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iPhone 16 Pro teardown [YouTube/iFixit]

As is customary for an iPhone release, companies start to tear down the devices to check out the internals. While one initial teardown has shown off the new metal battery in the iPhone 16 Pro, another has looked at how easy it is to repair.

Published to YouTube on Friday, the iFixit teardown again covers the inclusion of a fully-encased battery. According to the firm, the new battery offers a benefit to repairers, in that “you can accidentally poke it to your heart’s content and it won’t pose a fire risk.”

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Apple’s new iPhone 16 Pro

AppleInsider is not into style over substance, it’s always about going deeper. Still, the Desert Titanium color on the new iPhone 16 Pro range is glorious — and Jony Ive‘s new LoveFrom logo is the cutest thing you’ll see this week.

Not that it has competition for that title from, say, Meta Orion. Billed as the future of mixed reality headsets, it’s currently making a spectacle of itself — or rather spectacles, looking like 1950s-style glasses. Yet it is a step forward, at least for Meta, and Apple is reportedly also making some strides in its move to produce a lower cost Apple Vision Pro.

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Apple’s new iPhone 16 Pro

AppleInsider is not into style over substance, it’s always about going deeper. Still, the Desert Titanium color on the new iPhone 16 Pro range is glorious — and Jony Ive‘s new LoveFrom logo is the cutest thing you’ll see this week.

Not that it has competition for that title from, say, Meta Orion. Billed as the future of mixed reality headsets, it’s currently making a spectacle of itself — or rather spectacles, looking like 1950s-style glasses. Yet it is a step forward, at least for Meta, and Apple is reportedly also making some strides in its move to produce a lower cost Apple Vision Pro.

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Lisa Jackson, Apple’s VP of Environment, Policy, and Social Initiatives

As vice president of environment, policy and social initiatives, Jackson is one of several Apple executives who have been tipped to succeed Tim Cook. At Climate Week NYC, she’s been talking to entrepreneur leaders across all industries, and according to Inc. magazine, advised them all to work with communities.

“If you design an answer in a vacuum away from the community that’s impacted and away from the people who have to live with it and use it, it’s not going to be a solution,” she said. Specifically regarding Silicon Valley, she added that “we’re so smart [there], but communities know what they need, as well.”

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