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Hacker Luca Todesco advises jailbreakers to avoid updating to iOS 10.2

While there’s still no public jailbreak for iOS 10 to date, there have been some very convincing demos of personal jailbreaks for it, most of which have come out of the woodwork from none other than well-known iOS hacker Luca Todesco.

Amid the current jailbreak situation, Todesco is now seen warning netizens that if they have any intention of jailbreaking iOS 10 in the future, they should stay on iOS 10.1.1 and refrain from updating to iOS 10.2 when it comes out.

Niantic expands Nearby Pokémon feature as players begin catching Ditto in Pokémon GO

Millions of Pokémon GO players are in for a surprise this week as game developer Niantic is making some big server-side changes to the game.

A limited amount of players in certain regions of the world will be able to see Nearby Pokémon, a feature that has been in experimentation in just San Francisco, California for months.

The news of its expansion comes just a day after the announcement of the in-game Thanksgiving double XP event.

Jailbreak tweaks of the week: ClearClockView, PullOver, & more…

As we continue to go on without a public jailbreak for iOS 10, the Cydia store is in the middle of a drought. These trends are typical when we don't see a new jailbreak for a long period of time, but Apple isn't making things any easier with their rapid software updates.

Regardless, jailbreak developers haven't given up just yet. In this roundup, we'll talk about what's new in Cydia as of this week.

Try out the new Touch Bar on any Mac with Touché

The Touch Bar is an exciting new feature that comes with the higher end MacBook Pro Apple unveiled last month, but you don't have to buy a new MacBook Pro to experiment with the Touch Bar resources that come baked into macOS on every Mac.

Last week we showed you a way to simulate the Touch Bar experience with a third-party app that utilizes the resources already in macOS, and now, another app called Touché is bringing a cleaner implementation of the Touch Bar simulator to all Macs.

How to try out the new MacBook Pro Touch Bar on any Mac

If you're really interested in that new Touch Bar that comes built into the top of the keyboard portion of the higher-end MacBook Pro, but don't have the dime to drop on an expensive new computer right now, then you're gonna love this.

A new hack has surfaced on Github that lets you simulate the Touch Bar on any Mac, and it's fully functional, sans the flashy OLED touch surface. We'll show you how to get it in this tutorial.