Earlier this week, Apple gave its Beats Pill+ speaker the OG HomePod treatment and changed its status from a “product that remains in our lineup” to finally discontinued. Finally, because there was never any real change to the Bluetooth speaker fro…
Lees meerWith over 380 million users and 172 million subscribers, Spotify continues to dominate the streaming music market. While there are plenty of features to love about the service (curated playlists and podcast integration, to list two personal favorit…
Lees meerFor the first time since iOS 15 was released to the public last September, Apple has updated the official installation and adoption numbers via its Developer website. According to Apple, iOS 15 is currently installed on 72% of iPhones released in t…
Lees meerAfter a short hiatus due to the holidays, Apple is restarting its beta testing process yet again. iOS 15.3 beta 2 is now rolling out to registered developers, just over three weeks after the release of the first beta. Apple is also rolling out new …
Lees meerWhatsApp for iOS has been working for at least six months on a new Reactions feature, which will look similar to iMessage and Facebook’s functions. Now, a new report shows Reactions are actually really close to its public launch. more… The post Wh…
Lees meerUSB-C/Thunderbolt display options have really grown over the last couple of years. While Apple is making its own monitor again with the Pro Display XDR (and new models in the wings), it’s not the best fit for the majority of Mac users with a starti…
Lees meerAll of Thursday’s best deals are now up for the taking and headlined by $299 off Apple’s 2020 iPad Pros. That’s alongside M1 iMacs returning to all-time lows as well as $400 off iPhone 13 series handsets, no trade-in required. Hit the jump for all …
Lees meerFirst introduced with iOS 14, Home Screen widgets have proven to be one of the most popular features ever added to iPhone. Over a year later, developers continue to find innovative ways to take advantage of this feature. Currently sitting atop the …
Lees meerAfter robotics engineer Ken Pillonel successfully swapped out the Lightning port for USB-C on an iPhone X back in October, another iPhone X has been modified in the same way. However, this time creator Gernot Jöbstl says the port has been reinforce…
Lees meerHealth experts have been discussing the pros & cons of Apple Watch, Fitbit, and similar devices. While the consensus is that they do more good than harm, they caution that the increasing amount of health data presented to consumers can cause confus…
Lees meerFortnite is still a massive hit, but Epic Games’ war on app stores has left the popular game absent from the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store for a long time, with no signs of returning. Today, Nvidia and Epic Games have announced that tou…
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Lees meerApple chipmaker TSMC has reported record profits for the holiday quarter, comfortably beating analyst expectations. The company has also reported year-on-year revenue growth of 24.1%, a quarter of it generated by Apple. TSMC, which makes Apple’s A-…
Lees meerApple, Google, Amazon, Meta, and IBM will attend a meeting at the White House to discuss software security after the US suffered several major cyberattacks in 2021. As reported by Reuters, this meeting will take place today and will be hosted by de…
Lees meerIn the US, PUBG’s developer sued the maker of another popular battle royale game, Free Fire. Not only that but Krafton has also named Apple and Google in the lawsuit, alleging that Apple and Google have refused to stop selling rip-off versions of i…
Lees meerGerman police have misused COVID-19 contact tracing app data by apparently faking an infection at a restaurant in order to obtain details of potential witnesses. The joint Apple/Google API can’t be abused in this way, as it doesn’t track locations,…
Lees meerA judge last month gave provisional approval to a proposed Apple Store bag check settlement, in which the Cupertino company has agreed to pay a four-figure some to compensate employees in California for unpaid time waiting for off-the-clock searche…
Lees meerAnother suspected NSO phone hack has come to light, this of journalists and activists in El Salvador. Most of the journalists were working for an online news service that has been reporting extensively on alleged government corruption. Two journali…
Lees meerA bizarre bug in Firefox has cropped up that means users of Firefox are unable to load any website in the Mac, Windows and desktop Linux versions of the browser. While the developers work on a solution to the bug, there is a fix you can apply to wo…
Lees meerDropbox was widely criticized by Mac users last year as the company was yet to update its macOS app with native support for the Apple Silicon platform. Luckily, the company has finally released an update for the app that brings full support for the…
Lees meerIn February 2021, Instagram confirmed that it was prototyping a new Stories design with vertical scrolling, similar to TikTok – but the details were unknown. Now the social network is finally testing the new design with a small group of users. mor…
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