This week Benjamin and Zac catch up on Apple news since the new year including talk about the iMac Pro accessories and wallpaper, Apple Watch Activity Sharing and Series 3 rebooting in ICUs, the need for a refreshed HomePod pitch before launch, how …
Lees meerFans of The Office have been excited about what appeared to be the revival of a previously pitched spin-off series called The Farm, but the project may actually be something involving Apple and not a new original series. more…
Lees meerApple today announced a record-breaking holiday shopping season for the App Store. In a press release, the company said that customers spent over $890 million during the seven-day period beginning on Christmas Eve… more…
Lees meerIntel has shared an update today on its efforts to patch the major CPU vulnerabilities that came to light earlier this week. more…
Lees meerApple has joined the Alliance for Open Media, a technology consortium that is working on a new industry standard, high-efficiency video codec called AV1. The group includes Amazon, Google, Facebook, Netflix, Hulu, Intel, and many others. Apple was q…
Lees meerBusy week for Spotify news. Just yesterday it was reported that the music streaming company privately filed plans to go public, and now Spotify has announced that it has hit 70 million total subscribers. For comparison, Apple Music which launched ye…
Lees meerAfter the CPU security issue that was revealed to affect Intel, AMD, and ARM processors this week, it might sound logical for the companies involved to take a financial hit. However, Barclays analysts think Intel shares won’t see any downturn. more…
Lees meerApple Stores always seem to be packed to the gills with customers waiting for tech support at the Genius Bar, and that’s doubly true now with Apple’s discounted battery replacement program for iPhones throttled by aging batteries. A promised update …
Lees meerA new report from Canalys today shares its prediction that smart speakers are on track for record growth and will be the hottest consumer tech items of 2018. Canalys believes that consumers will buy 56.3 million smart speakers in 2018, just shy of d…
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Lees meerWhile Apple has been hit with a number of lawsuits recently, the company has now filed one of its own against a French activist group over an episode that occurred in an Apple Store in France. more…
Lees meerJust in time for the massive ‘bomb cycle’ winter storm rolling over the East Coast, Weather Line is out with a new version optimized for iPhone X. In addition to going full screen on the flagship iPhone, the data rich forecast app includes a few twe…
Lees meerIf you were wondering why the T2 chip in the new iMac Pro could force a DFU restore in extreme cases (like power failure during an update), that’s because the chip plays an important security role in the high-end machine … more…
Lees meerApple announced last month that it would be waiving the $99/year App Store developer fee for governments and nonprofits, and eligible organizations can now apply. However, there are a number of conditions … more…
Lees meerSamsung has announced the chip destined for this year’s Galaxy S9 flagship phone, and iPhone X owners might think some of the promised capabilities sound just a little familiar. Through depth sensing, scan a user’s face in 3D for hybrid face detecti…
Lees meerA GBH research note seen by us predicts that Apple is likely to take advantage of the tax break on repatriated overseas cash to bring back around $200B of its $252B foreign cash hoard. The firm says the company is likely to spend the cash in three w…
Lees meerFollowing clarification that what was initially reported as an Intel chip bug also affects AMD processors and ARM-based chips, Intel’s CEO has said that ‘phones and everything’ will be impacted. A security update by ARM suggests that a number of iPh…
Lees meerAT&T today announced that it will be the “first U.S. mobile company to introduce mobile 5G service in a dozen markets by late 2018.” The carrier made the announcement in a press release, saying it worked with closely to push for standards accelerati…
Lees meerThe annual Consumer Electronics Show is slated to begin next week in Las Vegas, but one notable speaker has just pulled out of the event. The Consumer Technology Association announced today that FCC Chairman Ajit Pai will not be in attendance at CES…
Lees meerDespite Apple and Tim Cook continually hyping augmented reality, early adoption of the technology has been slower than expected, according to new data. App research firm Apptopia today released a new report outlining the adoption of Apple’s ARKit ov…
Lees meerWhile some of Apple Park‘s earliest employees make themselves at home in the new $5 billion campus this week, a new book published by the Norman Foster Foundation has given us a closer look at some of the early design concepts considered, but ultima…
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