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After being available as a private beta, Facebook’s new ‘Collab’ app that lets musicians remotely record video and combine their parts is available to the public. The iOS app is a hybrid between short-form video like TikTok and social collaboration with a focus on music creation and allows users to create their own “Collabs” or join in with others on existing ones. Reported by…

Apple has released iOS 12.5 for older iPhone models today, bringing support for COVID-19 exposure notifications. This is a major change as it expands contact tracing to iPhones that don’t support iOS 14, including devices like the massively popular iPhone 6 series. Here’s what Apple says about the release of iOS 12.5: iOS 12.5 lets you opt-in to the COVID-19 Exposure Notifications system…

Despite pushback from a variety of companies, including Facebook, Apple will launch its new iOS 14 App Tracking Transparency feature early next year. To counteract the criticism Apple is facing from companies like Facebook, Mozilla has launched a new webpage praising Apple’s efforts. Mozilla says that Apple has already delayed the rollout of the ATT feature once, and that it can’t happen…

Google’s “Fall update” for Wear OS is finally starting to make its way to more hardware, this week adding another. The Oppo Watch is picking up the Wear OS H-MR2 update, and it brings with it some nice tweaks. Noted on Reddit, Oppo Watch owners have been seeing the Wear OS H-MR2 update rolling out over the past few days. The update brings with it Google’s own changes such as…