When in doubt, use a hacksaw. The cool cats at iFixit have taken it upon themselves to crack into the newly-released HomePod to find out what’s inside. The outfit, which used an actual hacksaw to crack the smart speaker open, discovered an A8 proces…
Lees meerVideo Lan Client, the nigh-indispensable open source media player for multiple audio and video formats (MPEG, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, Divx, ogg, etc.), was updated to version 3.0.0. The new version, a 46.8 megabyte download, adds a massive series of changes…
Lees meerLast last week, the source code for iBoot, a core component of iOS, was leaked to GitHub. Although the code was older, designed for iOS 9, it was quickly yanked from GitHub following Apple’s issuance of a DCMA takedown notice. Per Motherboard, which…
Lees meerYour pre-ordered HomePod unit is on its way to your loving arms. The HomePod is en route, and customers in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia have begun receiving shipment notifications from Apple letting them know their orders have sh…
Lees meerApple, and its legal department, do not like it when you leak source code for core components of iOS on GitHub. This is exactly what happened, as a chunk of source code, labeled “iBoot”, which is the part of iOS that is responsible for ensuring a tr…
Lees meerEven though it was corrected, this could be called a snafu. Download aggregator web site MacUpdate briefly linked to three malicious applications masquerading as legitimate downloads for Firefox, OnyX, and Deeper, that not only install the apps, but…
Lees meerThere shall be additional emoji available to you. To be specific, 157 additional emoji. The Unicode Consortium today announced it has finalized a new set of 157 emoji that companies like Apple will be able to implement later this year. There are act…
Lees meeriOS 11.3 has entered its second developer beta and it appears that the new version of the operating system will add battery health information and management feature to iOS 11.3 in response to customer complaints about the way the company fixed an i…
Lees meerApple may be looking to offer rebates to customers who purchased a full-cost replacement iPhone battery only to get around throttled performance. One of the questions submitted in January by Senator John Thune, chairman of the U.S. Senate Commerce C…
Lees meerThis might help you out. Apple on Friday launched a repair program for iPhone 7 devices that are impacted by an ongoing bug that causes them to have no available service even when cellular coverage is available. Apple says the problem is caused by a…
Lees meerThis is nifty. In a surprise address on Wednesday, YouTube announced that its streaming live TV service is now available on Apple TV devices. In a tweet telling Apple TV owners to check the App Store, the official YouTube TV account disclosed that i…
Lees meerEven if iPhone X sales are slumping, Apple still reported a record-breaking $88.3 billion in revenue for the quarter ending on December 31st, 2017. This represents a 13 percent increase over last year’s $78.4 billion. The company managed to sell 77.…
Lees meerIf you’re north of the border, this is relevant to you. Apple seems to be launching a trial of its iPhone battery replacement program in Canada. The company has geared support its app to take names for particular iPhone models and says the app will …
Lees meerIt looks like you’ll use Apple’s Home app to update your HomePod once it arrives. Developer Guilherme Rambo dug into Apple’s iOS code and found the HomePod software update mechanism. Along with alerting you to new software updates, the Home app will…
Lees meerThree of the four iMac Pro sub-groups have shipped, with purchasers of the 18-core model now getting notifications that the machines are on their way. Anonymous sources close to the story have stated that “a small number of early orders have shipped…
Lees meerYou shouldn’t go looking to iOS 12 for huge, splashy new features. Instead, Apple will apparently be giving iOS 12 the Snow Leopard/Mac OS X 10.6 treatment and working on targeting stability, performance, and reliability as opposed to adding in load…
Lees meerApple may in fact be en route to designing its own processors, which could replace Intel as the supplier of Mac CPUs. The company began in 2008 when Apple bought chip manufacturer P.A. Semi. The acquisition led to the design of the A4 processor, pop…
Lees meerWhen the Apple Watch Series 3 with cellular debuted back in September, due to carrier requirements, cellular connectivity was only supported in a handful of countries. Apple today announced, however, that Apple Watch Series 3 with cellular is coming…
Lees meerThe newly-released iOS 11.3 beta seems to contain hints as to Apple’s releasing a next-generation iPad Pro this year equipped with both slim bezels and Face ID. According to iHelpBR editor Filipe Espósito and developer Guilherme Rambo, strings in th…
Lees meerIf you’re running either macOS 10.11 El Capitan or macOS 10.12 Sierra, you’re going to want to snag the current security update now. On Tuesday, Apple released Security Update 2018-001 Sierra and Security Update 2018-001 El Capitan, which addressed …
Lees meerThis should come in handy. Apple pm Tuesday released iOS 11.2.5 for its iPhones and iPads. The release “includes support for HomePod and introduces the ability for Siri to read the news (US, UK and Australia only).” The company also announced earlie…
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