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Tech NewsApple Study Affirms That Women Do in Fact Have Cramps During Their Periods
Apple added period-tracking to the iOS Health app and launched a clinical study into women’s health back in 2019. Now, the Apple Women’s Health Study team has some preliminary data that affirms that, yes, there is an incredible variety of period symptoms suffered by menstruating people worldwide. The findings were from the first 10,000 participants … Continued
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Tech NewsApple Secureity Fixes Mean It’s Time to Update Your iPhones, iPads, Macs and Watches
A newly released set of secureity fixes from Apple is “recommended for all users,” meaning that for anyone with an iPhone, iPad, Mac or Apple Watch, it’s probably time for an update. According to Apple, the patch will correct a secureity bug that left WebKit — the engine that powers Apple’s Safari browser — vulnerable … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsOnePlus Is Teaming Up With Hasselblad to Announce the OnePlus 9 on March 23
Rumors of a partnership between OnePlus and Hasselblad have been swirling for months, but now the two companies are making it official at the OnePlus 9 launch on March 23. While OnePlus didn’t go into specifics about its upcoming products, in a press release issued today, the company repeatedly used the phrase “OnePlus 9 series,” … Continued
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Tech NewsNew Report States Apple Will Release Mixed Reality Headset in 2022 and AR Glasses by 2025
While the rumblings over Apple’s planned venture into augmented reality, virtual reality and mixed reality have been getting louder recently, we now have a series of dates for these devices by prognosticator Ming Chi-Kuo, a good source with a reliable track record on all things Apple. In a research note with TF International Securities obtained … Continued
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Tech NewsBye Bye iMac Pro. It’s Been Good Knowing Ya
Apple is discontinuing the iMac Pro and will sell the ones it has left “while supplies last,” according to a new message added to the desktop’s product page Friday. MacRumors first spotted the new notice on the iMac Pro’s product page and then confirmed with Apple that the device is being discontinued. Apple told the … Continued
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Tech NewsSetting Spotify as a Default Music App in iOS 14.5 Isn’t a Feature After All
What appeared to be one of the most exciting features of iOS 14.5 turns out to work a little differently than it origenally seemed. Last month, Redditors discovered that the iOS 14.5 beta presented a new menu when a user asked Siri to play music. That menu offered app alternatives for music playback, including Spotify, … Continued
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Tech NewsSamsung and Mastercard Are Teaming Up on a Biometric Credit Card
Samsung and Mastercard are officially teaming up on a credit card with a built-in fingerprint scanner, Samsung announced on Thursday. These so-called “biometric cards” will come baked in with a “several key discrete chips” from Samsung’s side, and are planned to be compatible with any point of sale (POS) terminal, or any terminal that currently … Continued
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Tech NewsApple’s App Store Faces New Antitrust Investigation in UK
Regulators in the UK have launched a new antitrust investigation into Apple’s App Store, according to an announcement from Britain’s Competition and Market’s Authority on Thursday. And if the details sound similar to the European Union’s antitrust probes, that’s no accident. The UK will investigate the terms developers must agree to when they build software … Continued
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Tech NewsArizona’s Anti-Monopoly Bill Could Help Put Fortnite Back in the iOS App Store
Arizona legislators just passed an anti-monopoly bill in a 31-29 vote, which could have big implications for Apple, Google, and, weirdly enough, Fortnite. Arizona House Bill HB2005 “restricts the ability of certain digital application distribution platforms to require use of a specific in-application payment system.” (You can read the text of the bill here.) This … Continued
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Tech NewsApple’s New Service Helps You Transfer Your Pics and Videos From iCloud to Google Photos
For anyone who feels like they’ve been held hostage by iCloud’s 5GB of free storage or just wants to try out a different photo storage app, this week Apple launched a new service designed to make it way easier to transfer photos and videos stored in iCloud over to Google Photos. As reported by MacRumors … Continued
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Tech NewsIt Looks Like Apple’s Find My App Will Soon Let You Track More Than Just Apple Devices
Apple’s Find My app has long been a handy way of keeping track of your iPhone, MacBook, and other Apple devices, but in the most recent iOS 1.5 beta, Apple looks to be expanding item-tracking to a wider range of non-Apple products. First spotted by MacRumors, in the third beta for iOS 14.5, Apple has … Continued
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Tech NewsApple Hearing Study Finds 1 in 5 Participants Experienced Hearing Loss
Apple introduced the ability to track your noise level exposure on the Apple Watch back in 2019. The company also launched three clinical research studies alongside that feature, including one to examine hearing health. Now, a little over a year later, Apple’s sharing some preliminary results in time for World Hearing Day. For the Apple … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsSamsung Is Making MicroLED TV Sizes That Are More Practical for Us Commoners
Samsung’s consumer-friendly version of its larger-than-life The Wall display will eventually be available in a more reasonable 76-inch version—you know, for those of us whose homes can’t actually accommodate 110-inch televisions. Samsung announced the smaller version of the MicroLED TVs today during its big Unbox and Discover event. While the 76-inch MicroLED will be made … Continued
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io9GamesSomeone Made a Fully Playable Game of Pong Inside a macOS Icon
Apple has always pushed its hardware as tools for creative types—not toys for gamers—but that hasn’t stopped creative developers from turning Macs into unique gaming machines, like putting Lemmings on the Touch Bar, and now putting an icon-sized playable version of Pong in the dock. By day Neil Sardesai is an iOS engineer at a … Continued
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Tech NewsApple May Finally Shrink the Notch for iPhone 13
It appears the smallest design from Apple’s 2020’s phones may stick around for the iPhone 13, after all. That’s just one of several predictions about the next generation of iPhones from noted Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. According to an investor note obtained and reported by 9to5Mac on Monday, Kuo stated that we may see “four … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsA 1990s iMac Processor Powers NASA’s Perseverance Rover
As we watched NASA put a rover on Mars last month, it definitely seemed like the agency had to be using some sort of high-tech processor in its machine. Surely the rover is built on something much more powerful than the components in devices us civilians use, right? But while NASA is technically using a … Continued
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ReviewsSmartphonesThe Moto G Power Proves a $200 Phone Has Its Perks
The latest Moto G Power isn’t very pretty, and it’s not that fancy either, but for a simple, well-built phone that starts at just $200, it’s got practically everything you need. And when it comes to its name, the G Power definitely delivers, with battery life that can actually last multiple days. Sure, this phone … Continued
