'Fortnite' is back -- here’s how to play

May 06, 2022

If you've been jonesing to play Fortnite on your iPhone or iPad after Apple kicked it out of the App Store, you're in luck.

The mega-popular title is back, thanks to Microsoft's Xbox Cloud Gaming platform -- and it's free! We'll show you how to fire it up.

In other news:

  • Today is the day that Steve Jobs unveiled the first iMac, the Jony Ive-designed machine that began Apple's historic turnaround.

  • Content blocking has gotten a lot smarter. We show you how to manage it.

  • Apple's original-design AirPods have dropped a lot in price recently. You can bag a brand new pair for less than $100.

-- Leander Kahney, EIC.

Fortnite got kicked out of the App Store as part of a legal battle between Apple and Epic Games, but you can play it on your iPhone today for free. Microsoft added it to Xbox Cloud Gaming, so the combat game is playable on iOS and iPadOS devices. Here's how to get up and playing.

New video out of China shows workers at a MacBook assembly plant in Shanghai fighting with security guards. The Quanta Computer employees have been forced to live at their workplace for weeks amidst COVID-19 lockdowns ordered by the Chinese government.

On May 6, 1998, Steve Jobs unveiled the Bondi Blue iMac G3, a brightly colored translucent computer that helped save Apple.

There is a lot of explicit content out there on the internet, or so I am told. Before handing a device off to a child, you may want to disable or limit access to the wide-open internet and App Store. Read on to learn how to block explicit content on iPhone and iPad.

The right planner can change your life, or at least organize it. When you can keep your to-do list, calendar, notes and productivity helpers all in one place, it starts to feel like there’s nothing you can’t do. Lunatask is an all-in-one planner that can give you the control and structure you need to get more out of the day. For a limited time, a lifetime subscription to Lunatask Premium is on sale for $49 (regularly $180).

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The latest addition to the award-winning Badlands series is the first with online multiplayer gaming. Badlands Party is a physics-based side-scroller like its predecessors – it’s just more social. The game launched Friday, exclusively on Apple Arcade.

The SwitchEasy Origami Protective Case folds into three different styles of iPad stand, giving you a range of options for typing, reading or browsing. I tested this clever folio case with my own iPad. There’s plenty to like here.

If you act fast, you can get one of Apple’s best products ever for less than $100. That’s how low AirPods 2 have dropped — that's $59 below the usual price.

We usually prefer to feature sunny or exotic or just-plain-fun computer setups on Fridays, but today a dark and brooding one caught our eye. A 13-inch M1-powered MacBook Pro and a 34-inch LG curved ultra-wide display sit at its center. But the “cozy productivity corner” also features excellent input devices, formidable audio and a rather nice standing desk.

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One more thing ...

"The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together. On our latest iMac, I was adamant that we get rid of the fan, because it is much more pleasant to work on a computer that doesn't drone all the time. That was not just 'Steve's decision' to pull out the fan; it required an enormous engineering effort to figure out how to manage power better and do a better job of thermal conduction through the machine. That is the furthest thing from veneer. It was at the core of the product the day we started." -- Steve Jobs

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