Following the debut of its Bentayga SUV, British automaker Bentley Motors recently launched an eponymous Apple Watch app that goes beyond run-of-the-mill connected car features, putting control over creature comforts on the wrist of well-heeled owners.
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Control your Bentley's seat massagers from your wrist with new Apple Watch app 0
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Amidst Kiev Violence, 2 Men Design a Kids' Book About Forgiveness 0
February 21st at 8:25pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsTwo app developers in Kiev, Ukraine, are one kilometer away from the city's violent anti-government protests. Ironically, their new kids' storybook teaches forgiveness. And they're struggling to abide by their own lessons.
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Real Racing 3’s First Update Is Out Now With New Cars, New Events & More 0
April 11th at 8:35am / Cult of Mac / 0 opinionsEA just released the first update to Real Racing 3 on iOS, and it adds a whole bunch of new content for you to enjoy. In addition to two new Chevrolets, you can also look forward to more than 100 new events, a new game mode, cloud save syncing, and new social features.
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Hey, cheapskates: FlightTrack now has a free app 0
August 9th at 6:00am / GigaOM / 0 opinionsFlightTrack Free is not replacing the popular, paid FlightTrack or FlightTrack Pro apps. It’s a separate, scaled-down version of FlightTrack with a redesigned interface. Mobiata, FlightTrack’s creator, plans eventually to add in-app purchase options.
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PHIND’s new app will help you discover places, see if they’re buzzing 1
June 3rd at 7:23pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsA visual technology and search startup called PHIND took the stage at last year’s Startup Battlefield at Disrupt NY to debut what it was then calling a “Shazam for places” – that is, an app that let you snap a photo to learn about the world around you. Today, roughly a year later, PHIND is launching its production version, which focuses on helping users discover new…
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A Third Of New iOS Games Are Flappy Bird Clones 0
February 27th at 6:24pm / Cult of Mac / 0 opinionsNearly one third of all games released in the App Store in a 24-hour period are Flappy Bird clones. That’s according to the Guardian newspaper’s Stuart Dredge, who used an RSS feed of the Appshopper site to get his hands…
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Track180 Wants to Bring You News You Haven't Already Seen 0
April 30th at 1:00pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsCurating content to feed the hearty appetites of the news-obsessed is a tall order. Readers demand high quality stories that both inform and entertain. Now, a new news app for the iPad is offering an in-depth look at some overlooked topics in a visually rich formula. It's called Track180, it debuts on the iTunes store today, and it may just be a hit with both consumers and third party publishers.
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Scammy "Phone Tracker" Apps In Apple App Store 0
August 29th at 9:24am / The Next Web / 0 opinionsA couple of new apps were added to the Apple App Store yesterday that have added to what is apparently a strange sub-section of joke apps – apps that are…
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Facebook revamps Messenger for iOS with new tiered homescreen 0
June 16th at 11:11pm / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsFacebook began rolling out a new homescreen interface for its Messenger iOS app on Thursday, hot on the heels of Apple announcing iOS 10 Messages upgrades intended to compete.
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Sharalike Automatically Turns Photos & Videos Into Shareable Slideshows 0
March 4th at 11:03pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsSharalike, a new application that lets you create video slideshows similar to Facebook’s recently popular “Lookback” videos, is now launching into beta. The company’s technology takes your own photos and videos and automatically sorts them into animated, HTML slideshows in just a matter of seconds. Users only have to point the app to the media they want to include, then…
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YouTube for iOS Gets My Subscriptions Feed, Live Streams 0
April 15th at 8:57pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsGoogle on Monday updated its native YouTube app for iOS with a slew of new features, including access to live streams, a new My Subscriptions feed, and video queuing for TV playback. You can download the new app now directly from Apple’s App Store....
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SlideJockey makes presentations more fun 0
January 27th at 10:00am / The Next Web / 0 opinionsFor something that takes place all over the world every day, the humble presentation hasn’t evolved much in the past few years. We still prepare a series of slides and…
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Pokémon Go is rolling out now for iOS and Android 0
July 7th at 3:42am / Macworld / 0 opinionsThe game uses your smartphone's camera, sensors, and location-sharing capabilities to put Nintendo's characters in the real world.
