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Update: Zoom 5.0.0 is finally landing today, after initially being promised for April 22. It hasn’t yet shown up in all app stores, but should do so shortly.
Zoom security and privacy has been boosted with the addition of no fewer than nine new …

More Americans than ever before are holding onto their iPhones for three or more years, suggests a new survey.
CIRP data shows the percentage steadily increasing from 12% in the first quarter of 2016 to 28% this year…
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I’ve often said that my Mac is my most important Apple product: if I could only have one, that’s the one I’d choose. Partly because bigger is better in my view when it comes to screen sizes, and partly because of its flexibility. The…

Facebook Messenger Kids, a version of the popular messaging apps with built-in child safety protections, is getting new features today in the US – while the previous version is being rolled out to a further 70 countries …
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Tomorrow marks the 50th anniversary of the annual focus on environmental initiatives, this year adopting a digital format as Earth Day Live. One of the slogans represents the determination that the day should be no less impactful for the lack of in-pe…

Apple has reportedly told several suppliers that it plans to boost iPhone production over last year’s levels, despite fears that the economic fallout of the coronavirus crisis could significantly dampen demand.
Analysts had widely predicted a &#…

I guess first impressions of the Magic Keyboard with trackpad can be thought of as layered. There’s the ordering experience, otherwise known as: did I really just pay £349* – more than the price of the entry-level iPad – for a keyboard?
*Usual r…

Apple’s Magic Keyboard with trackpad for iPad may be the first of the company’s iPad keyboards to persuade me to switch from Brydge.
The company’s Smart Keyboard and Smart Keyboard Folio products didn’t impress me. The typing f…

Apple’s Magic Keyboard for iPad reviews are in after the company brought an official trackpad experience to the iPad Pro for the first time.
Orders went live ahead of the expected May timeframe, and we got an early look thanks to some hands-on v…

Cultured Code has updated the award-winning task manager Things 3 for iPad to add extensive support for trackpads and iPad.

This version of Things brings full support for the iPad’s new mouse cursor!
Connect a mouse or trackpad in your iPad’s setting…