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The iPhone 12 Pro Max could be Apple's biggest camera jump in years
Apple has announced its iPhone 12 lineup, and as ever, the phones' camera systems were the focus of much of the company's presentation. This year, though, there's more to differentiate each model than ever before. The iPhone range is getting improvements across the board, but Apple appears to be reserving the biggest advances for its biggest phone. The 6.7-inch iPhone 12 Pro Max has some serious hardware improvements that set its camera apart from every other iPhone.
Hardware-wise, there doesn't appear to be much difference between the iPhone 12, 12 mini, and 12 Pro when compared to the 11 and 11 Pro. All of these phones use the same-sized 12 megapixel sensors for wide, ultrawide, and the Pro model's telephoto cameras, and the shape and size of the camera bump remains essentially the same.
The biggest hardware change is a new seven-element f/1.6 lens for the primary wide
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Amazon is facing a 'high-stakes shipping gauntlet' just months after recovering from widespread delays, as it attempts to pull off its biggest Prime Day ever
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Amazon is bracing for its biggest Prime Day ever. Sean Gallup/Getty Images
Amazon's 48-hour Prime Day event started early Tuesday morning.
Moody's analyst Charlie O'Shea told Business Insider that Prime Day will serve as a litmus test to see if Amazon is able to keep up with its exponential growth.
The sales event will trigger a surge in orders that will weigh on Amazon's delivery network, with Moody's estimating that the company's fourth-quarter shipping expenses could reach nearly $20 billion.
"They're doing the best they can," O'Shea said. "It's almost like trying to plug a dam with your finger."
Amazon just kicked off what Moody's says will likely be the biggest — and most challenging — Prime Day of all time.
The e-commerce giant's 48-hour Prime Day began early on Tuesday morning. The annual sales event
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FIFA 21 Has Biggest Boxed Launch Of 2021 In UK, But Switch Version Flops
FIFA is a big deal in the UK, and the launch of FIFA 21 has done big business in the UK–with some caveats. FIFA 21 is the biggest physical game launch in the UK this year, but sales are down compared to FIFA 20, and the Switch version has sold poorly.
Gamesindustry.biz is reporting that sales on FIFA 21's boxed copies are down 42% on boxed sales of FIFA 20. There's a few potential reasons for that–the looming next generation of systems (which will bring new versions of FIFA 21), the growth of the digital market, and the COVID-19 pandemic making players less likely to travel to a store to buy the game all factors in.
It's unknown how well the game has sold digitally, but this is still a big launch, overtaking the launch sales of The Last of Us Part II and Animal Crossing: New Horizons (both of
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Apple iPhone 12 release could be biggest product launch in years
Apple's iPhone 12 lineup is expected to be a major smartphone launch that some analysts predict could be a once-in-a-decade opportunity for the company.
The combination of 5G support, new size options and designs, affordable pricing, and the fact that many active iPhones are aging will likely to lead to a massive iPhone upgrade cycle.
That's especially important because Apple has been grappling with slowing iPhones sales in recent years, prompting it to boost other product segments like wearables and services.
Apple is expected to announce its new iPhones on Tuesday.
Apple's annual iPhone launches are always closely watched by customers and Wall Street alike. But 2020 represents a particularly critical moment for the tech giant.
Analysts are expecting the iPhone 12, which will likely be unveiled at the company's Tuesday event, to represent Apple's biggest upgrade cycle in years.
That's because many
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After Year on Ice, the Biggest Arctic Research Mission Is Done
The Polarstern amidst Arctic sea ice.
Photo: NOAA, University of Colorado, Boulder, and MOSAiC
The largest Arctic research campaign in history just came to a close. For more than a year, a rotating group of roughly 500 scientists and staffers have been traveling the region on a research vessel called the Polarstern as part of the Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate expedition, or MOSAiC.
The expedition began last September, when a team packed the ship with 1 million pounds of equipment and set off from Norway toward the North Pole. They then attached the vessel to an ice floe north of Siberia and let it carry them westward for thousands of miles. This allowed the multidisciplinary group of researchers to closely observe the Arctic's air, ice, and ecosystems to learn more about them and their bearing on our changing climate.
