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Niantic has announced that “in order to guarantee the best possible gameplay experience for European Trainers, we have decided to postpone the events in Europe scheduled for August 5 (Copenhagen and Prague) and August 12 (Stockholm and Amsterdam) until a date later in the Fall.” This follows on...

9to5 Mac reports that Nokia has just revealed that it was paid $2 billion in cash by Apple last quarter as part of a patent-settlement deal by the two companies. Previously, in May, Nokia and Apple announced that they had come to an agreement in their dispute, with Apple’s chief operating...

AppleInsider reports that Apple has pulled “all major” VPN apps from the App Store in China. The move is thought to be in order to comply with demands from the Chinese government, which has recently started cracking down on unauthorized VPNs, which people in the country have been using to get...

BGR writes that app developer Steven Troughton-Smith, who is known for digging around in code to find interesting snippets of information, has been up to his old tricks again and has discovered some code that reveals the possibility of the forthcoming HomePod having an LED matrix display...

UK-based MacRumors reader Tomas Jackson has told the website that Apple has started to list some movies as 4K and HDR in iTunes purchase history. MacRumors writes that Jason posted a screenshot of his iTunes purchase history on the website’s forums that clearly shows 2016 film Passengers listed...

AppleInsider reports on new research from eMarkter, via MarketNewsUpdates, that finds that Apple is still the number 1 brick-and-mortar retailer, with $5,549 per square foot. This compares particularly favourably with leading food service retailer Reis & Irvy, with $3,970 per square foot for its...

According to the original story in DSLReports, Apple submitted its application to the FCC for an experimental license to test wireless technology on millimeter wave spectrum bands back in May. Here’s a quote from Apple’s application: “ Apple plans to transmit from two fixed points at...

When Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson announced yesterday via a fantastic movie poster that he had teamed up with Apple’s Siri there were certainly a few cynics around wondering if Apple had lost its mind, but it turns out that Apple knew exactly what it was doing, as the YouTube short film, entitled...

It looks like Adobe Flash is finally on the way out, with Adobe announcing today that it will “end-of-life” Flash by the end of 2020. 9to5 Mac writes that according to Adobe’s blog post announcing the move, Adobe is working with companies such as Apple and Google to work towards ending Flash...

Niantic’s first annual Pokémon GO Fest took place yesterday at Chicago’s Grant Park. It had initially promised so much, including the first appearance of a Legendary Pokémon in the game, but in the end the massive crowd of more than 20,000 attendees (an amazing feat in itself) went home sorely...

MacRumors reports that after some Verizon Wireless customers started noticing last week that various streaming services such as Netflix and YouTube were being throttled, Verizon admitted to Ars Technica that it is in fact throttling some services. A Verizon spokesperson said that it was doing so...

Niantic has today announced that Legendary Pokémon are finally coming to Pokémon Go this weekend as part of Pokémon Go’s first-year anniversary celebrations. The Legendary Pokémon will be available at Gyms, and you can catch one of your own in a couple of different ways. Firstly, you can find...

Jagex has announced that its flagship MMORPG RuneScape will be coming to iOS this winter, complete with interoperable PC play. The Cambridge-based developer says that Old School RuneScape will be released first, with RuneScape to follow, making them the first mainstream and fully established...

MacRumors reports that according to TechCrunch, Cedars-Sinai hospital in Los Angeles is currently carrying out a pilot program using iPads, not just as a means of keeping patients informed, but also as a way of enabling parents in the NICU to interact with their children when there is a high...

The Next Web reports that Facebook is currently gradually rolling out a new built-in GIF-creation mode for Facebook camera. It only has a limited rollout at present, but should be available worldwide very soon. In order to use the new feature, you simply have to tap the camera icon in the top...

AppleInsider reports that Apple has just made a move that is bound to delight owners of the first-generation Apple Watch, as they will now be able to get free repairs to the back cover of the original Apple Watch for 3years rather than just 1 year. This includes all versions of the...

MacRumors reports that according to Fortune, Qualcomm and Apple’s legal battle looks set to heat up even further with Qualcomm asking the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) to block iPhone and iPad imports into the US, as well as asking for sales of devices already in the US to...

Feral Interactive has announced that Rome: Total War - Alexander will be arriving on iPad later in the summer, making it the second standalone expansion pack for the iPad game Rome: Total War to be released, following Rome: Total War - Barbarian Invasion. The game’s story is set a century prior...

Apple has announced today that it is to celebrate America’s national parks in July in several different ways. Firstly, from July 1 to July 15, Apple will donate $1 to the National Park Foundation for every purchase made with Apple Pay at any Apple Store, on apple.com, or via the Apple Store app...

AppleInsider reports that Tech Insights has found that the A10X Fusion processor in the newly released iPad Pros is the first chip in a device to use TMSC’s FinFET 10nm chip-making process. According to Tech Insights’ breakdown, the A10X Fusion die size is 96.4 square millimetres, compared with...

