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Following an announcement last month that the latest entry in the popular Civilization strategy game series would hit Mac sometime this holiday season, today Civilization: Beyond Earth has officially arrived for Mac users. The game, developed by Firaxis and brought to Mac users by Aspyr, first hit PC on October 24th. Beyond Earth offers a fresh take on the traditional strategy gameplay of previous entries with a new sci-fi theme that lets users explore deep space and other futuristic settings....

Warning: SPOILERS ahead for The Clone Wars season 7 premiere. The first episode of Star Wars: The Clone Wars season 7 was actually a follow up to one of season 3’s finest. There are a lot of loose ends left to tie up in the conclusion of The Clone Wars. With only 12 episodes to do so, most believed that the final ones would act as a prologue of sorts to Star Wars: Episode 3 - Revenge of the Sith....

Popular (and competing) cloud sharing services CloudApp and Droplr both announced big updates to their Mac apps this week with new features and designs. CloudApp 2.0 (seen above) now features thumbnail previews, the ability to share links before an upload is complete, Notification Center support, hot key support to open the menu bar popover, and a lot more. The update resembles many of Dropbox’s recent features including screenshot uploads as the cloud service competition continues....

Clubhouse quickly became a huge success earlier this year, reaching over 8 million downloads in the iOS App Store in February. However, as the competition grows, things are not going well for the audio-based social network. A new report claims that the app registered around 900,000 downloads in April, dropping from a peak of 9.6 million downloads three months ago. According to a Sensor Tower research shared with Business Insider, Clubhouse had 922,000 downloads globally in April 2021....

CoinTicker, a Mac app that displays the current price of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies in your menu bar, has been found two contain two separate pieces of malware … Malwarebytes shared the news on its blog, after one of its forum members spotted suspicious behavior. Analysis of the malware doesn’t reveal exactly what it is up to – it essentially creates backdoors that can be exploited in a wide range of different ways – the company thinks the goal isn’t hard to guess....

I absolutely love using Apple Pay to checkout in stores. Swiping a debit or credit card isn’t too inconvenient but it’s not the most secure way to pay, and new chip terminals in the US are frustratingly slow and unreliable. I use Apple Pay from my Apple Watch whenever possible, and I’m a serious advocate for the payment service among my family and friends with iPhones. Two years since first launching in the US, Apple Pay is an option at lots of payment terminals all across the country, but you still can’t assume contactless payments like Apple Pay will be supported....

There have long been rumors that Apple plans to eventually converge Macs and iOS devices into a single product line running the same operating system. I expressed my own concerns about this way back in 2013, though also listed some things from which we could draw reassurance. Apple has consistently denied the rumors, Tim Cook doing so with a particularly striking phrase back in 2012. But yesterday’s news that Apple plans to support cross-platform apps that run on iPhone, iPad and Mac does raise a variation on this concern …...

Everyone is possessive when it comes to caring the smartphone one owns. This is because a smartphone is a special device for most of the people. To make life run smoothly, it is actually a need that a smartphone one owns should be completely free from all the problems. However, despite making a ton of effort, a user cannot simply eliminate all the issues. Making a smartphone free from all the problems is something that seems difficult....

Watch bands tend to be a major new release every spring for Apple. Even when there isn’t a major hardware announcement, we’ve always been able to count on bands being refreshed. So far this year, we’ve gotten one new watch band in the form of the Unity band to celebrate Black History Month. It’s a beautiful watch band and it uses the same fluoroelastomer compression molding process to form a unique multi-color design as last year’s pride band....

We reported several times about Italian anti-trust authorities fining Apple $1.2 million for “misleading consumers” in relation to AppleCare warranties. The decision made by the Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato stated Apple’s 1-year AppleCare warranties were failing to inform consumers of a mandatory warranty of two years imposed by European Union law. Today we heard confirmation from Bloomberg that not just Italy, but consumer groups from 11 countries, requested that Apple make changes to its AppleCare policies and immediately halt its current “practices on the guarantees....

