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screenshot by Lance Whitney/ZDNETAs an iPhone and iPad owner, I often buy music, videos, apps, ebooks, and other content through Apple's App Store. In the past, finding and tracking specific purchases from the store was a challenge. Not anymore, thanks to Apple's recent App Store revamp.Viewing your purchase history via your iPhone or iPad now displays a list showing each item with its name and price. Tapping an item provides you with the order ID, tells you how and when you paid for it, and indicates the name of the…

Last updated: March 21st, 2024 at 07:28 UTC+01:00 Samsung has formally introduced the 3D Map View feature to the SmartThings app. This new view improves the usability and visibility of smart home devices, and it is now available on refrigerators, smartphones, tablets, and TVs. SmartThings gets the 3D Map View feature Samsung's smart home platform, SmartThings, is quite popular. The company introduced a 2D Map View feature six months ago during the Samsung Developer Conference 2023. At CES 2024, the company revealed…

Sometime this year, the night sky will get a brand new 'star' that will be visible with the naked eye, even in the city. The celestial light show will be the result of an explosive interaction between two neighboring stars that occurs every 80 years.Located in the Northern Crown constellation, T Coronae Borealis (T CrB) is a pretty average looking star, most of the time. With a brightness of about magnitude +10, it’s right on the limits of what you could see with a pair of binoculars, and even if you do go looking there’s…

Cobra If you haven’t purchased from dash cam deals yet, make it a priority because you need to protect yourself in case you’re involved in an accident on the road. It’s highly recommended that you invest in a front and rear dash cam like the Cobra SC 400D, which is on sale from Best Buy with a $100 discount on its original price of $400 so you’ll only have to pay $300 for this smart device. You need to hurry though, as there’s a chance that stocks get sold out soon because of this chance at huge savings. Why you…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeWatch a live view of the famous Hollywood sign ahead of the Oscars 96th Academy Awards. The Hollywood Sign is an American landmark and cultural icon overlooking Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. The 50-foot-tall white uppercase letters measure 450ft long and were originally erected in 1923 as a temporary advertisement for a local real estate development, but due to increasing…

With iOS 17.4, Apple released new emojis as well as a host of major changes to how the App Store works in the European Union. In addition, the company also rolled out a new feature for the Apple Podcasts app: transcripts.As Apple explains, with transcripts, “users can read the full text of an episode, search the episode for a specific word or phrase, and tap on the text to play the podcast from that point in the episode. As an episode plays, each word is highlighted, making it easy to follow along.” Sarah…

Google has been touting the myriad innovations in the first building wholly designed and built by the web giant, even moving workers in to focus on its highest-profile project: generative artificial intelligence. But, some say they wish the innovations had included decent Wi-Fi.The “Bay View” building, located on the Alphabet unit’s Mountain View, California, headquarters, has been plagued for months by inoperable or, at best, spotty Wi-Fi, according to six people familiar with the matter.Its recliner-laden collaborative…

Satellite image of smoke streaming from several fires southwest of Boa Vista (the capital of the Brazilian state of Roraima) captured on February 22, 2024, by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on NASA’s Terra satellite.Huge understory fires are spreading throughout the state in northern Brazil as drought and heat turn the rainforest into tinder.Roraima—Brazil’s northernmost state—has a wet climate, which helps rainforests thrive and suppresses the natural occurrence of forest fires, even during the dry…

Theoretical verification of the CH2OO + formic acid sequence. Credit: Nature Geoscience (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41561-023-01361-6 Eighty-five percent of the Earth's air resides in the lowest layer of its atmosphere, or troposphere. Yet, major gaps remain in our understanding of the atmospheric chemistry that drives changes in the troposphere's composition. …

Film-maker Claire Simon operates the camera herself for this extraordinary film, assuming the traditional vérité position of an observant fly on the wall and silently recording consultations and procedures in a women’s health, obstetrics and gynaecology ward at a Parisian hospital. Except at a crucial point, two-thirds into the film’s 168-minute running time, the fly turns the camera on herself when she finds out she too has cancer, just like several of the people she’s been filming. Simon’s willingness to open up and…