Review: Get personalized insights, motivation, and guidance with NURVV Run

Get insights and guidance to run faster with a complete picture of your performance, technique, and injury risk.

Running is a meditative, cardiovascular exercise that’s loved by many. It’s a great way to boost your overall health, aid in weight loss, develop your core, boost your confidence, maintain good mental health, and keep your bones and muscles in tip-top shape. Plus, you can enjoy this exercise indoors and out.

Well now you can revolutionize your running performance, improve your technique, and reduce your injury risk with NURVV Run, a smart, sports wearable insole. These insoles and lightweight trackers monitor every step of your run with unique, real-time insights designed to make every run a success. Paired with the NURVV app, you’ll receive a tailored training experience and live, real-time coaching to help you hit your running goals.

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Bottom Line: NURVV Run uses cutting edge technology to monitor and record e…

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Get into the Halloween spirit with these horror games for iPhone and iPad

Sometimes you just want a good scare while you play a game. Here are the best horror games for iPhone and iPad

The good thing about Halloween is that it gives you the perfect excuse to play some scary games. The great thing about these games, though, is that you can play them all year on your iPhone or iPad. If you want to get scared this Halloween, here are the best horror games for iPhone and iPad you’ll find on the App Store and Apple Arcade.

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Five Nights at Freddy’s AR
Into The Dead 2
Lost Within
White Night
The School: White Day
Year Walk
Lifeline…
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Horror Games in Apple Arcade
Stela
Neversong
Jenny LeClue – Detectivu

Five Nights at Freddy’s AR: Special Delivery

Five Nights at Freddy’s AR: Special Delivery is the first exclusive game of the franchise for mobile devices. Instead of controlling someone by using regular controls, Special Delivery uses Augmented reality to bring the animatronics you love (or hate) to life.

You’ll have to use your iPh…

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Get the party going with these amazing Halloween playlists

It’s the spooky season! Get into the spirit with the best Halloween playlists that are sure to give you some of the spooks!

Halloween is here, and what better way to set the mood than with the best Halloween playlists on Spotify and Apple Music? Each playlist has different songs that go from rap to classical music, or just plain scary sounds, that you can listen to on your iPhone, or blast it on your computer speakers.

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Halloween playlists on Spotify
Halloween playlists on Apple Music

Best Halloween playlists on Spotify

HORROR WAVE: This playlist strikes a perfect balance between groovy scores from 70s and 80s horror films and more modern artists like Symmetry, MGMT, and Kavinsky. It’s haunting, lullabye-esque, and a bit psychedelic — think wearing a retro cocktail dress at an art school Halloween party, hosted by the girl whose apartment is lit exclusively by neon.
Halloween: This is the Halloween playlist middle school me would make. It’s moody and melodrama…

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MagSafe for iPhone 12: Everything you need to know

iPhone 12 is here. And with it, the return of MagSafe. Yes, that’s right, MagSafe.

With iPhone 12, Apple has added a brand new way to charge your phone into the mix. Thanks to an array of magnets in the back of the device, you can now attach Apple’s new MagSafe charger to your phone effortlessly.

What is it?

MagSafe is an old Apple technology made new with iPhone 12. iPhone 12 is a high-powered wireless charging method for your iPhone. Think Apple Watch charging, and you’ll get pretty close. We saw leaks in the run-up to iPhone 12 that Apple’s new phone had a ring of magnets in the back, it does, and now we know why.

From Apple:

MagSafe improves wireless charging for a better, more efficient experience, and introduces an ecosystem of easy-to-attach accessories that beautifully complement iPhone 12 models.7 MagSafe delivers a unique experience to iPhone, featuring an array of magnets around the wireless charging coil, optimized for alignment and efficiency, that perfectly conn…

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What we know (or think we know) about the next-generation AirPods

Here’s what we know so far about Apple’s next AirPods.

The most we’ve heard recently about Apple’s next generation of AirPods mostly pertains to its rumored over-ear headphones, the AirPods Studio. There are however rumors that Apple will soon debut new buds in its AirPods lineup, upgrading both the Pro and regular versions of the device.

Here’s what we know about what could be coming to the third-generation AirPods and second-generation AirPods Pro.

The short list

Release date: First half of 2021 (AirPods), Second half of 2021 (AirPods Pro) (rumor)
Price: $159 and up (AirPods 3, rumor), $249 (AirPods Pro 2, speculation)
New features: AirPods Pro-like design (AirPods 3, rumor), health monitoring features (AirPods Pro 2, rumor)
Colors: White (speculated)

AirPod Pro-style design

This just might be the year of Apple’s ”Pro” designs trickling down to the mainstream, first with the iPad, then with the AirPods. While the first- and second-generation AirPods look like wireless ver…

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Judge blocks Trump TikTok ban following legal challenge

Judge Wendy Beetlestone said the risk presented by the government wasn’t enough to outweigh public interest in halting the move.

