All posts tagged: tablets

The Best Tablets for Taking Notes 2024: Apple, Microsoft, Lenovo

The Best Tablets for Taking Notes 2024: Apple, Microsoft, Lenovo

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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, The Hollywood Reporter may receive an affiliate commission. While shorthand and cursive are handy skills when it comes to hastily jotting ideas, there’s no denying that technology can offer the best of both digital and analog worlds when it comes to note-taking. More than just a glorified smartphone, some of the best tablets for taking notes are now powered with artificial intelligence for expanding productivity, from automatically correcting grammar and spelling to organizing and summarizing content. When paired with a stylus, you can quickly write things down, keep everything organized on a hard drive or the cloud, and search through everything later — which is why they’re perfect for high schoolers, college students, professionals and digital nomads. Cameras allow you to quickly snap photos of presentation boards, while AI-powered apps can convert handwriting to searchable text. Related: The Best E-Readers and Tablet for Reading E-Books Debating which note-taking tablet with stylus compatibility is right for you? Consider the following: Do …

Amazon Prime Day Continues Today, with Deals on Cameras, Tablets, and Peripherals for Artists

Amazon Prime Day Continues Today, with Deals on Cameras, Tablets, and Peripherals for Artists

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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, ARTnews.com may receive an affiliate commission. What Is Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Day? Amazon’s second Prime Day event of the year, Prime Big Deal Days, last night at midnight PST and will run through 11:59 pm PST tomorrow night. Over those 48 hours, Amazon is offering thousands of deals across all shopping categories, including art supplies and equipment. What’s the Catch? To get access to the deals (or most of the deals), however, you have to be an Amazon Prime subscriber. Amazon Prime costs $14.99 a month or $139 a year. Its benefits include faster shipping on Amazon orders, discounts at Whole Foods, and access to Amazon’s streaming entertainment. You can also pick up a free 30-day trial of Prime here. What’s on Sale? Prime Days feature deals across all of Amazon’s categories, including tools for artists. Many of these deals are Lightning Deals, lasting only a few hours. A word of advice: Move fast, as the most desirable products …

Free Prison Tablets Aren’t Actually Free

Free Prison Tablets Aren’t Actually Free

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This week, September 15-21, is Prison Banned Books Week. The campaign aims to educate and advocate on behalf of those experiencing incarceration who are simultaneously experiencing the most book banning and censorship while in jail or prison. We are honored to help spread the word about the impact of prison censorship throughout the week. With the help of Prison Banned Books Week partners, on Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday, you’ll read essays written by a currently incarcerated individual and the vital role books and reading has had in their lives—as well as the realities of what it means to access literature while in the system. Literary Activism Newsletter News you can use plus tips and tools for the fight against censorship and other bookish activism! Thank you for signing up! Keep an eye on your inbox. This essay is part of a series to raise awareness during the second annual Prison Banned Books Week. Each essay, written by a currently incarcerated person, details the author’s experience of reading on prison tablets. Because every one of the 52 carceral …

Best Early Labor Day Deals (2024): Tablets, Streaming Sticks, and More

Best Early Labor Day Deals (2024): Tablets, Streaming Sticks, and More

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Autumn is unofficially here, and that means pumpkin spice everything, changing leaves, and a whole bunch of deals on WIRED-approved home theater gear, bedding, and more. We’ve rounded up our favorites below and will keep this post updated with more good discounts as we find them. Be sure to check out our lists of the Best REI Labor Day Deals and Best Labor Day Mattress Deals for additional savings. Power up with unlimited access to WIRED. Get best-in-class reporting that’s too important to ignore for just $2.50 $1 per month for 1 year. Includes unlimited digital access and exclusive subscriber-only content. Subscribe Today. WIRED Featured Deals Tech Deals Photograph: Parker Hall The LG C4 (9/10, WIRED Recommends) is simply the best high-end TV on the market. We love the eye-popping brightness, the perfect contrast levels, the fantastic colors and highlights, and the LG Magic Remote. There’s support for Dolby Vision, Chromecast, Apple Airplay, and Nvidia G-Sync. And there are even four HDMI ports—more than the average person will need. Our main gripe when reviewing this model was the price. Right …

C’mon, Why Isn’t the New Apple Pencil Pro Backward Compatible?

C’mon, Why Isn’t the New Apple Pencil Pro Backward Compatible?

