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Slash through action platformer Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time on Apple Arcade

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‘Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time’ launched Friday on Apple Arcade
Jack is back in Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time
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Samurai Jack made the jump from cartoon to video game on Friday, with this classic series transformed into an action platformer.

The star of the Cartoon Network series faces new enemies and rejoins familiar allies to track down the evil Aku and defeat him once and for all in Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time on Apple Arcade.

Fortnite will hand out anti-Apple prizes for upcoming tournament

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That design looks strangely familiar.
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Epic Games will hand out anti-Apple prizes in a new Fortnite tournament due to take place Sunday, August 23.

Prizes will include a “Free Fortnite” hat modeled after Apple’s classic “Think Different” branding, the in-game skin for the evil-looking Apple Big Brother character (dubbed the “Tart Tycoon”) from Fortnite‘s “1984” Mac ad parody, and more.

This database of 5,000 vector icons is a must for digital designers

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Make your project pixel-perfect with lifetime access to 5,000 professional vector icons.
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Designing interfaces, whether for websites or software, requires lots of assets. Vector icons are kind of like buttons to a tailor, offering many subtle touches that together can make an interface sing. With this massive library of vector icons, you get a massive drawer of icons to search through.

Apple still has ‘a lot of gasoline’ left in the tank after passing $2 trillion

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Apple's at $2 trillion and not slowing down.
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Apple passed $2 trillion this week, but one bullish Apple analyst doesn’t think the stock is anywhere near its limits. In a note published Friday, Wedbush analyst Dan Ives wrote to clients that he thinks Apple has “a lot of gasoline” left in the tank.

Ives predicted Apple could reach as high as $600. Currently, AAPL is trading at $473.10, defying the overall market with its upward trajectory.

News publishers want Apple to give them a better deal for App Store subscriptions

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‘The New York Times’ kicked Apple News to the curb
New York Times and others are pushing back against App Store commissions.
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Several major news outlets are throwing their hats into the ring with Epic Games and others in pushing back against Apple’s App Store commission.

According to the Wall Street Journal, a trade body that represents the New York Times, Washington Post, WSJ and other publishers has sent a letter to Tim Cook asking for better terms for digital subscriptions sold through the App Store.

PSA: Season finale of Little Voice, new episode of Ted Lasso on Apple TV+

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Episode nine of the show debuted today.
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Apple TV+ series Little Voice came to an end Friday with the season finale episode debuting on Apple’s streaming TV service.

Producer J.J. Abrams’ series, created with songwriter Sara Bareilles and writer Jessie Nelson, tells the story of aspiring singer Bess King and her attempts to make a career for herself as a singer. Alongside the season finale of Little Voice, Apple TV+ also added a new episode of comedy series Ted Lasso.

Here’s how much 5G components will reportedly cost Apple

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These iPhone 12 dummy units show what the real handset might look like.
Are you excited about the iPhone 12?
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The addition of 5G connectivity is one of the most compelling elements of this year’s iPhone 12, but it’s going to come at a cost to Apple. Literally.

According to a new report by TF Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple will likely pay $75 per unit for sub-6GHz 5G support, and a maximum of $125 for mmWave 5G. However, Kuo does not think Apple will pass these costs on to the end consumer.

More affordable Apple Watch might be in development

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More affordable Apple Watch would be nice.
A less-expensive Apple Watch is just one of the predictions made today by a serial leaker.
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A regular source of Apple leaks said on Thursday that a less expensive version of the Apple Watch is in the offing.

This was just one of multiple tidbits Jon Prosser dropped during a public Q&A session. He mentioned the first MacBook with Apple silicon, talked a bit about the company’s game controller, and more.

Company of Heroes WWII real-time strategy game ready to explode onto iPhone

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‘Company of Heroes’ will debut on iPhone on Sept. 10.
The wait for an iPhone and Android version of Company of Heroes is almost over.
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In just three weeks, the classic strategy game Company of Heroes will launch onto iPhone. Feral Interactive promised Thursday that, following a successful iPad debut earlier this year, the combat simulator will be released on September 10 for iPhone and Android.

Speedy new My Passport SSD plants 2TB of storage in your palm

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WD My Passport SSD is compatible with a range of Apple computers.
WD My Passport SSD is tiny but adds up to 2TB of storage to Mac or iPad.
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Western Digital introduced on Thursday an updated version of the My Passport SSD. It offers dramatically faster data transfers, plus a new sleeker design.

The external storage device is available in capacities up to 2TB, and offers prosumers an easy way to carry around fairly large collections of images, movies or other files.

Apple BYOD: How User Enrollment revolutionizes personal device management at work

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Hexnode Apple User Enrollment helps IT departments work with employees’ personal devices.
Apple User Enrollment helps IT departments work with employees’ personal devices. 
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This Apple for BYOD post is presented by Hexnode. 

