According to local reports, Apple will begin reopening all of the fifteen brick-and-mortar stores it operates in Germany, an 83 million people market, next Monday, May 11.
Germany’s 15 Apple Stores will begin reopening Monday
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Keyboard shortcuts for the News app on Mac
These days, you might be using the News app on your Mac more than ever. So why not make it just that much easier to get the news you want to see?
With this list of keyboard shortcuts, you can move around the app, make it simpler to read, save stories, and more.
ControlWidget lets jailbreakers add a Today widget to Control Center
If there’s one thing I like about how iOS has changed over the years, it would have to be the introduction of widgets via the Today page. Available via the Lock screen, Notification Center, and to the left of the first Home screen page, the Today page offers a quick and unmistakable glance at pertinent app data from widget-supported apps. But what if you wanted to access your widgets from more places?
Unfortunately, Apple keeps widget access locked down to a very small number of places in iOS, but with the help of a newly released and free jailbreak tweak dubbed ControlWidget by iOS developer Marcel Braun, you can now enjoy a Today widget of your choosing in the Control Center interface.
Checkra1n team teases pwned Mac Pro, ‘the most expensive device ever jailbroken’
Most associate the term jailbreaking with devices like the iPhone, iPad, and in some cases, even the Apple TV. But when gifted hackers began experimenting with the powerful checkm8 hardware-based bootrom exploit earlier this year, things got more interesting. In March, for example, checkra1n team member Luca Todesco demonstrated nifty hacks on the OLED Touch Bar of a T2 chip-equipped MacBook Pro.
But the MacBook Pro isn’t the only Apple computer that sports a T2 chip. As a matter of fact, many do, and with that in mind, it may not come as much of a surprise that the checkra1n team has taken things a step further by jailbreaking yet another T2-equipped Mac – the elaborate and expensive Mac Pro:
Sonos says Spotify operates an even-more closed ecosystem than Apple
Sonos cofounder John MacFarlane has hit back at Spotify's cofounder and CEO Daniel Ek who recently whined about Apple's platforms not being, in his personal view, open enough to third-party apps like Spotify. In a post on Twitter, MacFarlane called the real irony the fact that the Swedish company operates an even-more closed ecosystem than the Cupertino tech giant.
Beta 4 of macOS Catalina 10.15.5 launches for developer testing
Apple today seeded to its registered developers and members of the Apple Developer program a fourth beta of what would become a fifth major update to the macOS Catalina software.
Some 13-inch MacBook Pros can use 87W adapters, but they won’t charge any faster
All models of Apple's recently refreshed 13-inch MacBook Pro notebook ship with a 61-watt USB-C power adapter, but only higher-end configurations are able to draw power from Apple's 87W adapter that shipped with the previous-generation 15-inch MacBook Pro.
Kuo: Apple may have delayed first mini-LED products into 2021
Later this year, Apple was supposed to release products that use tens of thousands of mini-LED backlights instead of LED backlighting, providing local dimming for deeper blacks, richer color and sharper image. However, the coronavirus situation appears to have spoiled those plans and prompted the iPhone maker to push back its mini-LED product roadmap to 2021.
Watch a narrated tour of the Jamestown lunar base from “For All Mankind”
A new trailer for the Apple TV+ retro space drama "For All Mankind" is now available, with former astronaut and technical advisor Garrett Reisman taking us on a narrated tour of the Jamestown lunar base, which is one of the show’s locations.
A much faster Apple TV is “ready to ship,” claims a prolific leaker
We could be in for another Apple production introduction soon, and this time around the Cupertino company is predicted to release an updated Apple TV model featuring the company's fast A12X Bionic processor that debuted in the 2018 iPad Pro.
Pixelmator Pro gains a Replace Image feature, handy new keyboard shortcuts & much more
Popular Photoshop alternative Pixelmator Pro has updated its macOS app on the Mac App Store with a bunch of new features, including the ability to replace image layers while preserving nondestructive edits, use a bunch of handy keyboard shortcuts and more.
Apple invests $10 million in a crucial maker of collection kits for coronavirus samples
Apple today announced a $10 million investment in COPAN Diagnostics, the key maker of collection kits for coronavirus samples, as part of its Advanced Manufacturing Fund which is aimed at helping US businesses create manufacturing jobs in the country.