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Dropbox’s latest beta has added native support for Macs with M1 processors, 9to5Mac reports. The addition was confirmed by a Dropbox community manager on the company’s forums, and we’ve verified it by installing the latest beta of the macOS app. You can grab it yourselves from this Dropbox forum. The service has always worked on Apple’s M1 Macs, but until now it’s had to use Apple’s Rosetta 2 translation layer. This allowed the macOS app, which was originally designed for old Intel-based Macs, to run on machines with Apple’s new M1 processors. Offering native M1 support should result in Dropbox having better performance and consuming less power when used with Apple Silicon devices. That said, Rosetta translation is so fast you might not notice a difference in day-to-day use (we haven’t so ...

Apple‘s upcoming iPhone 14 series is rumored to cost more than its iPhone 13 predecessor. According to a leak, Apple is supposedly considering a $100 USD price increase for the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max. The regular iPhone 14 will still be priced at $799 USD — similar to the iPhone 13 — however the iPhone 14 Pro could cost $1,099 USD and the iPhone 14 Pro Max at $1,1999 USD. For comparison, the iPhone 13 Pro Max is currently priced at $1,099 USD while the iPhone 13 Pro starts at $999 USD. “Production costs are increasing and there has to be more than a $100 difference between the 14 Max and the 14 Pro,” the leak shared on Twitter. The latest rumors have corroborated reports that the iPhone 14 Pro will have a hole-punch camera. “Face ID hardware will be placed under the display. A...

Realme returns with its GT NEO 2, this time in a special limited edition Dragon Ball version. Themed on the Dragon Ball Z saga, the smartphone reference’s Goku’s uniform while other details like packaging, a four-star dragon ball SIM card pin, collectible card, and stickers are included. The manga theme doesn’t just stop at the exterior, as custom Dragon Ball icons, a custom UI, and a charging interface help complete the entire DBZ package. The phone itself sees 12GB RAM, 256GB of storage, a Qualcomm Snapdragon™ 870 5G processor, an HDR 10+ – 120Hz E4 AMOLED display (600Hz touch sampling and 1,300 nits), 65W SuperDart charging, stainless steel vapor cooling, Dolby Atmos dual stereo speakers, and a 64MP AI main camera. Priced at $420 USD, this phone will launch in China first followe...

We’re still waiting on the Portal movie that’s apparently been years in the making, but if you must see Portal icon / villain GLaDOS in some sort of cinematic, there’s a new Geico ad you can watch right here or at the top of this post. Yes, you read that correctly — Geico actually made a Portal-themed ad featuring GLaDOS, and the insurance company even got voice actor Ellen McLain to reprise her role as the famous robot. If you’ve seen any Geico ad featuring Martin the Gecko from the past many years (or perhaps forever, it feels like he’s always been a character I’m aware of), this ad will be familiar territory. Martin, armed with an Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device, makes a few quips (and of course mentions that it’s possible to save money by switching to Geico), and GLaDOS respond...

AmpMe isn’t a brand-new app that popped up just to scam unsuspecting users out of their money. See the photo atop this post? That’s from 2015, when we first covered the idea: an app that can sync up a room full of smartphones into a single gigantic speaker with no fees in sight. But as App Store scam hunter Kosta Eleftheriou points out, the app looks seriously shady more than six years later — if you downloaded it yesterday, it would immediately try to sell you on a $9.99 a week automatic recurring subscription. That’s $520 a year, an incredible sum if you pull it out as a party trick and then forget to cancel. AppFigures estimates the app has raked in $13 million since 2018. As we discussed last April, it’s ridiculously easy to find scams on Apple’s App Store — just follow the money and l...

Apple has denied that last month’s iOS 15.2 update is behind the difficulty some iPhone owners have faced with using the iCloud Private Relay feature on cellular networks. Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile earlier this week said they weren’t blocking the VPN-like feature, but T-Mobile claimed to have identified that iOS 15.2 toggled it off by default. Now Apple says that’s not the case. After releasing an updated beta of iOS 15.3 that clarifies the language in iCloud settings, Apple issued a statement to 9to5Mac saying that iOS 15.2 wasn’t the problem. “No changes were made to iCloud Private Relay in iOS 15.2 that would have toggled the feature off,” the statement reads. “Users are encouraged to check their Settings to see if Private Relay is enabled on their device or for a specific network...

