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Apple’s products are always among the most popular targets for shoppers taking advantage of Prime Day deals, including the Apple TV streaming devices. Amazon, however, is not the only retailer with Apple TV deals today, as Walmart is also offering a discount for the Apple TV 4K (2020) in its concurrent Deals for Days event. The streaming device is available from Walmart for $70 off, bringing its price down to just $99 from its original price of $169.

The Apple TV 4K (2020) is a set-top box that’s very easy to set up for iOS device owners. After selecting language and country, you just need to hold your iPhone or iPad near the streaming device. This will transfer your Wi-Fi and Apple ID information, granting you access to all your iTunes purchases through the Apple TV 4K. Making the streaming device even more helpful is its integration of Siri, which in addition to enabling voice commands for basic playback functions, may be used for things like bringing up suggestions for TV shows and films that you might enjoy, and adding subtitles for parts that you didn’t understand.

You can access virtually unlimited content on the Apple TV 4K through the apps of your favorite streaming services on the App Store, so you’ll never run out of things to watch. You’ll have fun consuming all the 4K content that the device can find, especially since it’s lightning-fast with the help of Apple’s A10X Fusion processor. Visuals aren’t the only good thing though, as the Apple TV 4K also provides Dolby Atmos support for a more immersive audio experience.

Apple fans who want to buy a streaming device should take advantage of Walmart’s offer for the Apple TV 4K (2020), as an alternative to Amazon’s Prime Day deals. You can purchase the Apple TV 4K with a $70 discount, lowering its price to just $99 from its original price of $169. If you’ve decided to buy the streaming device from Walmart, you should click that Buy Now button as soon as you can as its stocks will likely not last for long.

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As revealed earlier this month in Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, the next versions of iOS, macOS and iPadOS 15 this fall include a feature called Live Text, which looks remarkably useful. It lets you search for text in an image via the Photos app, copy that text and then paste it into another document.

For example, you can search for text in a photo of a restaurant menu that you snapped a while back, find the photo, then copy the words. You can then paste the copied text into an email, an SMS message or word processing document. Live Text also works in the Camera app if you go to take a picture that includes text – an icon appears that lets you work with the text in the viewfinder.

But not all iPhones, iPads or Macs will be able to use it. It relies on technology Apple calls the Neural Engine, present in the company’s A12 Bionic mobile processors – introduced in 2018 – and newer. On Macs, it’s limited to the latest models with its own M1 processor.

While the idea of searching for, copying and pasting text from images is new to Apple, it’s not a new technology. There are ways to get a form of it now, and have it even if your device doesn’t support Apple’s upcoming version. The technical name for it is optical character recognition – it’s what lets you scan or photograph a printed document and turn it into, say, a Microsoft Word file. Or, it’s what lets you photograph and upload a check into your account with a banking app.

A version of this feature has been around for a while in Google Photos, and it came to the iOS version in 2019. You can download the Google Photos app for iOS and iPad, to start using it, and the capability also is available on the on the Google Photos website. 

Once the app is on your iPhone or…