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A police officer in the U.K. named Doug Crossan reported his own 13-year-old son for fraud after Apple refused to refund £3,700 that the child ran up playing freemium App Store titles on his iPad. DailyMail has the story: We reported last week that Apple was adding a new “offers in-app purchases” warning in the App Store to better inform consumers downloading free apps that additional content will require a fee....

Earlier this week, we walked through everything we know so far about Apple’s rumored over-ear headphones. One of the details that will likely go unknown until an official announcement is how much these will cost. What would you be willing to pay? As we wrote yesterday, Apple’s Beats and AirPods products provide a potential glimpse at how Apple prices its over-ear headphones. AirPods Pro retail for $249, whereas Beats Solo Pro go for $299....

Acclaimed developer thatgamecompany has today brought Flower, one of its long popular titles, to iOS. If you haven’t heard of thatgamecompany or Flower before, you may remember the demo of upcoming iOS game Sky at Apple’s September event. Flower is an interactive game that lets players control the wind as they journey through beautiful landscapes. The developer’s goal with Flower was primarily to bring out positive emotions for players. The game was originally released for Playstation 3 in 2009....

Xiaomi Mi Max 2 (oxygen) is one of the best smartphones out there. It was launched in May 2017. The phone came out of the box with Android 7.1.1 Nougat. Here we have a latest Custom ROM which brings all the Google Pixel phone feature on your Xiaomi Mi Max 2. This custom ROM is known as Google Pixel Experience ROM. Now you can download and install Pixel Experience ROM on Xiaomi Mi Max 2 based on Android 8....

Pokemon Go is a game based on AR and is nothing like the other games out there. The game doesn’t even solely depend on RNG like many games out there and is something which is very unique. Not only does your encounters vary upon your location, but it also depends on the weather conditions and a number of other variables. For instance, you are more likely to encounter water-type Pokemons near water bodies and grass-type Pokemons near grasslands....

Comic-Con participants got a heads-up on future development of Pokémon Go from Niantic Labs founder John Hanke, reports Engadget. Players may also get the ability to add customizations to lures. To start, more Pokémon critters will eventually make their way to Go, although Hanke’s wording makes it sound like not all of them will make the cut. “Beyond first generation [the original 150], there are some others that may make their way into our universe....

Update: Home Depot says it plans to accept Apple Pay in the near future. Home Depot appears to have quietly stopped accepting Apple Pay. Although never officially named as a partner, the company has supported contactless payment and Apple Pay used to work in at least some of its stores. An Apple support document updated last week lists Home Depot as one of the stores that “might not currently be set up” to accept Apple Pay....

Peloton bikes and treadmills already work with Apple’s Health app on iPhone, but there’s no Apple Watch app integration yet. That could soon change according a new report on the company’s rumored rower machine and cheaper treadmill. Here’s the mention: Peloton’s iPhone app already supports saving workout data captured from the Internet-connected stationary bike and treadmill to the built-in Health app on iPhone. You can also log workouts from the Apple Watch using the built-in Workout app or other software, but there’s no dedicated Peloton app for Apple Watch yet....

Adobe has started private beta testing of Photoshop CC for iPad. When the application was announced back in October 2018, Adobe promised a 2019 launch. Adobe has now sent out TestFlight builds to its invite group, which suggests it is approaching a shippable version… Update: It appears that Adobe had already distributed beta versions of Photoshop for iPad many months ago. It now seems to be distributing to a wider testing group, probably driven from the May invitations to apply....

The Pixelmator Team has today released the latest update of its Pixelmator Pro app for Mac. Version 1.1 brings a lot of new features, and a plethora of smaller enhancements and bug fixes. The photo-editing app now features rich integration with the Touch Bar, a suite of new web export options, machine-learning color adjustments, slicing, SVG vector image editing and many smaller changes. One of the headline features for this release is a new Export for Web panel....

v is equal to zero now. However, each variable, apart from value, also has its address (or, simply put, where it is located in the memory). The address can be retrieved by putting an ampersand (&) before the variable name. If you print the address of a variable on the screen, it will look like a totally random number (moreover, it can be different from run to run). Let’s try this in practice with pointer in C example...