I read that the iPad Pro has a USB Power Delivery feature that charges the device faster and tested it out myself. I got Apple’s 29W MacBook Type-C charger and a C-to-Lightning cable. With the 29W charger I charged my iPad Pro from 0 to 100% in only 2 hours and 15 mins! Huge improvement over...

iDownload Blog reports that Facebook has unveiled some cool new video chat features for the Messenger app. The new video chat features include animated reactions, interactive filters, masks and effects. You can use the new features in one-on-one video calls as well as in group video...

Ubisoft has today announced a new Assassin’s Creed game, Assassin’s Creed Rebellion, for iOS and Android. Developed by Ubisoft and Behaviour Interactive studio, the free-to-play strategy role-playing game sees the series storyline return to the 15th century in Spain at the height of the Spanish...

MacRumors writes that venture capitalist and former analyst Gene Munster has said that Apple’s AirPods will be “bigger than the Apple Watch” over the next 10 years. Although AirPods sell for $159, much less than even the cheapest Apple Watch at $269, Munster says that AirPods will contribute...

9to5 Mac reports that Apple’s new Chicago River retail store is boasting a very cool design feature that makes it look like a Giant MacBook Air when viewed from above. The latest shots of the construction process were posted by DNAinfo, and show the Foster+Partners building with a giant Apple...

SEGA has announced a new game collection, SEGA Forever, that will feature games from its illustrious history. Each game will be free-to-play, supported by ads, and playable offline. Added features will include cloud saves, controller support, and leaderboards. There will also be an ad-free...

Red Hook Studios’ incredibly popular and critically acclaimed roguelike RPG Darkest Dungeon is looking more likely than ever to be coming to iPad, writes Touch Arcade. Last year, the developers first mentioned in a blog post that they would like to bring the game to tablets, but that was the...

9to5 Mac reports that Foxconn is to set up U.S.-based manufacturing plants in “several” states as part of a deal said to be worth $10B, $7B of which is marked for display production, with the rest set aside for various other products. According to the original report in Bloomberg, Foxconn...

Periscope broadcasts have become one of the best ways to stream and view live content on the web. So easy to use for both viewers and broadcasters, Periscope is about to get much, much bigger with the announcement from Twitter that you can now reward your favourite broadcasters with Super...

Niantic is today rolling out possibly the biggest and most significant Pokémon Go update since the game was first launched last summer. Just as announced by the company a couple of days ago, the update ushers in a massive overhaul of the Gym system, as well as paving the way for the new Raid...

Niantic has today announced some exciting new features for Pokémon Go that include revamped Gyms and all-new Raid Battles. Starting with the Gyms, Niantic says that the forthcoming “major facelift” will include being able to spin Photo Discs to acquire items at Gyms just as you already do at...

AppleInsider reports that following a brief introduction at WWDC recently Ikea has now officially announced that it is currently developing on an ARKit catalog for iPhone. Speaking to Di Digital, Ikea’s leader of Digital Transformation, Michael Valdsgaard, said that this will be the first AR...

Recode reports that Apple has just announced that it has hired two top Sony TV executives to run its new Video Programming Division, giving credence to the various Hollywood rumours that Apple is looking to make its own original TV shows and movies. The two executives, Jamie Erlicht and Zack...

Following the announcement of its partnership with Apple in 2014, 9to5 Mac reports that IBM has now launched what it is calling “Garages,” which is a way of creating dedicated physical spaces to help corporations develop MobileFirst iPhone and iPad apps. "Four years ago, we made enterprise...

9to5 Mac reports that the newly released iPad Pro models are outperforming new MacBook Pro models in some benchmark tests from blog BareFeats. BareFeats pitched the 2017 and 2016 MacBook Pro Touch Bar models against four different iPad Pro models. The MacBook Pros that were tested were the...

MacRumors reports that UK retailer John Lewis is offering a free 3-year guarantee on certain Apple products including iPads, MacBooks, and iMacs for purchases via the online store until June 28. The offer applies to all Macs and iPads available on the online store, which all come with a free...

Foxconn chairman Terry Gou has told Reuters, via AppleInsider, that Apple, Dell, and Kingston are among the many companies that are teaming up with Foxconn to bid for Toshiba’s memory unit. Gou said that Apple CEO and the Apple board of directors approved the bid. According to Gou, Amazon is...

Recode reports that Apple is about to make some big changes to its incredibly popular Podcasts app, many of which will be very welcome to podcasters. First of all, the revamped version of the app will see Apple providing podcasters with basic analytics that will tell them when their listeners...

Apple has today announced that it is to open its first ever retail store in Taiwan, writes MacRumors. The news came via a posting on the company’s official Taiwan website, which also revealed that the store will be situated over 1,322 square meters on the ground and basement floors of Taipei...

Niantic has announced that it is to hold the first ever real-world Pokémon Go event in celebration of both the one-year anniversary of the game’s release and the milestone of 750 million global downloads. First off we have the in-game Solstice Event, which will kick off on June 13. This will...