with a particular company.

The main benefit of folded camera technology is that it cou…

No matter who you are, there is one thing that we always recommend to every Mac user: back it up. Seriously. Your Mac probably has all of things that matter the most to you, like photos, documents, and other bits of data from your life, so you want to make sure that you have everything backed up just in case something happens. Or maybe you just want some extra storage space to take along with you everywhere.

No matter what you need, this Cyber Monday deal on a Sabrent Rocket Nano 1TB SSD is just too good to pass up — get 1TB for just $119.24 on Amazon, which is $39.75, or 25% off, the normal $158.99 price.

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Sabrent Rocket Nano 1TB SSD | 25% off at Amazon

$119.24 at Amazon

Sabrent Rocket Nano is one of the smallest sized external SSDs we’ve seen, but you can pack a whopping 1TB of data on it. This is a great price for Cyber Monday.

One of the most important things that anyone can do is back up their computer. After all, this is a machine that pretty muc…

While you’re doing your holiday shopping, don’t forget to make your memories last in the form of a photo book. I know, 2020 is a year many of us want to forget, but your friends and family want to see what you’ve been up to during the quarantine. Mixbook is having an incredible Cyber Monday sale, up to 55% off plus free shipping on orders over $49. Get those photos organized because it’s time to make memories that last.

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2020 is the weirdest year I’ve experienced in my life, and I don’t think I’m alone. Many of us haven’t seen our friends or families in more than eight months, or if we have, it hasn’t been the same as before the pandemic. Even though everything has changed, there is so much that is still the same. Our c…

Spotify wants to join in on the Stories party, because everyone else is.

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Spotify joins a number of social media apps in bringing a stories feature to its application.
The feature is currently in public testing as many users seem to have access to the stories. Spotify is mum on whether or not the feature will expand.
The company has partnered with several celebrities to contribute to stories on various curated playlists, including Christmas Hits.

Whether you like it or not, Snapchat has started a bit of a social media revolution. The short form, disappearing videos inspired the likes of Instagram, Facebook, and most recently Twitter to implement similar features. Even Slack wants to implement a similar stories-like feature before the end of the year, in order to provide ”a little bit more of a human way of giving updates”. Now, an unlikely entry into the stories realm comes in the form of Spotify, who is now publicly testing the feature.

Listeners should be…

Apple being the #1 desktop maker anywhere is a moment.

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Apple is now the #1 desktop PC maker in Japan.
The company jumped from 4th to 1st after the release of the M1 Mac mini.

Reported by AppleInsider, Apple has become the most popular maker of desktop computers in Japan after launching the new M1 Mac mini in the country two weeks ago. Before the launch, Apple was in forth place behind Lenovo.

That’s according to new data from Japanese analysis firm BCN Retail, which aggregated the sales data of mass retailers and online stores in the country. In the period between August 1 and November 3, Apple held a 15% share of the desktop PC market in Japan and was fighting for third place with Lenovo.

After the launch of the M1 Mac mini, Apple increased its market share in the market from 15% to 27.1% in two weeks.

With the launch of the first Apple Silicon Mac mini on November 17, BCN Retail tracked a surge in Apple computer sales that resulted in the Cupert…