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What to expect from Apple’s May 7 “Let loose” event

✇Ars Technica
By: Samuel Axon
3 May 2024 at 16:58
A colorful Apple log with an Apple Pencil inside it, with the copy

Enlarge / The promotional image for Apple's May 7 event. (credit: Apple)

On May 7, Apple will host a product announcement event at 9 am ET. Labeled "Let loose," we expect it will focus on new iPads and iPad accessories.

We won't be liveblogging the stream, but you can expect some news coverage as it happens. Below, we'll go over our educated guesses about why Apple might be doing this.

Why hold an event now?

It's unusual for Apple to host an event shortly before WWDC. New products debut at that event all the time, so if it's just a faster chip and a nicer screen for the iPad Pro and iPad Air, why not wait until June?

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Key Solar Panel Ingredient Is Made in the U.S.A. Again

✇NYT: Technology
By: Ivan Penn
25 April 2024 at 13:57
REC Silicon says it will soon start shipping polysilicon, which has come mostly from China, reviving a Washington State factory that shut down in 2019.

© Ruth Fremson/The New York Times

REC Silicon is preparing to fulfill its first shipment of polysilicon granules, which are used in the production of solar panels, at its factory in Moses Lake, Wash.
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