This tweak automatically turns off your iPhone’s LED flashlight if you forget it
This new jailbreak tweak automatically turns your iPhone’s flash off after 15 minutes to prevent unwanted battery drain.
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This handheld Xenon flash boosts your iPhone photography with studio-quality lighting
This handheld flash works wirelessly and provides 40Ws of powerful Xenon flash output. Now true light mastery is within the reach of any mobile photographer.
Apple unveils SSD replacement program for 13″ MacBook Pro without Touch Bar
If you purchased your 13-inch MacBook Pro without Touch Bar between June 2017 and June 2018 and it exhibits SSD issues, including data loss and drive failure, you’re not alone.
As usual, the most lucrative feature of this year’s iPhones is flash storage
Apple has always charged customers a lot more for NAND storage chips in iPhones than it pays suppliers, but the new iPhone XS series takes this to the next: the company now charges an extra $350 to jump from the 64GB minimum to the new 512GB option.
Samsung planning $7 billion flash memory production boost ahead of iPhone 8
Coinciding with the expected arrival of new iPhones next month, Samsung is spending big money on boosting flash memory output at its NAND plant in Xi’an.
Adobe will kill off Flash in 2020
Steve Jobs was right all along: for years, Flash technology has been on its descendancy. It doesn’t come as a surprise at al that Adobe has finally come to its senses, deciding to kill off the resource-hogging software by the end of 2020.
Shortages of 3D NAND flash chips for 2017 iPhones forcing Apple to turn to Samsung, again
SK Hynix and Toshiba are struggling to build enough 3D NAND flash storage chips for 2017 iPhones, prompting Apple to use Samsung as a supplier, again.
Toshiba selects preferred bidder for memory chip unit sale
Toshiba, a key supplier of flash memory chips for Apple products, has selected a government-led consortium as the preferred bidder for its memory-chip business sale.
SK Hynix unveils 72-layer 256Gb 3D NAND flash memory chips suitable for future iPhones
Apple supplier SK Hynix unveiled 72-layer, 256-gigabit (Gb) 3D NAND flash memory chips based on triple-level cell arrays. By stacking 1.5 times more cells than the company’s previous 48-layer technology, a single 256Gb NAND flash chip can represent 32 gigabytes of storage with two times faster internal operation speed and twenty percent faster read/write performance than a 48-layer 3D NAND chip.
iPhone 7 flash memory maker Toshiba could sell its NAND flash unit to Western Digital
DigiTimes estimated this week that flash memory chips for smartphones will remain in high demand throughout 2017 because supply shortages are reportedly “worse than expected” as chip makers are currently transitioning from older 2D NAND to newer 3D NAND technology.
According to a report Friday in The Korea Herald newspaper, citing Mirae Asset Daewoo Securities analysts, Toshiba may spin off of its lucrative NAND flash unit and sell the stake to Western Digital, narrowing the technology and market share gap with its bigger rival Samsung Electronics.
Adobe pushes another critical security update for Flash Player
It’s been a little more than two weeks since Photoshop maker Adobe released a security update for its Flash Player for macOS which fixed a bunch of critical vulnerabilities and now another critical security update for Flash Player got released this morning. According to Adobe, the vulnerabilities in the current version of Flash Player could allow an attacker to take control of Mac, Windows, Linux and Chrome OS machines.
Adobe pushes Flash Player security update fixing critical vulnerabilities
Adobe today released a new security-focused update for its Flash Player software in an effort to patch a series of vulnerabilities that could give attackers control of your computer. Although Safari on macOS Sierra disables web plugins like Flash by default, Mac owners who have a standalone Flash Player installed on their system are at risk, even if they’re using Flash Player that’s built into Google’s Chrome browser.