DxOMark has opened up a new suite of audio tests for smartphones, and unsurprisingly, all the recent iPhones tested did quite well.

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Adobe is changing the way its Creative Cloud apps are presented to subscribers of the service, with a refreshed macOS app rolling out to users with better integration with a user’s libraries and improvements to how to presents tutorials and other assets.

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An Apple customer who bought a Certified Refurbished MacBook Pro claims to have discovered the presence of diagnostic tools on the notebook, applications used to check the MacBook is fully functional but are meant to be removed before being sold.

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Pixelmator Pro’s new update brings along full support for macOS Catalina including Sidecar, and enhanced features for those using the forthcoming Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR.

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Apple’s 2020 fiscal year should be more positive than some investors anticipate, Cowen suggests, with the iPhone 11 refresh assisted by a potential launch of a second-generation iPhone SE early in the cycle to help increase hardware revenues.

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In an ongoing saga, Apple has again pulled the law enforcement-monitoring HKMap Live app from the Hong Kong app store, and it appears that it is gone for good this time.

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Shazam has eradicated its losses and increased its user base by over 78 million users in 2018 after acquisition by Apple.

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Apple is now offering a disaster relief program for the Apple Card, which halts interest and delays one payment to those who apply.

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Apple has removed Quartz from the Chinese App Store at the behest of the Chinese government, shortly after reinstating the previously removed protest app HKMap Live.

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If you have more than one Mac you want to upgrade to macOS 10.15 Catalina but don’t want to waste so much bandwidth downloading it for each machine, one option is to create a bootable installer on a spare USB flash drive. Here’s how to do it with the Terminal.

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