What you need to know

A judge has issued a preliminary ruling blocking President Trump’s plan to ban TikTok in the U.S.
It comes after the administration was sued by three TikTok creators.
A judge said the U.S. government had phrased any potential security risk in the hypothetical, and that it was clear the ban would cause irreparable harm.

A U.S. federal judge has ruled in favor of blocking President Trump’s proposed ban on TikTok in the U.S.

As Variety reports:

A federal judge has preliminarily blocked the Trump administration’s ban on TikTok, which has been scheduled to take effect Nov. 12.

The case was brought by three TikTok creators, who argued that President Trump’s executive order directing a complete U.S. ban on the Chinese-owned short-form video app infringed their First Amendment rights to free expression. The White House has’cla…

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Apple ordered to pay VirnetX $503 million for patent infringement

Apple says that it will be appealing the decision.

What you need to know

VirtnetX has won another case against Apple for patent infringement.
The company argued that its FaceTime feature infringed on its technology.
Apple has been ordered to pay $502.8 million to the company.

Reported by Bloomberg, Apple has been ordered to pay VirnetX another $502.8 million for infringing on its patents. In a ruling by a jury in Tyler, Texas today, Apple was found guilty of infringing on VirnetX’s technology that it developed for the United States Central Intelligence Agency with its FaceTime feature.

VirnetX had argued that it was entitled to more than $700 million, while Apple argued it should only pay about $113 million. The jury was tasked with deciding on how much VirnetX should receive, and it landed on $502.8 million.

In a statement, an Apple spokesperson said that the company would appeal the decision, pointing to the fact that the patents the case is based on were determined to be in…

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Apple rejects app that uses contact info and Facebook to verify ballots

The app developer calls into question Apple’s ability to determine if an app violates privacy.

What you need to know

Apple has rejected an app that would verify ballots in Pennsylvania.
The app uses contact info and Facebook paired with publicly available ballot information.
Apple says that the app violates the App Store privacy rules.

Reported by The Information (via AppleInsider), Apple has rejected an app that was built to verify ballots in Pennsylvania. While the app was approved is available for download through the Google Play Store, Apple says that the app violates its App Store privacy guidelines.

The app, called Drive Turnout, was reportedly held up in Apple’s App Store review process for two weeks before finally being rejected completely.

After almost two weeks of holding up the release of the app, called Drive Turnout, Apple on Thursday told the developer behind it, Ari Steinberg, that the app violates the company’s privacy rules and that Apple won’t release it. …

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Apple warns lower App Store fee will ’materially’ impact financial results

Apple admits that the App Store does in fact make it a lot of money.

What you need to know

Apple warned investors about the impact of App Store fee changes.
The company mentioned the impact in an SEC filing Friday.
Lowering or eliminating App Store fees would cause results to be ”materially adversely affected.”

Reported by Bloomberg, Apple has warned investors that, if the company’s fee for app and in-app purchases in the App Store was reduced, that it would hurt its overall financial performance.

The warning in a regulatory filing Friday came amid criticism from lawmakers and others about the cut of as much as 30% that Apple takes from third-party developers selling software through the App Store across the iPhone maker’s devices.

In a filing with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, Apple said that a change in its current fee schedule for operating the App Store cause its financial results to be ”materially adversely affected.”

”If the rate of the co…

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The final Ash hat Pikachu code is now available

What’s cuter than Pikachu? Pikachu in a hat, of course.

Ash and Pikachu go way back, so far back in fact that Ash’s Pikachu has been a trusty companion through every Pokémon region. To show off Ash and Pikachu’s special bond, you can get a Pikachu wearing Ash’s hat from every region in Pokémon Sword and Shield.

To get all eight of Ash’s Pikachu, just enter codes that will be released over time. Note: Codes for all eight versions of Ash’s Pikachu are only good until Nov. 30, 2020. You have to use the codes before that date, or you’ll miss out.

Ash’s Pikachu

All Ash’s Pikachu codes
How to redeem Mystery Gifts

Codes for all Ash’s Pikachu variants

Here are the Mystery Gift Pikachu codes currently available. We’ll update this list as more Pikachu become available:

P1KACHUGET (Original Cap) — This code unlocks a Pikachu in the original cap from the first season of the Pokémon anime.
1CH00SEY0U (Partner Cap) — This unlocks a Pikachu wearing the same hat as the one Ash …

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