Month: June 2021

Apple Music is celebrating Pride this year with a new space that’s designed to highlight the LGBTQ+ community both in June and year-round. For Pride month, Apple plans to release new content each Sunday that focuses on Equality, Resilience and Community. Content will include Pride Talks, which are short original videos that include conversations with…

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Apple today updated its suite of iWork apps, including Pages, Keynotes, and Numbers for iOS and macOS, with new features related to Schoolwork and the ability to link web pages, email addresses, and phone numbers to different shapes and objects. For Pages and Numbers on iOS and macOS, the updates include the ability for users…

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WWDC 2021 kicks off in six days, and ahead of time, Apple has announced the 36 finalists for this year’s Apple Design Awards. The awards honor excellence in innovation, ingenuity, and technical achievement in app and game design. The complete list of finalists: Inclusivity – 1Password – A Monster’s Expedition – Alba – HoloVista –…

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Registration is now open for WWDC’s “Digital Lounges,” a digital space where developers can join Apple engineers throughout the entirety of the conference to ask questions, conduct activities, and take deep dives into a range of developer tools such as SwiftUI, machine learning, and accessibility. This year will be the second all-digital Worldwide Developers Conference,…

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Spotify executive Horacio Gutierrez has explained in a wide-reaching interview with The Verge why the company believes Apple is a “ruthless bully” and what it would like to see change. Last month, Gutierrez penned an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal that chastised Apple and some of its business practices. Now, Spotify’s head of global…

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In June 2021, Apple Music will highlight LGBTQ+ content every Sunday, and the company has also created a dedicated Apple Music Pride page to celebrate year-round.The content available will include curated playlists, exclusive DJ mixes, and short-form videos called “Pride Talks” with artists such as King Princess and Janelle Monae.The space will also highlight Pride…

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Mozilla’s version 89 release of Firefox overhauls the web browser with a modern appearance, and brings quite a few updates specifically for macOS.The update, released on Tuesday, is framed as making the browser work even faster, with a “redesigned and modernized” core experience that’s cleaner and easier to use. This includes a clearing and streamlining…

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Apple’s Pages, Numbers, and Keynote apps have been updated on both iOS and macOS, now offering the ability to link document elements to web addresses, plus improved student progress viewing for teachers.Apple’s three iWork apps have been updated on both iOS and macOSApple’s word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation apps have all been updated across both…

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Apple has revealed the finalists for its 2021 Apple Design Awards, which will crown six winners for producing innovative apps for iOS and iPadOS.Revealed on Tuesday, Apple has chosen six finalists across six categories, with the award honoring “excellence in innovation, ingenuity, and technical achievement in app and game design.”The categories for 2021 are Inclusivity,…

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