”When taxes or foreign exchange rates change, we sometimes need to update prices on the App Store.”

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Apple has announced price changes to some of its overseas App Stores.
Prices in Thailand will decrease due to foreign exchange rates, whilst Pakistan prices will increase for the same reason.
Developers in Singapore will also need to provide their GST numbers to avoid a 7% goods and service tax.

Apple has announced changes to the pricing in some of its overseas App Stores due to foreign exchange rates.

In a post to its developer website it said:

When taxes or foreign exchange rates change, we sometimes need to update prices on the App Store. In the next few days, prices of apps on the App Store and in-app purchases (excluding auto-renewable subscriptions) will change in the following countries.

Thailand: Prices will decrease due to changes in foreign exchange rates.
Pakistan: Prices will increase due to changes in foreign exchange rates.
Additio…

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UAG has announced new AirPods and AirPods Pro cases.
There are silicone and hardshell options to choose from.
They start at $29.95.

Keep your pride and joy safe.

Accessory maker UAG has announced two new sets of AirPods and AirPods Pro cases, starting with the Silicone Collection.

As that name might suggest, these cases are made of silicone and are soft to the touch. There’s also a detachable carabiner for attaching it to your bag or whatever you like, and they’re available in multiple colors including Black/Orange, Orange/Dark Grey, Olive Drab/Orange, and Black/Black.

The full feature list reads:

Soft-Touch Silicone
Drop Tested // MIL STD 8105G
Dustproof, Water-resistant
Unobstructed functionality for wireless charging
Detachable carabiner for easy clip access

UAG’s new Silicone Collection cases cost $29.95 and are a great, colorful way to keep your AirPods and AirPods Pro safe and sound.

If you’re looking for something a little more sturdy, the Har…

If you’ve worked in virtually any type of office during the past thirty years, you’ve doubtlessly at least dabbled in Microsoft’s famed Office suite. But having only a baseline knowledge of these powerful programs is no longer sufficient if you want to be competitive in the modern workplace.

The Ultimate Microsoft Office Certificate Mastery Bundle will help you take your Office skills to the next level, and it’s on sale for over 95% off at just $39.99.

With 12 courses and over 90 hours of instruction, this in-depth training bundle will help you improve your Office productivity across the board.

You’ll learn how to create powerful spreadsheets in Excel, build engaging and eye-catching presentations in PowerPoint, take advantage of Word’s more esoteric features and tools, and much more.

You’ll even earn a certificate of completion after each course in order to add weight to your resume.

Become an in-demand Microsoft Office pro with the Ultimate Microsoft Office Certificate Maste…

Pokémon Go’s 25th monthly Community Day takes place on Sunday, January 19, 2020 from 11 AM to 2 PM local time in the Northern Hemisphere and from 3 PM to 6 PM local time in the Southern Hemisphere.

Pokémon Go Community Days are exactly what the name implies — a way to get trainers out catching and raiding together. As an incentive, Pokémon Go is throwing in bonuses like extra XP, Stardust, faster egg hatching, lure modules that last three hours, and a special Pokémon with an exclusive move. All once a month, for three hours.

The January 2020 Community Day will introduce different times for the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.

Get out and play together in your local community parks on Pokémon GO Community Day. For just a few hours each month, you can encounter a special Pokémon in the wild. During these hours, there’s a chance to learn a previously unavailable move for that Pokémon or its Evolution, as well as earn some Community Day bonuses. Celebrate what …

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Apple’s A14 processor will likely power iPhone 12.
If that processor follows the expected trajectory, it’s going to be very fast.
One report has it competing with a 15-inch MacBook Pro.

Can we get those A-series Mac chips now, please?

Apple is known for designing some of the most performant chips around and the current A13 is no different. Beating at the heart of iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro, the A13 is already very fast indeed. But the next iPhones will likely move to the A14. And that’s going to be even quicker.

How quick? That’s something Jason Cross has been looking at over on Macworld, and the signs are very good. As Cross notes, the move to 5nm manufacturing with the A14 will give the chip a boost without any more work being done. But higher clock speeds will see the chip go beyond that, and even close to chips powering Apple’s 15-inch MacBook Pro.

