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Hardware iPhone News

Updated Touch ID hardware to provide more secure, reliable Apple Pay experience

The Touch ID hardware is about to get better. A report from well-connected insider Ming-Chi Kuo released on Tuesday stated that Apple’s new Touch ID model will improve the Apple Pay experience with fewer reading errors. Kuo, an analyst with KGI Securities, projects that Touch ID module shipments will grow 12.4 percent this year to […]

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iOS iPad iPhone Kids

Time Limits desperately needed on iOS

TL;DR I’d like to see the Time Limits feature from OS X come to iOS Restrictions. It’s hard to deny that the iPad is an unbridled success and that it changed how we use computers in our daily lives. For kids, this might be the understatement of the decade. The iPad is a kid’s dream, it can […]

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iOS Mail OS X

How Apple could improve the awesome VIP Sender feature

TL;DR I love the VIP Sender feature in OS X and iOS and use it all the time, but it needs to be expanded. It works like this: click a sender’s name/email address in either OS X Mail or Mail.app and select “Add to VIPs.” Doing so prioritizes email from that sender and when new mail arrives, you’ll […]

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Finance iPhone News

JetBlue to begin accepting Apple Pay on international flights next week, domestic flights later this year

This is sort of cool. While assorted vendors are lining up and adding support for Apple Pay, JetBlue Airways has announced that it has become the first airline to use Apple Pay to purchase things in-flight starting next week. Starting next week, passengers on select JetBlue Airways flights can use Apple Pay on their iPhone […]

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Fun MacBook Air News

MacBook Air falls 1,000 feet from airplane, survives

Your MacBook Air may be tougher than you think. Apparently, a South African pilot managed to drop his MacBook Air notebook from the light aircraft he was flying when the canopy flew open. The MacBook, along with his flying license and logbook, fell 1000 feet into the fields below–but amazingly survived the experience.