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Before Facebook grabbed the unwanted spotlight, Google was the one always on the hot seat over privacy concerns. To its credit, the company has made it easier for users to control what data Google gathers from them, even if it continues to collect that data. Its latest attempt at simplifying those controls is to automatically delete the location data it gathered from your Web activities. That is, if you remember to set it in the first place.

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One of the advantages of being a part of a larger company is the ease of sharing with other parts of the company. At the same time, that could be problematic if your parent company happens to be named “Facebook”. WhatsApp has been particularly careful to distance itself from its owner but its upcoming Status-sharing feature could raise concerns once again. Fortunately, at least according to the company, it isn’t doing anything new on iOS or Android to implement it.

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The folks behind Brawl Stars just released a set of details on the next big update to the game. The newest update will have some interesting cross-brand action going on, including some... Bumblebee skin? Probably a new Brawler, and four new skins to boot. There'll be some new end game content soon, as well.

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The best alternative to basically any other chat app in the world today is Telegram - that's my word. Today they've added several features that push the most-secret chat app into the future, including the ability to transfer group ownership, a new theme picker, and a new set of Siri shortcuts. Some of these updates work with iOS only for now, but will be on Android soon. Except Siri, of course, because Siri is an iPhone joint.

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Today I happened upon the work of an artist by the name of Hasan Kaymak, and I've seen the next iPhone in a couple different iterations. The dangers in seeing leaked hardware are many - one of them is discovering the industrial design of a device in an unflattering light. Apple's been suffering from this situation for about a half-decade - but, lucky them, there are top-notch next-gen designers out in the wild looking to make a name for themselves in taking leaked concepts and making them look glorious.

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Apple's new public betas for iOS 13, iPadOS, and macOS Catalina are out, and the big question is: should you give beta software a try on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac? Only three weeks on from WWDC 2019, where developers got their first taste of the upcoming updates for Apple's phones, tablets, and computers, this public release is a chance to live on the cutting-edge, with all the risks that come with it.

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Two of Hearthstone's most powerful cards, Vanish and Mind Blast, will soon head for the Hall of Fame. These cards have been abnormally powerful in the most basic sense of the phrase since I started playing the game - they're so good, they'd be in almost every deck against which I played, regardless of intent. They were so powerful, it would seem, that the creators of Hearthstone have decided they needed to be retired.

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Apple has opened the doors to the iOS 13 public beta, along with iPadOS 13, and if you're feeling ambitious you can try out the upcoming iPhone and iPad software on your own device today. The full release of iOS 13 isn't expected to occur until this fall, alongside the launch of Apple's newest iPhone models, but this public beta offers a - potentially buggy - preview.

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It could be Niantic Labs' biggest hit or it could replace Ingress as its most forgettable. One thing Harry Potter: Wizards Unite isn't is slow. Although the AR game developer never really gave a timeline other than "soon", it has just announced the expansion of the game to more-real world countries, bringing the total to 144 more countries just over the weekend. That's definitely a lot faster than Pokemon GO.

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This morning the game Harry Potter: Wizards Unite was released for download for both iOS for iPhone and for Android devices of all sorts. Some early release users are already out looking for APK Energy aplenty, while others have happened upon a "Not Compatible" error right out the gate. We begin with a set of SETTINGS you should adjust immediately!

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A surprise early launch of the game Harry Potter: Wizards Unite was let loose today, 24 hours earlier than expected. This game is the next in a line of AR-toting games from Niantic, the games studio that previously released and still runs Ingress and Pokemon GO. This Harry Potter game is live in select countries and regions, including Australia, the United States, and the United Kingdom.

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Earlier today the latest update for iPhone developers, iOS 13 Beta 2, was released by Apple. This update would normally be available to Developers only, on a normal day. But today is not a normal day, because there's a bit of a trick on your iPhone today that'll allow anyone to download the developer-aimed update, whether or not they're an official dev.

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