Enlarge (credit: Apple) There’s a bug in iOS that disables Wi-Fi connectivity when devices join a network that uses a booby-trapped name, a researcher disclosed over the weekend. By connecting to a Wi-Fi network that uses the SSID “%p%s%s%s%s%n” (quotation marks not included), iPhones and iPads lose the ability to join that network or any […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Since the dawn of the iPhone, many of the smarts in smartphones have come from elsewhere: the corporate computers known as the cloud. Mobile apps sent user data cloudward for useful tasks like transcribing speech or suggesting message replies. Now Apple and Google say smartphones are smart enough to do some […]
Enlarge / The Amazon Fire HD 8 tablet, which runs Amazon’s Fire OS. (credit: Amazon) Apparently following Apple and Google’s lead, Amazon has announced that it will take a smaller revenue cut from apps developed by teams that earn less than $1 million annually from their apps on the Amazon Appstore. The same applies to […]
Enlarge / Apple CEO Tim Cook being interviewed remotely by Brut. (credit: Brut.) Apple has been under a mountain of scrutiny lately from legislators, developers, judges, and users. Amidst all that, CEO Tim Cook sat with publication Brut. to discuss Apple’s strategy and policies. The short but wide-ranging interview offered some insight into where Apple […]
A Subscriber Edition page in the Podcasts app. [credit: Apple ] As previously announced in April, Apple has today launched its new Podcasts Subscriptions feature on iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. The feature allows users to subscribe to podcasts (or groups of podcasts called Channels) for extra perks. Perks can include early access to episodes, as […]
The Department of Justice issued Apple subpoenas for information on several high-profile politician, reviving concerns about the privacy of user data. Read More
Enlarge / The Apple Watch Series 6, which the new model discussed here would probably replace. (credit: Corey Gaskin) Like clockwork, Apple has released a new Apple Watch around the same time every year since the device was first introduced in 2015. So no one should be surprised that a new Apple Watch is due […]
U.S. futures are in the green, following Europe higher. Read More
New Maps interface. [credit: Apple ] As Apple’s annual WWDC conference wraps up, we have a whole week of developer sessions and press briefings to look back on, plus a bunch of bullet points on Apple’s various feature pages to sort through. The result? There are a bunch of interesting features coming to iPhones in […]
An example of Dark Sky’s maps from the desktop Web version. [credit: Dark Sky ] A new blog post from the developers of Apple-owned, hyperlocal weather app Dark Sky has announced that the iOS and web versions of the app, as well as the Dark Sky API, will sunset at the end of 2022. Here’s […]