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Tech NewsApple Says Its Update for Group FaceTime Bug Is Getting Bumped to Next Week
After a massive FaceTime bug that allowed users to potentially listen in on others when using the Group feature surfaced Monday, Apple disabled Group FaceTime in a short-term fix to the problem. An update to address the problem was expected this week, but Apple said Friday that while it has fixed the issue on its … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgets2019 Could Be the Year Your Phone Finally Gets a Real Dark Mode
Windows 10 has had dark mode settings for a quite some time, and Apple added it to macOS with its Mojave update last year. But strangely, neither iOS nor stock Android offers a true system-wide dark mode option right now. However, based on leaks and rumors about upcoming software, that could all change in 2019 … Continued
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Foxconn Admits It’s Not Building a Factory in Wisconsin Anymore Despite Scoring $4 Billion Deal From Taxpayers
Foxconn, one of the largest electronics manufacturing companies in the world, received $4 billion worth of subsidies and infrastructure spending from the state of Wisconsin to build a new factory there. But the plan for that factory seems to be unraveling by the day. In fact, Foxconn now admits that they’re no longer building a … Continued
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Tech NewsApple Says It Will Pay ‘Shot on iPhone’ Photo Contest Winners After Backlash
Three days after announcing its “Shot on iPhone Challenge,” Apple has updated its official rules page for the photography contest following a burst of outrage from artists on social media. While the “shot on iPhone” marketing campaigns aren’t new, Apple has previously reached out to photographers through its ad agency instead of putting out a … Continued
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Tech NewsPrivacy & Security
Researcher Who Said He Hacked iPhone X Face ID With a Printed Image Cancels Talk After Employer Shaming
Attendees of a major hacking conference in Singapore were supposed to hear about a mysterious, new method of hacking Apple’s Face ID, but the presenter scheduled to talk on the matter has withdrawn from the event after his employer asked him to cancel, according to Reuters. Apple debuted Face ID in September 2017 with the … Continued
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Tech NewsApple’s Stock Decline Is Bringing Out All of the Opinions
Apple incorporated 42 years ago today, and it’s celebrating with a flash crash. On Wednesday, Apple Cook released a statement declaring things were not as nice as the company would like; instead of a projected $89 billion to $94 billion in revenue, it expected to earn a paltry $84 billion in revenue during the previous … Continued
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Oh No, Apple Probably Only Made $84 Billion Last Quarter
Tim Cook just issued a very curious warning: Apple is lowering its revenue guidance for the first quarter of 2019. In other words, Apple is not going to make as much money as it had previously anticipated, and it’s kind of China’s fault. How bad is the damage, you wonder? Apple now expects to earn … Continued
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Apple’s Future Looks Rotten
A weird thing happened this year: Apple put its brand new iPhone on sale just a few weeks after release. Well, it wasn’t an outright sale. Faced with poor sales, the company boosted trade-in values of old iPhones so that you could get an iPhone XR for up to $300 off. These slumping sales numbers … Continued
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Apple Is Sending Out Push Notifications Bothering People to Watch Carpool Karaoke
Tech giant Apple is sending out push notifications for its deeply annoying Carpool Karaoke show—a standalone spin on a The Late Late Show with James Corden segment which was released last year to terrible reviews—the Verge reported on Tuesday, in seeming disregard of its own policies on unsolicited promotional material. The Verge wrote that some … Continued
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ReviewsIt’s 2018, and the iPhone Is Still Super Annoying
Lording atop its portfolio like some kind of $1,000 crown jewel, the iPhone is undoubtedly the Apple’s most important product. And for years, people have droned on about how the phone that Jobs built is the most innovative and user-friendly device out there. But is it really? There’s no doubt Apple builds excellent hardware, and … Continued
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Tech NewsLawsuit Claims Apple Lied About Its Display and Shady Marketing Obscured the Notch
Another day, another Apple lawsuit. A freshly filed lawsuit is taking aim at Apple’s questionable marketing of its iPhone X, iPhone XS, and iPhone XS Max by claiming, among other things, that the company misled its consumers about display specs and pixel counts as well as obscured the notch on its newer phones with deceptive … Continued
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Tech NewsApple and Qualcomm Slap-Fight Continues with ‘Ban’ on iPhone Sales in China
The legal tug of war between Apple and Qualcomm continued this week with what at first may have seemed like a rare win for the chip giant in a Chinese court. After Qualcomm alleged that features in iOS violated a number of its patents, Chinese courts on Monday granted a temporary injunction on the sale … Continued
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iPhone Dual SIM Support Is Reportedly Coming to Verizon in December
Apple’s freshly launched iPhone XR and iPhone XS lines have hardware support for dual SIM configurations, but the rollout of the feature has been a bit delayed (or in the case of AT&T, rolled back) due to issues with carriers that have not been totally sorted out yet. Verizon, however, is reportedly planning on supporting … Continued
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Spotify’s Official Apple Watch App Is On Its Way—And Missing Key Features
One of the big selling points of smartwatches is the ability to control apps without needing to pull out your phone. However, due to the absence of an official Apple Watch app, adjusting music in Spotify using Apple’s smartwatch always felt kind of clunky. Now that’s changing. Spotify is finally gracing Apple Watch owners with bespoke … Continued
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Tech NewsMaybe People Like the Home Button
Remember how tech bloggers seemed so jazzed about the iPhone XR because it was like the very expensive iPhone XS but incredibly cheaper? It looks like the public is not as jazzed. Nikkei Asian Review reports that Apple has canceled a production boost for the iPhone XR, which is apparently not selling as well as … Continued
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Apple iPhones Will Get 5G in 2020: Report
5G speed might be coming to Apple products as soon as 2020, according to a recent report. Fast Company wrote this week that “a source with knowledge of Apple’s plans” says that a line of iPhones using the Intel 8161 5G modem chip is planned for release in 2020, and that Intel is developing a … Continued
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Sorry, But Your iPhone 5 Just Became Obsolete
Sometime in the flurry of news surrounding the new iPad Pro and the new MacBook Air, Apple quietly added the iPhone 5 to its list of “vintage and obsolete products” in the United States. There it sits, alongside the Apple III, the Newton MessagePad, and the first four generations of iPhone, as a thing that … Continued
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Tech NewsApple’s Lightning Port Kingdom Is Crumbling
For years, Apple’s mobile devices have been off in their wonderland of proprietary ports while the rest of the tech world did its best to converge on a few simple standards. I’m talking about the 30-pin connector used on the original iPod and iPhone, which later gave way to the Lightning connector in 2012. And … Continued
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Tech NewsThe Tricky Economics of the iPhone XS and the iPhone XR
The iPhone XR hits stores on Friday, and everybody is flipping out about it being the most affordable new iPhone. Starting at $750, however, the XR isn’t actually that cheap in the grander scheme of things. And yet, to the casual observer, the device also looks a heck of a lot like the undeniably expensive … Continued
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Tech NewsPrivacy & Security
China Subtly Mocks President Trump, Says He Should Switch to Huawei Phones
The New York Times published a troubling report yesterday alleging that President Trump uses off-the-shelf iPhones to talk with friends and that both Russian and Chinese spies are listening to Trump’s phone calls to figure out how to manipulate him. But China would like the American president to know that if he’s worried about security, … Continued
By Matt Novak