A Florida teenager, who is accused of being the “mastermind” behind the July hacking of social media site Twitter, has been arrested, according to Tampa’s WFLA Channel 8 News site. 17-year-old Graham Clark is facing 30 felony charges for “scamming people across America” with the Twitter hack. He’s been accused of organized fraud, 17 counts […]

Apple often adds new features to its built-in apps with each iOS update, and iOS 14 is no exception. Many apps have important new features, including Apple Maps, which gains cycling directions, EV routes, guides, and more. This guide highlights all of the new features that Apple has added to the Maps app in the […]

Microsoft today announced plans to “shift toward a transformational AI-powered assistant experience” in its Microsoft 365 apps, which will involve refocusing its “areas of innovation and development.” As a result, Microsoft is ending all support for third-party Cortana skills and eliminating the Cortana apps for iOS and Android devices. Third-party Cortana skills will be deprecated […]

Apple today updated its list of Vintage and Obsolete products to add the original 7.9-inch iPad mini, which was first released in 2012. Apple’s vintage products list includes devices that have not been sold for more than five and less than seven years ago, while the obsolete list includes products whose sales were discontinued more […]

Google today announced that the Exposure Notification API that it designed in partnership with Apple has received some improvements to make it more useful to public health authorities. Most notably, the API supports interoperability between countries, and Bluetooth calibration has been improved. The full list of updates is below: When an exposure is detected, public […]

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Nvidia is in advanced talks to acquire SoftBank Group’s Arm Holdings, according to Bloomberg. A potential sale of Arm to Nvidia, the world’s largest graphics chipmaker, was rumored earlier this month. Nvidia’s market value has increased to almost $260 billion in recent months, surpassing that of Intel. Arm has also become considerably more valuable as […]

Canada today released a new COVID-19 contact tracing app called COVID Alert, as noted by iPhone in Canada. COVID Alert takes advantage of Apple and Google’s privacy-focused Exposure Notification API to alert people when they’ve come into contact with someone who has the coronavirus. As with all COVID-19 contact tracing apps, COVID Alert uses Bluetooth […]

Apple’s iPhone shipments have grown in Q2 2020, as Huawei overtook Samsung as the world’s largest smartphone vendor, according to new data shared by Canalys and IDC this week. Though the global smartphone market contracted by 14-16 percent in Q2 2020, Apple was the only vendor to defy expectations and grow by up to 25 […]

Internal Apple emails, made public by the House Judiciary Committee’s antitrust inquiry, have revealed information about why Apple blocked in-app purchases of Kindle books on iOS devices, reports The Verge. Two sets of emails between Steve Jobs, Phil Schiller, Eddy Cue, and various other senior Apple executives, disclose the exact thinking behind how Apple approached […]