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For this week’s giveaway, we’ve teamed up with Pad & Quill to offer MacRumors readers a chance to win a Leather Desk Organizer Set that includes a Large Leather Desk Pad, a Leather Mouse Pad, a Large Leather Desk Organizer Tray, a Small Leather Desk Organizer Tray, and a Wooden Apple Pencil Holder. Like all of Pad & Quill’s leather goods, the components of the desk set, which are available in three…

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Hey everyone! I’m Eli Hodapp, and I serve as Editor in Chief over at MacRumors‘ sister-site TouchArcade. If you haven’t heard of us before, we’re the largest iOS-exclusive gaming site out there. We post daily news, reviews, previews, and more, covering the latest and greatest in the world of mobile gaming. We regularly stream iOS games on Twitch, and we’ve got our own forums which are packed with iOS gamers and developers…

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Music video hosting service Vevo today introduced a revamped Apple TV app that has been fully redesigned with a simpler interface that’s easier to navigate and a new focus on personalization and curation, both of which Vevo hopes will draw in more users. Vevo’s new design brings videos and playlists front and center, with the aim of providing an immersive video watching experience as soon as the app is opened. A new…

Platform game Eggggg – The Platform Puker has been named Apple’s App of the Week, and as a result, it is free to download for the first time since it was released in October. Described as a two-touch platform game about vomit, Eggggg features a main character, Gilbert, who has a severe allergy to eggs. Eating eggs makes Gilbert vomit, and the vomit mechanic is used to propel Gilbert through 21 levels…

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Apple CEO Tim Cook has allegedly been spotted testing a prototype glucose monitor that’s connected to his Apple Watch, reports CNBC. Cook, who is said to be aiming to understand how his blood sugar is affected by food and exercise, has been seen wearing the device around the Apple Campus. Cook also mentioned the glucose monitor in a February meeting with students at the University of Glasgow. It’s not clear if the…

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Facebook today revealed a new redesign coming to its standalone Facebook Messenger app for iOS and Android, with subtle UI changes that emphasize new features like games, while making it easier to see which friends are online and what notifications have been missed (via TechCrunch). The main UI addition is the introduction of three new tabs atop the app for messages, active friends, and groups, which Facebook believes is a way to…

In honor of Global Accessibility Awareness Day, which takes place tomorrow, Apple CEO Tim Cook sat down with three YouTubers to discuss the Accessibility features built into Apple’s iOS and Mac devices. Each of the three YouTubers, who met Cook at Apple’s campus for coffee, have shared their conversations with the CEO on their respective YouTube channels. All three, including legally blind filmmaker James Rath, deaf advocate and vlogger Rikki Poynter, and…

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92 percent of iPhone owners that are “somewhat likely” or “extremely likely” to upgrade their smartphone in the next 12 months plan to purchase another iPhone, according to investment banking firm Morgan Stanley. Apple’s loyalty rate, up from 86 percent a year ago, is based on an April 2017 survey of 1,000 smartphone owners aged 18 and above in the United States. It’s the highest iPhone retention rate recorded by Morgan Stanley…

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In early May, a mirror download server hosting popular Mac transcoder app HandBrake was hacked, and the legitimate version of HandBrake was replaced with a version infected with OSX.PROTON, a remote access trojan giving hackers root-access privileges to a Mac. In a blog post shared today, Panic Inc. developer and co-founder Steven Frank said he downloaded the infected version of HandBrake, which led to the theft of much of the source code…

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Starting today, Logitech’s HomeKit-compatible programmable POP Smart Button can be purchased exclusively from Apple retail locations in the United States. The Logitech POP Smart Button is designed to allow any smart device in the home to be controlled through the push of a button, allowing things like lights to be activated without the need for a smartphone. Connected to a user’s HomeKit setup via a bridge, the POP Smart Button supports three…