WhatsApp will soon stop working on some phones

21 minutes ago | Consumer Affairs

The messaging service is ending support for Android Gingerbread, iOS 7, and older operating systems By Sarah D. Young of ConsumerAffairs June 21, 2018 WhatsApp will be...
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Today on Jewcy: A look at three very Jewish shorts playing in Brooklyn this week

1 hour ago | Tablet Magazine

The 21st Annual Brooklyn Film Festival began this past Friday, June 1st, subtitled THRESHOLD. Brooklyn Film Festival Executive Director Marco Ursino sums up its lineup with...
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America's Cash-for-Genocide Program in Syria

1 hour ago | Tablet Magazine

Like the president he served, Ben Rhodes wanted to stop Bashar al-Assad from gassing little children. But it was complicated. In an excerpt from his new book, The World As It...
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Block 9: Flashpoint for the Next Lebanon War?

1 hour ago | Tablet Magazine

The discovery of vast hydrocarbon reserves in the Levant Basin, estimated by the United States Geological Survey in 2010 to contain an estimated 122 trillion cubic feet of...
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Unorthodox Ep. 138: Ruby Namdar on 'The Ruined House'; Taffy Brodesser-Akner on Philip Roth

1 hour ago | Tablet Magazine

This week on Unorthodox, Liel's still wearing his grand marshal sash from the Celebrate Israel parade. For our first book-club episode, we talk to Israeli-born writer Ruby...
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In Brilliant New Play, Bernard-Henri Lévy Takes On the Follies of Brexit

1 hour ago | Tablet Magazine

One of the world's greatest philosophers lies soaking wet. The famous open necked white shirt-as ever unbuttoned almost to the waist-is plastered to his chest. Bernard-Henri...
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WATCH: Mandy Patinkin Singing Shawn Mendes. In Yiddish

1 hour ago | Tablet Magazine

The Orthodox day school my sisters and I attended strongly discouraged listening to secular music. Back in the day, I hid a mixed tape of Avril Lavigne in my sock drawer. Now...
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San Francisco's Hottest New Restaurant Features Entire Section Dedicated to Italian-Jewish Food

1 hour ago | Tablet Magazine

Even in such a food-obsessed city as San Francisco, it's rare that a restaurant gets the kind of buzz that Che Fico did, before it even opened. Even more rare: that such a...
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My Forgotten War in Lebanon

1 hour ago | Tablet Magazine

The bravado ends with the first sound of gunfire. The moment you realize this is for real. That someone is actually trying to kill you. Then, it is all business and the years...
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'Maktub' is Your New Israeli Netflix Obsession

1 hour ago | Tablet Magazine

If you've ever tried it, you know that prayer is a risky business. It starts off awkwardly, with one party, mortal, approaching the other party, divine, without the assurance...
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Bloomberg: Apple originally gave thought to designing a portless iPhone X

If you own the Apple iPhone X, imagine the device without the Lightning port. In fact, imagine the tenth anniversary model being 100% port-free. According to a report published... Read more ...

Today on Jewcy: A satirical thriller of culinary mayhem in Israel

If you're looking for a mouthful, try the title-or the contents of- The Two-Plate Solution: A Novel of Culinary Mayhem in the Middle East , by Jeff Oliver. Think of it as a... Read more ...

This app you've never heard of lets you watch shows and movies for free that...

People often think that when it comes to streaming TV shows and movies online, there are only three options: pay for the good stuff, steal the good stuff, or stream the bad... Read more ...

I want this foldable touchscreen MacBook tablet right now

A report a few days ago said that Apple is working on a next-gen device that sounded very much like a MacBook with a touchscreen display and ARM processor. Project “Star” is... Read more ...

IOS 12 concept fixes issues in iOS 11 and adds a ton of new features

After completely overhauling its mobile operating system last year with the launch of iOS 11, we don't expect iOS 12 to be quite as substantial of an update. But that hasn't... Read more ...

Motorola, Best Buy, B&H and Amazon start accepting pre-orders for the Moto...

Motorola has started taking pre-orders for the third-generation Moto Z3 Play. Those pre-ordering or purchasing the phone from Motorola between now and June 30th, receive a free... Read more ...

Yep, Face ID is coming to the iPad, and it's adding multi-user support

The first operating system Apple talked about on stage at WWDC on Monday was iOS 12, which is now available in beta version to developers and anyone else interested in trying... Read more ...

IOS 12: How to set up Screen Time as a parent on a child's iPhone or iPad

IOS 12 introduces Apple's new Screen Time platform to help users with spending their device time more deliberately. An important aspect of that is helping parents guide device... Read more ...

What to Watch This Weekend: The Hustler

Every Friday, our resident film fanatic Alex Aciman will dig deep into the pile of cinematic masterpieces and fish out one forgotten classic you should watch soonest. Although... Read more ...

Google is being asked to ‘reconsider' Huawei relationship by US lawmakers

Chinese smartphone companies have been under a lot of scrutiny this year by the US government, and Huawei has seen massive blows to its plans in the States because of that... Read more ...