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How to update your iPhone to iOS 13 right now

Jun26
by on June 26, 2019 at 1:13 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Basics


Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. Apple’s latest mobile operating system doesn’t officially drop until September. But, if you’re willing to deal with a few bugs in a Public Beta offering, you can get iOS 13 now. It’s worth noting that the bugs range from minor inconveniences to things that could significantly alter the way you use certain apps, or the device itself. But by the time Apple launches its first Public Beta, these bugs are typically pretty minor. Still, don’t…

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GameClub wants to preserve forgotten iPhone games for a new generation

Jun25
by on June 25, 2019 at 11:40 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, gaming


Ever wonder what happened to the iPhone games that you can no longer find, that one day just disappeared from the App Store with no explanation? While mobile gaming in recent years has blown up, and the more popular games have spawned bonafide franchises — Candy Crush, Angry Birds, Monument Valley — the early years of App Store game development were a bit more Wild West than Hollywood, and, like the former, traces of its existence have vanished into the ether. A developer called GameClub is trying to bring back some of those early, forgotten gems by acquiring the rights to the games,…

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Life can theoretically exist in a 2D universe

Jun25
by on June 25, 2019 at 9:43 pm
Posted In: Around the Web


The wild and wacky world of physics just keeps getting stranger. A UC Davis physicist recently published research demonstrating the possibility for complex lifeforms to exist in a two-dimensional universe. Philosophers and scientists have long dealt with a lack of information about our universe by viewing it through the prism of us, the observers. This is called the Anthropic Principle. The argument is that the basic framework of our universe – the existence of three dimensions of space and one dimension of time (called a 3+1 dimension) – is necessary for the existence of complex lifeforms. James Scargill, the aforementioned…

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Inside Shopify’s brave API gamble

Jun25
by on June 25, 2019 at 8:54 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev


A platform-as-a-service company is only as good as its APIs, and Shopify has dozens of them. These expose a specific part of the Shopify’s product to third-party developers, who can then incorporate them into their own applications. And last week, at the annual Shopify Unite summit, the company announced it was moving away from traditional REST-based APIs to Facebook’s GraphQL technology. While REST isn’t going away, much of the internal development interest will be focused on GraphQL, and the company is placing a great emphasis on ensuring its most popular external endpoints are available via GraphQL. This isn’t the most…

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