Month: September 2020

Facebook Messenger and Instagram chats are now officially merged, as the company implements the next phase in its planned unified messaging service for Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. We first learned about the company’s plans at the beginning of last year … more… The post Messenger and Instagram chats now officially merged appeared first on 9to5Mac….

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Today’s best deals include Apple Watch Series 5 at $100 off, plus Nike-style Apple Watch bands, and WD’s USB-C solid-state drives. Hit the jump for all of our top picks in today’s 9to5Toys Lunch Break. more… The post Deals: Apple Watch Series 5 $100 off, Nike-style Watch bands 3 for $10, more appeared first on…

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Researchers from the Mayo Clinic are worried that false positives from the Apple Watch’s pulse-reading sensor could overburden medical services. This is the pulse rate sensor available with all models of Apple Watch. It is not to be confused with the newer ECG heart rate feature on newer devices. “The observation that new clinically actionable…

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Belgium has launched its coronavirus exposure notification app, “Coronalert,” on Wednesday, after several months of development with Apple and Google’s frameworks.Belgium’s new “Coronalert” COVID-19 contact detection and tracing app is available to download starting on Wednesday. Like many others in circulation, the app utilizes the Apple-Google framework for exposure notifications and is available for both…

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“Suspicion” and “Slow Horses” are the first two UK-based Apple TV+ commissions to recommence filming after the coronavirus lockdown.Uma Thurman plays a prominent businesswoman whose son is kidnapped in action thriller “Suspicion.”Following resumption of production on “Invasion,” a US series using the UK’s Manchester as a location, two Apple TV+ dramas from Britain are recommencing…

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September 30, 2002: Apple introduces iSync, a tool that lets Mac users synchronize their address books and calendars with their cellphones, iPods and Palm OS-compatible handheld organizers via Bluetooth. It represents a big leap forward in the ability of computers and mobile devices to talk with one another. And it hints at some of Apple’s later…

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Candy Crush Friends Saga has surpassed $200 million in lifetime player spending across both the iOS and Google Play app stores, a report from app intelligence first Sensor Tower claims. In total, the Candy Crush franchise has earned more than $1 billion so far this year. Spending on Candy Crush Friends Saga is almost exactly…

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Tim Cook may well stay at the helm at Apple until at least 2025, according to SEC filings which detail the stock options that will vest in that time. Cook will receive 333,987 units of restricted stock options, vesting in thirds beginning April 1, 2023. “For the first time in nearly a decade, we are…

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Apple has reportedly removed two RSS feed reader apps from China’s App Store to comply with Chinese law. Fiery Feeds and Reeder both tweeted that their iOS apps had been removed in China over content that is considered “illegal” in the country. Same here. Reeder 4 (iOS) was also removed from the Chinese ‌App Store‌….

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Twitter says it’s making its voice tweets feature available to more users on iOS. Launched in June for a limited number of users, voice tweets is designed to allow people to tweet with their voice, sending voice-based messages instead of text. Voice tweets can be created by opening up the tweet composer and tapping the…

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Voice tweets – the ability to record and tweet an audio message – are coming to more iOS Twitter users, while Android and web users will need to wait until some time next year. The company first began testing the feature on iOS back in June. Twitter is also working to address a key criticism…

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A regulatory filing has revealed a new Tim Cook stock award that could see him receive an extra million AAPL shares by 2025. In the best case, Apple’s CEO would receive stock worth $114M at today’s price. Apple confirmed the award in a brief statement … more… The post Tim Cook stock award could give…

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Following yesterday’s big Star Wars movie sale, Apple’s iTunes storefront is back again today with a nice selection of TV shows discounted to all-time low prices. You can save on a wide range of titles down below including Southland, Young Sheldon, The Big Bang Theory, and many more. All of which will become a permanent…

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