Update: Apple says the issue is now fixed and users should be able to access iCloud again. You can read the original article below. Some users are unable to access iCloud services this afternoon. The issue affects the iCloud website as well as backup tools, calendar, and photos. Apple has confirmed the outage, but there’s no timetable for a fix. According to Apple’s system status page, iCloud website, apps, and services are experiencing outages since 4:10 PM EST....

This time though, Pushbullet is out with its own standalone app. It’s called Portal and all it will let you do, is transfer files from PC (both Windows and Mac) to your Android phone over Wi-Fi. Yes, Pushbullet also lets you send files but there’s a 25 MB limit and it’s not a direct transfer, you need to go through Pushbullet’s servers, that takes a lot of time. The upside is you can send files between any devices and aren’t limited by Wi-Fi networks....

Opera has released a major update for Mac, Windows, and Linux today with the launch of its new R5 browser. Headlining features include shareable Pinboards, a new popout UI for more flexibility with video calls, integration of four more streaming music services, and more. Opera announced the launch and detailed the new R5 browser update in a blog post today: Taking a page from Pinterest, Opera R5 (version 77) has gained Pinboards to save, organize, and share (the entire thing) with others....

Then on Friday we had Mark Gurman’s reporting that Apple was planning Live Photos, an iPhone 6s feature, for the expected 4-inch iPhone 5se (which likely won’t be called 6c). Today that reporting was followed up with the possibility that the iPhone 5se could have the same processor and co-processor as the iPhone 6s, albeit with fewer pixels to push with a smaller display. Suddenly the iPhone 5se is sounding less like last year’s hardware recycled and more like a serious 4-inch phone to consider....

Update: The analysts were right to be optimistic, but not optimistic enough As we wait for Apple to announce its Q4 results in this afternoon’s earnings call, more than half of the analysts included in Fortune’s survey expect the company to beat its high-end guidance of $37B. The average is driven up by the amateurs, who come in at $37.38B, while the professionals expect just a touch under the top end at $36....

[Ed. note: Jason Stern is a Criminal Defense Attorney in private practice in New York City] 8:34 am. A college professor receives a text message threatening to blow up the history building. The professor immediately contacts law enforcement, who trace the origin of the call to a student who lives off-campus. When FBI agents arrive at the student’s residence, they arrest the student and seize his smartphone. In an attempt to search the device to recover evidence of the crime (and perhaps stop other related crimes), they find the smartphone is protected by fingerprint security measures....

iMacmatician has used his mathematics skills for good and not evil to create a helpful guide for what we feel will be new MacBook screen sizes. The 16:9 ratio seems like a lock at this point so we will have some nice new sizes to choose from. What sizes do you guys think we’ll see? Notice the height is about the same but the screens will become a bit wider at various sizes....

Maybe it’s just the endorphins talking, but words like ‘epic’, ‘thunderous’, and ‘invincible’ come to mind when running with Powerbeats Pro. The first-ever totally wireless Beats earphones are a mega upgrade over Powerbeats3 Wireless, and not just because they pack the best features of second-gen AirPods in a versatile, sporty package. Beats has arguably created the best fitness earphones on the market with Powerbeats Pro. Specs: Beats Powerbeats Pro Totally wireless, Class 1 Bluetooth 5....

We are now in 2017 and influencer marketing is far more than just a buzzword. It has become the de facto way to reach the savvy and cynical youngsters of Generations Y and Z. The influencer model is now maturing, as more refined methods are put into practice, platforms are becoming more iconic, and agencies realize that they need to jump on the influencer marketing bandwagon or else they will be left behind in the marketing Dark Ages....

But as online fraud has escalated, hackers and social engineers have been increasingly able to access consumer data, which has led to understandable consumer skepticism in e-commerce. Something had to change. Payment Card Industry (PCI) and other standards emerged to provide identity verification, data access controls, encryption and other safeguards. This paved the way for setting standards and rules around data privacy. However, these regulations are being enforced against a longstanding enterprise mindset geared toward storing all data collected....

