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Apple’s Purchase of Shazam Gets Put on Hold While EU Investigates Anti-Trust Concerns
While the Department of Justice battles Time Warner and AT&T in court to block one mega merger, another business deal is getting held up by officials overseas. On Monday, the European Commission announced that it is has opened an anti-trust investigation into Apple’s buyout of Shazam, potentially postponing the acquisition for months—or even killing it … Continued
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Looks Like OLEDs for iPhones Are Still Really Hard to Make
After last year’s delayed iPhone X release, Apple is trying to snag a few extra screens for its 2018 batch of iPhones. Unfortunately, the company is apparently running into trouble with its OLED display manufacturing partners, according to a Wall Street Journal report. Apple has turned to LG’s display division, a leading producer of OLED … Continued
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Apple May Be Making a Bunch of Cheap New iPhones
Big news for lovers of the iPhone SE, a franken-gadget made of old Apple parts and billed as a more affordable iOS device: It appears that the budget iPhone lineup is finally going to get its first refresh two years after the original model hit the market. The announcement could come as early as WWDC … Continued
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Would You Pay $10 a Month for Apple News?
When Apple bought Texture, a subscription magazine app reportedly valued at around $50 million, last month, the move seemed like a bit of a head-scratcher. I mean really, who the hell still reads magazines? But for people who know anything about Apple, it was clear that Texture was just a jumping off point for something … Continued
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Report: Apple Once Again Extends Apple Watch Warranties, This Time for Battery Issues
Apple will repair some Apple Watch Series 2 devices that suffer from defects including swollen batteries or an inability to activate, per an updated version of its service policy obtained by MacRumors. In an internal document sent to Apple Stores and licensed repair shops, Apple wrote it has “determined that under certain conditions, some Apple … Continued
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Apple Memo Warning Leakers Against Leaking Leaks
Apple would really, really like its employees to keep their mouths shut. At least, that’s the clear takeaway from an internal Apple memo suggesting grave consequences for anyone who leaks company information to the press. On Friday, Bloomberg posted the internal memo in full. In it, Apple said it had caught 29 leakers last year, … Continued
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Looks Like Nobody Wants to Buy Apple’s HomePod
Surprise, surprise, turns out Apple’s debut foray into the world of voice assistant-enabled speakers isn’t quite living up to the company’s initial expectations. According to a Bloomberg report, the company has lowered the number of Homepods being manufactured by one of its partners, Inventec Corporation, and is reportedly looking to make a second smart speaker, … Continued
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Apple Ordered to Pay Patent Troll VirnetX $502.6 Million in iMessage, FaceTime, and VPN Lawsuit
A federal jury in Texas has ordered Apple to pay out $502.6 million to VirtnetX Holding Corp., the kind of company often referred to as a patent troll, in the eighth year of contentious legal battles between the two companies, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. According to Bloomberg, VirnetX’s stock skyrocketed by 44 percent on Tuesday … Continued
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Snapchat’s Long-Awaited iPhone X Lenses Won’t Make Me Forget Rihanna’s Decree
iPhone X owners who still use Snapchat are in for a pleasant surprise today. The camera company, famously annihilated by Rihanna after it approved an ad mocking domestic violence victims, is finally releasing its previously announced lenses designed for the iPhone X. The feature was teased nearly seven months ago, so it’s about time. The … Continued
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What’s Really Going On With Apple and Intel? A Guide to the Speculation
On Monday Bloomberg News dropped a bombshell report. By 2020, it claimed Apple will stop using Intel CPUs in its computers. Just picture it: The third-largest PC maker in the world might one day leave behind the biggest computer chip maker. Quickly, Intel’s stock dropped following the news, and while much of Twitter was aflutter … Continued
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Apple’s Newly Rumored Smartphone Ideas Sound Straight Out of 2013
Now that notches are popping up on just about every new smartphone screen, Apple’s next iPhone will need some new tricks to stand out from its competitors. But if a report from Bloomberg is true, instead of coming up with entirely new ideas, it seems Apple may try to crib some features from a handful … Continued
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Apple Recruits Google’s Search and AI Chief John Giannandrea to Help Improve Siri
Apple has managed to snag Google’s chief of search and artificial intelligence John Giannandrea, the New York Times reported on Tuesday, in a fairly significant victory for a company that has lagged behind its rivals in the AI arena. Per the Times, Apple poached Giannandrea (presumably with a very alluring financial offer) as part of … Continued
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Apple Says It Pays Women Less on Average in the UK
In November, Apple released a report that reportedly indicated it had eliminated its gender pay gap across the world. On Tuesday, it released a new pay-gap report showing that that is not yet the case. The report Apple released today only details pay discrepancies among United Kingdom-based employees. The stats in Tuesday’s report are pulled … Continued
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Apple Watch Health Data Is Being Used as Evidence in an Australian Murder Trial
The Apple Watch has been a niche product from the beginning, but its health and fitness tracking features have started to catch on with the public. One overlooked feature, however, is that it can be useful for police trying to track down a victim’s murderer. According to the Australian Associated Press, Myrna Nilsson, 57, was … Continued
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Apple Reportedly Killing Laptops With Intel Inside, the Hackintosh, Dreams
Piling onto months of rumors, Mark Gurman and Ian King of Bloomberg News are reporting that Apple plans to move to Apple-built CPUs for its computers, ending the use of Intel CPUs in Apple hardware. Apple is currently the third-largest maker of computers in the US and the loss for Intel would be significant. But … Continued
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Apple Finally Talked Me Into Buying an iPad
For the longest time, the iPad was Apple’s big boring thing. It never lived up to its promise to revolutionize media and save magazines. It didn’t really change the way we play mobile games. It certainly didn’t seem like a good investment. For the first eight years of the iPad’s existence, my primary exposure to … Continued
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Apple’s New External GPU Support for Macs Is a Boon for Gamers and Graphics Pros
Alongside yesterday’s big update to iOS 11.3, Apple also quietly pushed out an update for macOS High Sierra. Included in the new update (version 10.13.4) are a number of helpful, but not super exciting improvements, such as the addition of new privacy icons and data management, additional sorting functions for bookmarks in Safari, and the … Continued
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You Can Now Download iOS 11.3 to See Your Terrible Battery’s Soul
Apple has finally released iOS 11.3, an update granting users the option to enable or disable Apple’s controversial battery management feature responsible for an epidemic of old iPhone slowdowns. You can also turn your face into a cartoon bear now, so that’s nice. If you’re one of the many people suffering with a pitifully underpowered … Continued
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How Many Times Did Apple Make This Kid Lick the iPad?
Keeping with tradition, Apple has released an ad promoting its new iPad and educational tools for students and teachers after announcing the updated hardware and software during its education event. The heartwarming commercial is centered around “Group Three,” a cadre of five students who use an iPad to complete a class project about gravity. The … Continued
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Logitech’s $49 Crayon Is a Stubbier, Cheaper Apple Pencil
To make it slightly easier for schools to stomach the cost of equipping students with $300 iPads, Apple has partnered with Logitech to create a cheaper stylus alternative called the Crayon that at $49 is almost half the price of the Apple Pencil, which is now being sold to schools for $89. Logitech boasts that … Continued