Last week, we told you about a new Twitter app for Apple Watch users called Chirp. Now, that app has seen its first major update, bringing a slew of improvements for its users as part of version 1.1. Headlining the update is support for direct messages. Now, you can view and send messages directly from your Apple Watch. Further, there’s now support for lists, allowing you to view the tweets of people in a specific list....

Apple Watch competitor Pebble has today announced a hefty update to its smartwatch experience. The update, which bumps the company’s Pebble Time smartphone app for iPhone to version 3.6 and the watch firmware to version 3.9, includes a variety of enhancements to Health, Messages, and more. As far as Pebble Health goes, the company says that a new API is now available that allows watchfaces and apps to take advantage of Pebble Health stats....

The social media giant must be doing something right to have nearly 2 billion active monthly users worldwide. Unfortunately, the company is having to deal with some irate customers because of a glitch locking them out of their account. How Facebook could lock you out of your account Facebook is always coming up with new ways to keep its users coming back. One example is its Marketplace, where you can buy and sell items like on Craigslist....

The bad news Dan Frommer wrote a post that I was going to write but never finished. His is better anyway. The not-recommended TL;DR is: Even though CEO Tim Cook said there were plenty of reasons (5) for the decline of Mac growth, including iMac constraints, Mac sales for the year are heading toward “flat.” From our liveblog, you can hear Cook’s comments specifically: While not making enough iMacs for Christmas shopping was a significant and uncharacteristic operational misstep, it doesn’t account for the significant drop in Mac sales overall year-over-year and even sequentially....

Peaky Blinders is one of our favorite shows on BBC, following a gangster crime family in Birmingham during the early 1920s. While we love the action, business, and total badassery of this gang, we’re loving their costumes even more. Although almost every season has had a new costume designer, each and every one of them has absolutely killed it. We’d like to thank Stephanie Collie, Lorna Marie Mugan, Alexandra Caulfield, and Alison McCosh for their keen and brilliant eye....

After pledging $50,000 to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) late last month upon hitting the milestone of a hundred million YouTube subscribers, Felix “PewDiePie” Kjellberg is now retracting that promise after receiving backlash from his fans. The ADL’s stated mission is to fight anti-semitism and hate in general, so it goes without saying that this doesn’t look so great when considering the famed YouTuber’s past words and actions. Just back in February 2017, Kjellberg was dropped by Disney’s Maker Studios after publishing videos in which he solicited Fiverr users to do outrageously anti-semitic things, such as dressing like Nazi German soldiers while holding signs calling for Jewish genocide....

As we kick-off a New Year, you might be ready to shake up your social media strategy and add this powerful visual search engine into your social media marketing mix. What makes Pinterest so unique is it’s audience’s appetite to discover new ideas and score inspiration for their next purchase. 97% of top Pinterest searches are unbranded, giving businesses huge scope to cut through with an organic marketing strategy. Plus, Pinterest has been busy pulling together in-depth trend reports, launching new product features and even adding new tools to their platform....

Pixelmator Pro for Mac is today releasing a pretty substantial update to its image editing app. The new version adds a brand new light theme, and a revised dark theme, to align with macOS Mojave’s Light and Dark modes. There’s also a new machine-learning enhance feature, support for Quick Actions in the Mojave Finder and some batch effect actions in Automator. Pixelmator Pro also now supports SVG Fonts for richer, graphic, typography....

Sony has announced that the PlayStation 5 will be released during the upcoming 2020 holiday season and that the controllers will include both haptic feedback and adaptive triggers. There have been rumors circulating about the upcoming PlayStation 5 for months now, yet Sony has kept quiet regarding the system, even while Microsoft has been revealing details about the Xbox Scarlett. The information regarding the PlayStation 5 has been scant, though there have been some minor announcements and leaks regarding the system....

Fighting Pokemon in Pokemon Go! is one of the most rewarding experiences of the game. In order to progress a player’s XP and level up, battling trainers, Team Rocket, and gym leaders will push a player’s Pokemon to be the best that they can be. Battling in a Pokemon gym can be tricky. There are a variety of different fights and a lot of smaller details need to be taken into account in order for a player’s success....

