The Weather Company, owned by IBM, is getting sued by the city of Los Angeles over alleged misuse of location data that its popular Weather Channel mobile app was collecting from customers, saying the questionable practice violates California's Unfair Competition Law.
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A look at Apple’s flirtation with Mac manufacturing in California in the 1980s
Apple's been criticized by the Trump administration for not trying harder to bring those manufacturing jobs back to the United States. In the Eighties, it was running an advanced, automated Macintosh manufacturing plant in Fremont, California. So, what went wrong?
Apple’s reportedly shelved plans that would’ve significantly curtailed location collection
Apple's allegedly abandoned plans to make changes to its iOS mobile operating system that sources say would've helped reduce the amount of location data collected by your iPhone.
How real journalists and human editors pick the news that you’ll read on Apple News
At a privacy conference Wednesday in Brussels, Tim Cook warned about the dangers posed by digital content algorithms that seem to be serving up increasingly extreme content. Today, The New York Times published a rare profile concerning the team charged with managing Apple's News service and how a bunch of human curators are fighting against algorithms.
You might have to wait one more year for Apple’s TV streaming service
Apple is allegedly aiming to launch its original TV series around this time next year.
NYT: Apple’s rumored noninvasive continuous glucose reader is likely a few years away
While Apple continues research into what should one day result in its own rumored non-invasive continuous glucose reader for Apple Watch, industry watchers have cautioned that the Cupertino tech giant is probably years away from a commercial product.
NYT: iPhone 8 to sell for around $999
Following a February story by Fast Company saying iPhone 8 would cost more than $1,000, maybe even $1,200 or more, The New York Times is claiming in a new report Thursday that Apple is now looking to sell its highly anticipated OLED phone “for around $999”.
NYT: Apple’s car ambitions scaled back to in-house campus shuttle service
Project Titan, Apple's secretive automotive initiative, switched gear a year ago to re-focus from building actual car hardware to designing autonomous driving technology.
Apple removes New York Times apps from Chinese App Store
Apple removed news apps created by The New York Times from the App Store in China late last month. The Times itself says that it spoke with the iPhone-maker, and it was told that the removal was in response to a request from Chinese authorities.
The Chinese government began blocking NYT websites in 2012, following a series of articles on the wealth amassed by the family of then-prime minister Wen Jiabao. This latest move limits access to one of its few remaining channels in the country.
NYT details Foxconn’s Zhengzhou facility that manufactures iPhones on a massive scale
Most of the iPhone models Apple develops, markets and sells are being assembled by Foxconn, the world's leading contract manufacturer. In a new investigative piece, The New York Times newspaper delves into the inner workings of Foxconn's iPhone manufacturing plant in Zhengzhou, a city of six million people in an impoverished region of China.
Fun fact: the world’s biggest iPhone factory, referred to as “iPhone City” by the locals, is capable of churning out half a million iPhones per day at peak.
President-elect Trump promises tax incentives for Apple to build “Made in USA” iPhones
Apple reportedly asked contract manufacturers Foxconn and Pegatron to look into assembling iPhones in the United States and now we learn that Tim Cook phoned President-elect Donald Trump following his victory to talk about U.S. manufacturing.
In an interview with The New York Times, Trump reveals he's promised tax incentives to Apple to build its products domestically rather than outsource component production and assembly work to Taiwanese and Chinese suppliers and contract manufacturers.
NYT is shutting down its Now app on August 29
Released in March of 2014, The New York Times' news curation app, NYT Now, is scheduled to shut down on August 29, the newspaper announced in a blog post.
The app debuted as a more affordable alternative to the paper's digital subscriptions, offering premium content for as low as $8 per month. It was regularly updated and at one point even gained features like 1Password integration.