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Apple begins slowly reopening retail locations throughout the U.S., requires masks, temperature checks, and social distancing

Apple has begun slowly opening its U.S. retail locations. The company has implemented a series of guidelines to protect customers from the Coronavirus pandemic. First, Apple has begun requiring face coverings “for all of our teams and customers,” which will be provided if needed. The company will also offer temperature checks that will be conducted […]

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Chinese Apple Store locations, Foxconn plants, “cautiously” reopening in wake of coronavirus outbreak

Apple is trying to get things up and running again in China following the coronavirus outbreak and the forced closure of iPhone assembler Foxconn’s main assembly plant. Apple, in turn, has announced that it will be “cautiously” resuming production in its main iPhone manufacturing plants. Foxconn announced that it is cautiously reopening its plants, but […]

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Apple releases iOS 11.1.2 update, offers fix for iPhone X display being unresponsive in cold temperatures

If nothing else, the iOS 11 updates are arriving fairly quickly. Apple released its iOS 11.1.2 update on Thursday. The update, which can range from a few hundred megabyte to a 2.43 gigabyte download, offered the following fixes and changes:

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iStat Menus 6 offers massive number of new features and improvements

If you enjoy monitoring all aspects of your Mac, you’re going to like this. On Monday, Bjango released version 6.00 of iStat Menus, its popular system monitoring software. The new version offers tools to keep track of CPU, memory, disk, network, temperature, fan, Bluetooth, date and time and weather functions. The update offers extensive new […]

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Apple patent points to smarter, more automated HomeKit functionality, interoperability with homes, vehicles

This could turn into something interesting. A recently published patent filed by Apple indicates as to Apple’s intention for an “automated environment” in which HomeKit would be able to track the routines of users and implement automated behaviors based on those habits. As an example, Apple points to the idea of a heating system being […]