Google on Tuesday announced that its new and consolidated mobile payments service, Google Pay, is now available as a standalone app in Play Store.
Google Pay rolling out now, will soon include an answer to Apple Pay Cash
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Spotify may be planning to enter production with its own HomePod rival
Spotify last spring ran a curious job ad for a Senior Product Manager that signaled its interest in the hardware game, and now we're learning via a collection of new job listings that Spotify's HomePod rival may in fact be in the works literally as we speak.
Twitterrific for Mac picks up important multi-account features, slashes price temporarily
Developer The Iconfactory yesterday evening pushed a nice little update to Twitterrific for Mac, its popular Twitter client, bringing several appreciated enhancements just as Twitter has unexpectedly stopped support for its own Mac app.
Let’s Talk iOS 227: Don’t say Bluetooth
Twitter is pulling support for their Mac app, but it's not the end of the world as there are a couple worthy alternatives. Cody and Sebastien discuss Apple's rumored renewed focus on software quality ahead of WWDC 2018. Finally, Sebastien share more thoughts about HomePod after a week of use (spoiler: it's really good).
Video: behind the scenes of iFixit’s iPhone X teardown
When a new iPhone launches, iFixit goes to work performing its ritual teardown dance so all of us can marvel at Apple's latest technology and peek at it from the inside.
Tip: the fastest way to toggle AirPlay as an output on iPhone & iPad
iOS 11 brought a customizable Control Center and also moved AirPlay options around.
Starting April 2018, all new apps must natively support iPhone X display
Apple confirmed in a promotional mailer sent last week to its registered developers that new iPhone apps, including universal apps, will soon need to include native display support for the 2436-by-1125 pixel resolution OLED screen on iPhone X.
Apple changes its corporate address to One Apple Park Way
Apple has been in the process of moving an entire workforce from its old headquarters to the new Apple Park campus for almost a year now.
New jailbreak tweaks to check out: BioLockout, NotTodaySatan, and more
The jailbreak community has been quiet out of anticipation as we await the completion of jailbreak tools like Electra for iOS 11.0-11.1.2, but some developers continue to push iOS 10-compatible tweaks that hold many of us over for now.
In this roundup, we’ll discuss all the new jailbreak tweaks that popped up in Cydia this week. As always, we’ll begin by showcasing our favorites first, and then we’ll cap things off by outlining the rest afterward.
CoolStar seeds Electra RC 1.3 to developers
The Electra jailbreak tool has been in beta since it came to fruition in mid-January, but CoolStar changed that this week after seeding a limited developer-only release of Electra RC 1.
On Saturday, he pushed yet another developer-only build dubbed Electra RC 1.3. The revised jailbreak tool adds support for an iOS 11-compatible version of Ryan Petrich’s RocketBootstrap utility, among other things.
This tweak protects jailbroken devices from the Telugu character bug
If you’ve been paying attention to the news lately, then you might’ve caught wind about a severe bug that crashes iPhones and iPads when a particular Telugu character gets sent or received in emails or text messages.
Apple plans to fix this bug in a future update for iOS, but firmware updates aren’t ideal for jailbreakers that depend on older firmware versions, and that’s where a new free jailbreak tweak called NotTodaySatan by iOS developer Zack Hankewycz comes in.
Distracted Apple employees are finding out how hard the glass walls of the new campus are
A (somewhat comical) report out of Time today is shedding light on an issue at Apple's new HQ; employees keep walking into the glass walls.