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But what’s grinding my gears is the fact that the new Apple Pencil Pro only works with the new 2024 iPad Pro and iPad Air models. Yes, even if you spent $1,099 on the 2022 iPad Pro two years ago, you cannot use this new “Pro” stylus on that model. You’ll have to upgrade. This is probably a good time to mention that the 2024 iPad Pro models are more expensive across the board, starting at $999 for the 11-incher and $1,199 for the 13-inch model (a $200 and $100 jump, respectively). Know what’s worse? If you thought you could upgrade to the new iPad Pro or iPad Air from an older iPad and keep using the second-gen Apple Pencil you already own, think again. The new iPad Air and iPad Pro tablets only work with the two newest styli: the Apple Pencil (USB-C) that came out last year and the new Apple Pencil Pro. So if you are an avid Pencil user and want one of the new slates, you probably have to buy …

Apple May 2024 iPad Event: iPad Pro, iPad Air, M4, Apple Pencil, Magic Keyboard

Apple May 2024 iPad Event: iPad Pro, iPad Air, M4, Apple Pencil, Magic Keyboard

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Apple’s iPads have been on the back burner since 2022—there have been plenty of iPhones and Macs since, even a mixed reality headset, but it’s been two years since we’ve seen a new tablet. Now the wait is finally over. During its virtual event today, Apple announced the next-generation iPad Pro and iPad Air, an all-new M4 chip, as well as updated accessories. Here’s everything Apple announced. If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism. Learn more. All-New M4 Chip Since 2020, Apple has exclusively launched its M-series processors alongside another Mac. That’s no longer the case as Apple unveiled the all-new M4 chipset debuting inside the new iPad Pro. The new chip is built on a second-generation three-nanometer process, packing more transistors into a smaller space, enhancing both power efficiency and speed. The CPU has four performance cores and six efficiency cores, which Apple says delivers up to 50 percent faster CPU performance than M2 in the previous iPad Pro. There’s also a …

7 Best E-Readers (2024): Kindle, Nook, Kobo

7 Best E-Readers (2024): Kindle, Nook, Kobo

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I dearly love a paperback book that I can bend, touch, smell, and display on my bookshelf when I’m done. But there’s no doubt that ebook readers (also called e-readers) make life easier—they might just make you read more too. E-readers let you carry thousands of books or dozens of audiobooks in a single, slim, rectangular tablet; they have paper-like screens that are easy on the eyes; and they won’t inundate you with distracting notifications. Books can also be expensive and take up a lot of physical space, but that’s not a problem with ebooks. Even better, you can check out digital books from a library without leaving your house. Naturally, when you hear “e-reader,” you might think Kindle. Amazon makes the best ebook reader, which is why we have a separate Best Kindles guide that breaks down the entire lineup. But there are a few Kindle alternatives out there in case you don’t want to support Amazon or you just want a different set of features. WIRED’s Gear team has spent months, if not …

Best Kids Tablets (2024): iPads, Amazon Fire Kids Tablets, and More

Best Kids Tablets (2024): iPads, Amazon Fire Kids Tablets, and More

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My Children’s Favorite tablet is a good flat rock. Get the right one and it’ll do everything from launching toy cars to hop-skip-jumping its way across a pond. Of course, as a WIRED reviewer, there are also plenty of digital tablets in my house, and they’re pretty popular at times too. After years of testing, we’ve tried almost every kid-focused tablet out there. These are our favorite picks. If you’re still hunting for kid-related educational ideas, check out our favorite kid podcasts, some fun ways to help kids learn, and our guide to the best STEM toys. Updated May 2024: We updated our picks to include the latest models, removed the now discontinued iPod Touch (sniff), added the Kobo Libra Colour for comics, and updated prices throughout. Special offer for Gear readers: Get a 1-year subscription to WIRED for $5 ($25 off). This includes unlimited access to WIRED.com and our print magazine (if you’d like). Subscriptions help fund the work we do every day. Source link

They Bought Tablets in Prison—and Found a Broken Promise

They Bought Tablets in Prison—and Found a Broken Promise

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States that allow tablets in their institutions also benefit from major kickbacks from those telecom companies in the form of revenue- and profit-sharing and incentives. For example, the Colorado Department of Corrections—which contracts its tablets through GTL and provides them to incarcerated individuals free of charge—receives an annual flat payment of $800,000. Other states like Missouri are allotted a slice (20 percent in Missouri’s case) of the revenue from purchases of entertainment downloads like music, movies, and games. High fees for content downloads combined with time to kill often result in a hefty bill at the end of the month for the incarcerated folks. And since prison jobs, on average, pay a minimum wage of 86 cents a day for in-prison work, the burden of footing the bill for those downloads often falls to loved ones on the outside. Even so, for the families of people incarcerated in federal prisons, a tablet can be a real lifeline—albeit an expensive one—and would be well worth the associated costs. Bowman told us, “It would mean everything if …