Somehow, this apple came with the word ‘apple’ on it. Frank Piscura of New Auburn says he found this labeled apple in a bag from Blackies’s farm stand on Minot Avenue. Piscura says he came across this unusual specimen while cutting apples for pie.
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Great Maine Apple Day is Sunday
Great Maine Apple Day is Sunday, Oct. 15, and great apples all over Maine are being harvested. This apple picked on Paris Hill is one of the largest picked this year — or maybe ever — at the Mott Orchard, weighing in at nearly 1½ pounds. The apple is a Wolf River, a large domestic […]
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iPhone X puts exclamation point on Apple's pricing strategy
Apple CEO Tim Cook announces the new iPhone X at the Steve Jobs Theater on the new Apple campus, Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2017, in Cupertino, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez) CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) — Apple has made a luxury iPhone that punctuates its technological swagger with a high-priced exclamation point. And that exclamation point appears […]
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Apple introduces $329 iPad
Apple announced its new $329, 9.7-inch iPad will be available for order March 24. Apple announced a new iPad — simply named iPad — at a $329 price point. According to Apple, the 2,048×1,536 pixel screen is brighter and it’s A9 chip is an upgrade. Otherwise it is the iPad Air 2 at a lower […]
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WWDC: Apple’s next big software improvements
SAN FRANCISCO — With sales of Apple’s flagship iPhone slowing , the spotlight is on the company’s hunt for its next big thing. Apple’s annual software developers conference, which kicks off Monday, will be its next big opportunity to show the world what’s coming next. Artificial intelligence, and Apple’s wisecracking digital assistant Siri, could play […]
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Four ways the FBI could hack an iPhone
NEW YORK (AP) — For more than a month, federal investigators have insisted they have no alternative but to force Apple to help them open up a phone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters. That changed Monday when the Justice Department said an “outside party” recently showed the FBI a different way to […]
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FBI may be able to crack iPhone without Apple’s help
LOS ANGELES — The government has been adamant for weeks: FBI investigators need to unlock an encrypted iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino attackers, and Apple Inc. was the only one that could do it. In a stunning reversal on Monday, federal prosecutors asked a judge to halt a much-anticipated hearing on their […]
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Apple releases small new iPhone, iPad for business use
Data curated by SpecOut Data curated by SpecOut CUPERTINO, Calif. — Apple unveiled a small new iPhone, a new iPad tablet for business use and price cuts for its Apple Watch at a product event Monday. The announcements, which were largely expected, aim to keep up the company’s commercial momentum in the face of mounting […]
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Apple pits privacy against FBI’s security argument before Congress
Lawmakers on Tuesday pressed FBI Director James B. Comey about the bureau’s demands that Apple help it unlock an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino attackers. The Justice Department and FBI have tried to cast the issue as narrowly focused on one iPhone, but Comey acknowledged that if the government succeeds in this […]
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San Bernadino shooting victim’s husband agrees with Apple
A man whose wife was wounded during the San Bernardino attack has taken Apple’s side in its ongoing battle with the FBI over unlocking a iPhone used by one of the shooters. Salihin Kondoker — the husband of Anies Kondoker, who was shot three times, but survived the attack at Inland Regional Center on Dec. […]