Christopher Lee

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Determined kids finding it easy to circumvent Apple’s Screen Time

Determined kids finding it easy to circumvent Apple’s Screen Time

Christopher Lee · Oct 17, 2019

According to several news reports, Apple is presently involved in a cat-and-mouse game with kids who are relentlessly trying to break its Screen Time restrictions. The company has recently also been receiving quite a lot of criticism for not acting fast enough to plug the loopholes as they become apparent. A couple of these loopholes, […]

Apple and NBC extend exclusive advertising deal

Apple and NBC extend exclusive advertising deal

Christopher Lee · Oct 16, 2019

This week, Axios reported that NBCUniversal will retain the exclusive selling rights for ads in Apple Stocks and Apple news. This extends an existing agreement that was first signed in 2016. In that year, Apple closed down the iAd network, which also affected Apple News’ advertising business. The company then announced that it had signed […]

Apple shares your IP address with its safe browsing partners

Apple shares your IP address with its safe browsing partners

Christopher Lee · Oct 15, 2019

After news emerged over the weekend about many Safari browser users being concerned over Apple sharing their data with Chinese safe browser partner Tencent, the company has released a statement in which it reiterates that it does not share website URLs with its safe browsing partners. In case you don’t know, Apple sends data to […]

macOS Catalina mail bugs could cause huge data loss

macOS Catalina mail bugs could cause huge data loss

Christopher Lee · Oct 14, 2019

This weekend, Michael Tsai, the man who developed EaglerFiler and the SpamSieve plug-in for the Mac version of Apple Mail, warned macOS users that they could lose lots of data when they upgrade to macOS Catalina 10.15.0 (build 19A583). Tsai wrote in a blog post that several users updated their Mail’s data store to Catalina […]

Apple signs multi-year contract with Mexican movie director Alfonso Cuarón

Apple signs multi-year contract with Mexican movie director Alfonso Cuarón

Christopher Lee · Oct 11, 2019

According to a report by Variety magazine, Apple and renowned Mexican screenwriter, movie director and producer Alfonso Cuarón have signed an overall TV contract. Such an ‘overall deal’ means that Apple has the option to automatically obtain the rights to whatever Cuarón might develop for the duration of the contract. Cuarón is best known for […]

Apple bans app that revealed Hong Kong police locations

Apple bans app that revealed Hong Kong police locations

Christopher Lee · Oct 10, 2019

Yesterday, Apple removed an app from the App Store that made it possible for Hong Kong protesters to keep track of police movements. This comes only a day after the company faced severe criticism from government media in China, plunging one of America’s biggest technology companies knee-deep into the Hong Kong political crisis. Apple announced […]

Apple patent could bring a smaller camera bump to iPhones

Apple patent could bring a smaller camera bump to iPhones

Christopher Lee · Oct 9, 2019

With major smartphone brands Huawei, Google and Apple leading research, smartphone photography is improving year after year. However, while processing abilities have improved dramatically, and sensors have been getting bigger, the lenses used by these cameras have largely remained unchanged. A couple of Chinese phone manufacturers have made advancements in how far smartphone cameras can […]

Apple is deliberately slowing down third-party iPhone chargers

Apple is deliberately slowing down third-party iPhone chargers

Christopher Lee · Oct 7, 2019

Apple’s iOS 13 is fast becoming one of the company’s worst disasters ever. The initial version was riddled with security issues and bugs, forcing Apple to issue three hurried updates within the first two weeks. It has now emerged that there is another major issue that iPhone owners should be aware of. According to ChargerLab, […]

Tim Cook opposes the idea of Apple launching a cryptocurrency

Tim Cook opposes the idea of Apple launching a cryptocurrency

Christopher Lee · Oct 4, 2019

About a month ago, Apple Pay VP Jennifer Bailey declared that the firm is “watching cryptocurrency” because it considered the topic to be interesting and believed that it has “long-term potential”. This week, however, CEO Tim Cook made a statement that appears to have finally put that idea to rest. Cook came out strongly against […]

Apple bugs let through a billion scam pop-up ads

Apple bugs let through a billion scam pop-up ads

Christopher Lee · Oct 3, 2019

According to ad security firm Confiant, security flaws in Apple’s WebKit as well as the Blink frameworks that power Chrome and Safari on macOS and iOS have led to over a billion scam pop-up ads being served. These ads have become a major headache for web publishers. Nowadays, scammers are able to smuggle malicious ads […]

Apple News Plus now available in the UK and Australia

Apple News Plus now available in the UK and Australia

Christopher Lee · Oct 2, 2019

Apple News Plus was launched in the UK and Australia this week, around seven months after its debut in the US and Canada. As could be expected, the content of the news subscription service has been adapted to cater to local markets. In the US, Apple News Plus comes with a monthly subscription fee of […]

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