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It almost never fails, just as you’re about to finish a big project for work or school, with a deadline looming, your Mac begins to slow down. The dreaded beachball makes an appearance, spinning countless times all the while you can’t get any work done. Eventually, the beachball goes away, and you get some more …

Apple is reportedly prepared if the US-China trade war forces it to move production outside China. Its Taiwanese manufacturing partner Hon Hai Precision Industry (better known as Foxconn) can make enough iPhones to meet the needs of Apple’s US market outside China if needed, according to Bloomberg. Most iPhones are currently produced in China, but Foxconn semiconductor division chief Young …

Apple is reportedly looking into acquiring Intel’s German smartphone modem business. The acquisition could help Apple’s attempts to develop its own 5G chip for the iPhone, The Information said Tuesday, citing four people briefed on the Apple-Intel discussions. Apple had originally used modems from Germany’s Infineon when it launched the iPhone 10 years ago, before switching to Qualcomm in 2011. Intel then bought Infineon …

Huawei is reportedly giving itself more time to overtake Samsung as the world’s biggest phone-seller. The scandal-scarred Chinese company took the No. 2 spot from Apple in the second quarter of 2018, and CEO Richard Yu previously said it aimed to become the world’s largest phone vendor by the end of 2019. Its chief strategy officer revised that goal in …

Dropbox unveiled a major overhaul Tuesday designed to transform its file-sync service into a central collaboration hub connecting other tools like G Suite, Slack, Zoom and Microsoft Office. Dropbox’s new app presents files as a project-based package. Front and center are shared files, but other panes show other contacts in the project, an activity feed with changes to each file, …

Shazam is one of my favorite apps. It eliminated the days of having to Google scraps of song lyrics or try (and fail) to remember them if I heard a song in a movie trailer or on the radio. If you use Shazam’s Android app, you’ll see an alert at the bottom of the main screen. It’ll let you know …

Facebook has a new app that’ll pay users for data on how they use phone apps. Study From Facebook is the social media company’s way to learn how people use mobile apps. According to its page, participants will be paid for agreeing to share their app-usage data such as what apps are installed on the phone, how much time the …

iCloud for Windows users can now access their files via iOS devices and Macs, Apple and Microsoft announced Tuesday. The companies said the new iCloud app, listed for the first time in the Microsoft Store, will allow Windows 10 users to be more productive when away from their PC. The cloud system allows users to store files and folders on the internet …

Looking to trade in your Samsung Galaxy S10? Bad news: It’s now worth half what you paid for it, according to a report by BankMyCell, a site that lets you sell your used phone. The Galaxy S10e lost an average of 50.2% across all storage options in 30 days, the S10+ lost 47% and the S10 lost 42.7% in value, …

The Huawei P30 Pro’s amazing Leica quad-camera system makes it one of the best and most unique phones released this year. If you pride yourself as a phone camera enthusiast the P30 Pro is worth your consideration. But with the recent news that the White House banned US companies from doing business with Huawei, you might feel a little nervous …