After the release of Mewtwo Strikes Back: Evolution, Netflix should continue remaking classic Pokémon films. Pokémon: The First Movie - Mewtwo Strikes Back was - as the title reveals - the first time that Ash, Pikachu, and all the rest appeared on the big screen. The movie spotlighted Mewtwo, who was shown to be the first truly villainous Pokémon adversary. He was depicted as the most powerful Pokémon that Ash, Brock, and Misty had ever faced....

Since Apple TV+ was launched, Apple has been offering a one-year free trial to customers who purchase a new device. However, it seems that the company has been struggling to keep Apple TV+ attractive to subscribers as the free trial period has already been extended twice since then. Now we want to know if you plan on keeping your Apple TV+ subscription after the trial period ends. If you’re just a regular user who has decided to subscribe to Apple TV+, you can try out the platform for free for seven days....

Earlier this week, Bloomberg published a breakdown of the new hardware likely coming from Apple over the next year. One detail in the report was that Apple is apparently planning a lower-cost HomePod. Would you be willing to sacrifice sound quality in order to get a cheaper HomePod? Bloomberg’s report detailed that Apple could release this cheaper HomePod “as early as next year.” It would purportedly feature two tweeters inside, instead of the seven tweeter setup that the current HomePod includes....

Five teenagers with attitude are suiting up on March 24th for the new Power Rangers movie, and they’ll be joined by the first major villain the Rangers ever faced off against in the original Mighty Morphin Power Rangers television show: Rita Repulsa! This queen of evil wanted to conquer the universe and was trapped inside of a space dumpster for ten thousand years before she found freedom. She’s back to her wicked ways, and the trailers for the new film suggest she’s more deadly than her original television counterpart....

Apple Marunouchi has opened its doors in the heart of Tokyo. The new flagship store is Apple’s most expansive in Japan and leads an extravaganza of retail updates throughout the country set to be revealed this fall. Over 1,000 customers formed a line extending several city blocks for the store’s grand opening. A curtain of bamboo quiets a bustling city street. Softly curved aluminum window frames front squared natural wood and plaster ceilings....

Theoretically, anything and everything from the abuse of workers (through natural disasters and industrial espionage) to terrorist attacks. Is our company is prepared for this? Imagine the scenario, 2am, nobody is around to hear the sound of breaking glass and quick steps. The next day, the first employee appears at work and calls the police after spotting the mess. According to police, it was a random act of vandalism.
Two weeks later the president convenes a meeting; it turns out that the local newspaper is running a story about your product, and has just revealed that the project has gone millions of dollars over budget....

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWTxaAj5w-4&fs=1&hl=en_US] You like violent bunny rabbits, right, right? Want to watch a violent rabbit create a new definition for homicidal? Then do keep an eye on the unfolding drama between the legitimate makers of open source violent rabbit game, Lugaru HD, and the pirate coder who has also introduced an app called Lugaru via the Mac App Store — but using the same code. That’s right, two apps for one game — the legitimate one costs $12....

Misty is one of the most popular Pokémon characters out there. The orange haired Pokémon trainer has been a part of the show since its inception but despite all the other female characters that have become part of the Pokémon franchise, Misty has remained one of the most loved characters. Out of all of Ash’s ever changing companions, Misty is the only one who is a fully three dimensional character. She isn’t only ambitious and smart, but also quick to take her chances when she can....

According to data from Sensor Tower obtained by Variety, mobile users have spent $2.5 billion on the various Pokémon titles including Pokémon GO, Pokémon Shuffle, and Pokémon Quest. Unsurprisingly, Pokémon GO makes up for most of the revenue, bringing in nearly $2.45 billion. Between the other five smaller apps, Pokémon Shuffle Mobile claimed around $25 million. The app debuted in 2015. Monthly spending on the Pokémon franchise passed $58 million in February 2019, bringing in roughly 30 percent more revenue than in February 2018....