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YouTube has today updated its iOS app with a new sharing feature whereby you can much more easily share YouTube videos directly via the Messages app, writes 9to5 Mac. Prior to today’s update, when you sent someone a YouTube video in Messages, they’d have to click on a link in order to view the...

In an exclusive report today, TechCrunch reveals that it has heard from multiple sources that Apple has acquired a small French startup firm called Regaind. When Apple was asked by TechCrunch to comment on the acquisition, it sort-of confirmed it (ish) in a typically tight-lipped statement...

Warner Bros. Entertainment’s Middle-earth: Shadow of War arrived in the App Store today for iPhone and iPad. The free-to-play strategy RPG continues Talion’s journey through Mordor and unites Middle-earth’s most renowned Champions with the most fearsome of Orcs, who team up in a bid to vanquish...

9to5 Mac reports that Nintendo is hoping to revive interest in Super Mario Run with a huge new update that includes a new world, as well as a temporary 50% price cut. Due on September 29, the update includes World Star, a new world that features nine new levels, as well as support for playing...

With the advent of iOS 11 yesterday, which seems to be working very smoothly for most of us, iPhone and iPad users get their first chance to play augmented reality apps build using ARKit. AppleInsider reports on some of the first ARKit apps to appear in the App Store. One of the very first is...

According to MacRumors, the AirPods inductive wireless charging case that was shown during Apple’s special event on Monday could be available in stores by this December. The original report in MacPrime said that according to sources at Apple Switzerland, the case will cost $69. The current...

With all the excitement about yesterday’s iPhone announcements, Apple’s other product announcements at the event have been a little overshadowed by the big reveals, such as the introduction of the new Apple TV 4K, for example. The new Apple TV 4K is built on the A10X Fusion chip, and comes...

Apple announced several other new products yesterday at the iPhone launch event at the Steve Jobs Theater at Apple Park in Cupertino, including the much-rumoured Apple Watch Series 3. Just as has been reported over the past few weeks, the latest edition to the Apple Watch line-up has built-in...

Just one day to go now until Apple finally unveils the new iPhone line-up as well as some other goodies, including an LTE Apple Watch Series 3. Fittingly, this will be the inaugural event at Apple Park’s Steve Jobs Theater. However, according to a report from VentureBeat, via MacRumors, work on...

Ahead of Apple’s special iPhone launch event on Tuesday, 9to5 Mac reports that data discovered within the iOS firmware leak that it originally reported on exclusively on Friday appears to confirm that the names of the three new iPhones will be iPhone X for the OLED phone, and iPhone 8 and iPhone...

As the dust settles over the massive iOS 11 GM firmware leak this weekend, and the experts continue to mine the data for golden nuggets of information. News of the leak first appeared on Friday, via 9to5 Mac. Among the major secrets revealed ahead of Tuesday’s special event, according to...

Disney CEO Bob Iger has announced at a media conference in Los Angeles that from late 2019, Marvel and Star Wars titles will only be available to stream on Disney’s forthcoming streaming service. “We’re going to launch big, and we’re going to launch hot,” said Iger of the new service, which...

MacRumors reports that Google has just updated its Maps app for iOS with a very useful feature that has already been available on its Maps web app for quite a while. The new feature simply enables you to measure the distance between at least two points or places on the map “as the crow flies.”...

Bloomberg Technology reports that Apple has signed a new song deal with Warner Music Group, its first deal with a major label since launching Apple Music 2 years ago, according to Bloomberg’s sources. This gives Apple access to the Warner Music Group music catalog, including the likes of Ed...

Pokémon chief executive officer Tsunekazu Ishihara has been talking to Bloomberg in Tokyo about Pokémon Go, and judging by his comments, Trainers have a lot to be excited about when it comes to future developments for the game. Ishihara told Bloomberg, “We’ve only accomplished 10 percent of...

Apple continues to expand its television and film content division by entering into the race to win the film distribution rights to the James Bond franchise, writes The Hollywood Reporter, via MacRumors. While Warner Bros. is thought to be the frontrunner, both Apple and Amazon are said to be in...

According to a report in The New York Times, the Boston Red Sox have been found to have been using Apple Watches in order to gain an advantage against the Yankees and other teams. The actions by the Red Sox were discovered by investigators for Major League Baseball, who found that the team had...

AppleInsider reports that Nissan has today launched its new Leaf all-electric vehicle, complete with a couple of extras that will be of interest to Apple device owners. Among the innovations introduced in the new model, including the Nissan e-Pedal, which enables the driver to accelerate...

MacRumors reports that drone pilot Duncan Sinfield has today posted his latest drone video footage of Apple Park, aptly entitled “From Dreams to Reality.” The new flyover takes an up-close look at the newly completed Steve Jobs Theater where Apple will be holding its special iPhone launch event...

According to a new report from DigiTimes, via MacRumors, Apple has booked production capacity for “above 12-megapixel” camera lens modules to be made by smartphone lens manufacturer Largan Precision at a new factory it’s building in Taichung, Taiwan. The report claims that according to “market...

