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Apple Maps boosts directions, lane guidance in several cities, assorted countries

This could definitely be helpful. Apple on Wednesday boosted its transit directions and lane guidance for its Apple Maps apps. The feature, which originally provided transit directions for Baltimore, Berlin, Boston, Chicago, London, Los Angeles, Mexico City, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Sydney, Toronto, and around 300 cities in China upon launch added several other […]

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MacUpdate accidentally hosts malware, cryptocurrency miner packages for February 1st downloads, fixes and apologizes for mistake

Even though it was corrected, this could be called a snafu. Download aggregator web site MacUpdate briefly linked to three malicious applications masquerading as legitimate downloads for Firefox, OnyX, and Deeper, that not only install the apps, but also deposit Monero, a cryptocurrency miner on downloader’s systems. On February 1st, MacUpdate updated its legitimate download […]

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Hardware iPhone News retail

Apple launches repair program for iPhone 7 units affected by the “No Service” bug

This might help you out. Apple on Friday launched a repair program for iPhone 7 devices that are impacted by an ongoing bug that causes them to have no available service even when cellular coverage is available. Apple says the problem is caused by a component that has failed on the main logic board. The […]

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battery Hardware iOS iPhone News

Apple admits to throttling iOS performance on older iPhone models since 2016, cites battery-related/altruistic reasons for practice

Well, this isn’t good. Following years of suspicion from critics, Apple may have admitted to secretly stifling the performance of older iPhones. After years of anecdotal evidence that the company was purposely slowing performance to compel users to upgrade to the latest iPhone model, Apple admitted to the practice on Wednesday, offering the following comments […]

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Apple Watch Hardware Health News Software Wearables

New study cites Apple Watch as being able to help accurately predict sleep apnea and hypertension

You can add “helping to detect sleep apnea” and “helping to detect hypertension” to the list of nifty things the Apple Watch can do. A new study released from health startup Cardiogram and the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) suggests that wearable devices like the Apple Watch, Fitbit and others are able to accurately […]