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Apple to Support U.S. National Parks in July With Donations, Apple Watch...

Apple today announced a campaign in support of America’s national parks. From July 1 through July 15, 2017, Apple says it will donate $1 to the National Park Foundation for every U.S. purchase made...

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AAPL, MSFT Among Stocks Affected By NASDAQ Glitch

Many investors were not able to get a relaxing early start to the Independence Day holiday on Monday night as a reporting glitch wreaked havoc on several Nasdaq-listed tech stocks following market...

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Imagination Technologies Attacks Apple’s GPU Plans in Latest Earnings Report

Imagination Technologies, the British-based technology firm that has long licensed the GPU tech used in Apple’s mobile devices, issued a scathing rebuke of Apple’s plans to soon drop the company. The...

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Report: Facial Recognition to Replace Touch ID on iPhone 8

With the upcoming “iPhone 8” expected to feature an edge-to-edge display, many have wondered how Apple will accommodate the device’s Touch ID fingerprint sensor. Initial speculation suggested it would...

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Classic FPS ‘Shadow Warrior’ Available for Free at GOG

Shadow Warrior, the classic 1997 3D Realms first-person shooter, is available for free from GOG. The game runs on both Windows and macOS, and includes both expansion packs, Twin Dragon and Wanton...

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Former Employee Claims Google, Not Apple, Wanted Out of iPhone YouTube Deal

Longtime iPhone users will recall that Apple and Google used to have a much warmer relationship, to the point that several Google services were included in iOS from the start. We all know what happened...

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U.S. Government Seeks to Intervene in Apple’s EU Tax Appeal

It was revealed this week that the U.S. government has filed to intervene in Apple’s ongoing European Union tax case, according to a report from Reuters. The U.S. is reportedly siding with Apple in the...

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Australia’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Encryption Law

It’s almost like having brain damage is a prerequisite for holding government office. Well, the whole encryption issue is back in the news again, this time thanks to our friends down under. The...

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Quickly Change Between Light and Dark Mode in macOS With a Custom AppleScript...

Apple makes it easy to switch between light and dark mode in macOS. Regardless of whether you’re just changing the Dock and Menu Bar (in Yosemite through High Sierra) or the entire system with Mojave’s...

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Want to Buy a Giant Library of Blu-rays, DVDs, and Laserdiscs?

Apple’s planned improvements for the Apple TV make it a great streaming device for an increasingly all-digital age, but if you’re intent on sticking with physical media, you can pick up an incredible...

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The First Investors Summit Dedicated to Long-Term AAPL Investors

Are you long on AAPL? Hate how the mainstream market analysts never seem to “get it?” Well, then be sure to check out the first annual Apple Summit, a first-of-its-kind investor summit “dedicated to...

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Apple Orders Dramedy ‘Little Voices’ Produced by J.J. Abrams and Sara Bareilles

Apple’s catalog of self-produced TV shows is continuing to grow. The company has reportedly ordered a new half-hour “dramedy” titled Little Voices from producers J.J. Abrams and Sara Bareilles. As...

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Safari Technology Preview 58 Introduces Icons in Tabs, Strong Password...

Apple announced a number of improvements to its Safari web browser during its WWDC keynote this week, including website icons (“favicons“) in tabs and automatic generation of strong passwords for...

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Apple Maps Now Embeddable on the Web With MapKit JS Beta

Apple is expanding the use of Apple Maps on the web with the release of the MapKit JS API to developers. With access to this API, developers can embed interactive Apple Maps directly into their...

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New Class Action Lawsuit Claims All Apple Watch Models Have Defective Screen...

A new class action lawsuit has been filed against Apple alleging the existence of a defect in all Apple Watch models that causes the display to crack, shatter, or detach from the watch body. As...

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The Awesome Insanity of Rackmounting the iMac Pro

Do you have a powerful new iMac Pro? If so, do you want to rackmount it? No, of course you don’t, because that would be bananapants crazy. But there’s at least one company that has need for such a...

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This $2 App Brings Amazon Alexa to Your Apple Watch…Sort Of

An Apple Watch app called Voice in a Can is seeking to satisfy the desires of those who love Apple hardware but rely on Amazon Alexa for its home automation capabilities. As a standalone app, Voice in...

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AT&T Raising iPhone’s Grandfathered Unlimited Data Plan to $45/month

Those lucky few iPhone users grandfathered into AT&T’s unlimited data plans will see a monthly rate increase starting next month. As spotted by MacRumors, a support article on AT&T’s website...

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iOS 12 Adds a Thesaurus to the Word Look Up Feature

iOS 12 Adds a Thesaurus to the Word Look Up Feature Another day, another small but handy iOS 12 feature discovered. iOS 12 gives (some) users the option to have thesaurus results in the “Look Up”...

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