‘Flappy Bird’ to return to App Store after decade-long hiatus

'Flappy Bird' to return to iPhone in 2024 "Flappy Bird" fans have spent more than ten years trying to bring it back to mobile phones — and now the eponymous hero will return in 2024. Flappy Bird was a wildly popular game that first hit the Apple App Store in the first half of 2013.…

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Republican VP nominee J.D. Vance lays down baseless Apple slave labor claim

Republican VP nominee J.D. Vance Prospective Republican vice president nominee J.D. Vance attacked Apple with accusations of the iPhone maker using Chinese slave labor. Unsurprisingly, he's incredibly wrong, and a five-minute Google search would have made that clear. As the U.S. election roadshow continues to run until November's polling day, candidates and their parties are…

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FDA greenlights AirPods Pro 2’s hearing aid features

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has cleared the AirPods Pro 2 to get the announced clinical-grade hearing aid features in a future software update. During Apple's "Glowtime" special event, a software update for the AirPods Pro 2 was revealed, one which could help millions deal with hearing loss. At the time, the FDA was…

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Deciphering your storage space between your Mac and iCloud

A few years ago, Apple decided to offer seamless optimization for storage on your Mac. Instead of knowing where every byte (or gigabyte) lived, you could enable optimization in Photos or iCloud Drive. With this feature turned on, your Mac would automatically perform an ongoing tradeoff of available disk storage and iCloud storage. Presuming you…

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Apple prepares an update to iCloud’s terms and conditions

Apple's early iCloud T's&C's notification in macOS Apple has sent out a notification to some Mac users to agree to new iCloud Terms and Conditions, four days before they are supposed to apply. Here's what's new. Mac users have started to receive notifications that they must accept new Terms and Conditions for iCloud if they…

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Online Apple Store is down ahead of the iPhone 16 preorders

Three hours ahead of preorders opening for the iPhone 16 range, AirPods, and black Apple Watch Ultra 2, Apple has taken down its store. Typically Apple posts a notice saying something to the effect that it's making changes to the store. This time the online Apple Store says "we love that early energy," and that…

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The iPhone 16 is living in the past. It needs to fold

Apple’s “Glowtime” event has come and gone, and all the iPhone 16 rumors have been either proven or put to rest. The iPhone 16 family offers some great improvements over past models, but for all intents and purposes, it’s still just an iPhone. Apple Intelligence is nice and the Camera Control button is a cool new feature,…

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Sleek Apple hardware is stunning, but sometimes it’s hard to beat a button

Remember Gil Amelio? He was the cursed stock photo of a middle manager in a suit that ran Apple for a short while before bringing Steve Jobs back and then being eaten alive by him. In one of his many awkward appearances as Apple CEO, he once said he wanted to make the Mac like…

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