Apple on Thursday announced via its Retail mini-site the grand opening of its revamped and expanded Century City store on Santa Monica Boulevard in Los Angeles.
Revamped Apple Century City store to open in time for iPhone X launch
Instagram gains Superzoom camera format, Halloween-inspired filters & stickers
Instagram today updated its mobile app for iPhone and iPad in App Store, adding a new Superzoom camera format along with some Halloween-style face filters and stickers.
Apple issues fifth developer beta of macOS High Sierra 10.13.1
Apple on Thursday released a fifth beta of macOS High Sierra 10.13.1 to its registered developers and members of the paid Apple Developer Program.
Poll: Which iPhone X model do you plan to preorder tonight?
As you know, Apple is scheduled to begin taking iPhone X preorders tomorrow, October 27 from 12:01am PDT via its website and through the battle-tested Apple Store app.
New Galaxy ad is all about Samsung’s display prowess
Samsung Mobile on Thursday released a nicely done commercial via its official YouTube channel, with the 30-second video touting its prowess as the creator and manufacturer of the best smartphone display technology. Good timing, by the way.
Cochlear releases first MFi hearing implant created in partnership with Apple
As we reported, Apple and Australian hearing aids maker Cochlear struck a partnership in July. Today, Cochlear released its first product born out of that partnership—a tiny “Made for iOS”-certified hearing implant that can stream audio wirelessly from an iOS device directly to a surgically embedded Nucleus 7 sound processor.
Proof of concept app exploits iOS camera permissions to secretly take pictures and videos
Felix Krause, researcher and founder of Fastlane.Tools, has created a proof-of-concept app which demonstrates how easily a rogue app could exploit iOS camera permissions to secretly take pictures and shoot video of the user when running in the foreground.
watchOS 4.1 release notes
Apple released watchOS 4.1 publicly on October 31, 2017.
Opinion: Was Apple Watch Series 3 worth the upgrade from Series 2?
Just a couple of weeks ago, I was contemplating on whether I should upgrade from the Apple Watch Series 2 to the Series 3 or not; but I officially moved forward with it, and now there's no looking back.
Because hindsight's 20-20, I’ll share various viewpoints in this piece about why I think the upgrade was and wasn’t worth it. Ideally, I hope my experience will help you decide whether the Apple Watch Series 3 is worth the jump for yourself.
MicroPlayer is a snazzy new mini-player tweak for jailbroken devices
If one thing’s for sure, it’s that little music player interfaces are popular projects for jailbreak community developers. Continuing the long bloodline of these kinds of releases is a new jailbreak tweak called MicroPlayer by iOS developer IndieDevKB.
As the name implies, MicroPlayer is essentially a tiny music player interface that you can use to control your music whenever it’s playing.
Verizon will stop limiting your video streaming quality for a fee
When Verizon brought back unlimited data plans earlier this year, the announcement was met with excitement as well as pessimism. The excitement was abundant for obvious reasons, but various catches such as throttling after 22 GB of use per month and limiting of video streaming resolution seem to have put a small damper on the Unlimited Plan excitement.
Review: August Pro HomeKit smart lock
Popular smart lock maker August now has a product for everyone. There is the affordable August Smart Lock, the 2nd generation August Smart Lock with HomeKit, and then the "kitchen sink" model called the August Smart Lock Pro, which I've spent some time reviewing.