Review: Apple iPad Pro 10.5-inch

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Since it’s inception in 2010, Apple’s iPad seemed destined for lofty goals. It ushered in the ‘Post-PC’ movement, set competitors scrambling to release competing tablets, and appeared at a time when PCs were spiralling on a multi-year decline.

Much like the iPod, the iPad managed to outlast its competition in the consumer space. Android tablets offer notoriously bad experiences, they don’t get updated and run mostly phone apps. The BlackBerry PlayBook, The HP TouchPad, various generations of Galaxy Tabs and even Microsoft’s scrappy Surface tablet could not touch the iPad’s popularity and its sales. 

iPad Pro, which came in 2015, was designed to go beyond content consumption, more powerful processors and graphics make it as powerful as traditional notebooks, multi-touch and Apple Pencil input help make the technology disappear and let users create organically and naturally.

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Microsoft outs its ‘smallest Xbox ever’

It’s been dubbed “Project Scorpio” but now it gets an official debut. Microsoft unveiled at E3 its new Xbox One X, the company’s smallest Xbox to date. While it features looks similar to the Xbox One S, it packs in a lot of power in its smaller package. It comes with 6 teraflops of graphical power (which is more than the PS4 Pro’s 4.2 teraflops), a custom GPU engine that runs at 1172MHz (which is a big jump over the Xbox One’s 853MHz and the Sony’s 911MHz on the PS4 Pro), 1TB of storage, and it’ll ship with an Ultra HD Blu-ray drive for 4K entertainment. It also has liquid-cooled vapor-chamber cooling system, which you usually see on high-end PC gaming cards.

It’ll work with all existing Xbox One accessories and will be backwards compatible with Xbox 360 and Xbox One titles. Existing titles are said to get a noticeable performance boost on the Xbox One. Microsoft will use “super sampling” on this console to make the new games look more amazing on 1080p TVs. Microsoft says there will be 22 “console launch exclusives” coming to the Xbox One X, including Forza Motorsport 7 and Crackdown 3. It’ll debut worldwide on November 7^th and will cost CA$599.

Source: The Verge

OnePlus CEO teases black and white photo sample taken by the OnePlus 5

The camera is looking like a big selling point for the OnePlus 5, as a previous teaser suggests. This time we’re finding out more about the upcoming “flagship killer” and its camera’s capabilities. OnePlus’s CEO Liu ZuoTu uploaded on Weibo a monochrome shot taken by the smartphone. It shows off how similar the dual camera setup of the OnePlus 5 will be with the Huawei P series. From the looks of the image, it’s looking like a pretty promising device, in terms of photography.

While we don’t know the specs of the device yet, some of the rumoured features include a 5.5-inch AMOLED display with 2,560 x 1,440 resolution, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 processor, 6/8GB of RAM, 64/128GB of storage, and it’ll run on Android 7.1.1 Nougat operating system. Camera specs are said to be a 16MP + 16MP setup in the rear as well as a 16MP front camera.

Source: Giz China

Uber reportedly holding a meeting to begin clean up of its toxic corporate culture

While Uber has been one of the key companies that have disrupted the transportation industry, it’s also been rife with controversy. It’s been reported by both Recode and Reuters that Uber’s board is looking to remedy that by holding an important meeting today, June 11^th to help clean up what’s being considered a controversial and toxic corporate culture. The board will be discussing the recommendations from its workplace probe and it might be holding a number of executives accountable for what’s been happening. And that could include the company’s CEO Travis Kalanick—at least temporarily. And he might come back in a different position or have reduced powers or stricter oversight. The hiatus might come at an opportune time for Kalanick as his mother recently died from a boating accident and his father is seriously injured.

Aside from Uber’s CEO though, those that are said to be facing uncertain futures include Senior VP Emil Michael, human resources head Ryan Graves, and technical lead Thuan Pham. But aside from possibly cutting off executives, the board is said to start adopting a variety of management and policy reforms suggested after the investigation. Uber’s staff is expected to hear about the board’s decisions on the 13^th and we might perhaps hear about it then.

Source: Engadget