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Apple isn’t done with product events for 2018. Today the business issued media invites for an October 30th occasion in Brooklyn, New York City where it’s widely anticipated we’ll see brand-new iPad Pro tablets and possibly several updates to the Mac lineup. The occasion’s tagline is “there’s more in the …

We’ve all gotten used to the fact that installing an app on a smartphone means the developers will get at least some information about us. Both Android and iOS include controls to block app permissions, and you can always remove an app if you think it’s being too nosey. As …

Apple’s a lot of egregious crime in current memory– a subpar bagel emoji– has been corrected, as very first identified by Jeremy Burge of Emojipedia. In the fourth beta release of iOS 12.1, it appears that the bagel has actually been replaced with a brand-new icon that includes both cream …

Everyone wants a laptop that’s thin and light because we often need to haul these things around. Apple shaved a few more millimeters off its already slim laptops several years ago with the custom “butterfly” switches. Owners soon complained of defective switches and expensive repairs because of a few specks …

Samsung may have scored a one-time coup over TSMC for Apple’s business at 14nm, but that increasingly appears to have been a lucky strike. TSMC has been Apple’s sole supplier since the A10 in 2016, including this year’s A12 Bionic with the Apple iPhone XS, XS Max, and Xr. Combined …

Apple has announced its intent to purchase part of Dialog Semiconductor, a company it’s worked with over the entire life of the iPhone. Out of the $600M deal, $300M goes to a direct payment for a portion of Dialog’s assets, including employees, corporate IP, and licensing various power management technologies, …

A collection of new emoji is concerning iOS 12.1 for iPhone and iPad users, consisting of food and cute animals. Read More

Apple strives to include high-end hardware in its flagship iPhone variants, but it can only do so much. Years back, it started designing its own ARM chips to boost performance, but it still has to go to other companies to get LTE modems. LTE performance in last year’s Intel-powered iPhone …

Ever since biometric authentication began rolling out across phones and laptops, security researchers and legal analysts have both warned that such security measures would not protect against federal searches. Until now, however, such issues had been largely theoretical. There have been a handful of cases in which iPhones or Android …

A shiny new smartphone can do all manner of cool things like snap high-quality photos, recognize your face, and run an almost uncountable number of apps. You would also expect it to do some basic things like charge when you plug it in. That seems to be a challenge for …