Today is a big day for fans of emoji, after The Unicode Consortium today released Unicode 8, complete with a sizable list of newly added emoji characters.
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Apple iPhone 6s / 6s Plus dimensions will be slightly thicker and bigger than current generation iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, here’s the reason why.
Sometimes things don't need to have actual uses in order to be absolutely awesome. Take a Flappy Bird clone or Canabalt running on an Apple Watch as a prime example of that. We want to play neither game on our wrists, but that doesn't mean that the idea of having the choice to do it doesn't make us feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
It's been a bad day for both Samsung and Swift, the makers of the keyboard loved by many Android and iOS users, after it was discovered that a security flaw leaves Galaxy devices open to the running of malicious code when the Swift Keyboard is installed. The flaw, according to the security researcher who discovered it, affects over 600 million devices, and that includes the brand new Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 edge.
It's E3 time again and Microsoft's big press event has taken place today, with plenty of big news coming out of the guys in Redmond. Microsoft could probably have gotten away with simply announcing the fact that the Xbox One is receiving an update that will make it backward compatible with Xbox 360 titles, but it wasn't going to stop there. Instead, it set about providing one of the most compelling videos we've seen at an E3 to date.
Security is vitally important, and it will only become even more important as we start to store more and more of our lives online. Be it banking information or photos of our kids that are kept in the cloud, our data and information is best kept behind secure passwords, with those passwords kept in something like LastPass or 1Password, both of which are highly recommended to a lot of users.
Here’s how to get iOS 9 features on your iOS 8 iPhone and iPad right now. More details on how to do so can be found here.
Here’s how iOS 9 Low Power Mode for battery life saving works, and how you can enable it on your iPhone or iPad.
With the release of the first beta of iOS 9, Apple has given developers and those who just can't wait for a public beta a first look at what will be shipping around September time. While headline features such as a new Siri and iPad-based split-screen multitasking are getting all the plaudits, there are plenty of changes under the hood that won't even be noticed by the majority of people. But that does't mean that they aren't important.
When Apple announced iOS 9 during the WWDC 2015 opening keynote, there wasn't much surprise, and that goes for when it released the first beta to developers at the same time as well. As with all developer previews of a new version of iOS, there is a lot of attention on something that by its very definition isn't ready for primetime yet and, as a result, really needs some time to finish baking.
