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Popular accessory maker, PopSockets, is out with a new version of its collapsible grip/stand made for iPhone users who don’t want to permanently attach a PopSocket. The new PopGrip Slide easily slides on and off Apple’s silicone iPhone cases for a flexible experience. PopSockets have become a mainstream smartphone add-on, but there are likely a lot of iPhone users who might be interested in having a collapsible grip/stand for some use cases, but don’t want to attach a PopSocket to their iPhone with an adhesive....

New Saturday Night Live cast member Shane Gillis responds to backlash about accusations of racism. On Sept. 12, the comedian officially joined NBC’s iconic sketch comedy series, which prompted reports about his past. In addition to hiring Gillis, Saturday Night Live also announced Chloe Fineman and Bowen Yang as new cast members. Both comedians further diversify the popular series, and fans celebrated the announcement online, just two weeks after Leslie Jones officially left the show....

The preview is a non-security update that is available for Windows 10 and Windows 11 22H2. It contains all the changes in the upcoming November Patch Tuesday, except security patches. However, this preview also includes Microsoft’s answer to a serious security-related error that the company made with its Windows kernel vulnerable driver blocklist – an optional security hardening capability introduced in Windows 10, version 1809 that’s on by default in Windows 11 22H2....

Over the last few months, Google has slowly and steadily expanded the capabilities of Google Now by adding a plethora of new cards to it. However, it looks like the best is yet to come with the company probably saving it up for Google I/O. The excellent folks over at Android Police have unearthed a new upcoming Google Now feature — Nearby — that would allow your device to interact with other Android devices nearby, or even places, people and other things....

Currently, the most popular streaming service allows the users to first download the full content on the mobile or tablet and then view it offline. But, now the users don’t need to wait for the download process to complete. Netflix Now Lets you Watch Half Downloaded Shows on Android Back in the year 2016, Netflix announced the download feature to stream content offline or in the areas where you don’t have internet or have less internet....

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That did not take long. Just hours after today’s launch of the new iPad, jailbreaker MuscleNerd posted (via iFans) screenshots of what he claimed is a jailbroken third-generation iPad. Do not get too excited, because MuscleNerd warned there is “still lots of work to do.” Therefore, the jailbreak is far from prime time. There is “No ETA,” but he provided screenshots of Cydia running for further proof that it is on the way....

New photos from the San Jose Mercury News today reveal additional details about Apple’s new campus, slated to be completed sometime in either 2015 or 2016. A scale model of the planned building was shown to The Mercury News by Apple’s CFO, Peter Oppenheimer, located at an office on the 175-acre site of Apple’s planned campus. According to Oppenheimer: As Apple prepares for a final vote before the Cupertino City Council on the development of the campus on October 15th, final plans and details are coming together and are mostly in place....

While the iPhone X has only been in the hands of customers for about a week, a new concept is already looking ahead to what next year’s iPhones might bring. Designer Martin Hajek has mocked up a rumored larger ‘iPhone X Plus’ with a massive 6.7-inch display in gorgeous new renders. This isn’t the first iPhone X Plus render to come to light. Just last month, iDropNews proposed the idea of a 6....

With watchOS 8, Apple has announced some new features for Apple Watch users, including a new Mindfulness app, photo sharing, and more. Usually, every new watchOS comes with new watch faces, but this year, Apple has only shown one new watch face — Portraits. However, one of the WWDC 2021 sessions revealed that there’s another new watch face that hasn’t been announced by Apple, this one called “World Timer.” During the “What’s New in UIKit” session that highlights the latest updates and enhancements to the iOS user interface framework, Apple shows a screenshot of the Watch app in one of the demos....

As then-New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said at the time, two million net neutrality comments were fake. Schneiderman said: “Moving forward with this vote would make a mockery of our public comment process and reward those who perpetrated this fraud to advance their own hidden agenda.” Schneiderman was wrong. His successor, Letitia James, found after a multi-year investigation that there had been “18 million fake comments with the FCC,” including over 500,000 fake letters sent to Congress in support of the repeal....

The team over at iFixit is back today with the teardown of the Huawei-made Google Nexus 6P. If the premium unibody aluminium construction of the handset had not already made it clear, the tear down from iFixit definitely does: the Nexus 6P is a very tough phone to repair. Accessing the innards of the phone itself was a challenge for iFixit, and they note that opening the device without breaking the rear camera glass is a very tough job — if not impossible....

Love triangles are all the rage in teen TV shows which is why it’s no surprise Netflix’s Never Have I Ever created their own love triangle between Devi, Paxton, and Ben in season one of the show. While each season seems to end with Devi making some sort of decision regarding the love triangle, it has proved never to be her final choice since the love triangle is resurrected season after season....

If you’re looking for new ways to give your iOS 14 home screen a custom aesthetic, the Pastel color palettes application has been updated with new home screen widgets. This allows you to add custom colors and designs directly to your iPhone. For those unfamiliar, Pastel was developed by Steve Troughton-Smith with the purpose of creating and saving custom color palette collections for projects. The app includes a collection of color palettes built-in, but you can also create your own based on a color picker or hex codes....

Apple is opening three new retail stores this weekend including one new store near Venice, Italy and two stores in the US. We originally reported in June that the new stores were coming alongside others in China, Italy and the US as new retail chief Angela Ahrendts implements organizational restructuring for Apple retail. Apple has now announced the upcoming grand openings on its website for three of the stores opening this Saturday....

“Is that MacBook Pro you are wearing?” There is nothing like the smell of a new Apple product. The smell that encompasses your nose as you rip into your new iPhone, Macbook Air, or iPad is memorable—and hey, maybe something that you would like to smell all the time. Melbourne-based artists Gavin Bell, Jarrah de Kuijer, and Simon McGlinn teamed with Air Aroma to create a unique fragrance that smells just like a new Apple product, specifically a MacBook Pro opened for the first time....

The All New HTC One has just made its way to the Chinese device certification database TENAA, carrying information on the hardware accompanied by a few pictures of the handset. The smartphone shown here is the China Mobile variant with support for TD-LTE networks as you can see from the image above. While the mention of a 5 inch 1080p display and the quad core Snapdragon 801 chipset doesn’t surprise us, the camera resolution certainly looks interesting....

A pair of new studies highlighted by a CBS News report indicate that smartwatches such as the Apple Watch can help detect COVID-19 before the onset of symptoms or a positive test. The studies, separately undertaken by Mount Sinai Health System in New York and Stanford University in California, are giving experts hope that the Apple Watch can help “play a vital role in stemming the pandemic and other communicable diseases....

Did you know 62% of iOS devices experienced a failure of some sort over the last three months compared to just 47% of Android devices. Hence, a study carried out by a security company known as “Blancco Technology” who claims that the failure rate of iOS is 62%, compared to 47% of Android as we told. In that failure rate, it is taken into account virtually everything is out of the ordinary, such as application crashes, failures to make connections to a server, overheating while using an application, unexpected reboots, and so on....

The preview build has been bumped to V81C, is available for the Nexus 5 the second-generation Nexus 7 only. Of course, it’s not suggested to use the builds for anything other than development purposes, as it is still incomplete contains bugs that need to be worked out. Then again, if you’re used to installing nightly builds of custom ROMs, you’ll be right at home. You can download the new builds here if you need a refresher course on how to install the builds, a helpful guide is waiting for you right here....