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App Turns Your Phone’s Camera Into a Jaundice-Detecting Pediatrician

Infant jaundice, where a baby’s liver can’t remove blood toxins, is potentially fatal. Doctors recognize it as an unusual yellow hue in a baby’s skin and eyes, but what if you’re a nervous parent far from a pediatrician? This experimental app turns your phone’s camera into a doctor’s trained eye. BiliCam‘s premise is simple: Just…

Report: Apple Might Finally Embrace NFC With iPhone 6

After years of ignoring the promise of NFC, Apple may finally be ready to take the plunge—and one of its major applications may include mobile payments. Sources familiar with Apple’s new payment plan spoke with Wired saying that the feature will be included in the new iPhone 6 when it is revealed on Sept. 9th.…

Report: Apple Will Announce Its Watch at the Sept. 9th iPhone Event

The ever-reliable John Paczkowski is reporting that Apple will announce a wearable at the previously reported event on September 9. That wearable is almost surely that “iWatch” thing everyone has been talking about, though an announcement wasn’t expected until later this year. But why wait when you have billion of dollars to make by disrupting…

Report: Gigantic 12.9-inch iPads Are Coming Next Year

Since the iPhone’s launch in 2007, Apple has kept screen sizes simple, offering only four options. Now, the company may be taking a different approach. Bloomberg reports that Apple will launch a 12.9-inch iPad in early 2015, citing anonymous sources familiar with the matter. This a pretty significant jump from the 9.7-inch iPad Air that’s…

The iPad Education Revolution Stalls Out

Yesterday, the Los Angeles Times reported that its sprawling hometown’s school system, the second largest in the US, would be withdrawing from last year’s ambitious promise to supply all 640,000 students with an iPad. Good. The Los Angeles United School District just dodged a $1 billion, tablet-shaped bullet. When the iPad premiered four years ago,…

Leaked iPhone 6 Guide Appears to Confirm Announce Date, Other Details

iPhone rumor season is just days away from becoming iPhone reality season, and a new leak from a usually reliable source appears to confirm some basic details. The French tech blog Nowhere Else just published images of an iPhone 6 Quick Start guide. The document includes the rumored iPhone 6 name as well as the…

Google launched iOS app Slidestoday, along with updates to its Docs and Sheets apps. Slides lets you collaborate on presentations from your mobile devices, including PowerPoint files. The whole push is geared to make sure people who create stuff using Google products don’t get frustrated when they can’t pull them up on different devices. If…

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

Y’all must’ve been good little smartphone users, because Appaclaus brought a giant bag of new Android, iOS, and Windows Phone apps for you this week. Why is there an app-focused Santa, and why does he visit randomly in the middle of August? Nobody knows. Quit asking and start downloading! Multi-Platform Updates Simple Simple is a…

Take Control of Your Connection With These Wi-Fi Management Apps

Between your home and corporate networks, from MiFis to Open Access Points and everything in between, keeping track of which network your mobile device is using and managing access to all these connectivity options is getting really tough these days. It doesn’t have to be. With these WiFi utilities at your disposal, you’ll be able…

iPhone 5 Battery Letting You Down? Apple Might Replace It—For Free

If your iPhone 5’s battery just doesn’t have the kick that it feels like it should, you might be able to get a new one for free. Apple has found that an apparently small batch of iPhone 5s (not the S or C) that “may suddenly experience shorter battery life or need to be charged…

Google Cardboard’s Cheap VR Can Work With iPhones Too

From Oculus Rift to the rumored Samsung Gear VR, immersive virtual reality is on the rise. Still, from what we’ve seen so far, the legions of iPhone users seem to have been left out of the mix. Not so! Your iPhone is good for VR too! Thanks to, er, Google! This great video by 9to5Mac…

50 Things Cortana Can Do Right Now (Compared To Siri and Google Now)

Cortana is Windows Phone’s answer to Siri and Google Now: A voice-activated artificially intelligent personal assistant with an only slightly off-putting robot voice. Technically, she’s still in beta on Windows 8.1, but PhoneBuff is here to show us 50 things Cortana can already do. Looks like Cortana’s got some seriously handy capabilities—and a pretty cheeky…

Reuters: iPhone 6 Display Redesign Could Limit Availability

Whether it’s made of sapphire or not the display of the next iPhone is rumored to be causing some trouble.Reuters reports that Apple suppliers are “scrambling to get enough screens ready” for the new phone as a last-minute redesign has disrupted production. https://gizmodo.com/whats-sapphire-glass-and-why-would-apple-want-it-in-yo-1603457905 The newswire explains that two supply chain sources have told it that…

Report: Apple Will Begin Making a Jewelry-Classified Gadget This Month

We’ve been following the emergence of Apple’s sapphire production plant in Arizona closely this year, since it tells us a lot about the products coming down the line. Now, Mark Gurman reports, filings from Apple indicate that not only is the company manufacturing a new sapphire product this month—it’s being classified as “jewelry.” And no,…

Tesla Owners Will Be Able to Start Their Cars With Only an iPhone

Tesla’s Model S is so technologically advanced, it gets software updates the way your old fashioned car gets oil changes. And rumor has it the newest update will let iPhone-using Tesla owners forget their car keys forever: The car will soon recognize the owner’s phone to start the car. First spotted by 9to5Mac, this screen…

Apple Patent Helps Find Your Car Even When You Can’t Get a Signal

A pair of new Apple patents explain how your phone could help you find your car in the parking lot, even if you’re struggling to get a phone signal and aren’t in range of a GPS satellite. The patents—”Automatic identification of vehicle location” and “Vehicle location in weak location signal scenarios“—describe how an iOS device…

Skype Just Fixed the Single Most Annoying Thing About Notifications

Skype just announced a great new feature that should be part of every single app, plugin, or digital service you use: When you’re actively Skyping, the app’s notifications will only go to the device you’re currently using. Why didn’t this kind of setup become a universal standard, like, five years ago? This update solves a…

Vine Now Lets You Upload Old Videos from Your Camera Roll

In typical Twitter fashion, Vine success has largely been attributed to its simplicity and spontaneity. And in typical Twitter fashion, Vine is also evolving in exciting ways. Namely, Vine now lets you turn old videos from your camera roll into six-second snippets of goodness. This is great news! The update will be available for iOS…

Why We Still Have Bezels (But May Not For Long)

Yesterday, the first Sharp smartphone to come to these great United States brought with it one of the skinniest bezels we’ve ever seen on a smartphone. The Aquos Crystal is visually impressive, and a major step into the frameless future that seems to be emerging. There’s just one problem, though. Bezels matter. And we still…

Mailbox for Mac Arrives In Beta Today To Redeem Your Email

Back in April, Mailbox promised it would be bring a beta version of its popular mobile email client to Mac. Today, it delivered on that promise. Users who’ve signed up for the public beta as well as select Mailbox users will be given access to the beta in a rollout process. The team hasn’t announced…