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Apple receives approval to sell the iPhone XR, will take pre-orders as scheduled on October 19th

Apple received approval from the Federal Communications Commission to sell the iPhone XR in the United States, ahead of pre-orders slated from October. The company can now remove the following fine print from the iPhone XR product page on its website, although it has yet to do so: iPhone XR has not been authorized as […]

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The first Yale/August Home locks will arrive in October, complete with HomeKit, auto-unlock, and Siri-based features

This qualifies as pretty nifty. When Yale’s parent company purchased August Home in 2017, it promised to ‘create the future of smart residential doors.’ Yale is currently taking the first step in that direction with two new Yale locks incorporating August technology. The nifty bit: While Yale has made HomeKit-compatible smart locks for a while […]

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iOS 12.1 to allow iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, and iPhone XR units to use eSIM features

Apple’s latest iOS 12.1 beta apparently introduces support for the eSIM, or a digital SIM that lets you activate a cellular plan from your carrier without needing to use a physical SIM card. In the iPhone XS, XS Max, and XR, the eSIM pairs with the included nano-SIM to enable dual-SIM functionality. The eSIM feature […]

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How To: Fix subpixel antialiasing in macOS 10.14 Mojave

If you’ve installed macOS 10.14 Mojave and the font rendering seems a bit off, you’re not alone. Apparently, Apple adjusted the subpixel antialiasing process, makes non-Retina displays appear somewhat blurry. Thankfully, one Alexander Yakusik has come through with a fix that he posted to the mighty GitHub. Simply enter the following command into Terminal and […]

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Ars Technica posts full review of macOS 10.14 Mojave operating system

macOS 10.14 Mojave is out, it’s in the wild and across the world, millions of Mac users are deciding it they love it or hate it. Over at Ars Technica, Andrew Cunningham has published an incredibly complete review of the new operating system, including its positive aspects, its negative aspects and its respective warts. The […]