Apple has partnered with pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly and health startup Evidation to determine whether data collected from the iPhone and Apple Watch can be used to detect early signs of dementia. A research paper published this week and sha…
Lees meerApple is facing a class action lawsuit [PDF] for employing contractors to listen to and grade some anonymized Siri conversations for the purpose of quality control and product improvement. Apple's Siri practices were highlighted in a recent repor…
Lees meerSamsung this afternoon unveiled its newest flagship smartphones, which are in the Galaxy Note family. The Galaxy Note 10, for the first time in a Note device, is available in two sizes: 6.3 (Galaxy Note 10) and 6.8 inches (Galaxy Note 10+). Both …
Lees meerApple today released the sixth beta of iOS 13 to developers, introducing new bug fixes and adding and refining various iOS 13 and iPadOS features. In the sixth beta, changes and updates are getting more minor than changes made in earlier betas, b…
Lees meerApple may have purchased image recognition startup Fashwell, a company that designed an engine able to recognize products in images to make photos shoppable. Fashwell CEO Matthias Dantone, CSO Lukas Bossard, and CTO Michael Emmersberger all list …
Lees meerApple today seeded the sixth betas of iOS 13 and iPadOS to developers for testing purposes, a little over a week after releasing the sixth betas and two months after unveiling the new operating system at the Worldwide Developers Conference. Regis…
Lees meerApple today continued on with its "Shot on iPhone" series, uploading several new videos, but this time with a twist -- the videos are focused on ASMR, a popular YouTube trend that uses sound to evoke an "autonomous sensory meridian response." App…
Lees meerLaunch Center Pro was today updated to version 3.1, with the new update introducing an Icon Composer feature. The Icon Composer is designed to allow users to create their own App Store quality icons that can be used within the Launch Center Pro a…
Lees meerApple today seeded the sixth beta of watchOS 6, the software that runs on the Apple Watch. The new beta comes a week after the fifth beta and more than a month after Apple first unveiled the new watchOS update at the Worldwide Developers Conference.…
Lees meerApple today seeded sixth beta of an upcoming tvOS 13 update to developers, a little over a week after seeding the fifth beta and two months after unveiling the tvOS 13 software at the Worldwide Developers Conference. Designed for the fourth and f…
Lees meerApple today released a new update for Safari Technology Preview, the experimental browser Apple first introduced three years ago in March 2016. Apple designed the Safari Technology Preview to test features that may be introduced into future release …
Lees meerApple will likely launch a foldable device within the next two years, analysts at investment bank UBS predict. In a research note obtained by CNBC, the analysts said the device is more likely to be an iPad than an iPhone, and they also believe it is…
Lees meerApple Music today announced a new initiative called the "Apple Digital Masters" program, which aims to combine all of its high-resolution "Mastered for iTunes" songs into one streaming catalog (via Billboard). According to Apple, it's slowly be…
Lees meerMicrosoft contractors are listening to conversations between users on Skype who use its translation feature, according to Motherboard. This is done only if users are performing a translation function in Skype and not during any other typical Skype v…
Lees meerRight to Repair advocates continue to lobby the U.S. government, arguing that large tech companies like Apple are monopolizing repairs of consumer electronics in order to preserve profits, reports Axios. Image: iFixit.com In testimony before the…
Lees meerApple today highlighted various app prototypes that educators came up with during five weeklong Teacher Coding Academies it held this summer. The workshops were part of Apple's Community Education Initiative, which introduces coding opportunities to…
Lees meerAmazon today is discounting Apple's latest iMacs, with up to $150 off a few 27-inch models. These are the iMac models that were released in March 2019, and as of now these are the lowest prices that we've seen on each computer listed below. Note:…
Lees meerTwitter is testing a "Snooze" button that allows you to pause push notifications from the mobile app for an allotted time. Discovered by tech blogger Jane Manchun Wong, the experimental feature lets users temporarily snooze push notifications for…
Lees meerThe Apple Watch accounted for close to half of all smart watches shipped in the second quarter of 2019, according to a new report shared this afternoon by Strategy Analytics. Apple shipped an estimated 5.7 million smart watches worldwide during t…
Lees meerDuring Disney's earnings call this afternoon, Disney CEO Bob Iger announced that an upcoming streaming bundle that includes access to Disney+, ESPN+, and ad-supported Hulu will be priced at $12.99 per month. The upcoming bundle will be available …
Lees meerAn upcoming change in iOS 13 that limits data collection practices using VoIP APIs will impact apps like Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp, forcing them to be redesigned, reports The Information. Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp allow users to make …
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