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Apple releases watchOS 8.5, incorporates EU Digital COVID Certificate, other changes

Allowing with its bevy of other major software updates this week, Apple also released watchOS 8.5, which adds a number of handy new features. The update added support for 14 emoji characters in addition to new emojis such as biting lip, melting face, coral, lotus, and more. Apple also introduced some improvements on the irregular […]

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Apple Pay expands to Costa Rica, Colombia, and Azerbaijan

Starting on Monday, Apple Pay has expanded to Costa Rica, Colombia, and Azerbaijan. In Costa Rica, at least Banco Promerica, BAC Credomatic, and BCR are supporting credit cards through Apple Pay. All these bank apps have been updated over the past few days to bring support to the Apple Wallet. For Colombia, Bancolombia has begun […]

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iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max devices to arrive in several additional countries as of October 26th, November 2nd

The iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max will arrive in several additional countries on October 26th and November 2nd. Apple says its new iPhone models will be available in Chile, Colombia, Malaysia, and Thailand on October 26th. Pre-orders are starting this Friday, October 19th. The company has also stated that come November 2nd, the new […]

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Waze realtime incident data now incorporated into Google Maps following acquisition earlier this year

This is one of the better sides of companies buying each other out. Per AppleInsider, crowd sourced traffic data from Waze, a company that Google acquired earlier this year, is now included in the official Google Maps application for iPhone and iPad. The company announced on its official Lat Long blog on Tuesday that real […]

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Apple launches iPhone in China, 32 additional countries

The iPhone 5 world introduction tour continues. Per The Next Web, Apple kicked off sales of the massively popular iPhone 5 handset in China and 31 other countries on Friday, fending off supply constraints as the company continues its fastest rollout ever. Concerning the China launch, the usual long lines seen at past Apple product […]