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Apple releases iOS 14.5 beta 6, showcases new features en route

iOS 14.5 beta 6 developer version has hit, and offers a slew of spiffy new features with a public release expected sometime in April. The new release is available to developers and public beta users via an over-the-air update in the Settings app. If the update does not immediately appear for download, keep checking, as […]

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Popular iOS apps such as Waze, Spotify, and others experiencing crashes under iOS 13 due to conflicts with Facebook SDK

If your Waze and Spotify apps aren’t working on your devices running iOS 13, it could somewhat be Facebook’s fault. Recently, a developer stated in an interview with Business Insider that Facebook’s Software Development Kit (SDK) is likely the source of the problem. Spotify acknowledged the problem in a Tweet: Replies from its support account […]

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iPhone Tips: Fight off the battery blues, Part 1

Battery life has always been the bane of any mobile device user, and the trend continues to this day. As handheld device manufacturers add new capabilities, more demands are placed on the battery which offsets at least some of the improvements in battery technology. Other technologies like Bluetooth LE have been developed to reduce the […]

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Waze adds celebrity voice directions

Waze, the popular crowdsourcing navigation app, which was recently purchased by Google, announced a new partnership with Universal Pictures to add celebrity voice navigation to its quiver of features. First on the list of celebrities is actor and comedian Kevin Hart (no, I don’t know who he is either). Hart acted on Real Husbands of Hollywood, […]

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Waze realtime incident data now incorporated into Google Maps following acquisition earlier this year

This is one of the better sides of companies buying each other out. Per AppleInsider, crowd sourced traffic data from Waze, a company that Google acquired earlier this year, is now included in the official Google Maps application for iPhone and iPad. The company announced on its official Lat Long blog on Tuesday that real […]