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A week after Apple started taking preorders for the Apple Watch, sales are still going strong. KGI Analyst Ming Chi Kuo estimates that preorders will exceed 2.3 million, with 85% of purchases going to the Sport line. Despite current manufacturing difficulties with the haptic motor and AMOLED displays, Ming-Chi expects Apple Watch output to reach 2 to 3 million units per month by June. He believes Apple will sell 15 to 20 million watches in 2015. A Reuters poll last week found that about 6% of American adults plan to purchase the Apple Watch, which would equate to about 15 million sales.

With such high demand and limited production capacity, Angela Ahrendts wrote a memo to company employees saying that the Apple Watch will not likely be available for walk-in purchase at Apple's brick-and-mortar locations until June at

Apple is said to be testing two configurations of Force Touch technology for the next generation iPhone. Sources told DigiTimes that the new iPhone 6s sensors will be supplied by the same companies manufacturing these panels for Apple Watch. Force Touch makes it possible for devices to discern between a light tap and a heavy press when interacting with the display.

According to the report, a Force Touch sensor layer is likely to be placed below touch panel backlighting. This approach would reduce interference with the in-cell touch panel, however it requires additional components and a new flexible printed circuit design. Another configuration being tested locates the Force Touch sensor directly under the outermost protective screen layer, above the in-cell touch panel.

Apple opened registration for WWDC 2015 on Tuesday. The event is being held June 8 through June 12 at San Francisco’s Moscone West, with plans to live stream more sessions than ever before. The event will include over "100 technical sessions, over 1,000 Apple engineers, hands-on labs to help developers integrate new technologies and fine tune their apps, as well as the Apple Design Awards which showcase the best new apps in the last year." You can read the official press release here.

Hearthstone fans can now play the collectible card game on their iPod touch and iPhone. Blizzard updated the existing iPad app with iPhone support on Wednesday. The free iOS app now supports the fifth-generation iPod touch, iPhone 4s or newer, iPad 2 or newer and all three iPad mini models. Blizzard also released the third wing of the of Blackrock Mountain adventure, titled Blackrock Spire, on Thursday.

There have been a lot of third-party keyboards released for iOS devices ever since Apple opened the walled garden in iOS 8, but none of them are as fabulous as RuPaul's Drag Race Keyboard. The new iOS 8 keyboard from Logo allows Drag Race fans to quickly send images and animated GIFs of heir favorite queens to their squirrel friends and family.

The keyboard is free to download and easy to use, but you will have to enable it after installing it on your device. To enable any third-party keyboard navigate to Settings > General > Keyboard > Keyboards and tap the "Add New Keyboard..." panel. From here you can enable any third-party keyboards that you have downloaded by tapping their name and giving them permission to access your device. Once you have added RuPaul Keyboard to your active keyboards list, you will need to go back to the Keyboards screen and tap its name, then tap the "Allow Full Access" slider so it is ON / GREEN.

Bandi Namco has teamed up with Sony Pictures Entertainment to release a mobile game based on the upcoming movie Pixels. The game will be a tower defense title where players need to defend Earth from an alien invasion.

Pixels the movie stars Adam Sandler, Kevin James and Peter Dinklage as the Arcaders -- a group of heroes who must stop Earth from being destroyed by retro video games characters brought to life. Pixels the game promises to offer an "innovative twist on traditional tower defense game mechanics." In the game, players take on the role of the Arcaders to stop the aliens before they destroy the world. Pixels will mark the first time PAC-MAN, Q*bert, Frogger and other classic arcade characters will be featured in the same video game at the same time.