The A13 was the fastest mobile chip around when it launched in September 2019 and it was around 20% fas…

More Fighters are coming the future.

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Byleth is the main character in Fire Emblem: Three Houses.
Today, during a special presentation, Sakurai revealed that Byleth is joining Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
Byleth will join Super Smash Bros. Ultimate on January 28.
There’s also another Fighter’s Pass coming, with six more characters.

Today, Sakurai unveiled the last character in the first Fighter’s Pass for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. It’s none other than Byleth from Fire Emblem: Three Houses. Byleth is ranged character, capable of dishing out heavy damage and keeping opponents on their toes. Byleth also has alternate costumes letting you swap between male and female, including some costumes themed after the different houses in the game. You can check out the full presentation below.

Byleth is scheduled to be added on January 28. The DLC pack also adds a map for Garreg Mach monastery, as well as eleven music tracks. Coinciding with the arrival of this DLC …

Apple Watch Series 4 and Series 5 can assist you after a fall and connect you with emergency services personnel if necessary.

Apple Watch’s built-in fall detection feature is a powerful resource in times of distress. At the heart of the feature is the detection of a significant, hard fall. When this occurs, the wearable device automatically taps you on the wrist, sounds an alarm, and displays an alert. From there, you can decide whether to contact emergency services (from the watch, of course) or dismiss the warnings.

What happens during an emergency call?
How to turn Fall Detection on
How to make an emergency call after a fall
How to add friends and family to your emergency contact list
What settings must be turned on for fall detection to work?
How do you turn fall detection off?

With fall detection, your Apple Watch is intuitive enough to know if you’re moving. Following a fall, it will wait for you to stop to respond to the alert. If you’re immobile and not moving, the watch…

”Cast and crew of Truth Be Told discuss Warren’s character development as someone who grew up in prison.”

What you need to know

Apple has released a new featurette for its Apple TV+ series Truth be Told.
”Stuck in a Cave” features interviews with Aaron Paul and Lauren Neustadter, executive producer.
It takes a brief look into the character development of Warren Cave as he grows up in prison.

Apple has released a new featurette for Apple TV+ show Truth be Told starring Octavia Spencer and Aaron Paul.

The short video titled ”Stuck in a Cave” takes a look at the character development of Warren Cave, played by Paul. The video description states:

Cast and crew of Truth Be Told discuss Warren’s character development as someone who grew up in prison.

When new evidence compels podcaster Poppy Parnell (Octavia Spencer) to reopen the murder case that made her a national sensation, she comes face to face with Warren Cave (Aaron Paul), the man she may have mistakenly helped t…

Fighting Confoundables is your most important job in Harry Potter: Wizards Unite.

In Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, witches and wizards all across the world can help to stop The Calamity. One of the most important parts of the game is finding Foundables and defeating the Confoundable that has stolen it.

Battles are a lot of fun in Wizards Unite, especially if you use the Augmented Reality view to really bring the Wizarding World to life. Here is a quick guide to explain how to fight and what you need to do to be successful.

Battling a Confoundable

Battles always start one of two ways; you either tap on a Trace that appears on the world map, or you go to a Fortress and fight monsters. For now, we will concentrate on the easiest and most common: finding Traces.

On the World Map, you will see Points of Interest like Inns, Greenhouses, and Fortresses, but you will also see small floating discs with different symbols. Each disc is called a Trace and houses a Foundable that you ne…

”One script could collect the location data of every BlackVue user who had mapping enabled on the eastern half of the United States every two minutes.”

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Vice tech outlet Motherboard was able to pull GPS location data for BlackVue users.
It reverse-engineered the iOS app and tracked users over a week-long period.
BlackVue has confirmed that this wasn’t supposed to be possible and appears to have fixed the problem.

A report has revealed that GPS location data from the dashcam app BlackVue was available to be viewed and stored in real-time over days or even weeks, highlighting a significant security flaw in the app.

As revealed by Motherboard, Vice’s tech branch, the report states:

BlackVue has an app that shows the location of drivers that opt-in. The creators say it shouldn’t be possible to track its users in bulk; we found otherwise…

BlackVue is a dashcam company with its own social network. With a small, internet-connected dashcam installed insi…