Businesses enrolling employees’ personal devices for work use — known in IT circles as Bring Your Own Device, or BYOD — is growing. According to sources cited in Forbes, the market should reach nearly $367 billion by 2022, more than 10 times the size it was in 2014. Companies favoring BYOD tend to save about $350 per year per employee, and those employees see efficiency improvements by using personal devices, whether Android- or Apple-based. 

Apple at $2 trillion is amazing for investors, but boring for fans [Opinion]

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Are Apple's days as a game-changing innovator behind it?
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Apple’s surge past a $2 trillion market cap this week underlines just how well CEO Tim Cook’s vision works for shareholders. But is this good news for Apple fans?

The first publicly traded U.S. company to hit this milestone, Apple has transformed from one of the world’s dynamic companies into one that can be, well, kind of boring. The strategy that fueled this unprecedented success makes it far less likely that we’ll seen an insanely innovative product coming out of Cupertino in the future.

You can still re-download Fortnite on iPhone, iPad after Apple’s ban [Pro tip]

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It's not gone completely ... yet.
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Pro-tip-4Fortnite is currently banned from the App Store following a big fallout between Apple and Epic Games. But for some players, that doesn’t mean it’s gone from iPhone and iPad for good.

So long as you’ve downloaded Fortnite at least once before, it’s still possible to re-download it today. We’ll show you how to do it.

Get the fastest iPhone recharges possible with latest Mophie Powerstation batteries

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The Powerstation Wireless Stand, one of the new power banks from Mophie, is also a wireless charger.
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Mophie just launched four power banks designed to, in its words, “charge mobile devices at the fastest speed possible.” These latest additions to the long-running Powerstation line of batteries come in a range of storage capacities and prices, and can be used with iPhones, iPads and MacBooks.

Build your own website with this easy-to-use Mac app

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Sparkle Pro Website Builder
Sparkle is an intuitive app for creating visually stunning websites.
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Stop putting off that website you’ve been planning to build. You can do it today with a lifetime subscription to this intuitive Mac app, which handles all the design and technical stuff that’s been keeping you from fulfilling your goal.

Sparkle Pro Website Builder’s easy-to-use interface presents you with visual tools for quickly building high-performing, search-engine-optimized websites.

Porsche’s electric Taycan comes with 3 years of Apple Music included

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Apple Music comes baked in.
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Porsche’s forthcoming electric Taycan will offer three years of free Apple Music streaming. No tethered or wireless iPhone connection needed.

The system will rely on its own in-car dash. Drivers and passengers can use a touch screen and custom Porsche AI voice assistant to select albums, songs, or radio stations. Streaming data costs included.

Apple documentary Infinite Canvas shows artists exploring AR

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New documentary explores the magic of augmented reality.
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Apple has debuted a new, free-to-watch documentary on Apple TV, directed by renowned photographer Ryan McGinley. Infinite Canvas follows “seven visionary artists as they push the boundaries of their work by exploring the uncharted territory of augmented reality art.”

The film is based on an AR[T] experimental art series that Apple staged last year at Apple Stores in San Francisco, New York, London, Paris, Hong Kong, and Tokyo.

Apple donating money to help local wildfire relief efforts in California

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Apple is doing its bit to fight the terrible blazes sweeping across California.
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Apple is donating an undisclosed amount of money to support local wildfire relief in California, where fires have forced thousands of people to evacuate their homes in San Francisco.

In a Wednesday tweet, Tim Cook wrote that: “To our employees, friends and neighbors affected by the heatwave and expanding fires across CA, please stay safe and listen to local evacuation orders.”

Adonit Note-M brilliantly combines an iPad stylus with a mouse [Review]

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Adonit Note-M review
The Adonit Note-M is a 2-in-1 stylus and mouse for iPad.
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iPadOS offers full support for mice, and it also supports styli. But carrying around both can be a bit of a hassle. That’s where the Adonit Note-M comes in. It’s a stylus that’s also a mouse. And one that’ll attach itself to the side of an iPad Pro.

I extensively tested this innovative accessory. Here’s how it performs in real-world use.

iPhone can tell if you’re too drunk to drive

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iPhone breathalyzer: Study shows that smartphone sensors can identify drunk drivers.
Have you had one too many? Your iPhone might be able to answer that question.
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The accelerometer built into a standard smartphone can determine with great accuracy if the person carrying the device is drunk, according to researchers at the University of Pittsburgh.

If used in the real world, the finding could lead to iPhones that warn their owners before they get behind the wheel intoxicated.

Ted Lasso scores second season on Apple TV+

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Jason Sudeikis plays a clueless college football coach in the Apple TV+ comedy series
Jason Sudeikas shoots! He scores!
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Ted Lasso, the Apple TV+ comedy about a clueless American football coach who lands a job in Britain leading a team that plays that other kind of football, will come back for a second season, Apple said Wednesday.

Jason Sudeikas plays the lead in the show, which debuted on Apple TV+ last week. We’re only three episodes in to season 1, but so far, it looks like a winner. (Don’t take my word for it. Read the Cult of Mac review: Ted Lasso’s heart is too big to bench.)