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Patent application hints at greater use, functionality for Touch ID button

This could lead to something interesting. A recently published patent application describes how the Touch ID home button could gain additional functionality, allowing it to perform different actions in response to different fingerprints, as well as adding pressure sensors to provide it with 3D Touch type functionality. The patent hints at how it might allow […]

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iOS News Software

Apple adds new data for 20 locations to Apple Maps

It never hurts when a new clump of data is added to the Apple Maps database. On Wednesday, Apple announced that 3D Flyover, traffic and point of interest data had been added for 20 locations to its in-house mapping solution, including popular locales like the Virgin Islands and Taiwan. The company listed the following locations:

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Apple Pay News

Apple Pay now supported at approximately two million locations, Chick-Fil-A, Zappos come on board

It’s hard to laugh at two million points of sale. Apple’s Apple Pay mobile payment solution is now supported at approximately two million locations around the world. In addition to revealing that 2 million locations now support the service, a Bloomberg article also says that Chick-Fil-A, Crate & Barrel, and Au Bon Pain will also […]