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Apple quietly begins offering house calls for broken iPhone repairs in some cities

If you don’t happen to live near an Apple Store and your iPhone croaks, this’ll come in handy. Apple has quietly added a new option wherein a third-party technician from Go Tech Services can be sent to your home or office for common repairs, including cracked screens. It’s presently unknown as to whether the repairs […]

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Apple confirms that 2019 Mac Pro will be built in Austin, Texas

The 2019 Mac Pro will be made in America. Austin, Texas, to be specific. An Apple press release issue on Monday stated that the upcoming desktop will indeed be made in the longhorn state. This is the same facility that manufactured the 2013 Mac Pro. The components will be designed and shipped by over a […]

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New Apple Maps data, more details maps, begin surfacing in northeastern U.S., along eastern seaboard

Roughly one year ago, Apple announced a huge change to its Maps app, stating that the company was completely overhauling its fundamental map data. The new data would expand upon what was there, now including buildings, rivers, roads, and vegetation in a vastly more accurate and detailed form. Apple began rolling out the new mapping […]

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T-Mobile’s first New York-based 5G test hits 493 Mbps

This is pretty impressive. During the first T-Mobile 5G test in New York City, the service achieved a score of 493 Mbps via a Verizon phone. T-Mobile’s achievement is more significant given that the carrier is currently using much less spectrum than Verizon. Allnet Insights stated that T-Mobile is using 80MHz of spectrum in New […]

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Apple Maps receives additional terrain data for Arizona, New Mexico, and Nevada

As part of its continual effort to rebuild Apple Maps, Apple has added detailed terrain features to the U.S. states of Arizona and New Mexico as well as the southern portion of Nevada, including the city of Las Vegas.  The additional data is derived from Apple’s street-level data gathering via LiDAR-equipped vehicles, which Apple has […]