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Update: Now available to public beta testers as well. iOS 15.2 beta 3 is now available to developers, and the update continues to bring new refinements and features to iPhone users. Today’s new release includes more tweaks to the Macro feature on iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max, new promotions for Apple Arcade, and more. Reminders updates According to Apple’s release notes for iOS 15.2…

Jackbox has just expanded onto its first cloud platform, Google Stadia, starting with its newest addition, Jackbox Party Pack 8. If you’ve not played a Jackbox Party Pack before, it traditionally involves getting together with friends, sitting around a TV, and playing mini-games using your phone as a controller. Sometimes you’ll need to write in answers, draw a fun picture, answer a game…

A Google Cloud outage this morning is responsible for taking down parts of Snapchat, Discord, Spotify, and a host of other services that rely on GCP for hosting. The outages are more partial in nature with most of the nytimes.com and the Spotify player still working. In the case of the music streaming service, Spotify Connect is offline. Users on Downdetector have also reported issues (404…

As Twitter rolls out new features to its once-neglected API, the popular third-party app Tweetbot continues to become more powerful. This week, Tapbots has rolled out its latest update to Tweetbot 6 with support for limiting who can reply to tweets as well as support for creating polls. As noted by MacStories, the new Tweetbot update comes as Twitter has made its API the default for developers.