If there’s one thing we know about Siri, it’s that she sometimes has a hard time pronouncing names that can be a bit tricky, like if you have a non-English name that might be either hard to say or difficult to spell correctly. However, Siri in iOS 7 is getting a new feature where she’ll
Welcome to The After Math, where we attempt to summarize this week’s tech news through numbers, decimal places and percentages.
This week’s been arguably less hectic than the last, but both Samsung and Facebook decided to up the tempo on Thursday. The Korean hardware maker announced a stack of new hardware, from tablets to cameras to desktop PCs, while Facebook’s Instagram went toe to toe with Twitter’s Vine, announcing a new video-sharing feature. On the very same day, Tesla had something to show, deftly switching batteries on its Model S faster than you’d be able to fill a gas tank. There were, however, six other days to the week, and we’ve pored over all of them for this week’s numeros.
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If you’re discrete enough, this iPad cutting board will convince your friends and dinner guests that you’re absolutely flush with cash. Because instead of slicing cheeses, vegetables, and fruits on a traditional cutting board, you can afford to use an iPad for the task.
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We’re no stranger to Android’s iconic pie chart that shows the percentage of what OS version is currently out there in the world. As expected, Android has a lot of versions that are scattered around, with Jelly Bean, Ice Cream Sandwich, and Gingerbread being the top three that are in use, with older versions like
The iPad will be in even more schools come this fall when classes start up again, as Apple has landed a huge contract with the Los Angeles Unified School District that will see them pay $30 million to Apple for the ability to use iPads in classrooms once the school season starts back up again
Apple won a contract this week with the Los Angeles Unified School District to provide iPads to its students, netting Cupertino $30 million across the next two years. The agreement will roll out iPads to students at 47 campuses; the iPads cost $678 apiece (nearly $200 more than a standard entry level iPad) and come loaded with educational software. Bizarrely, with tablets priced at $678 apiece, $30 million only nets LA schools approximately 45,000 iPads, while the school district comprises 640,000 students. We asked Apple to clarify and were told that the contract is for 31,000 iPads (for both students and teachers) which come with “Pearson Common Core System of Courses delivered via a new app.” That’s in addition to Apple standards like iWork, iLife, and iTunes, as well as “a range of educational third-party apps” included. The first iPads arrive in classrooms this fall, in what is deemed the “first phase” of a larger rollout.
The battle for LA’s school contract was hard fought, with both board members and a Microsoft rep pushing back against student / teacher ratings and the overall cost. The teachers union president Warren Fletcher requested the money be spent on hiring new staff over mass-buying iPads, while district officials argued that national student tests require computer literacy, the LA Times reports — the board voted unanimously (6 – 0) to approve the contract.
Traditionally, iPads have been used in college-level education — both Seton Hill (not Seton Hall) and Tennessee’s Webb School use Apple’s tablet.
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If you played XCOM: Enemy Unknown earlier this year on your high-powered gaming PC, you may have noticed the user interface and the top-to-bottom playability to seem a bit more expansive than a simple desktop setup would suggest. What’s going on now is that folks behind the game are, indeed, expanding the game beyond its
There’s no tablet flavor of the iOS 7
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