The team studied everything from
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Biggest North Pole mission returns from 'dying Arctic'
Researchers on the world's biggest mission to the North Pole will return to dock on Monday, bringing home devastating proof of a dying Arctic Ocean and warnings of ice-free summers in just decades.
The German Alfred Wegener Institute's Polarstern ship is set to return to the port of Bremerhaven after 389 days spent drifting through the Arctic trapped in ice, allowing scientists to gather vital information on the effects of global warming in the region.
The team of several hundred scientists from 20 countries have seen for themselves the dramatic effects of global warming on ice in the region, considered "the epicentre of climate change", according to mission leader Markus Rex.
"We witnessed how the Arctic ocean is dying," Rex told AFP. "We saw this process right outside our windows, or when we walked on the brittle ice."
Underlining how much of the sea ice has melted away, Rex said
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Apple's Biggest Challenge Hides Inside Revolutionary MacBook Pro
Apple's radical update to the macOS platform will have to wait before it can take to the stage. Although Tim Cook and his team will take to the virtual stage this week, the focus will be on the iPhone finally shipping with 5G. The revolutionary MacBooks will have to wait for their moment in that spotlight… a spotlight that will ask how Tim Cook is going to solve the biggest problem facing macOS over the next few years.
This problem arises from Tim Cook's decision to move the entire macOS platform to Apple's own chip designed based around ARM. The presumptive MacBook and MacBook Pro releases following this decision, expected to be on sale before the end of 2020, will set the tone for the transition's success. I'll be carefully watching how Apple addresses the biggest issue of app compatibility both during the presentation during the launch event and beyond
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Planet Mars is at its 'biggest and brightest'
In all its glory: Mars pictured by Damian Peach on 30 September
Get out there and look up!
Mars is at its biggest and brightest right now as the Red Planet lines up with Earth on the same side of the Sun.
Every 26 months, the pair take up this arrangement, moving close together, before then diverging again on their separate orbits around our star.
Tuesday night sees the actual moment of what astronomers call "opposition".
All three bodies will be in a straight line at 23:20 GMT (00:20 BST).
"But you don't have to wait until the middle of the night; even now, at nine or 10 o'clock in the evening, you'll easily see it over in the southeast," says astrophotographer, Damian Peach. "You can't miss it, it's the brightest star-like object in that part of the sky," he told BBC News.
Even though this coming week witnesses the
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How Gaming Could Become The World's Biggest Media Platform
Founder and CEO at Admix. Pioneer of "in-play." Previously ran a hypercasual game studio before they were cool.
It's a few minutes before midnight on April 23, 2020, a month after the lockdown started in most of Europe. But this doesn't stop me — I am eagerly waiting in front of the biggest stage I have ever seen for a concert to start.
Suddenly, the stage in front of me lights up; huge holograms appear, and the music starts. Around me, 12 million people also start dancing to the beat. No masks, no social distancing. For a moment, it's like we are in an alternative reality.
In fact, we are in an alternative reality.
My 12 million digital friends and I were not breaking the lockdown to see Travis Scott performing live — this event happened virtually on Fortnite, the ultra-popular online video game. And this experience
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Polar ice, atmospheric water vapor biggest drivers of variation among climate models — ScienceDaily
A Florida State University researcher is part of a team that has found varying projections on global warming trends put forth by climate change scientists can be explained by differing models' predictions regarding ice loss and atmospheric water vapor.
The work will help climate scientists reconcile various models to improve their accuracy, said Florida State University Meteorology Professor Ming Cai, one of the authors of the study published in Nature Communications .
Climate scientists agree that the Earth's surface temperature is warming, but the details of exactly where and by how much are less clear. A worst-case climate change scenario (known as the "Representative Concentration Pathway 8.5") predicted a likely increase in average global temperatures of about 2.6 degrees Celsius to 4.8 degrees Celsius (or about 4.7 degrees Fahrenheit to 8.6 degrees Fahrenheit) by 2100.
"This uncertainty limits our ability to foresee the severity of the global warming impacts on
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