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Apple tells users with iOS 8.0.1 to downgrade to iOS 8, wait on new update in ‘next few days’

Sep25
by on September 25, 2014 at 5:24 am
Posted In: Around the Web

Apple pushed out a buggy update to iOS 8 which disabled cell reception and TouchID on devices, and now it is telling customers who downloaded iOS 8.0.1 it to reinstall iOS 8 using iTunes and wait on an incoming fix. The note on the company’s support pages — spotted by The Verge — explains that a bug-free iOS 8.0.2 update will arrive “in the next few days.” Apple says that its new Health app, which was disabled in iOS 8 due to issues, should be working again with the iOS 8.0.2 patch. The iTunes restore fix was noted by some users. Nonetheless Apple…

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The Internet’s hilarious reaction to #bendgate

Sep24
by on September 24, 2014 at 10:31 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Shareables

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It’s been a surprisingly tough week for Apple. Today it released an iOS 8 update that killed cell service and TouchID on some users’ phones and earlier this week video and photos emerged that showed that the iPhone 6 Plus is prone to bending. It turns out metal bends when exposed to external pressure — like trying to deliberately destroy your phone or parking your butt on it all day. But whether you care about the physics of the malleability of aluminum (or  alu min ium  as Jony Ive says it) as it pertains to the new iPhone or not, the Internet was…

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This interactive map of the X-Men universe is my new favorite thing

Sep24
by on September 24, 2014 at 8:53 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

When Marvel announced an API at the start of this year, comics fans got excited to see what developers could do with it. Here’s one of the coolest examples we’ve seen yet: World of X, an interactive map showing important locations from the X-Men series. Created by Nclud designer Kyle Conrad, World of X offers summaries for each location and links to series that used it as a setting. The map uses night images from NASA to a nice effect, though the animations were a tad choppy on my computer. If you grew up reading and watching X-Men, you can…

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