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T-Mobile gives Samsung Galaxy Fold a hard pass

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Galaxy Fold specs
T-Mobile has followed Kenny Rogers’ advice on knowing when to fold ‘em.
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T-Mobile was the first US carrier to commit to Samsung’s cutting-edge Galaxy Fold. Now it is un-committing. Perhaps that’s to be expected from the un-carrier.

This comes right after Samsung revealed that will finally ship its folding phone in September, months after it was originally scheduled.

New Spotify book contains a very weird Steve Jobs anecdote

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Steve Jobs’ estate triumphs in battle over SteveJobs.com
Did Jobs intimidate the Spotify founder by breathing down the phone to him?
Photo: Kazuhiro Shiozawa/Flickr CC

Despite his sometimes prickly reputation, Steve Jobs was well known for mentoring select young tech entrepreneurs. When it comes to Spotify, however, he may have taken a different tact.

According to a new book, Spotify Untold, Jobs freaked out Spotify co-founder and CEO Daniel Ek by calling him up and breathing deeply down the phone. (Then again, it may have all been Ek’s imagination!)

Samsung’s delayed Galaxy Fold will finally ship in September

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Apple invents a unique, no-crease folding iPhone screen
The futuristic folding smartphone was supposed to ship in April.
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Samsung will finally ship its delayed Galaxy Fold smartphone in September, around the same time as Apple’s next-gen iPhones.

No exact release date has been announced. However, this comes around 5-6 months after the handset was supposed to debut.

Oh thank heaven! 7-Eleven will give away 500 AirPods

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7-Eleven will give away 500 sets of AirPods
You better be quick with your order.
Screenshot: 7-Eleven

Prepare your shopping list for 7-Eleven and have it ready on Thursday. Free AirPods are at stake.

The convenience store chain is giving away free AirPods to the first 500 people who spend at least $50 on its new 7NOW delivery app.

How to send a green-bubble SMS from your iPad

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Old mobile phone toy: This is how
This is how "texts" were sent before the flux capacitor made Skynet possible.
Photo: Charlie Sorrel/Cult of Mac

Did you know you can send regular old green-bubble SMS (and MMS) messages from your iPad? And even from your Mac? Well, you can, and it is dead easy. It’s called Text Message Forwarding, and it works by using your iPhone as a conduit to the cellular phone network.

Let’s set it up and see how it works.

LG’s newest Smart TVs will start getting AirPlay this week

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LG-AirPlay
Users will start seeing the update on July 25.
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LG will start bringing AirPlay 2 and HomeKit to its newest Smart TV sets this week.

2019 models will play nicely with iPhone, iPad, and Mac after the update. You will be able to stream content straight from your Apple devices, and control your set in the Home app on iOS.

FTC hits Facebook with record $5 billion fine

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Facebook owns 4 of the top 10 apps of the past decade
This is the largest fine in FTC history.
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The Federal Trade Commission hit Facebook with a massive $5 billion fine Wednesday due to the social network’s lax privacy policies.

This stands as the largest fine ever dished out to a tech company by the FTC. The massive penalty eats up approximately 9% of Facebook’s total 2018 revenue.

Major expansion for Civilization VI coming to iOS

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Civilization VI
Gathering Storm will make a sprawling epic game even bigger.
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Sid Meier’s Civilization VI is a triumph on iOS. But it’s about to get even better — courtesy of an upcoming new expansion pack in the form of Gathering Storm.

Arriving on Windows, Mac and Linux computers earlier in 2019, the expansion is set to come to iPhone and iPad later this year.

Hilariously sarcastic weather app gets an iPad-focused refresh

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CARROT Weather is a quirky -- but surprisingly great -- weather app.
Image: Carrot Weather

Everyone’s favorite sarcastic AI taskmaster weather app has received a big update.

CARROT Weather 4.12 just landed in the App Store, bringing a plethora of upgrades designed around the iPad. If you’re a tablet user with an interest in a quirky, yet surprisingly deep weather app, this may be the one for you!