Tucked away as a side-note in Patently Apple’s report that cast more light on future iBooks features for kids and adults is a discovery of a new hardware feature that could be in the works for Apple’s portable devices. It is based on state-of-the-art positioning technology called ALLOYT which is capable of pinpointing your location accurately in places where traditional GPS doesn’t work. This includes places like underground garages, shopping malls, basements or just about any location where various obstacles or concrete material block line-of-sight to the global positioning satellites:...

The Philips Hue app has been redesigned from scratch, greatly simplifying things like renaming lamps and moving them between rooms. Things that once required delving into the settings, sometimes two different places in Settings, can now be done right from the main screen. The company says that there is more to come later in the year, including Dynamic Scenes, where the colors change gradually over time … The new app is rolling out over the next week or so, but CNET’s Dale Smith got an early chance to use it, and says that it lives up to the hype....

Photoshop 1.0 for Mac OS was released in 1990, when most professionals were still creating work first for print. The tools customers expect today are dramatically different, yet Photoshop retains some of this legacy baggage thanks to its longevity. Adobe has repeatedly stressed that they aren’t bringing a watered-down version of Photoshop to the iPad. But does it make sense to migrate every feature from the desktop? I asked Lyell if Adobe will use the opportunity that a new platform provides to rethink some of Photoshop’s goals....

The PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X are on the horizon, which has apparently had a detrimental effect on the sales of the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, as they have seen a notable slump over the past year. There is still a lot players don’t know about the next generation of consoles, but they do know a loose release window, as both Microsoft and Sony have confirmed that their systems will be released during the 2020 holiday season....

Two weeks after the release of iOs 9.3.5, Apple today has stopped signing iOS 9.3.4. Essentially this means that users will no longer be able to downgrade or upgrade to the operating system, with everyone instead being pushed towards iOS 9.3.5. Generally, part of Apple’s reasoning behind signing closures is to close loopholes taken advantage of by the jailbreaking community, as was the case when the company stopped signing iOS 9....

Pumped BMX Pro is a stunt-based 2D bike game that draws some inspiration from the Tony Hawk series of sold, with a few elements of Excitebike, Trials, and Hot Wheels thrown in. The purpose of the game is to complete stunt challenges across sixty levels that each contain their own unique racetrack. In order to progress in Pumped BMX Pro, players must complete individual challenges that require specific stunts or certain scores, which will also unlock new bikes and riders....

Opera’s browser for Mac is finally out of beta, its headline feature being built-in unlimited VPN. The company first added it to the developer version back in April. A VPN is good for security, and can speed up some overseas sites by automatically choosing the fastest connection, but don’t expect to use it to access content from a different Netflix region. I tested it from the UK, using a U.S. VPN....

People search sites use public records to get information on you, which is available for anyone who wants to see it. Hackers, scammers, and jealous exes all are welcome when it comes to your data. Tap or click here for our growing list of invasive people search sites and what you can do about them. For this week’s entry in our Opt-Out Tuesday series, we’ll show you how to remove yourself from InfoTracer....

The winners of the 2019 Oscars have been announced by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. It’s been a rather tumultous year for the Academy, all things considered. The organization announced several changes to the 2019 Oscars show over the past several months, as part of its efforts to battle the event’s dwindling ratings over the last decade. However, pretty much each and every change they announced (the Best Popular Film category, not performing all of the Original Song nominees, moving awards like Best Editing and Cinematography to the commercial breaks) went over badly and the Academy was quick to back-track on them....

UPDATE: See the full list of Oscar 2020 winners here. The 2020 Oscars will be awarded on February 9, 2020 in Los Angeles, and the musical performances will appeal to many viewers worldwide. This year’s lineup includes a singer-songwriter legend and even a mainstream pop star, but the primary theme, of course, will the the glory of movies. Just like last year, the 2020 Oscars won’t have a host. So the show will hopefully move along at a swift pace as awards in 24 categories are handed out....

It looks like the Snow Leopard transition is moving along pretty well, if our Google Analytics are any indication. A week after release, over 55% of you Mac users are using Snow Leopard (which includes PowerPC users who don’t have the option). The bleeding edge 9to5mac community is probably a little ahead of the rest of the world but the stat is still an extremely positive sign for Apple. For the rest of you (on Intel), get updating!...

Panasonic is one the topmost TV manufacturer brand is known for its premium category smart and non-smart TV. However, over the past few years, they have seen immense growth and popularity; that’s the reason as Panasonic is among one of the few brands that offer top-notch electronic gadgets. But unfortunately, there are some users who started reporting that their Panasonic TV is facing problems after the recent OS patch update. On the other hand, Panasonic TV shows no signal problem for some users....

Pipes News, an iOS app that pulls together news feeds on technology, business, sport and politics, has received a major update, introducing a new look and a bunch of new features. Pipes News works in a different way to conventional RSS newsreaders, the developers doing the newsfeed collation at their end–and including both Twitter and Wikipedia in the mix. This automated collation is either a good or bad thing, depending on your point of view … Pipes 2....

Some major usability improvements to the Plex iOS app should make a big difference to users of the popular media-management platform. The sidebar navigation is now customizable. You can, for example, change the order of your libraries and pin your favorites from all your servers… You also get much faster access to the rest of your media through the More menu item. If you like to have different views within different libraries, Plex will now remember these on a library-by-library basis — though you can switch off this behavior in Settings if you find it annoying....

In this guide, we will highlight the best moveset and counters you can use to deal with Slowpoke in Pokemon Go. Slowpoke in Pokemon Go is a dual-type raid boss with a huge structure. Slowpoke has a pink color body and a pale brown mouth. It is a four-legged pokemon having a maximum of 1226 CP. Although it looks quite powerful and is resistant to many things like fighting, steel, fire, etc....

While Apple has been able to win over certain streaming service holdouts, one artist is still limited in streaming availability: Prince. According to report from The New York Post, however, that will soon change. The report claims that Prince’s Warner Music Group albums will come to Apple Music on February 12th. Currently, Prince’s music is only available on Tidal, but with the broader rollout in two weeks, the music will come to Apple Music, Spotify, Pandora, Google Play, Deezer, and others....

Apple has just released an emergency Xcode 11.2.1 update for developers — the tool used to create iOS, macOS, watchOS and tvOS apps. That comes a week after the official release of Xcode 11.2, which featured SDK support for iOS 13.2, macOS Catalina 10.15.1 and other updates released last week. According to the company, today’s update fixes a critical issue that could cause apps using UITextView to crash when run on previous versions of iOS, iPadOS, or tvOS....

Over the weekend we got what may be the most impressive preview of what’s in store for the iPhone 8 this fall, and now a new illustration that appears to be schematics for the upcoming flagship iPhone has surfaced online. Benjamin Geskin first tweeted the image below, and elements of the drawing do align with recent leaks. The newly surfaced sketch features the same vertical dual-lens camera system with a centered flash as leaks reported over the weekend....

The gadgetization of fitness has been a significant trend over the course of the past year. The wrists of anyone even vaguely into sports or exercise were suddenly adorned with the Nike Fuel Band, and our Facebook feeds full of RunKeeper and Strava reports of just how far our friends had jogged and cycled. It seems pretty clear by this point that the iWatch will, when it appears, have a major focus on health and fitness....

Good news for Oppo F3 Plus users. Oppo F3 Plus will receive the latest Android 8.0 Oreo version. When it comes to smart phones, there are more android users in this world than smartphones controlled by other operating systems. This is the reason whenever a fresh version of Android arrives, the first question that comes in the mind of users is when they will get the copy of same on their phone....