According to a new report from the Financial Times, via MacRumors, Apple is planning to relocate its original content division to Culver Studios, the iconic Hollywood studio where films such as Gone With the Wind and The Matrix were made. The Culver Studios was built by Thomas Ince, and was...

Help is at hand for any Game of Thrones fans out there that are already missing their weekly fix now that Season 7 has finished, with Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and HBO Global announcing that pre-registration is now open for their forthcoming mobile title, Game of Thrones: Conquest...

The release of Legendary Pokémon in Pokémon Go has been a masterstroke by Niantic, succeeding in getting fans excited about the game all over again as they team up with strangers and friends in order to stand a chance of catching the Legendaries in epic Raid Battles. It’s therefore no surprise...

Just as expected yesterday, Apple has today sent invites to the press for a special event on September 12 at the Steve Jobs Theater in Apple Park, reports AppleInsider. The invite features an Apple logo with some soft-focus colours, and says “Let’s meet at our place. Please join us for the...

Duncan Sinfield has posted another gorgeous HD Apple Park drone video on YouTube, writes 9to5 Mac. While no one is getting carried away just yet, the video does offer the hope that the forthcoming iPhone launch event due this September will take place in the Steve Jobs Theater. As 9to5 Mac...

The Verge reports that Verizon Wireless has announced that its current unlimited data plan is no more, and will be replaced by three new options: Go Unlimited (from $75 for a single line); Beyond Unlimited ($85 for first line); and Business Unlimited. Apparently, these new plans are all much...

MacRumors reports that Apple has released several new videos on its YouTube channel that focus on new iPad and iPad Pro features in the forthcoming iOS 11. The videos are all a little under 1 minute long, and are all very similar in style, featuring a pair of hands showing how some of the new...

According to a new report from DigiTimes, via 9to5 Mac, sources in the Apple Watch supply chain are saying that orders continue to rise, with 4.5 million shipments expected in Q4, which would mean total shipments for 2017 would top 15 million units. And it’s even better news for Apple next...

According to an exclusive report on Bloomberg, movie studies are weighing up whether or not to defy the objections of cinema chains and proceed with a plan that they have been hammering out with Apple to offer digital rental of movies just weeks after the movies first hit theatres. Bloomberg’s...

TouchArcade reports that Bandai Namco has just soft-launched Tekken Mobile in Canada. The all-new game has been built exclusively for iOS and Android by Bandai Namco Studios Vancouver. The free-to-play game uses a Waza Card system with tapping for combos and special attacks. There are more than...

9to5 Mac reports today on some stunning new 4K drone footage courtesy of Matthew Roberts, which gives a great view of the atrium of the Steve Jobs Theater. It appears that the building work is progressing steadily, and in the video you can see some finishing touches, such as the solar panels...

MacRumors reports that according to the Chinese-language Economic News Daily, Apple Watch Series 3 has entered “final testing phase,” meaning that it is perfectly on schedule for the rumoured September launch. According to the report’s anonymous sources, Taiwan’s Quanta Computer is...

AppleInsider reports today on a new note to investors from KGI Securities Ming-Chi Kuo, in which he says that the forthcoming Apple Watch with LTE will not support traditional cellular calls, contrary to other recent rumours. Kuo says that Apple will most likely add support for such calls in a...

BGR reports today on new images that have leaked that are claimed to be the first ever seen of an Apple OLED TV being built. The photos initially appeared on Chinese microblogging website Weibo, and if genuine, they could vindicate long-time expert Apple analyst Gene Munster’s long-held belief...

The Legendary Pokémon Mewtwo has finally arrived in Pokémon Go, with Niantic announcing Mewtwo’s appearance at the Pokémon Go Stadium event in Yokohama, Japan, where thousands of Trainers had the chance to capture it. Following this appearance, Trainers worldwide will also be able to battle and...

According to a new report from Nikkei, via MacRumors, the rumoured supplier for Apple’s forthcoming HomePod smart speaker, Inventec Appliances, has hinted during an earnings press conference that the HomePod might be in short supply at launch. While Inventec Appliances president David Ho did...

MacRumors reports that a new “song,” created by Samir Mezrahi, has taken the iTunes singles chart by storm. No surprise in that, you might say, but what is surprising is that the song is one big load of nothing, and that’s not just me being rude, it actually is just 10 minutes of total silence...

AppleInsider writes that heart-monitoring Apple Watch app Cardiogram has found a novel way of publicising what the app can do by creating a user challenge designed to monitor the heart rates of Game of Thrones fans when they are watching the show. A total of 300 people enrolled in the...

Blizzard’s latest Hearthstone expansion, Knights of the Frozen Throne, is out now on iOS and PC. The new adventure sees players travelling to Northrend and storming Icecrown Citadel, the frozen fortress lair of the Lich King, in search of the forbidden runic magic. Your ultimate mission is to...

Nexon, Respawn Entertainment, and Particle City have today released Titanfall: Assault on iOS, a new mobile RTS game set in the extended universe of the best-selling Titanfall franchise. Gameplay sees players building and using a deck of virtual cards to deploy Pilots, Titans, and tactical Burn...