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Apple releases watchOS 4.2, includes Apple Pay Cash service for Apple Watch

You can now use your Apple Watch to send and receive money via the new Apple Pay Cash service. Apple on Tuesday launched watchOS 4.2 for the Apple Watch, allowing for this feature. The final release comes after four beta builds were issued to developers and public testers. Apple Pay Cash began rolling out on […]

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Apple offers early iPhone X pre-order access to iPhone Upgrade Program members

This is one of the perks of being part of Apple’s iPhone Upgrade Program. Apple is now enabling IUP members to ‘get a head start on your upgrade to iPhone X’ starting Monday, October 23, ahead of pre-orders on Friday, October 27. The ‘head start’ on Monday appears to only apply to customers already enrolled […]

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Apple preps new emojis, including androgynous symbols

This year, the Unicode Consortium, the organization that handles new emoji proposals, has approved a new set of emojis, including an androgynous person, a male fairy, a takeout box, a “shh” smiley, “I love you” in American Sign Language, a bevy of mystical creatures, and an orange heart, which completes that emoji’s full rainbow of […]

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Apple CEO Tim Cook pushes for mandatory coding requirement at Trump administration tech summit

This is sort of nifty. On Monday, at a technology summit with President Donald Trump, Apple CEO Tim Cook reportedly suggested making programming a mandatory subject in the country’s schools. Cook, who was among other tech executives, was among the representatives for the first gathering of the White House’s American Technology Council. Over the course […]

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tvOS 10.2 update may conflict with some third-party streaming applications

As nifty as tvOS 10.2 is (the new fast scrolling feature, for example, is much appreciated), it might be causing problems with some third-party streaming applications. A new report has stated that tvOS 10.2 including functionality that makes the Apple TV require device verification from an AirPlay streaming device. In such a case, only Apple […]