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With 5M Users Already On Board, Tynker Goes Mobile To Help Kids Learn To Code On The iPad 0
March 12th at 6:43pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsHistorically, the U.S. educational system has struggled to get young people excited by and involved with STEM-related fields, especially computer science, which has actually seen a steady decline in participation over the last two decades, according to Time Magazine. Luckily, the winds of reform have begun to sweep into education, and parents, educators and even Uncle Sam have begun to pressure on…
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Google Now comes to iPhone and iPad with new Search app update 1
April 29th at 2:00pm / The Verge / 0 opinionsAfter a promo video let the cat out of the bag last month, Google is making it official: with an update to the Google Search application, Google Now is available on iOS. Compatible with both the iPhone and iPad, the update brings almost all of Google's information cards across from Android. The look and feel of the app is virtually identical on both platforms, a testament to Google's newfound ability to make well-designed apps on iOS. The main differences between Android and iOS are few, mainly in that...
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Notability offers elegant notetaking 0
April 12th at 11:02pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsNotability is a new note-taking app for the iPad that delivers the goods for those seeking a fully-featured, media-rich experience. Each note can be categorized under a Subject, which you…
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Pokémon Go is FINALLY out in the country that discovered Pokémon 0
July 22nd at 4:29am / The Verge / 0 opinionsJapan's long national nightmare is over: its citizens and residents are now finally able to use "Pokémon Go," a smartphone application that helps people find and catch pokémon around them. As you're no doubt aware, pokémon are a diverse class of creatures that were first discovered by Japanese scientists Satoshi Tajiri and Ken Sugimori in 1996, meaning species like the pikachu have forever been associated with Japan....
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Newsbeat app reads you stories from hundreds of newspapers 0
March 20th at 7:29pm / The Verge / 0 opinionsApps that read the day's news aloud aren't exactly a new concept, but Newsbeat — launched today by Tribune Co. — is among the sleekest we've seen yet. Newsbeat pulls in thousands of articles every day from hundreds of newspapers including The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and websites like CNN. From there, stories are converted to audio for easy listening during your morning commute. Sometimes the recordings are produced with the help of text-to-speech technology, much like SoundGecko; other...
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Apple brings push notifications and iPhone upgrade pricing alerts to Apple Store iOS app 0
April 23rd at 4:04pm / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsApple brings push notifications and iPhone upgrade pricing alerts to Apple Store iOS app
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8 Great Apps For Listening to Podcasts 0
July 26th at 1:34pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsPodcasts are a great way of staying up to date with your favourite topics and expanding your mind by listening to new points of view or discovering new music. Your…
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The Mr. Robot Hack Report: Cantennas and dirty USB drives 0
August 11th at 6:29am / The Verge / 0 opinionsMr. Robot is a show built on hacks. The mother of all hacks serves as the big cliffhanger at the end of the show's first season, and nearly every plot development leading up to it was nudged along by some kind of exploit. Itâs rare to get through an episode without at least one digital intrusion, often drawn from real life. Each week, we'll be running through Mr. Robot's C Y B E R activities â who got hacked, why, and how much magic would be required to make them actually work....
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Microsoft rumored to debut Enterprise Mobility Suite, Office for iPad on Thursday 0
March 27th at 4:51am / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsMany expect Microsoft to launch Office for iPad on Thursday, but fresh rumors say the company may also make a play for mass device management with a cross-platform Enterprise Mobility Suite, a competitor to Apple's recently released Deployment Programs initiative.
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Kicksend Opens Home Delivery Service for Photos 0
May 1st at 8:28pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsKicksend has announced it’s opening up its Home Delivery service to the US public, following a trial beta period....
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Kik returns to BlackBerry as BBM fails 0
October 12th at 4:01pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsThere may yet be hope for those of you who are still addicted to your BlackBerry devices. You might remember a about a year ago when instant-messaging service Kik got…
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Apple opens blog on third-party Siri integration, highlighting Pinterest, Vogue & more 0
September 1st at 8:51pm / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsIn an unusual move, Apple has launched a blog promoting iOS 10's third-party app integration for Siri, initially focusing on the voice assistant's image-related search capabilities.