When Apple introduced the iPhone 6s at its September 9th special event, it billed the new model as the “best phone for traveling around the world,” thanks largely to support for “23 bands of LTE wireless networking.” But that day, the new iPhone’s tech specs page told a more complex story: Apple advertised a seemingly U.S. and Puerto Rico-specific A1633 iPhone 6s with 23 LTE bands (including AT&T’s exclusive band 30) but no CDMA support, while Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon, and every international carrier outside China got an A1688 iPhone 6s with 22 LTE bands and CDMA support....

To write an empty tuple, you need to write as two parentheses containing nothing- For writing tuple for a single value, you need to include a comma, even though there is a single value. Also at the end you need to write semicolon as shown below. Tuple indices begin at 0, and they can be concatenated, sliced and so on. In this tutorial, we will learn- Packing and Unpacking Comparing tuples Using tuples as keys in dictionaries Deleting Tuples Slicing of Tuple Built-in functions with Tuple Advantages of tuple over list...

As AirPods continue to grow in popularity, the truly wireless earbud market is also becoming increasingly crowded. Samsung, for instance, just launched the Galaxy Buds, while Apple’s Beats brand also introduced the Powerbeats Pro. The H1 chip The biggest thing going for AirPods – and Apple’s wireless headphone efforts in general – is the H1 chip. For users of the Apple ecosystem, this provides incredible integration with iPhones, iPads, Apple Watch, Mac, and Apple TV....

iOS and Android are completely different worlds when it comes to apps. Android is pretty much the wild west, with little control over quality or even safety (malware is commonplace). iOS, on a non-jailbroken device, is a walled garden, where Apple decides what apps can and can’t do, and which ones get approved for sale. Yet despite that carefully-controlled approach, the App Store can still feel like a bit of a jungle....

Patreon Statistics: Users, Revenue, Top Categories, and More (June 2021): What Is Patreon? Patreon is a membership site that gives creators the financial tools they need to accept financial support from their supporters. This type of creator-fan relationship is nothing new. In fact, creators throughout history — writers, painters, musicians, and others — have turned to donors to finance their work through patronages. What the internet and Patreon have done is allow that concept to be more widely available and give creators access to a range of supporters who are willing to provide financial support....

The popular live video streaming service Periscope is now saying goodbye. Owned by Twitter, Periscope will be completely shut down on April 1, 2021, following the app’s removal from the iOS App Store and Google Play. Twitter had already confirmed the end of Periscope in December last year, but today the company announced that this is the last day that users will be able to access the live video streaming service....

Hope, Through History podcast is a recent addition to my subscription list. In a world dominated by fear at the moment, it provides some great context on everything we’re facing. In the first fifteen years of my adult life, I faced the fear of being draft-eligible during the 9/11 terrorist attacks, being newly married during the Great Recession, and now I am a parent with three small children during a global pandemic....

The last few weeks have certainly been a crazy time with the stock market. I am hoping we don’t see any more of the wild and crazy days where the market is down 1,000 points in an afternoon, but no one knows at this point. One thing to keep in mind is that even if the market is down, you’ve not lost anything until you sell. The average investor buys on emotion, so they will buy high and sell low....

Clobbopus, Pokemon Sword and Shield’s cute, boxing glove-wearing octopus, is quite the weak little cephalopod - that is, it’s weak until it evolves into Grapploct, but getting it there isn’t as simple as leveling it up. That’s because Clobbopus is one of Pokemon’s many monsters that require players to take some peculiar and unspecified actions in order for them to evolve. While the Pokemon series has long featured Pokemon with unique evolution requirements, Pokemon Sword and Shield alone added a substantial mix of methods to the list....

Last week, Apple unveiled the new Apple TV 4K during its ‘Spring Loaded’ event. After almost four years since the last upgrade on its set-top-box, the company is finally bringing more power and a redesigned Siri Remote to the product. Are you planning to buy it? A few weeks back, I wrote about how Apple needed to upgrade the Apple TV as soon as possible. Although my thoughts included things that Apple wouldn’t introduce now, like 8K support, it was eminent for the company to update its set-top-box....