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Apple now allows unlisted apps on the App Store

Enlarge (credit: Samuel Axon) Apple has added a new feature for app developers that should prove useful for internal tools and other kinds of applications that are meant for a specific set of users but not for the wider world: unlisted apps. Making an app unlisted means that it won’t show up “in any App Store categories, […]

2020 ties 2016 as the warmest year on record

Enlarge / Intense wildfires were one of the climate impacts linked to the recent string of very hot years. (credit: Bloomberg/Getty Images) Today, NASA and NOAA are announcing that 2020 was one for the record books, tying with 2016 for the warmest year since we’ve been tracking temperatures. NASA rates 2020 as the warmest ever, […]