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Saturday March 2, 2019. 12:02 AM
“You may not use Siri, Apple’s voice and digital assistant, but, like an eager-to-please deputy, Siri is paying attention to your habits and busily creating shortcuts in the background that it thinks could make your life easier, or at least a little more automated,” Lance...
Friday March 1, 2019. 11:39 PM
A Richmond man was sentenced today to almost three years in prison for charges of unauthorized access to a protected computer and aggravated identity theft. According to court documents, Christopher Brannan, 31, intentionally accessed without authorization Internet and email ...
“Apple started as a hardware company. Its first product was a kit: a box of hardware that customers had to assemble on their own. There was no software included,” Joshua Fruhlinger writes for Thinknum. “That, again, was up to the customer.” “But what eventually differentiated...
“Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook said he has ‘never been more optimistic’ about where the company is today and where it’s heading,” Mark Gurman reports for Bloomberg News. “In a pep talk to investors, Cook said the iPhone maker is ‘planting seeds’ and ‘rolling...
“Should Apple have more ‘ideological diversity’ on its board? That was the question facing CEO Tim Cook, along with Apple’s board and investors, at the company’s annual shareholder meeting Friday, when activist Justin Danhof pushed a proposal aimed at increasing such...
“Apple Inc shareholders on Friday defeated a shareholder proposal from a conservative group that would have required the company to disclose the ‘ideological perspective’ of nominees for its board of directors,” Reuters reports. “The proposal, placed on the shareholder...
“Stealing an Apple Watch can have GPS-tracking implications, as a pair of Northern California burglary suspects learned Thursday, according to police,” Jared Gilmour reports for The Sacramento Bee. “A 25-year-old woman left her Redding home unlocked in the morning while she...
Starting and maintaining health and fitness routines gets even easier as more apps offer Siri Shortcuts, joining the thousands that have integrated shortcuts since their introduction with iOS 12. Using powerful on-device intelligence, Siri Shortcuts help people get things...
“A New York regulator is ramping up a promised investigation of how Facebook Inc. gathered sensitive personal information from popular smartphone applications, after a report by The Wall Street Journal revealed that some apps were sending the social-media giant data,...
“It is a normal Saturday in Zhengzhou, the capital of central China’s Henan province. The sky over the Foxconn factory complex is obscured with a choking smog,” Cissy Zhou reports for The South China Mornigng Post. “Under the hazy sunset, hordes of workers have started to...
“Google, Microsoft, Apple and Amazon are each reportedly working on their own versions of a “Netflix for games,” as the tech giants enter a heated battle to own the subscription business for video games,” Sara Fischer reports for Axios. “Google is planning to unveil its...
“Apple today expanded its ‘There’s More to iPhone’ marketing campaign to France and the United Kingdom after launching it in Germany late last year,” Joe Rossignol reports for MacRumors. “A new ‘Why iPhone’ page on Apple’s website in each country highlights reasons why an...
“How the mighty have fallen,” Joan E. Solsman reports for CNET. “Digital downloads, typified by the 99 cent iTunes tracks that ruled the music industry as recently as four years ago, now make less money for US labels than CDs and vinyl records.” “Downloads represented just...
“Rumors of a spring launch for Apple’s next-generation AirPods have been coming in over recent weeks, and today a report is claiming we can expect an AirPods 2 announcement as soon as this month, although at this point we’re treating the source with a fair amount of...
“The 5G hype has already begun, but investors underappreciate the opportunity that it represents for most tech companies. Apple has four initiatives that will materially benefit from 5G: iPhone, augmented reality, healthcare, and autonomous vehicles,” Gene Munster and Will...
“Apple discontinued the iPhone SE in September when iPhone XS and XR models were released, but in January, Apple started selling off its remaining stock via its clearance site for $249,” Juli Clover writes for MacRumors. “Every time Apple restocks the clearance site,...
Thursday February 28, 2019. 11:35 PM
“‘This is a security hole large enough to drive a truck through,’ reader Larry Whitted in Lodi, Calif., wrote last week,” Geoffrey A. Fowler reports for The Washington Post. “As a customer of Comcast’s Xfinity Mobile phone service, Whitted says someone was able to hijack...
“The foldable smartphone era is in full swing with the recent introductions of the Samsung Galaxy Fold and Huawei Mate X, and while it remains unclear if Apple will follow suit, the company has at least explored ideas related to foldable smartphones in patent applications...
As part of their “Fix It Already” initiative, the Electronic Frontier Foundation is calling on Apple to let users encrypt their iCloud backups. “Data on your Apple device is encrypted so that no one but you can access it, and that’s great for user privacy,” EF states, “But...
“It begins seven years ago, when my doctor asks me whether I want to lose my foot. I say to him: No, I do not want to lose my foot. ‘Good,’ he says back: Monitor your blood sugar, keep it down, and we can manage this disease. Then nobody has to lose a foot,” Dan Hon writes...
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