Looking up for information and files stored in our computers can get tedious at times, and with Microsoft releasing Cortana digital assistant to desktop and Lenovo’s REACHit software, the two companies are trying to improve the search experience for once and all for the users. The software in question from the Chinese computer manufacturer allows users to search for content across any connected Lenovo PC or tablet device. Furthermore, it also supports many major cloud services....

As the success stories keep piling up, so do the number of projects filling up crowdfunding websites with, among other things, neat hardware- and software-related products. Some projects, like Pebble, gain thousands of supporters as well as millions of dollars in funding (and end up at Best Buy’s retail stores). Other projects flop and don’t reach their necessary funding amount. Rather than make you sift through all of these projects, we’re rounding up the best or most notable projects from around the web and delivering them to you in a simple roundup....

As always, check our Apple product pages for the latest best prices on iPads, iPad Minis, iPod Touch, Nano, Shuffle, MacBook Pros, Airs, iMacs, Mac Minis, and Apple TVs. We’ll continue to update with notables below: SanDisk Ultra 64 GB SDXC Class 10 Flash Memory Card 30MB/s: $32.99 Refurb Apple AirPort Express 802.11n WiFi Base Station for $40 + free shipping (Extreme: $120, Time Capsule: $180) Acer 22-inch 1080P LED Display: $85...

If you are experiencing an issue with your Dell XPS 13 or XPS 13 Plus laptop not charging, you’re not alone. This is a common issue with both Dell laptop models. Thankfully, there are a few different ways to fix this issue. In this article, we’ll provide you with the steps to fix a Dell XPS 13 or XPS 13 Plus not charging issue. So if your laptop is not charging, read on to find the solution....

Former Captain America actor Chris Evans recently praised Toni Collette’s Hereditary performance. The two are set to star alongside each other in the upcoming black comedy film, Knives Out. Upon its initial release, Collette’s performance was praised by almost every critic and moviegoer. The film was also the first feature from writer and director Ari Aster. Many would argue that Collette got robbed of an Oscar nomination, as her performance didn’t get enough recognition....

The IDs are CVE-2021-33193, CVE-2021-34798, CVE-2021-36160, CVE-2021-39275, CVE-2021-40438. Cisco noted that one of the vulnerabilities in the mod_proxy module of Apache HTTP Server (httpd) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to make the httpd server forward requests to an arbitrary server. Another could allow an attacker to exploit a vulnerability by sending a crafted HTTP request to a vulnerable device, and a successful exploit could allow the attacker to get, modify, or delete resources on other services that may be inaccessible otherwise....

After all, partnering up with fellow businesses is a proven way to scale. But co-marketing partnerships represent so much more than just joint promotions. Food for thought: the Sprout Social Index, Edition XVII: Accelerate notes that 58% of brands are laser-focused on raising awareness (while 35% are attempting to grow their audiences, too). Partnerships are key to doing both. Because working alongside other businesses in your industry empowers you to build relationships and leverage your brand as an invaluable resource....

Life is filled with challenges and one cannot perfect say when a person has to face them. Such situations are daunting and can give us several reasons to worry. The worst thing is they can have a solid impact on how and what we think generally. It isn’t always possible to overcome challenges but they can be diluted upto a good extent. Yes, this is possible and technology in the form of smartphones is helping several people in the present scenario to simply keep the pace up in this matter....

Living without a smartphone in the present time is almost impossible. We have associated our life with these gadgets in different ways and the fact couldn’t be neglected that the smartphone industry brought a revolution of gadgets that are simply the best. In the present time, there is hardly any task when we humans don’t make use of our smartphone. For this reason, owning something useful is very important. However, people often fail to keep the pace up in this matter and they often have to look here and there to own something that is best to be trusted for the long run....

Ben Chang, also known as Señor Chang, El Tigre Chino, Sgt. Chang, General Chang, and Kevin is by far the most puzzling, weird, and downright insane character on Community. As described by Jeff, Chang is nuts, dangerous, selfish and prone to using his name to make bad puns, which don’t make any sense most of the time. It is no secret that Chang exhibits symptoms of at least half a dozen disorders and it comes as no surprise that Chang has done some pretty insane things over the years....