The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, an international coalition of 35 children’s and consumer groups, is calling on Instagram to stop its plans to create a version of the app for users under age 13. more… The post Coalition urges Facebook…
Lees meerFrom 9to5Mac’s new sister site ConnectTheWatts: One of the selling points of the newer, upgraded, and more expensive Peloton Bike+ was the inclusion of the Apple GymKit, an Apple platform that makes it very easy to pair the bike with your Apple Wat…
Lees meerAccording to a leak on Weibo, Apple is preparing to launch a new third generation of Apple Pencil, seemingly as part of its April “Spring Loaded” event. The Weibo account, UnclePan, has been pretty accurate in the past. more… The post Rumor: Appl…
Lees meerTSMC is Apple’s primary chipmaker and serves as the exclusive supplier of A-series and M-series Apple silicon chips. The company today reported strong earnings results for the first quarter, with downstream partners such as smartphone, tablet, and …
Lees meerEarlier this week, Bloomberg reported that Apple is working on a new smart home product that would combine an Apple TV and a HomePod, and add in a camera for FaceTime support. While the idea of this product sounds incredibly intriguing, the questio…
Lees meerApple has announced its latest Apple Pay promotion, this time in celebration of Earth Day. Apple says that from now through Earth Day, which is April 22, it will donate $1 to Conservation International for every Apple Pay transaction made on Apple’…
Lees meerLeaked schematics yesterday offered a closer look at some of the design changes Apple could have in store for this year’s iPhone 13 lineup. Now, Svet Apple has published new renders imagining what the iPhone 13 mini could look like with these chang…
Lees meerTwitter announced today the “Responsible Machine Learning Initiative” to take responsibility for its own algorithmic decisions after several controversies about what its algorithm chose to display. more… The post Twitter announces new initiative t…
Lees meerApple TV+ has announced the animated short film “Blush,” the first project to come from its expansive multi-year partnership with Skydance Animation. more… The post Apple and Skydance Animation announce ‘Blush’ short film coming to TV+ appeared fi…
Lees meerWith Apple event invites going out yesterday, the world is abuzz with wild ideas and rampant kremlinology. Whenever an Apple event graphic hits the web, it gets torn apart as people try and decode whatever hint they have told themselves is hidden w…
Lees meerDavid Smith, the prolific developer behind apps like Watchsmith and Widgetsmith, is out with a new Apple Watch app today. “Ian’s Awesome Counter” is a new application for Apple Watch that Smith says is “designed to help you be more focused and awar…
Lees meerGoogle today announced a handful of new Assistant features, while making others more widely available. The biggest lets iPhone owners find misplaced devices using Google Smart Displays and speakers as Assistant Routines availability expands. more……
Lees meerAll of today’s best deals include up to $164 in savings on Apple Watch Series 6 models. That’s alongside the first discount on Apple’s Leather MagSafe iPhone 12/Pro Case to $55 and unlocked iPhone 11 Pro/Max at $249 off. Hit the jump for all that a…
Lees meerFacebook is rolling out a new COVID-19 label about treatments without scientific proof, as it already does with COVID-19 information overall. more… The post Facebook to start labeling posts suggesting COVID-19 treatments without scientific proof a…
Lees meerInstagram has been playing with like counts for several years now. In about half a dozen countries, the platform has been doing a test where it hides like counts altogether. Now Instagram is giving users the choice to customize how like counts work…
Lees meerAfter Spotify unveiled its first hardware product on Tuesday, it’s today launching a new Top Podcasts and Trending Podcasts Charts feature. This comes as Spotify continues to ramp up its competition with Apple Podcasts. more… The post Spotify con…
Lees meerAfter launching a game service and Apple TV app integration, popular media platform Plex is out today with the news that it has raised $50 million in funding to advance its goal to become the top content platform on the market. more… The post Plex…
Lees meerOver the last several years, Apple has ramped up its focus on product trade-ins, providing users instant credit toward new products when they trade in their old devices. Some of these trade-ins are handled by Apple itself, but the company largely r…
Lees meerModeration is a food diary app developed by Pixelfolio in Wales, and it has received its biggest update yet to version 3.0. Different from other apps where you can count how many calories you have eaten through the day, Moderation is simpler and t…
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Lees meerAmazon today introduced the second-generation of its Echo Buds while the Apple community awaits the introduction of AirPods 3. For the first-gen buds, Amazon only offered them in black, but this year they have added a white color… and the white cas…
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