Apple should finally begin paying $15.4 billion in back taxes into an escrow account in the first quarter of next year, Ireland’s finance minister announced on Monday.

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Power management chip supplier Dialog Semiconductor on Monday reinforced rumors that Apple could design its own such chips in the future, while implying they may still a few years out.

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Declaring AirPods “the most important accessory in Apple’s wireless ecosystem,” analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said he believes the company could ship between 26 million and 28 million units of the completely wireless headphones next year.

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Speaking on Sunday at the World Internet Conference — organized by the Cybersecurity Administration of China — Apple CEO Tim Cook addressed a variety of topics, including sensitive ones that risked offending the pro-censorship Chinese government.

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The Brydge keyboard for Apple’s 10.5-inch iPad Pro is a good way to make your beloved tablet look and feel closer to a MacBook, but a few curious design choices, like lack of support for Apple’s Smart Connector, makes it less than perfect.

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There’s no reason for MacBook or MacBook Pro users with USB-C to rely on adapters for ruggedized mass storage. AppleInsider looks at the CalDigit Tuff hard drive, aimed squarely at mobile professionals seeking to safeguard data against drops or falls.

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Kicking off December, Apple authorized resellers are marking down popular Apple devices for holiday shoppers. Save $700 on Apple’s Late 2016 15″ MacBook Pro with a variety of upgrades. A Mid 2017 13″ MacBook Pro with 256GB of storage space is also $200 off, while a 4.2GHz 27″ iMac 5K with 1TB of storage and Radeon 580 graphics is $300 off.

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An activist organization staged a series of protests at French Apple stores on Saturday, calling on the company to pay the $15.5 billion in back taxes the Irish government has been ordered to collect by the European Commission.

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Introduced this summer at WWDC17, Apple’s HomePod was immediately positioned next to Amazon Echo and Google Home by bloggers as a “smart speaker” serving primarily as a way to chat with a voice assistant. But that’s not how Apple introduced it.

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With this year’s iPhone revisions, Apple introduced a new breed of flexible circuit board crafted from liquid crystal polymer, a material that benefits high-speed, low-latency data transfer. Currently used in iPhone 8 and iPhone X LTE antennas, and the latter’s TrueDepth camera, the technology is expected to make its way to other product lines next year.

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