This is a decent step towards the transparency you might want to see in a company. Apple released its semiannual Report on Government and Private Party Requests for Customer Information for the end of 2017 on Friday. One of the chief revelations in …
Lees meerLadies and gents, it’s Memorial Day and the staff of O’Grady’s PowerPage will be taking the day off to spend time with friends and family as well as pay respect to our nation’s veterans for their service. We’ll be back tomorrow, so get together with…
Lees meerThere’s a chance that Apple could announce new MacBook and MacBook Pro notebook models as soon as the Worldwide Developers Conference event. A number of the notebook models are appearing as sold out in Apple’s online storefront, but available for de…
Lees meer1Password, arguably the best of breed for password managers on the Mac, has been updated to version 7.0, the new version offering the following fixes, changes and new features: – Collapse the sidebar entirely so your items get all the love – Quickly…
Lees meerApple won’t be building its own self-driving car. Now, according to five unnamed sources, the company, which sought partnerships with the luxury carmakers BMW and Mercedes-Benz to develop an all-electric self-driving car, has signed a deal with Volk…
Lees meerThe Meltdown/Spectre issue continues. Intel has released a new report out describing what the chip maker is calling a Spectre-like vulnerability dubbed Variant 4. Like the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities from earlier this year, Variant 4 exploi…
Lees meerAs is its custom, Apple will live stream its Worldwide Developers Conference 2018 keynote event. On Tuesday, the company announced that its livestream will begin at 10 A.M. PST on June 4th. Apple has only confirmed web access to the stream, though o…
Lees meerThis definitely qualifies as something of a goof. TeenSafe, an app designed to allow parents to monitor their children’s online activity, was noted as saving users’ Apple ID passwords in unprotected plaintext form. The information collected by TeenS…
Lees meerThe cost of Apple’s Lightning to USB-C cable just went down pretty appreciably. The cable itself now retails for $19, wherein as of a month ago it went for $25. It’s currently thought that Apple may be dropping the classic USB A port for USB-C in ad…
Lees meerApple’s AirPort units are beginning to sell out. A few weeks after Apple announced it had discontinued its lineup of routers, the units are beginning to sell out or disappear from Apple’s online and retail stores in select countries. The first casua…
Lees meerIn an interesting move, Intel’s Cannon Lake processors have surfaced and it looks like Apple will be able to add a 32-gigabyte RAM option to its MacBook and MacBook Pro notebook lines. Chinese retailer listings for the Lenovo IdeaPad 330 notebook re…
Lees meerThe vote went as expected, but odds are it won’t go further than the senate. On Wednesday, U.S. Senate Democrats voted 52 to 47 in favor of undoing the Federal Communications Commission’s “Restoring Internet Freedom” order, which ended Obama-era net…
Lees meerThis could be interesting. As Apple’s Face ID continues to be developed, it’s been revealed that the company has explored the possibility of scanning the pattern of veins in a user’s face as another form of biometric authentication, one that could p…
Lees meerIf you’re in the mood for litigation, here you go. Following up on our previous story about the model year 2015 and 2016 MacBook Pro notebook keyboards failing, complete with the only way to fix the keyboard being to replace the top case/keyboard me…
Lees meerApple apparently now has 55 vehicles and 83 drivers reported to test its autonomous vehicles on the road, or at least according to the California Department of Motor Vehicles. The company still has yet to apply for a separate driverless testing perm…
Lees meerApple is looking to make iOS even more secure, even if they irk law enforcement along the way. iOS 11.4, which is still in development, will include a security feature that disables the Lightning port if the iPhone hasn’t been unlocked for seven day…
Lees meerIntel’s forthcoming release of patches to fix Spectre-style flaws in its processors has apparently been delayed by two more weeks to late May, a new report suggesting that Intel wants to push the release back even further into July while it works to…
Lees meerThe FCC announced on Thursday that currents net neutrality protections will officially end on June 11, with ISPs able to prioritize or block Internet traffic as they wish from that date. Providers will also be able to charge more for access to certa…
Lees meerThis wasn’t expected, but it’s not a complete surprise either. Still, it could amount to something nifty. Valve Software has announced that it will begin releasing development tools to allow Steam Link and Steam Video apps for iOS enabling gamers to…
Lees meerOver the past year, Net Neutrality has gone through a wild ride of ups and downs. Now, the U.S. Senate is forcing a vote to restore the protections. Lawmakers are using the Congressional Review Act to make the vote happen and it looks like the Senat…
Lees meerThere are rumors as to what’s en route for iOS 13. And, logically, there are rumors as to what to expect in iOS 12. Per the rumor mill, Apple is planning on bringing landscape orientation support to Face ID in iOS 12. This could function as a featur…
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