Gap is launching its first NFT collaboration on Thursday with a limited-edition, gamified digital experience built on the Tezos blockchain. For its release, the fashion retailer connected with  Brandon Sines, the artist behind the NYC-based Frank Ape project, to create digital art featuring Gap’s iconic hoodies. Beginning at 9 a.m. PT on Thursday, Gap’s digital collectibles will be tiered on four levels — Common, Rare, Epic and One-of-a-Kind — with Common being the first release. Each NFT from this initial drop will be priced at 2 tez (XTZ), or about $8.30 USD. Additional drops will take place over the next two weeks, including the Rare drop on January 15 at 6 tez each ($25 USD), the Epic drop on January 19 priced at 100 tez ($415.00 USD) each and the One-of-a-Kind auction on January ...

Released back in October 2020, Apple‘s Polishing Cloth was initially met by skepticism. Priced at $19 USD, the rather pricey microfiber unexpectedly sold out within just a day with stock being exhausted for months. After months of waiting, Apple has now restocked its Polishing Cloth with immediate delivery available. The Polishing cloth can now be ordered on Apple’s website with free delivery by the end of the week. According to Apple, the Polishing Cloth is “made with soft, nonabrasive material, the Polishing Cloth cleans any Apple display, including nano-texture glass, safely and effectively. Priced at $19 USD, the Polishing Cloth is finally available once again on Apple’s website. In case you missed it, here is the 2022 Marvel Cinematic Universe Phase 4 release schedule. Read Full Artic...

Developer Zach Shakked — the creator of one of several controversial copycat versions of Josh Wardle’s popular free word-guessing game — has responded to Apple removing his app from the App Store after an internet backlash that followed his boasting about the money-making potential of his clone. “I realize I crossed a line. And I surely, surely will never do anything remotely close to this again. I fucked up,” tweeted Shakked. He goes on to explain that “Wordle” itself wasn’t trademarked and that Wardle’s game was similar to Lingo, an older TV game show with a similar word-guessing mechanic. Shakked also says that he planned to expand on Wordle with more functionality and change the overall design of the app to less resemble Wardle’s own game, had he been able to before Apple removed his a...

On Wednesday, a senior White House adviser said that a government-run website to order COVID-19 rapid tests “should be online by this weekend,” according to new reporting from PBS NewsHour. Tests should start arriving this month. The promise comes weeks after President Joe Biden announced that Americans would soon be able to order 500 million free COVID tests directly from the government. “We’ll have websites where you can get them delivered to your home,” Biden said in a speech on December 21st as the Omicron variant surged across the country. In prior remarks from White House press secretary Jen Psaki, the website would go live “as soon as these tests are available.” The website would go live “as soon as these tests are available” Still, the White House has yet to provide any additional ...

The used car market is red hot, and it seems General Motors wants to compete squarely with used vehicle sites like Carvana with a new website called CarBravo. GM is beginning to enroll dealers now to be a part of the site, which is set to launch in “spring 2022,” according to a press release. CarBravo will not only let shoppers look at inventories from both dealers and GM’s central stock of used vehicles, but it will also let people shop for non-GM used vehicles, Steve Carlisle, GM’s EVP and president of GM North America, said in a statement. That could help it better take on Carvana (which just announced it has sold one million cars) and other sites such as CarMax and Vroom, which let people shop across many different car brands. The rise of direct-to-consumer brands like Tesla and Lucid ...

Apple is updating the wording for iCloud Private Relay issues in the latest iOS 15.3 beta, clarifying that problems with the service may be an inadvertently switched-off setting and not issues with a customer’s specific cell carrier, via MacRumors. The old message put the blame for iCloud Private Relay not working squarely on the shoulders of cell carriers. Private Relay is turned off for your cellular plan. Your cellular plan doesn’t support ‌iCloud‌ Private Relay. With ‌iCloud‌ Private Relay turned off, this network can monitor your internet activity, and your IP address is not hidden from known trackers or websites. Unsurprisingly, that wording led to confusion earlier this week when customers couldn’t get iCloud Private Relay to work on cellular connections. The issue, at least accordi...