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According to several reports, Apple has stopped work on a system that would have enabled two iPhone owners in close proximity to send messages to each other without using a cellular network. Apple and Intel were reportedly cooperating on the project, which uses long-distance radio signals. It’s very similar to a Walkie-Talkie, except that it […]
Apple released Apple Card, its new titanium credit card, in the US this week. Unfortunately, it comes with a list of warnings and special care instructions that makes it decidedly user-unfriendly. To start off with, to clean your Apple card, you should start with a “soft, slightly damp, lint-free microfibre cloth.” This should be followed […]
After the furore that erupted when it became known that Apple was listening to people’s conversations with Siri, the company abruptly stopped this practice. A new report recently revealed that until then, Apple listened to thousands of Siri conversations. The third-party contractors who had to rate Siri requests had to listen to over a thousand […]
Rumours have been doing the rounds for some time now that Apple plans to switch to USB-C on its iPhones. A previous prediction that it will start with the 2018 iPhone range turned out to be incorrect. A new report now claims that the soon-to-be-released iPhone 11 will come with a USB-C charger. This suggests […]
Owners of Apple devices that run on iOS have been cautioned to take cybersecurity particularly seriously over the next couple of days. This follows Apple accidentally reopening an old security bug in the latest version of the operating system. In last month’s release of iOS 12.4, Apple patched a couple of security loopholes, and also […]
Apple’s CEO Tim Cook has received a letter from a group of app developers who believe that their businesses will be hurt by specific privacy-related updates to Apple’s iOS 13. They accuse the firm of anti-competitive behaviour over new restrictions on the way that apps are allowed to access users’ location data. Apple argues that […]
Just about every possible detail about Apple’s upcoming iPhone 11 has been leaked. In a joint effort, XDA-Developers’ Max Weinbach and YouTuber Filip Koroy confirmed earlier leaks, but also revealed information about Face ID, camera, design and storage upgrades that nobody knew anything about until now. These upgrades might just save an iPhone release that […]
Another company is taking Apple to court, this time because its double-lens camera design is allegedly an infringement of patents earlier registered by Israeli camera tech company Corephotonics. Just before the end of 2017, Corephotonics took Apple to court, claiming that the iPhone 7 and iPhone 8’s dual-lens camera system violated patents it registered earlier. […]
During the new school year in the US, well over 100,000 students will be able to carry their student IDs on either an Apple Watch or an iPhone. The list includes Georgetown University, Clemson University, University of Kentucky, University of Tennessee, University of Vermont, University of San Francisco, South Dakota State University, Arkansas State University, […]
Airline safety regulators in the US have banned certain MacBook Pro laptops from flights. This comes after Apple recently warned that some of these devices posed a fire risk because of faulty batteries. The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said in a statement that it was “aware of the recalled batteries” in specific Apple MacBook […]
According to Apple, its new credit card was specially designed to be transparent and simple. It now seems that it was also designed to make sure that the cardholder always owns an iPhone or iPad. Apple Card offers no paper statements. You have to access everything – from balances to transaction histories, payments and previous […]
Apple is not having a good week. Shortly after the company’s aggressive battery practices were revealed and Face ID was hacked, something emerged that should concern every iPhone and iPad user. Security company Check Point has discovered that there is a way to hack all iPhones and iPads, from those running iOS 8 to those […]
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