A plethora of Android smartphones on the market today support ‘always-on-display’ functionality in which the background remains dark, but the time and date appear in legible white font for your convenience.
Until now, you couldn’t experience this effect on an Apple handset, but a new jailbreak tweak dubbed Semperon by iOS developer LaughingQuoll mimics this functionality on any jailbroken iPhone or iPad running iOS 11.
In an unexpected move on Wednesday, Electra Team member CoolStar has published the source code for the Electra1131 jailbreak tool on GitHub.
The move to open-source Electra1131 came after a public spat broke out between CoolStar and ex-Electra Team member Pwn20wnd on Twitter.
The European Commission on Wednesday slapped Google with a record $5 billion fine claiming that the internet giant is anticompetitive and abuses its power when it comes to Android. As it readies an appeal, the company is now wondering why Apple's closed iOS system isn't being more scrutinized.
Riley Testut, developer of popular console emulator Delta for iOS (formerly GBA4iOS), has cooked up a little side project which will keep his fans occupied while we wait for Delta's full release.
Dubbed Delta Lite, the project is a working Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) emulator which runs inside Swift Playgrounds, Apple's own Swift development app for iOS.
Apple has expanded its fleet of vehicles available for self-driving testing in recent months. In California, it now has the third largest fleet. What Apple plans on doing after this testing remains to be seen.
Apple yesterday released a fourth beta of what would become the major iOS 12 software update to its registered developers. It followed up this morning with a new public beta of iOS 12 that contains the same features and changes like yesterday's developer-only iOS 12 beta 4.
Apple has introduced all-new public betas for iOS 12 and tvOS 12. You must be a member of the Apple Beta Software program to receive the updates.
Learn how to take advantage of Apple’s True Tone technology that makes images on your Mac’s Retina display (and even the Touch Bar on supported models) appear more natural.
Apple has removed doorbells from its list of HomeKit-compatible accessory categories. It's not clear why Apple has done this, but given the sad state of HomeKit-enabled doorbells, it probably shouldn't come as much of a surprise.
Six days after it was first announced, the early 2018 MacBook Pro reviews are now online. Not surprisingly, most reviewers have praised the device for being extremely fast thanks to its all-new six cores. They also like the machine's new True Tone display. Here's a roundup of these early reviews:
Developer Flexibits Wednesday released Fantastical 2.5 for Mac with new features like time proposals and Meetup.com support, plus improvements like a better Exchange invitation experience, enhanced timed events and other perks.
Samsung's anti-Apple advertising campaign continues as the company mounts another effort to highlight the difference between iPhone X and Galaxy S9, this time in LTE speeds, while ridiculing the concept of Genius Bar that Apple successfully pioneered with its retail stores.