It’s been fun, Dark Sky. After being acquired by Apple in May, the Android weather app officially stopped working on Saturday, Aug. 1. It’s terribly sad news for those of us who came to rely on the app’s push notifications for impending rain or snow. Dark Sky had over 1 million installs, according to its Play …
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Apple recently released the iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 public beta. Now, anyone with a compatible iPhone or iPad can get an early preview of the features that everyone else will get this fall. If you’re willing to put up with occasional bugs and issues, you can install and help test it right now. But should you? My sage advice: …
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For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. The ongoing spread of the coronavirus continues to create new crops of hackers, targeting people who are working from home, still awaiting stimulus or benefit checks, or just trying to stay healthy at home or on a socially distanced vacation. Scammers are even pretending …
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For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. School systems are formulating reopening plans amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, and families are reshaping their summer schedules to adhere to safety regulations. Parents balancing working from home with caring for school-age kids need ways to keep their brood entertained. Read more: Our favorite back …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. During an online-only keynote for Apple’s annual Worldwide Developer Conference Monday, the company launched iOS 14. The new iPhone OS is a follow-up to last year’s iOS 13, which initially had a rocky start with numerous software updates at its launch. The preview …
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This week’s AR news has been focused on Apple’s augmented reality updates to iOS 14, many of which lean on the depth-scanning hardware only on the recent iPad Pro. Google announced its own AR news this week, too, and you won’t need specialized hardware to use its depth-sensing tools. A Depth API update to ARCore, announced and available today, will be …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple announced App Clips for the new iOS 14 at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday. App Clips let users preview “small parts” of apps quickly without downloading them. The new feature is meant to help users discover more of what the App Store …
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Has your once shiny and speedy Mac lost a bit of speed? If you are seeing the spinning beach ball more frequently as your Mac struggles to keep up, then it’s time to perform a bit of maintenance to put a little pep back in its step. In a previous version of this article, I recommended that you replace your …
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If you haven’t had a chance to experience Disney Plus yet, you’re truly missing out on all the great movies and shows the streaming service offers. The list includes the Avengers movies, The Mandalorian and Disney’s vault of classics. There are even several ways to try it free. As with Netflix, Hulu, YouTube and Amazon Prime, you can download Disney’s cornucopia of …
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Coronavirus lockdowns and quarantines may be lifting in some areas, but many people are still going to be working and socializing from home for the foreseeable future. Video-chat apps have never been more popular, with Zoom seeing 300 million daily meeting participants, and services like Microsoft Teams, Skype, FaceTime, Google Meet and Google Hangouts offering new features and free tiers …
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