Samsung owes Apple $539 million in iPhone infringement case

Law

A jury has told Samsung it must pay Apple $539 million for infringing on three design patents with Android phones sold between 2010 and 2011. The unanimous decision was made in U.S. District Court, Northern District of California in San Jose, California. The number is significant because it's higher than what Apple was likely to get based on past court decisions, according to Bloomberg. 

Apple partners with Volkswagen to turn vans into driverless cars

Apple-VW-Partnership

Apple's dream of producing driverless cars has moved forward, but not in the grand way it once hoped. The iPhone maker and Volkswagen are partnering to turn some of the German carmaker's new T6 Transporter vans into self-driving shuttles for Apple employees. This comes after other carmakers said no to Apple's loftier automobile goals, according to The New York Times.

The best free task list apps for iOS to get things done

Best Free Task List Apps

With so much going on in our busy lives, it can be hard to keep up. This is how a task list app can help. You can track your to-dos for work, home, or personal tasks and mark them off as you complete them.

Finding a task list app for iOS that has the features you need can be challenging, especially if you are looking for one that doesn’t cost a penny. Here are three of the best free task list apps for iOS.

Navatar brings messaging avatars to unsupported devices

If you use the native Messages app to send iMessages or SMS messages from your iPhone, then you may have noticed the avatar that generally appears in the navigation bar. When you have a contact picture configured for the recipient, that picture displays here; otherwise, you’d see the recipient’s first and last initials instead.

Apple stopped supporting this feature on smaller handsets like the iPhone 5s and earlier with some of the latest iterations of iOS, limiting it to larger-displayed devices such as the iPhone 6 and later. On the other hand, a new free jailbreak tweak dubbed Navatar by iOS developer EthanRDoesMC changes that.

Google, not Amazon now leads smart speaker market

Google Home

There's a new leader in the growing smart speaker market. During the first quarter of 2018, Google overtook Amazon for the top spot. Meanwhile, Apple's nowhere to be found in the new Canalys survey of the top smart speaker producers in the world, suggesting it might be awhile before the HomePod maker makes a mark in the emerging product category.