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Apple hints at Black Friday retail sales event, begins releasing details

Apple has begun teasing its customers with Black Friday savings. The company, which didn’t offer Black Friday deals in 2015, opted to allow third-party retailers such as Best Buy and Target to offer deals instead. This year, Apple posted the following: Our one-day shopping event will be here before you know it. Come back this […]

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iOS developer creates functional version of “Doom” for the Touch Bar

The Touch Bar on the new MacBook Pro notebooks has its fans and its detractors, but the fact that developer Adam Bell was able to run a copy of the classic shooter “Doom” on it is nothing short of awesome. Keep in mind that since the Touch Bar is essentially a mini Apple Watch jammed […]

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Apple launches free repair program for iPhone 6s users experiencing random shutdowns

If you’re an iPhone 6s owner, you might want to look into this. Apple has launched an iPhone 6s repair program focused on users that are affected by a battery flaw that causes their iPhone 6s to unexpectedly shut down. Apple claims that the issue plagues “a very small number of iPhone 6s devices” that […]

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Rumor: Apple has disbanded its wireless router division, reassigned personnel to more profitable product groups

As much as you love your AirPort router, it may be the last of its kind. Apple has apparently disbanded its wireless router division, having moved personnel away from this to focus on products that generate more revenue. Apple began shutting down the wireless router team over the past year, dispersing engineers to other product […]

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Apple possibly throttling data transfer speeds on certain iPhone 7 models

The bad news is that Apple may be throttling the LTE performance on the Verizon iPhone 7 to keep it on par with the AT&T model. According to research conducted by Twin Prime and Cellular Insights, the Verizon iPhone 7 performs about as well as the AT&T iPhone 7, but it does not reach the […]