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You already know how important it is to monitor your blood pressure on a daily basis if you’re worried about high blood pressure or have hypertension. If you own an Apple Watch ($70 at Amazon), you already have a good starting point for tracking your blood pressure at home. Daily tracking can help you establish …

Apple’s reputation for respecting privacy was called into question last week with news that contractors listen to Siri recordings. That sparked an understandable clamor for better control over voice data collected by the digital assistant. If you own an Apple product, you might want the option to delete your recordings from the company’s database.  Here’s the rub: Apple can’t delete …

Apple is suspending its Siri grading process globally while it conducts a review. The move comes after a report last week in  The Guardian said a team of contractors around the world listens to a random, small subset of the recordings Siri hears after people push its activation button or say “Hey Siri,” to check the voice assistant’s accuracy and response. Apple …

Google is testing a monthly subscription service that lets you access a library of Android games and apps on its Play Store, Android Police reported Wednesday. We got the first hints about the search giant’s Play Pass service last year, but it seems even more relevant with Apple Arcade looming. The report showed screenshots of Play Pass signup page with …

A video claiming to be a hands-on of the Samsung Galaxy Note 10 and Note 10+ has been posted on YouTube by British online mobile accessories retailer Mobile Fun. The 4-minute video goes into extreme detail, showing off what it says is the upcoming handset from every angle possible. Mobile Fun said it got the dummy phones from a phone case company, …

Smartphone makers, led by Samsung and Apple, have been jacking up prices over the last few years. Consumers, however, have been pushing back. And now there’s new data that shows it’s harder than ever to compete in the ultrapremium tier of phones.  Apple and Samsung this week reported earnings for the June quarter that didn’t convey much optimism in the …

The headphone jack on phones had a good run, but like all good things, it eventually must end. That end seems to have finally arrived with Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy Note 10 line.  After being one of the last holdouts against the trend of ditching the headphone jack, it appears that Samsung is going to do just that for the Note 10 …

Alongside iOS 13.1, Apple released iPadOS. It’s the first time Apple‘s iPad has had its own operating system. There’s a lot of feature overlap and parity between iOS 13 and iPadOS, but by giving the iPad its own OS, Apple can begin to separate how the two devices work. One of the more notable changes to iPadOS, outside of the multitasking …

Tired of too many apps on your iPhone? Good news: If you ever want to buy concert tickets on StubHub using Apple Pay, you can now just use your mobile browser, the company announced Thursday. Apple Pay is a digital wallet service that lets users make payments via their iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and even Mac laptop. As of June …

The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has rereleased its drones app, this time with useful information on where you can and can’t fly your drone in the national airspace system (NAS). The B4UFLY mobile app is free in the Apple App Store and Google Play store as of Wednesday. The app now has a clear status indicator of whether it’s …