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Apple updates Music Memos app with notch support

In January of 2016, Apple launched an app called Music Memos. It allowed musicians and other creatives to capture song ideas quickly. But, since the app's launch the company has not updated the app on any kind of regular basis. Here we are in May of 2019 and the app finally officially supports the notch.

New report sheds light on apps sending information back to tracking services

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Allowing applications on devices to collect some data is a standard expectation these days. Permissions are meant to let users know what they are collecting, why they need it, and should give the user the power to say no if they so choose. However, some apps use a built-in feature within iOS to take advantage of data collection and send that information to tracking services.

Citigroup pulled out of Apple Card over fear it couldn’t earn an ‘acceptable profit’

Apple sees the Apple Card, its own-branded credit card, as a way for owners to reach a path to positive "financial health". The card has many specific customer-centric features, most of which go against the standard credit card -- which angle more towards a bank's wellbeing, rather than the customer. Turns out those aggressive terms on Apple's part led at least one bank to bank out.

A unique look at how Apple is testing its own iPhone processors against hacking

Apple under Tim Cook's leadership has turned protecting user privacy into one of its missions. The company takes a holistic approach to security and privacy that starts at the semiconductor level. British publication Independent today published a rare insight into a secretive facility on Apple's campus in which expensive machines are abusing in-house designed chips to see whether they can withstand hacking and whatever other types of assault anyone might try on them when they make their way into new iPhones.