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Apple is launching a set of 25 apps created by names—like Angry Birds, FarmVille and djay—to raise funds for (RED) and World AIDS day on December 1st. You can buy them now.

Our Favorite Android, iOS, and Windows Phone Apps of the Week

This week some of the world’s biggest apps just got better. Snapchat introduced an in-app payment system, powered by Square, called Snapcash, and WhatsApp began rolling out the largest implementation of end-to-end encryption ever. Oh yeah, and Facebook released a thing. But amidst all these blockbuster headlines, lots of great apps joined iOS and Android,…

5 New Details That Show How Apple Wants Us To Use Its Watch

This week the Apple Watch made a big step towards reality, with the release of WatchKit for developers of watch apps. Hidden within a fairly mundane document are plenty of glimpses at how Apple envisions smartwatches fitting in with our lives. With WatchKit come Apple’s Watch Human Interface Guidelines, which lay out the company’s recommendations…

Digitize Your Doodles Into Adobe’s Apps With Moleskine’s New Notebooks

Despite there still being a place for old-school paper notebooks in anyone’s life, Moleskine is ensuring its products stay relevant as we become more and more dependent on digital devices. Today it’s introducing an Adobe Creative Cloud-branded Moleskine notebook and app that makes it easier to get your sketches, doodles, and brainstorms into Adobe Photoshop…

The Defective Tech That Killed the iPhone’s Sapphire Screens

The saga of Apple’s disappearing sapphire screens seems to have finally offered some concrete answers. According to a recent article by the Wall Street Journal, the screens’ supplier, GT Advanced Technologies, wasn’t just mismanaged—the product they were putting out was pretty much unusable. Not that that’s entirely GT’s fault, of course. After all, Apple was…

Why App Store Apps Now Say “Get” Instead of “Free”

Peruse the digital wares of the OSX or iOS stores, and you might notice a peculiar change: All of the apps previously labeled as “free” now say “get.” It’s a pretty small change that has no real impact on us users. “Get” apps are still free, and the apps themselves haven’t changed either. “Get” is…

DOJ Says iPhone Encryption Will Kill a Child, Which, C’mon Man

Here we go again. Just a few days after a former FBI agent argued that the new iOS 8 encryption would cause somebody to die, a Department of Justice boss upped the ante. At a meeting on October 1, Deputy Attorney General James Cole told a room full off Apple executives that iPhone encryption would…

Report: Apple Will Bundle Beats Music Into iOS Next Year

The Financial Times reports that Apple will bundle the Beats Music subscription service into a forthcoming version of iOS. Though it’s not clear what form this bundling will take, it gels with some reports we’ve heard before, as well as with common sense. The FT report doesn’t specify just how Beats Music will come bundled…

Say Hello to San Francisco, the Font Apple Designed For Its Watch

We’ve known for a while that the Apple Watch has a brand-new custom font designed by Apple, but now it has a name: San Francisco. Nestled within Apple’s human interface guide for the upcoming smartwatch are the details on the new sans serif font, which Apple is giving away for free for developers to use…

Apple Wants to Kill the Only Useful iOS Widget

A couple weeks ago, we were pleased to see the launch of Neato, a handy note-taking widget for iOS 8 that’s actually useful. Now, Apple has decided that Neato no longer fits within its App Store guidelines—despite the fact that it had been already been approved. Now Neato must become useless, or die. The trouble…

Harsh Dating App Bans the Creeps Who Keep Striking Out

Do you love the low-risk emotional distancing of Tinder but hate having to swipe through all the riffraff to get there? A new dating app called The Grade is here to help, giving you the same Facebook-powered swiping but without all the undesirables. Because it bans anyone who doesn’t make the cut. Just like Tinder,…

iOS 8.1.1 is here, and while it’s a pretty minor update, Apple says it should increase performance for the iPad 2 and the iPhone 4S, two of the oldest devices that make the leap to iOS 8. Go grab it now, especially if you have some more elderly devices.

Spotify Might Be Getting Podcasts

Today in rumors we hope are true, Spotify might be getting podcasts. This could be a great thing to loosen Apple’s stranglehold on the medium. The podcasts feature was hinted at by some code in a developer build of the Spotify app. From the looks of it, podcasts would show up under the Browse tab.…

Our Favorite Android, iOS, and Windows Phone Apps of the Week

The app world wasn’t having such a great week as news of the iOS Masque Attack, a vulnerability that lets malicious third-party apps masquerade as legitimate alternatives, prompted the U.S. government to issue a statement. Yikes! But don’t be too afraid, because like always, there are some great apps to check out from iOS, Android,…

Apple’s Superstar Designer Marc Newson Redesigned This Classic Shotgun

The design world hyperventilated when it was announced that Marc Newson would be going to work with his best bud Jony Ive at Apple. But that doesn’t mean all of his work will be done inside the spaceship, and now Newson has revealed another project: Redesigning one of the most iconic firearms in history. Newson’s…

Apple Says So-Called Security Flaw Isn’t Actually a Security Flaw

Earlier this week, the internet was up in arms about a new iOS vulnerability, dubbed ‘Masque Attack’, that was discovered by security firm FireEye. Apple have released a statement to iMore pointing out that Masque Attack isn’t really a flaw at all, and that it’s ‘not aware’ of anyone who’s actually been affected by the…

Of Course You Can Track Domino’s Pizza On Your Smartwatch Now

In a move that fulfills every basement-dwelling tech nerd stereotype out there, Domino’s and Pebble are finally letting you use your wrist computer to watch as your pizza inches ever-closer to your gaping maw. Wipe away those tears and/or meat sweats, and behold the Domino’s Tracker smartwatch app. This is Domino’s first foray in smartwatch…

VSCO Cam Update Touts Photo Essays, Web Uploads, and New iPad App

In the age of Instagram, VSCO Cam has managed to carve out a niche of photographer-types seeking a more refined experience in their mobile sharing. With some brand new updates, you can now incorporate text for essay-style stories, upload photos from other cameras straight from the web, and do all the VSCO things you love…

​I Wish This iPhone Flash Drive Worked Better

I have no idea why Apple still sells iPhones and iPads that have only 16GB of storage. But wouldn’t it be great if you could just plug in a flash drive that added more? The SanDisk iXpand wants to be that drive. Sadly, it’s not. Available this week in 16GB, 32GB and 64GB capacities for…

This T9 Keyboard Puts Old School Texting on Your iPhone

Nowadays, you can put third-party keyboards on iOS 8, but back in Ye Olden Days of mobile phones (anything pre-Blackberry *shudder* *vomit*) there wasn’t much choice when it came to tapping out texts. If you wanted to send a message, you used T9, a predictive keyboard style where you’d press numbers on the dialpad to…