Scorpion, Drake’s fifth album, has smashed through his own single-day streaming record on Apple Music with more than 170 million streams in its first 24 hours. Spotify reportedly only reached about 76 percent of that traffic, despite claiming 120 million more users.
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Olloclip released an updated version of their popular mobile lenses, tailor-made for the iPhone X. Included is a wide angle lens, a fisheye lens, and a macro lens — and we’ve been testing it out for a few weeks.
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While Apple’s new MacOS Mojave is designed to support a long tail of older Macs (dating back as far as 2010) it’s particularly a treat when used on new machines. In particular, its new Dark Mode is ideal on a space grey MacBook Pro with Touch Bar.
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The British Advertising Standards Authority has overruled objections to an iPhone X television commercial. The spots, which began airing in March, focused on “radically new cameras with Portrait Lighting” and highlighted “Studio-quality portraits. Without the studio.”
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In the constantly-changing landscape of the App Store and the software marketplace, new apps and updates to existing titles are announced all the time. AppleInsider highlights some of the more notable app introductions and software updates for iOS and macOS that surfaced in the past week.
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Some of the stories you were most interested in this week included this year’s rumored MacBook, iPad, and Apple Watch updates, the graphics tech in macOS Mojave, and which carrier to pick for an unlimited iPhone plan.
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Some 2,200 unsecured Firebase databases have caused more than 3,000 iOS and Android apps to leak user data, exposing over 100 million records including plaintext passwords, health information, GPS location data and more, security researchers say.
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As the British might say, the Eve Aqua “does what it says on the tin,” even if it could stand refinements in some areas.
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Microsoft’s long-rumored “Andromeda” device will be a “pocketable” Surface product, further smearing the line between phones, tablets, and laptops, according to a leaked internal document.
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One or more of this fall’s iPhones will make use of dual-SIM, dual-standby (DSDS) technology, in some cases using an embedded Apple SIM, a Chinese report claimed this week.
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