A range of studies have shown that popular games are sending data to multiple third-party entities, and even the developers concerned may not know what data is being sent to whom. Angry Birds, for example, knowingly sends advertising data to 43 entities, but developer Rovio turned out to be unaware of additional data sent through third-party SDKs … A lengthy Vox piece summarised the problem. Privacy policies are typically vague, referring to things like ‘gameplay data,’ but this isn’t necessarily as innocuous as it sounds....

Deutsche Bank’s Chris Whitmore argues in an investment note that Apple’s expected use of the 64-bit A7 chip will make the iPad a much more appealing proposition for the enterprise market. It should be noted, however, that one part of his equation – the Touch ID fingerprint sensor – may or may not make it into the iPad 5. We’ve heard conflicting rumors about this, claimed parts showing that appear to be the sensor in an iPad 5 casing on the one hand, with others claiming that Apple wants to retain Touch ID as a unique feature of the iPhone 5s for now....

Apple officially entered the original content market last year with its ‘Planet of the Apps’ reality TV series, but viewer and critic reactions to the series were less than positive. Now, vocal entrepreneur and star of the series, Gary Vaynerchuk is slamming Apple for the way it marketed the show… ‘Planet of the Apps’ was a Shark Tank-style show in which developers came to pitch their app ideas to a panel of mentors, including Vaynerchuk, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jessica Alba, and Will....

On the eve of Apple CEO Tim Cook’s testimony to the House Judiciary Committee as part of an antitrust probe, Apple VP Phil Schiller has defended the App Store in a new interview with Reuters. The Apple exec touted that the App Store has successfully flipped how the entire software industry works. Schiller, who serves as Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide marketing, explained that the goal of the App Store is to “treat all apps in the App Store the same....

Hipstamatic led the way in offering a fast and fun way to edit and share photos from an iPhone, but has been a little slow to move into video. The company has now corrected this, launching the Cinamatic app designed to compete with Vine and Instagram. Cinamatic lets you shoot short videos ranging from 3-15 seconds, apply filters to them and then share on Vine, Instagram and Facebook – or send them via email or Messages … The app costs $1....

Apple’s retail store at Waterside Shops in Naples, Florida has reopened with a larger footprint and an all-new design. The store was temporarily closed and completely reconstructed over the past year to suit the evolving needs of customers and Apple’s growing retail plans. The new Apple Waterside Shops brings Apple’s latest store concepts to Southwest Florida for the first time. Waterside Shops is a sunny outdoor mall aptly named for its proximity to the Gulf of Mexico and its canopied walkways arranged around a set of decorative outdoor pools....

PHP Data Types PHP Variable Use of variables Variable type casting PHP Constant PHP Operators Arithmetic operators Assignment Operators Comparison operators Logical operators PHP Data Types A Data type is the classification of data into a category according to its attributes; Alphanumeric characters are classified as strings Whole numbers are classified integers Numbers with decimal points are classified as floating points. True or false values are classified as Boolean. PHP is a loosely typed language; it does not have explicit defined data types....

We’re drawing closer and closer to the release of the first Apex Legends Battle Pass. Leaks have players assuming that this Pass is going to release alongside the new hero, Octane, very soon. However, shelling out for this latest addition to the game could be a little costly for some fans. Luckily, there’s a way for the Apex Legends battle pass to be acquired at half price for those who are enterprising....

Some gamers have started a petition to have American President Donald Trump ban the sale of Nintendo’s Pokémon Sword and Shield games. The games have been bogged down by controversy since it was first confirmed that the titles would not feature a National Dex, meaning that not every monster from past iterations would be returning in Sword and Shield. This prompted some severe backlash that’s plagued the games ever since....

Shrinking the notch has been a top design request ever since Apple introduced the expansive display on the iPhone X. Now a reliable source claims Apple will completely replace the iPhone notch with a Samsung-style “punch-hole” design on at least some iPhone 14 models. If Apple actually makes this change, do you consider it a design improvement or a visual misstep? Voice your opinion in our poll and comments! iPhone screens once fit in neatly drawn rectangles with straight edges and right angles like the current iPhone SE....